Third of four parts of a discussion about how to use the Customer Research Checklist Tool as a template for performing preparatory research for a new customer engagement. This part discusses the Initiative and Stakeholders tabs. The Customer Research Checklist Tool: Initiative Tab The Customer Research Checklist Tool: Stakeholders Tab [...]
Part three of three about common CSM traps and pitfalls. This part provides a discussion on pitfalls 5 to 7, namely lack of insight into customers' needs, too much time spent on admin, and lack of best practice resources. Pitfall 5: A Lack of Insight Into Your Customer's Business Pitfall 6: Too Much [...]
Part one of three about common CSM traps and pitfalls. This part provides an overview of some of the most common problems, challenges, traps and pitfalls that CSMs might encounter and a discussion on pitfalls 1 and 2, namely doing too much for each customer, and not leaving time for CPD. Common CSM [...]
Part two of three about common CSM traps and pitfalls. This part provides a discussion on pitfalls 3 and 4, namely not understanding your own success strategy, and focusing on technical instead of business issues. Pitfall 3: Not Understanding Your Own Company's Customer Success Strategy Pitfall 4: Focusing on Technical Instead of Business [...]
An overview of the principles benefits to both customer and supplier of having a partner/partner relationship approach rather than a buyer/supplier relationship, together with an explanation of the "shared risks, share rewards" model. The Partnering Approach The "Shared Risks, Shared Rewards" Model
A discussion on who benefits from customer success management and how customer success management can be used during sales and marketing activities to help differentiate the solution from competitors' offerings. Who Benefits from Customer Success Management? Customer Success Management as a Sales Feature
Part two of a two part discussion on tools and templates. In this part, the general benefits of tools and templates are described, and there are overviews of the tools and templates for Practical CSM Framework Phases 4, 5, 6 and 7. Using Tools & Templates within Phase 4: Adoption Planning Using Tools [...]
Part one of a two part discussion on tools and templates. In this part, the general benefits of tools and templates are described, and there are overviews of the tools and templates for Practical CSM Framework Phases 1, 2 and 3. Using Tools & Templates Using Tools & Templates within Phase 1: Preparation [...]
A reminder of the value of using a best practice framework to enable maximum productivity and efficiency whilst maintaining quality standards and ensuring consistency across a team. Using a Best Practice Framework
An explanation of the concept of a customer success knowledgebase, together with a discussion on data protection, data redundancy and how to manage data and information storage and management systems. The Customer Success Knowledgebase The Customer Success Knowledgebase: 1 - Data Protection The Customer Success Knowledgebase: 2 - Data Redundancy The Customer Success [...]