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BrittanyPais
BrittanyPaisRegistered User
published in All About Pulse

A+ Advocacy: How To Build Processes That Celebrate Your Customers and Your Brand

Hey y’all! This will be my first in-person Pulse, but I am SO-FREAKING-PUMPED™ to be speaking about a topic I’m particularly passionate about: Advocacy 💜.  Advocacy is one of the most underrated metrics in CS, but one of the most important for helping your company build its presence and meet its goals. With the proper approach, advocacy not only celebrates your customers, but also drives NRR and New Sales. Be sure to mark your schedules and join me to learn:Key indicators your Adopter is ready to be an Advocate What I consider an “Advocacy Event” How we built partnerships throughout the organization to rally around Advocacy How we built every process into Gainsight for collaboration and measurement, at scaleTLDR: Advocacy is a magic relationship strengthener and brand builder - and when done well, it leads your customers to excel in their own career paths (making you the hero and your company the beneficary). Outside of NRR, it’s one of the key metrics my department tracks on a weekly

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aiprakash
Gainsight Employee: Rookie
3 months ago
dshorter
Gainsight Employee: Rookie
dshorterGainsight Employee: Rookie
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Webinar Recording: Pooled CS Unpacked: How to Leverage Teamwork for Customer Success in the Digital Age

If you missed our webinar on April 4 on Pooled CS Unpacked: How to Leverage Teamwork for Customer Success in the Digital Age you can find the recording and a copy of the slides below. The hottest topic in Customer Success right now is Digital. One of the ways to bring efficiencies to your team right now is through Pooled CS. With Pooled CS, you have a team that works many to many with your customers. During this webinar we discussed: What is Pooled CS? Technologies to drive customer engagement with personalized touch How Gainsight approaches pooled CS Tracking outcomes at Scale How Pooled Work Assignment feature can be a game changer👉🏼Slides 📕 Check out our Pooled Customer Success ebook  

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dshorter
Gainsight Employee: Rookie
5 months ago
seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
sethGainsight Employee: ACE
posted in All About Pulse

Small-Group Admin Coaching at Pulse 2022 - Limited spots!

Update: These roundtables took place in 2022. Looking for a community post about Pulse roundtables in a later year? Take another look at your search results! 🙂 For Gainsight Administrators attending Pulse 2022 in-person, we're creating an opportunity for you to come away with customized, tactical coaching from an expert admin. Plus, you'll meet fellow admins who you can feel comfortable connecting with in the future. Five experienced admins -- hand-picked members of our CS Ops Product Council -- will each host a roundtable.Each roundtable is limited to five participants so that the conversation can be intimate and in-depth. Registration is required to secure your seat.You can only register for one. Several will happen during the same lunch block, plus we want to maximize the number of admins who have access to this opportunity.Bringing a Negotiation Framework to Collaborative Design, hosted by Bradley Bazhaw @bradleymcg -- Register Here Description: When building a solution, you need

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matthew_lind
All Star
1 year ago
nicksimard
nicksimardRegistered User
posted in All About Pulse

Pulse Conference: A First-Timer Review

The following was written after the first day of Pulse 2022. I was asked by a couple of folks at Gainsight to share it here in the Community, so here we go :)————I'm sitting on a hotel balcony in San Francisco, overlooking a swimming pool. The air is crisp, the sky is clear. Why am I here, and not my home in British Columbia, Canada?The Zapier Community won a Gainsight GameChanger award, for Outstanding Community (we use inSided, a platform Gainsight acquired earlier this year).It's a team award, but only one of us could come to the Pulse conference. That person is me :)Ok, Now...the Pulse ConferenceI haven't been to too many conferences, but I gotta say that this one's done well! Today was Day 1 (it wraps up tomorrow) and I've got nothing but positive things to say.1) The Kick-Off KeynoteLights, music, enthusiasm, a panel of awesome speakers, and a Ted Lasso-inspired pre-recorded intro video starring various Gainsight employees. What more could you ask for?2) The SessionsSo many great

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revathimenon
1 year ago
dan_ahrens
ACE
dan_ahrensACE
asked in Customer Success Inspiration

Your input needed - what should go in Timeline?

Hi Community! As we continue to develop capabilities around Timeline, we wanted to get your feedback on how you would like to use it in the future. Originally we designed Timeline in response to many customers who wanted a superior note taking tool. They were using systems like OneNote, Evernote and others and it just didn't meet the grade. So we built Timeline. One of our original goals was to provide a high quality repository of customer notes. Different than SFDC activity history, which logs everything and can get pretty noisy, Timeline would be cleaner and easier to find specific human interactions. But things evolve and we want to get your input. We've had some customers ask about having the ability to sync every CoPilot or Advanced Outreach email, CTAs, Milestones, NPS survey responses and even health scores to Timeline.  [b][i]What's your point of view? [/b] Should we keep Timeline as a view of human interactions only or would you want to drop automated, system g

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21 days ago
revathimenon
revathimenonGainsight Community Manager
published in All About Pulse

Pulse Party Photo Album - pictures, videos and messages

 🔥This is your go-to space for that 1 epic Pulse Party🔥 Please use this space to save all the fun moments -- enjoyable, blurry, candid, posed - however you like it! 📸 You could:Share a selfie in your party outfit  Tell us something about your look for the party Add in a fun caption to the picture(s) Your posse posing the letters PULSE Compliment looks of others in the comments Show us some of your best moves at the party and more…💥 Some moves i personally recommend 💥 Let’s gooooo! 🪩🎵

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revathimenon
1 year ago
samantha_braastad
Shoshin
samantha_braastadShoshin
asked in Customer Success Inspiration

Now that you can customize your Timeline Activity types, what additional activity types are others using?

The latest release now gives the Admin the ability to create custom Timeline Activity types. Our CSM's are heavily leveraging the Timeline feature but we are struggling to determine what level of detail we go into for differentiating the types of activities that are logged. Anyone have thoughts on what has worked well when creating these custom activity types? 

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alex_newtonhill
4 years ago
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Shoshin
sleightonShoshin
asked in Customer Success Inspiration

Risk management

Hi - we are still fairly new to Gainsight and I wanted to hear more about how we can manage risk effectively in G. Our current process is quite well mapped out and we have a good risk matrix, escalation process and weekly review in place. At the moment we were going to create a new timeline activity called risk and use this to drive our weekly meetings. Is this right.? I see on the Gainsight webinars that the healthscore card is used. ThanksSonia

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sai_ram
Grand Slammer
2 years ago
lane_h
Gainsight Employee: Golden Ruler
lane_hGainsight Employee: Golden Ruler
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Recording: Digital Led Onboarding (CS Ops Meetup Presentation)

In our monthly meetup group about the CS Ops of Digital-Led Customer Success, we spoke in September 2022 about digital led onboarding. Here’s what we learned! 🎞️️️️ Recording of key takeaways from each breakout room 📝 Note-taking slides from the breakout rooms Learn about these meetups in the future by signing up for the monthly CS Ops Newsletter.

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lane_h
Gainsight Employee: Golden Ruler
11 months ago
danielleallwood
Shoshin
danielleallwoodShoshin
posted in All About Pulse

Pulse USA/EU: Gainsight's CS Ops Mentor Program

We’re so glad you’re here! A little over a year ago at Pulse, Gainsight announced the CS Ops Mentor Program just for CS Ops Professionals, whether you were looking to land a role, just getting your feet wet at 6 months in, or experienced! Since then, in Gainsight’s community alone we have had over 3,000 people from all sorts of CS roles reply with interest and start conversations, and 293 mentees, 25 mentors, and 152 who don’t mind either, sign up for the Program. If you missed it, don’t fret! This year at Pulse there’s a big chance the best minds will also be a part of our growing CS Ops community.  CS Ops Mentor Program for new and experienced CS Ops Professionals:Mentors can expand your network, build coaching and people skills, while reinforcing your knowledge on subject matters and offering mentees a different perspective. By the way, signing up is easy and free. “I have mentored dozens of people in my career and it has made me better at what I do. Teaching is the best way to trul

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danielleallwood
Shoshin
10 months ago
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rachana shastryRegistered User
published in Customer Success Inspiration

Who should the NPS survey be sent from ?

Survey Best Practice  : who should be the sender of the NPS and the follow-up e-mail ? Customer is choosing between CEO and regional head of department . They did rule out having it come directly from the CSM.

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MariaTuregano
Shoshin
2 years ago
lane_h
Gainsight Employee: Golden Ruler
lane_hGainsight Employee: Golden Ruler
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

How to transition customers to a low touch engagement

I’m seeing more and more organizations put the importance on digital led segmentation as they go into the end of the year. It is important to focus on digital led strategy to plan for durable growth over the next few years. The question I’m seeing get raised is “How do we transition customers into a digital led/digital first program?” This question is one I faced last  year as we were building out our segmentation. The hard part was I couldn’t find many resources on how to do this. However, I did have some great conversations with people at organizations who had to make changes to customer engagement models (high touch to mid touch, changing CSMs). We took some of these best practices and applied them to our approach. Determining when to transition customersThere are three ways we identified when customers should move engagement models:Evaluate their current engagement - Look back at the data you have. Which customers meet the criteria for the new engagement model you are moving them t

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Jef Vanlaer
All Star
1 year ago
seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
sethGainsight Employee: ACE
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

What goes in a customer journey? (CS Ops Meet-Up Key Takeaways)

Our monthly meet-up group about the CS Ops of Digital-Led CS has discussed what it takes to map the customer journey, but that’s different than what belongs in a customer journey. We got 50 digital-led leaders and strategists together on October 20, 2021 to dig into this question.Kathryn Perkins, Senior Director of Customer Success Programs & Journey at Planview, kicked us off by presenting the case that “onboarding”, “QBR”, etc. belong in your engagement model, but do not belong in your journey.🔊 Presentation and Q&A (audio)🖼️ Slide deckKathryn referred to the concepts of “PIMO” and “LAER”, which are described here: https://www.tsia.com/blog/changing-engagement-modelsThen, participants went into breakout rooms to talk through their successes, stumbling blocks, and ideas.🎥 After-Breakout DebriefHere are a few more of their most valuable takeaways, in their own words:For me, I realized that in our unmanaged group (low ARR group, high tech touch) we actually don’t have a good

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seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
1 year ago
seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
sethGainsight Employee: ACE
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

July 2022 CS Ops Newsletter

Subscribe to this monthly newsletter here! Hi there,I had three striking experiences recently, and a realization snapped into focus that's proving to be a daily touchstone for me. Here's what happened:I told a story. As part of Gainsight’s celebration of Pride, I wrote a blog post, Why I Keep Coming Out at Work. I merely talked about my life. I was taken aback, though, to get replies that went way beyond messages of support. People told me that my story was meaningful to them. They took something away from it. Our experiences communicate more truth than we realize.   We ran a virtual roundtable to offer career coaching to Gainsight Level 1 Certified Associate Administrators. The greatest theme in the feedback survey was: “I want to hear what other admins have done.” (FYI, we’ve published the career stories of eight admins: Anita Beck, Kelly Nissl, Sagan Shirlin, and Katie Baker + Victoria Barry + Patrick McCrudden + Jessica Palmer + Ben Wanless.) When people have the opportunity, they

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seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
1 year ago
Ahunt
Gainsight Employee: Rookie
AhuntGainsight Employee: Rookie
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

The Customer Success Role is Changing, are YOU keeping up?

All my Customer Success Managers out there have been through a LOT in the last 6 months. Anyone sensing more risk in their business? Getting hit with surprise churns, tougher renewals? Having to take on more accounts? The reality is, times are a changin’ and the customer success role as a value driver is now a non negotiable.  On Tuesday April 25th I will be hosting a session that dives into how I use Gainsight to manage my book of business as an Enterprise CSM to be a proactive, strategic value driver for my 25 clients. Registration info below.  How have you had to step up your game in the last 6 months?For me it’s been staying much closer to key decision makers at my clients to understand how they define value and not solely defining value from admin users.Let me know how it’s been for you, in the comments below! Register here 

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ddietiker
Gainsight Employee: Rookie
5 months ago
revathimenon
revathimenonGainsight Community Manager
posted in All About Pulse

All things Social with Pulse 2022Blog

In-person or virtual, you can always join the #Pulse2022 (USA) and #PulseEU (EU) conversation by[1] Join the Community [2] Download the App [3] Share on Social 🤝🏼 Register and participate in the ongoing threads in this All About Pulse space 📱Download the mobile app for an IRL experience of the event  iOS Android #️⃣ Use hashtag #Pulse2022 (US) or #PulseEU (EU) to share conversations with the world on Social media        See how @matthew_lind uses the app for a rich conference experience.The app is also available for the web. ---------------More at All About Pulse...🙌🏽🚨Choose the track of your choice and leave a question/comment anytime before, after or during any sessions.🚨Join all the catch-ups happening at Pulse. 

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revathimenon
11 months ago
J
Shoshin
JyothsnaShoshin
published in Customer Success Inspiration

Tokenizing URLs in Email template

Hi Admins! This post shows you how to insert tokens inside the URL. It is super simple to implement and it is very helpful since this use case is very common where Admins want to embed the URLs that are customer specific. I am here showing the use case where I have configured a email for CSM to notify them when Sentiment score drops/changes. In the email template, I want to embed the link which navigates to the respective account’s C360 page. The first part of C360 page URL remains consistent and last part of URL keeps changing with respect to account.  In the email template, click on the insert link so that you can place the URL towhich you want to navigate.  The new pop-up window appears where you insert the token within in URL. As the Account Id as I highlighted keeps changing I am tokenzing that. We can map the token to any fields in “Edit token Propoerties” section, here I am mapping the Account→ Id from Account object.  Here is how it looks after I tokenise the URL: Hope this hel

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sai_ram
Grand Slammer
2 years ago
seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
sethGainsight Employee: ACE
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Competition for the Most Robotic Human

What’s your greatest clue that you’re emailing a support rep who isn’t thinking of you as a human? Let’s start a thread below of the most egregious violations.I had two support email conversations recently where the first reply was a bunch of boilerplate questions that I’d already answered. Fuming. Would hate to create that kind of experience through our own customer success program. Next week, I’m joining two Gainsight experts (@lane_h , and @Tori Jeffcoat ) talk about how to make a digital CS program feel -- and actually be -- human-first.👉 Info & Register 👈 Drop your thoughts below about a clue that someone’s being a robot with you!

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anirbandutta
Gainsight Employee: Grand Slammer
5 months ago
jtownsend
Gainsight Employee: Shoshin
jtownsendGainsight Employee: Shoshin
posted in All About Pulse

Social Impact & Community: Join Us in Making a Difference

At Pulse 2023, we’re announcing a partnership between Gainsight’s philanthropic education programs (Pulse Impact) and our Community platform! We’re capturing what drives the Customer Success community: the people that make it up. Our diversity, our talent, and our passion for making the world more Human-First make Pulse Impact and Community a natural fit!Share something below about how Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) show up in your life, or let us know if you’d like to partner with our programs. Check out my comment below to see what kind of partnerships we’re looking for—we can’t wait to hear from you.If you’re at Pulse 2023 in person, stop by the Expo Hall to chat about Pulse Impact with us!

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4 months ago
jgalvan
Shoshin
jgalvanShoshin
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Best practices for handling admin requests

I’m gearing up to launch Gainsight for our CSMs and I want to have a system in place for them to ask for assistance, request changes, and submit ideas. Some things about the team: -I’m the only Gainsight Admin and I sit on the CS team -We’re a smallish team (30ish) -We’re all remote (even outside of COVID-19) -We have a ticketing system that they are used to using -We have a Gainsight Slack channel -They are relatively new to the tool and might have difficulty deciding whether their request is actually tech support, a preference, or an idea that needs to be evaluated I’ve decided against using the ticketing system since it implies a quick resolution when something might be an idea we don’t want to implement. However, I still want to capture their ideas and monitor the next steps we took. I’ve decided that I’d like them to submit their request via a form that captures their responses in a spreadsheet. I can then take the spreadsheet and evaluate requests with my governance committee and

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C
1 year ago
AnthonyF_Curity_CS
AnthonyF_Curity_CSRegistered User
asked in Customer Success Inspiration

Defining Success and Creating a Health Score

Hello out there. I am leading efforts to stand up a team and implement effective CS strategies within my company for a healthcare technology. I am looking for general references on how to go about defining “success” for our end-users and developing a health score to track and identify opportunities. Any direction would be greatly appreciated! Books, webinars, articles, etc...

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Shanetti
Shoshin
7 months ago
seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
sethGainsight Employee: ACE
posted in All About Pulse

Small-Group Admin Coaching at Pulse 2023 - Limited spots!

For Gainsight Administrators attending Pulse 2023 in San Francisco, we're recreating this massively successful event that we launched for the first time last year!You’ll come away with customized, tactical coaching from an expert admin. Plus, you'll meet fellow admins who you can feel comfortable connecting with in the future. Six experienced admins -- hand-picked members of our CS Ops Product Council -- will each host a roundtable.Each roundtable is limited to five participants so that the conversation can be intimate and in-depth. Registration is required to secure your seat.You can attend just one roundtable. Several will happen during the same lunch block, plus we want to maximize the number of admins who have access to this opportunity.   Topic Admin Host Roles and Responsibilities of a CS Ops team Angela Domenichelli@angela_domenichelli Creating an Action Oriented Health Scorecard to Prevent Churn and Predict Growth Kristina Holbrook@KristinaH Gainsight Adopt

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seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
5 months ago
spencer_engel
Golden Ruler
spencer_engelGolden Ruler
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

How to deal with Duplicate Users in Gainsight

Most of the credit for this post goes to @sdrostgainsightcom, who shared the bulk of these steps with me during an office hours session a while back. I’ve since added a couple notes of my own, as I’ve been dealing with a few user cleanup projects in our org. I’m hoping this can be a helpful guide for anyone else going through this process (and selfishly, I’ll probably need to reference this myself in the future!).  ISSUE: When a username is changed in Salesforce for a user that is synced into Gainsight, the User Sync job, which uses the Salesforce Username as the upsert key by default to maintain the connected Gainsight User, creates a new user record:  The new Gainsight user has the SAME Salesforce User ID, but has the NEW username from Salesforce – this user will not reflect the applied Gainsight license, etc. since that info remains unchanged on the original user record with the now out-of-date username. This original Gainsight User will not be updated by the sync job going forward

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Marwan
Shoshin
1 year ago
yuniyal
Gainsight Employee: Veteran Rookie
yuniyalGainsight Employee: Veteran Rookie
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Digital Campaigns - Metrics to define success?

Before I post the question on which I would want CS enthusiasts to brainstorm on, I would like to thank all the folks who joined the Crank Up Webinar last week. I truly value your participation there! 😊 Now, let’s brainstorm 😇 on the question that I asked during the session;   Let me kick start the discussion. Below are some of the points that I would consider;Tracking feature adoption pre and post campaign - Pull usage data and track the percentage change in adoption Leveraging surveys for campaign - Rather than sending just a JO email to the customers, attach a survey question to it. This will help in understanding if campaign emails are being read by the customers or not Best Practices requests - If there’s an increase in number of best practices requests from customers regarding the feature we started the campaign on, this is again a successI could be right or wrong about the points I shared but I am open for thoughts. During the session a few of the participants did answer this

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SeanDonnelly
Shoshin
5 months ago
dshorter
Gainsight Employee: Rookie
dshorterGainsight Employee: Rookie
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Recording: Measuring Digital CS (CS Ops Meetup Presentation)

In our monthly meetup group about the CS Ops of Digital Customer Success, we spoke in February 2023 about measuring digital CS. Here’s what we learned! 🎞️️️️ Recording of key takeaways from each breakout room 📝 Note-taking slides from the breakout rooms Learn about these meetups in the future by signing up for the monthly CS Ops Newsletter.

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alizee
Golden Ruler
7 months ago

Register for Pulse Encore 2023

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