3. Typical Retention Problems
Blindsided by churn – poor early visibility into metrics
that matter
Firefighting – operate in crisis/reactive mode vs.
proactive
How to scale? – not enough CSMs to cover all
customers
Too much noise – don’t know who needs your
4. The Customer Success Manifesto
VALUE
over
customer management
CUSTOMER ACTIONS
over
words
REAL-TIME SENSORS
over
historical snapshots
CONTEXTUAL ENGAGEMENT
over
periodic check-ins
ALL CUSTOMERS
over
high-value customers
ALL USERS
over
buyers and decision makers
5. #1 MANAGE YOUR
CUSTOMER'S JOURNEY
(not the renewal event)
6. What does your company do in
between?
ACQUISITION RENEWAL
7. Are you driving recurring value across
the customer journey?
DECREASE
VALUE
DECREASE
VALUE
CHURN
CHURN
GROW
VALUE
FIRST
VALUE
START
INCREASE
USERS INCREASE
USAGE
EXPAND
FUNCTIONALITY
CHURN
ONGOING
VALUE
ONBOARDING ADOPTION RENEWAL & UPSELL
10. Increase product engagement at all
levels
• Product engagement varies
across job levels (frontline,
management, execs)
• Creating passionate users is
key to preventing churn
• Best-in-class companies
focus on creating value for
every user
14. A true health score should include
USER
ENGAGEMENT
BUSINESS
OUTCOMES
SERVICE
UTILIZATION
CUSTOMER
SATISFACTION
These primary vital signs:
15. Accurately gauge customer value with
accurate health scores
Monitor each customer’s
individualized health score
• Based on facts, not
opinions and anecdotes
• Predictive
• Adaptive
16. Include profiles to improve health
Create multiple health profiles
- By customer segment
- By customer journey stage
Define which accounts fit
each profile
Totango will automatically
adapt the right scorecard
for each customer
score accuracy
17. Use the right technology to make
health scores actionable
19. What is smart, relevant customer
engagement?
• Proactive engagement
• Contacting them at the right
moment
• Sending intelligent
messages that align with the
customer’s current needs
• Delivering reliable,
consistent experiences
20. #5 EMPOWER ALL CUSTOMER-FACING
TEAMS WITH THE
RIGHT DATA
21. Each team should have access to the
Sales Customer
Success
Finance &
Operations
Products Marketing Service
Applications Connectors
Real Time Usage Streams
Business Connectors
Demographics, Contracts, Billing, Tickets
app usage, saas interaction, social media, online behavior
Customer Intelligence Database
CRM, helpdesk, contracts, billing
Your
App
right data
22. Research by Aberdeen Group shows that companies
which built a centralized customer intelligence database
and incorporated customer insights into customer facing
actions achieved:
23. #1 Manage your customer’s journey, not the renewal
event
#2 Improve product engagement across all users
#3 Implement an early warning system
#4 Engage customers in a smart, relevant way
#5 Empower all customer-facing teams with the right
data
Recap
We also launched a dedicated customer success news site that aggregates all of the news and stories around customer success. It’ll be your one stop shop to know the latest and greatest in customer success.
These are the things we hear most often from our customers. How many of you can relate to these? What would you rank highest?
We believe that you can boost retention by focusing on customer success. You do so by following the principles outlined in the Customer Success Manifesto.
Value over customer management
Customer Actions over words
Real-time sensors over historical snapshots
Contextual engagement over periodic check-ins
All customers over high-value customers
All users over buyers and decision makers
Can you give me some examples of typical activities that you have in place for customers once they sign up? How are you keeping track of their success?
Use lifecycle marketing
Enjoy the successes with your customers
Share best practices
Say thank you
Measure and drive recurring value
Source
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Product usage varies thruoghout journey, by job levels,
Do you know who your power users are?
What makes up an early warning system?
Early Warning System:
Let’s me know about problems or opps that may arise – but these accounts need immediate attention
Also lets you know why they need attention
- A key part of an early warning system is to have a health score
- Real-time alerts and detailed explanations
What to do about that
How are different customer segments
First ask what customers use to determine their health scores. What do they think are the most important elements to include in a health score? Why/why not?
Secondly, it’s pretty clear – there is a lot of data out there and your health score needs to be
Comprehensive in that regard
A true health score should include both quantitative and qualitative data. The
The entire premise of Totango is that you need to focus on the actions customers take more than anything. And we divide that roughly into three buckets:
User engagement: how frequently users login, the time they spend with your application, specific actions they take while using your product
Business results: which looks at what results they’ve been able to achieve with your product. If they purchased an email automation platform, how many campaigns have they launched, how many emails did they send and so forth. Are they achieving success?
And finalize what we call utilization. Which looks at what the customer has purchased and compares that to what they have done. If the customer has liceses for 10 seats, how many are they actually using? Are they above or below the quota they purchased and so forth.
Customer Satisfaction – support tickets, NPS, invoice payments, CSM opinion or risk rate. - Finally you want to also include secondary operational parameters like outstanding support tickets or invoices which also can factor into the customer’s overall health.
But then, when we look at the reality of a online web-business, we see just how clever health score algorithm needs to be to provide its true value.
Secondly, it’s pretty clear – there is a lot of data to consider if you want a health score to do a good job at measuring customer-health.
Metrics on user-engagement: how frequently users login, what parts of the product do they use and for how long,
Metrics on business results: how many emails were sent, how many campaigns launched, new users acquired,
Utilization levels: how many seats are in use? How much of the allocated budget ?
Customer relationships: Do we have executive sponsorship? Public endorsements & advocaty?
Operational status: Are we having support issues? Outstanding invoices?
There is a lot to consider and you want a solution that can look deeply into usage-patterns as granular as an the individual actions of end-users and turn that into true insights.
Totango is not afraid of data, we live it and breath it and love it.
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Product usage varies throughout journey, by job levels,
Health scores are not a static:
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Need score cards based on customer segmentation -
What does an early warning system look like in action
How many of you have QBRs and what do you with them? What is your typical show up rate? What are things you wish you had to make those meetings more productive and worthy of the customer’s time?
What are some of the challenges you are facing with smart customer engagment.
Proactive engagement: making sure you have and are leveraging programs in place to approach them at the right time with the right message.
Identifying positive and negative events and then approaching them with the relevant data. Can’t be one size fits all.
Customer success cannot be siloed. Everyone in the organization needs to know the data and take from it what they need to improve customer success.
Amazon example: rented an HD movie and it didn’t stream as fast as it should. They reached out proactively and refunded.
Would your product, marketing or sales teams want access to such data? What would they find most relevant?