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Customer Success
A community for Customer Success Teams to navigate business challenges together
Discussion List
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Career Development for Partner Success Leadership RoleI'm working on my career development plan and trying to identify skill gaps I need to address. I've been searching Linkedin, Glassdoor and job search sites for examples of Partner Success Director, L… -
Does your organization have a Services Engineering function?Hello TSIA members, We recently established a Services Engineering function to serve as R&D for Services. I'd like to engage/learn/discuss with fellow members whose organizations have a Servies … -
CSM coverageHello TSIA community, I am conducting an internal conversation on how CSMs should cover our top accounts. A key question that emerged is the internal need from some of our business units to have the…
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Is Customer Success a Path to the C-Suite?I think increasingly the answer is a definite Yes. The charter of Customer Success is expanding in tech companies as they get religion around delivering seamless customer-first experiences & outc… -
Does Community play a role in Customer Success or just Support ticket deflection?Very interested to hear if/how tech vendors are using Communities to support Customer Success, particularly at Digital Scale, vs. as a low cost means of deflecting Support tickets.
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Experience with Gainsight Scorecard?I'm interested to hear about experiences using Gainsight Scorecard, and if you feel like you've nailed the measures.
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What are some best practices incentivizing customers back on SAAS post churn?Industry standard I have observed are automated 30-60-90 email touches. Anyone found success with other strategies? -
What is stopping your organization from measuring Customer Success ROI with a dedicated Data AnalystLeveraging data to streamline operations is paramount. Considering only 30% of Customer Success Organizations have a dedicated Data Analyst, what is stopping the other 70% of CS Organizations from im… -
Measuring Customer Success ROIIs anyone currently measuring their customer success ROI? What have you learned since only about 30% of CS organizations are? Quick Guide to Customer Success ROI -
Do you set customer adoption targets for CSMs?Do you set adoption targets for CSMs (either part of their comp or not)? If so, what are they? What do you track? Any other observations or recommendations related to adoption targets?
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What metrics (e.g. KPIs) does your customer success team get measured on?How do you track these metrics? Are these metrics tied to CSM compensation? -
Could you please recommend any certification program for Customer Success Manager ?Hi everybody, My name is Didier, I'm a part of the Customer Success Manager Team at Wind River, we are seeking this kind of certification program to get industry recognition beyond our internal badge… -
Partner led CSAn attendee from Interact has the following question: When selling XaaS solutions through a tier 2 distribution model, what have you seen put in place with Partners to successfully drive adoption of … -
Who manages the service offer at your organization? -including Customer Success, Support, ConsultingWe are a $1b revenue company with 4500+ employees. As we are building our own practice of the service offer management (including Customer Success, Support, and Consulting) I wonder how other organiz… -
How to avoid giving CS away for freeAttendee from Orlando wants to know how to prevent sales reps from giving away CS for free. Couple of quick tactics: Have clearly defined CS offers that do have defined prices. Clear discounting pol…
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What best practices are being used to schedule customer calls?This time of year can be a bit hectic for most companies in our industry. We are planning goals for the year and trying to be strategic when deciding the best way to reach prioritized business outco… -
Which CRM has proven its worth with your CS Organization?What is the most effective CRM that your (CS) organization uses? Some would say Gainsight! Others may prefer Totango or Whatfix! What do you say? What do your CSMs appreciate the most about it's func…
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Was your CSM's Evacuation due to the Compensation Conversation?With the attrition rate for CSMs on the rise how important do you think compensation is? Some would say that CSMs across the technology sector are underpaid. Others would be quick to acknowledge th…
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Separation of church and stateYou think it’s important to have a separation of church and state between success and sales? Some would say renewals shouldn’t need to be a sales negotiation! Others would undoubtedly be the first to…
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Survey QuestionsLooking for input from the community on the below 2 questions: Is there a way to determine what are the right set of questions we are asking through Customer Surveys for Tech support? What should be … -
How to better Customer Interactions?Hello Everyone, I am looking to answer the following questions/prompts. If you have any advice or resources please let me know.. thank you! 1. You never say "no"-- You do say what you can d… -
Any New Framework for PPDIOO or PBM ?Hi All, Are there any Reports that have updated or refreshed the PPDIOO or the PBM (Plan Build Manage) frameworks? I wanted to connect with folks who are active in this area. Thank you, - raj - -
Time to Onboard Customer ??Hi All, After Customer purchases your service, How long does it take to have first engagement with Customer? How long does it take to on-board the Customer? I would appreciate any inputs, comments …
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Outcomes from digital scale Customer Success?Do you have an interesting story to share about the benefits you've seen and the challenges you had to overcome in building digital scale into your customer success program? I had a recent discussion…
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Digital touch Customer Success approach (1000+ customers)Hi, TSIA community! We are planning to set up an automated workflow (using the CSM platform) with no personal interactions. Our product portfolio does not have a usage statistics feature and it will … -
Frequency of surveysHello, as part of our focus on customer experience, surveys play a very important role. One question that always comes up is the frequency of the surveys. From your experience what would be considere… -
What are the best practices / resources for starting an online community for customers?Greetings! I am a CSM and am looking to start an online community for customers. I am interested in any resources (podcasts, articles, blog posts, courses etc) or best practices that might be out the… -
Digital Adoption Platform for servicesI'm wondering if anyone can recommend a Digital Adoption Platform (or equivalent) designed specifically for onboarding customers to managed services. Most seem to be designed for onboarding users to …