Customer Success

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Get your Customer Success practice on the right track in 2017. Start with putting a charter in place and join us May 30 for a Customer Success Talk webinar.

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Customer Success Management (CSM), at its core, is about ensuring that our customers thrive, and it centers on accelerating time to value at each stage in the relationship lifecycle (Land, Adopt, Expand, Renew). As sellers, the importance of integrating a CSM practice cannot be underestimated in today’s subscription economy. But the shift to becoming truly […]

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It’s easy to understand the value of adoption from the customer’s perspective, at least on the surface. But there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. To connect the dots between adoption and value realization as sellers, we must first recognize the drivers behind every purchase, and the outcomes our customers are seeking […]

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Even as technology offerings improve at light speed, customers’ needs to improve their bottom-line remain largely the same. They want results, and a healthy return on the investments they’ve made. As we’ve built out our customer success organization, and taken our partners along with us on our journey, we’ve found that nothing drives customer value […]

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We all know the facts about customer loyalty. It’s easier and less expensive to sell to an existing customer rather than acquire a new one. Loyal customers are also more likely to buy more from you and recommend you to other potential prospects. Take a moment to think about your own customer base. Would you […]

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Creating customer loyalty is a race against time. It’s been said that after 90 days a business only has a 10% chance of making the customer loyal. Therefore, once that clock starts ticking, value realization must occur quickly or a high probability exists that you will lose the customer. Customer health is a prediction of […]

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No matter which lens you look through, it’s easy to see the importance of digital and the enormity of transformation taking place in the marketplace today. Both Gartner and Forrester predict that by 2020, 80% of the buying process is expected to occur without any direct human-to-human interaction. IDC says that the digital shift doesn’t […]

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In 2016, more than 4,000 people participated in a Customer Success Talk webinar as part of their journey to create customers for life. We’ve put together a free eBook with what we've learned.

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In 2016, the Customer Success Talk webinar series brought together a wide array of influencers and decision makers from Cisco partners, both large and small. Our subject matter experts focused on the business case for customer success management (CSM) and the people, process, automation and analytics that must come together to form a post-sale lifecycle […]