Category: Customer Success
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Should Support/Success Have a Commit?
SaaStr has a good question for when your VP of sales has a sales commit…so, then, shouldn’t your VP of marketing have a lead commit? http://www.saastr.com/your-vp-sales-has-a-sales-quota-your-vp-marketing-needs-a-lead-quota-period Let’s think about this from the perspective of Support and Customer Success. Should we, in our respective teams and departments, have a commit? We can argue there’s a commit…
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Customer Success: Aligned Goals, Not Altruism
(I’ve written and re-written this one for the past three months. It’s taken me long enough.) I’m attracted to a good story. I’m a sucker for them, really. One oft-repeated story is that Customer Success is altruistic, and has little-to-no self-centeredness. Like anything else in life, there’s a kernel of truth in that which budded…
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Support Tooling: Elev.io
One thing we know in life: you can’t do it on your own. That’s also true in Support. A fascinating tool we use is called Elevio. It’s self-service, built into our system. One problem we had—which many other companies have—is our knowledge base (training materials) is segregated from our website. So to find the answer,…
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Measuring Success
Why Measure? Any department must demonstrate how they achieve value at the bottom line. Product, Sales, Support, Customer Success, Finance, Legal — it does not matter. There’s a reason most companies do not have a blacksmith to reshod the company horses. Calculating the value of a department simply must be quantified. To do otherwise is irresponsible to…
Jeff Beaumont 