Tag: Customer Success
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You Are Building a Case Study
“You are building a case study here.” My boss told me this early in my time at GitLab. I’ve turned it over many times since. On the surface it sounds like encouragement. Look closer and it’s a warning. We didn’t hire you to run the playbook you ran somewhere else. We hired you because you…
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Where is The Future Going, Anyway?
The Harvard Business Review wrote an article a couple years back titled, The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. It’s a fascinating piece. Digest it slowly and over several cups of coffee/beer/wine/La Croix/whatever. Changes afoot caused by machine intelligence: Cost of goods and services that rely on prediction will continue to decline. Cheap is good, right? Well,…
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Continuity
One of the most important—and overlooked—aspects of onboarding customers is not necessarily the onboarding itself, but it is the sales and marketing teams’ and agenda to set up the implementation for success. If you’re a Customer-facing leader and don’t have a great relationship with sales and marketing or input over this processes, you are doing…
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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…
Jeff Beaumont 