Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue
- 3h 56m
- Dan Steinman, Lincoln Murphy, Nick Mehta
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2016
Your business success is now forever linked to the success of your customers. Customer Success is the groundbreaking guide to the exciting new model of customer management. Business relationships are fundamentally changing. In the world B.C. (Before Cloud), companies could focus totally on sales and marketing because customers were often 'stuck' after purchasing. Therefore, all of the 'post-sale' experience was a cost center in most companies. In the world A.B. (After Benioff), with granular per-year, per-month or per-use pricing models, cloud deployments and many competitive options, customers now have the power. As such, B2B vendors must deliver success for their clients to achieve success for their own businesses.
Customer success teams are being created in companies to quarterback the customer lifecycle and drive adoption, renewals, up-sell and advocacy. The Customer Success philosophy is invading the boardroom and impacting the way CEOs think about their business. Today, Customer Success is the hottest B2B movement since the advent of the subscription business model, and this book is the one-of-a-kind guide that shows you how to make it work in your company.
From the initial planning stages through execution, you'll have expert guidance to help you:
- Understand the context that led to the start of the Customer Success movement
- Build a Customer Success strategy proven by the most competitive companies in the world
- Implement an action plan for structuring the Customer Success organization, tiering your customers, and developing the right cross-functional playbooks
Customers want products that help them achieve their own business outcomes. By enabling your customers to realize value in your products, you're protecting recurring revenue and creating a customer for life. Customer Success shows you how to kick start your customer-centric revolution, and make it stick for the long term.
In this Book
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Customer Success—How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue
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Gainsight Book Foreword
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The Recurring Revenue Tsunami—Why Customer Success Is Suddenly Crucial
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The Customer Success Strategy—The New Organization versus the Traditional Business Model
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Customer Success for Traditional Nonrecurring Revenue Businesses
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The Practice of Customer Success
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Law 1—Sell to the Right Customer
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Law 2—The Natural Tendency for Customers and Vendors Is to Drift Apart
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Law 3—Customers Expect You to Make Them Wildly Successful
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Law 4—Relentlessly Monitor and Manage Customer Health
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Law 5—You Can No Longer Build Loyalty through Personal Relationships
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Law 6—Product Is Your Only Scalable Differentiator
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Law 7—Obsessively Improve Time-to-Value
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Law 8—Deeply Understand Your Customer Metrics
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Law 9—Drive Customer Success through Hard Metrics
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Law 10—It’s a Top-Down, Company-Wide Commitment
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The Rise of the Chief Customer Officer
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Customer Success Technology
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Where Do We Go from Here?
