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Sharon BokRegistered User
asked in Product Experience Best Practices

3 Steps to Implement Tech-Touch Processes in Your Customer Success Organization

As companies try to overcome inefficiencies, many Customer Success (CS) organizations are looking to automate tasks that can help win back precious time. A “tech-touch” strategy in your Customer Success organization will allow you to scale your operations, improve the effectiveness of your team, and engage your customers in a consistent and timely manner.I’ve worked with many customers to optimize their processes by implementing a tech-touch strategy.  When going down this path, there are a few things to keep in mind.   Define Your Customer Journey The first step is to take a look at each stage of your customer’s journey. Within each of these stages, document your customer touchpoints.  Taking the time to do this will go a long way in helping you realize where and how your team is spending their time.One of our customers, Popmenu, takes a very systematic approach to documenting daily work processes. Jess Kitt, Vice President of Client Experience with Popmenu discusses this process. “On

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1 hour ago
dshorter
Gainsight Employee: Shoshin
dshorterGainsight Employee: Shoshin
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Making CSMs more efficient using digital resources

CSMs often have to have the same conversation multiple times. What are some resources we can automate digitally that can answer customers’ questions so our CSMs don’t have to? I’d like to think you’re already doing this for some subset of customers in the form of newsletters or welcome emails but what’s preventing you from rolling this out across the whole customer base? What roadblocks are you facing when it comes to implementing automations to push out resources to your customers digitally? I’m facilitating a virtual meetup tomorrow (March 22) at 8am PT where you’ll get the chance to break out into small groups to talk through your ideas and also hear what your peers are doing as it relates to digital customer success. We’ll then reconvene and hear takeaways from a few groups. Please join us!  👉🏽Register and learn more here  

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Aynot2000
37 minutes ago
seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
sethGainsight Employee: ACE
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Getting started in Digital CS

@lane_h just finished hosting @Tori Jeffcoat and me on a webinar (recording will be available here) about creating a human-first digital customer success program. These were our getting-started takeaways. What are your suggestions or questions about getting started in Digital CS? 

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seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
1 day ago
anirbandutta
anirbanduttaGainsight Community Manager
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Community and CX leaders talk leveraging Community for Customer Success

Been a late find for me but Gainsight’s director of CX and Scale @lane_h and Head of Community of inSided by Gainsight, @Alistair FIeld get together with our VP of Customer Success, @easton_taylor to riff on the obvious synergies of a CSM org and an active Community.📹 Watch it On-demand here📕 And also, there’s this Big Book on Customer Success for us to download.  

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anirbandutta
1 day ago
kiranpanigrahi
Gainsight Employee: Rookie
kiranpanigrahiGainsight Employee: Rookie
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Doing More With Less - EBRs! ( Digitally )

 As we gear up to the Digital route nowadays and foresee that as the future to be, how do we do Digital EBR ( Business Reviews )❓Here's what I think about it & I would like to call it "Value Realisation - Business Review" ✌1. Identify - procure objectives from multiple clients via survey or an engagement, and select 3-4 clients who are atleast 80% match on the objectives.2. Automate or orchestrate communication which will help us to set expectations for those selected clients on what we wanted to achieve.3. One: Many - Have a generalized presentation on the best practices of the matched objectives and drive via roundtable or webinar or a Review.4. Once the session is done, send a personalized presentation including the matched objectives best practices + unmatched objectives specific to the client + Adoption Trends, etc...5. What is Next? - Take Action - Playbook, CTA's, Derive outcomes.Thank you for taking the time in going through the above.Feel free to share your thoughts &

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Revant_Amingad
Gainsight Employee: Rookie
1 day 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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lila_meyer
Gainsight Employee: Grand Slammer
2 days ago
aaronhatton
Gainsight Employee: Shoshin
aaronhattonGainsight Employee: Shoshin
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Level up your Digital CS strategy with Calendar booking links

Scheduling meetings can be very time consuming; and can often be the reason why customers don’t schedule meetings at all. Reducing the friction between both account management teams (i.e - Customer Success Managers, Account Managers, Solution Architects, etc.) and customers can help significantly with improving the response rate of your requests for a meeting. One tool to help with this is Calendly. A popular calendar booking service that allows third parties to select a time slot that is convenient for both them and you, without the need for long email chains back and forth. Calendly in particular has some great features such as round-robin scheduling (great for pooled teams) and group bookings (great when you want both a Customer Success Manager and Account Manager to attend). Once your team has selected a tool such as Calendly, the next challenge is getting your customers to book the time at the right point in their customer journey. This can vary between all sorts of different use

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harshibanka
Gainsight Employee: Veteran Rookie
14 hours ago
anirbandutta
anirbanduttaGainsight Community Manager
published in All About Pulse

Speaking at Pulse 2023? Let's start warming upBlog

Congratulations for being selected to speak at Pulse 2023 from the phenomenal Moscone Center, SF!Gainsight has always been passionate about building the Customer Success Community as much as building the software to run the function off it, and Pulse has been the cornerstone to bring it all together.And we must have lost count until we realized that it has been 10years of Pulsating with this passion: online from the last year, as much as it is in the venue, on a forum we’ve named, All About PulseSo we welcome you to share it with us, on the All About Pulse Community, your topic to get us warmed up for your session those of us who would attend in-person and those who can’t, everyone can participate in the ‘Discussion’, and starting today!Calling all speakers toRegister on this Community if you don’t have a profile. Complete your profile with all the details and a nice headshot. If you think you had an earlier profile you can't remember, let us know and we’ll look it up, and update your

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anirbandutta
7 days ago
Aynot2000
Aynot2000Registered User
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Voice of Digital Customer Success

As we begin to build our digital CS model, moving away from a named CSM, we need to establish a cohesive brand and DCS voice across channels that is personal. I'm wondering what other companies are doing when sending post-purchase CS comms without a named CSM. Specifically, what are you using as the from/sender and/or signature? With the rise of creating fictitious characters, are you moving away from generic "XYZ Customer Success" or "Your Customer Success Team"?Examples:Success Team A fictional CSM CCO A fictional character (dog, donkey, etc.)Would love to hear what others are doing and any learnings along the way!

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Aynot2000
6 hours ago
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SurathRegistered User
asked in Product Experience Best Practices

How to add new field in NPS Response object?

How to add new field in NPS Response object?

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achandak
Gainsight Employee: Shoshin
12 days ago
dshorter
Gainsight Employee: Shoshin
dshorterGainsight Employee: Shoshin
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Webinar Recording: The Key Skills CSM Teams Need to Succeed in 2023

If you missed our webinar on March 7 on The Key Skills CSM Teams Need to Succeed in 2023 you can find the presentation and a recording of the slides below. In this webinar Easton Taylor, VP of Customer Success, Gainsight joins John Thackston, CEO, SOAR Performance Group and Andy Thompson, AVP Consulting & Client Success at Recorded Future for a discussion on how you and your teams can be best equipped for the year ahead. During this webinar they discussed:How the required skills for CSMs are changing based on the current business environment  How to effectively develop new skills for your CSM teams  Ways to measure the business impact of skill development SlidesRecording  

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seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
9 days ago
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EngunetRegistered User
asked in Product Experience Best Practices

Having a data export functionality to see what made by who

Hey Team, there is a report in salesforce (Data Export) , you can generate, download and see what change made by who in case of more than one admin in the instance. I think this feature also needed if it is available in GS data instance. There may be companies who have more than one Gainsight admins and who worked collaboratively on same data infrastructure. So far what we can see only Modified date and Modified by, but i think that is not enough unless there is a way to see exact change made . This will keep the GS Admin Team Synced on the instance.  Thank you!

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alizee
All Star
19 days ago
Gainsight2022
Shoshin
Gainsight2022Shoshin
asked in Product Experience Best Practices

Search integration with Salesforce Knowledge for public documents

Has anyone integrated Gainsight’s Bot search with Salesforce Knowledge? If so, can you describe how you used this feature, and did you offer your customers access to Public docs? Interested in your success stories. (We have tested the integration set up, just want to learn more about how you successfully used this for your customers. )

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Shoshin
20 days ago
Gainsight2022
Shoshin
Gainsight2022Shoshin
posted in Product Experience Best Practices

Has anyone integrated Salesforce Knowledge for users, and if so, how are you using this for public facing content?

We are testing the integration of documents and articles within Salesforce Knowledge Base for our customers to access within the Gainsight Bot searches.We made the connection and are interested in learning how you utilize the integration so users can access public facing documents/videos from Knowledge.Thanks in advance. 

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Shoshin
20 days ago
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vwoodfordRegistered User
asked in Product Experience Best Practices

How do you configure In-app engagements when using Web Application Firewall (WAF)

When creating an engagement and wanting to edit in-app to tag a UI element, we are unable to do so. Our Web Application Firewall (WAF) which controls our endpoint thinks the Gainsight payload looks like a SQL injection and blocks it. How can this be resolved?

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22 days ago
seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
sethGainsight Employee: ACE
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

CSM Compensation Trends

An informal survey of CCOs about CSM compensation gives us some incredible insight into the broad variety of ways that comp has been structured. See attached PDF, linked below.For example:About half of CS teams have some amount of team-performance variable comp Median variable comp is 20%:⬇️ Attached PDF with much more info ⬇️

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seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
23 days ago
BrittanyPais
BrittanyPaisRegistered User
posted 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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lane_h
Gainsight Employee: MVP
23 days ago
lila_meyer
Gainsight Employee: Grand Slammer
lila_meyerGainsight Employee: Grand Slammer
published in All About Pulse

All About Pulse Academy Live on May 16th - Registration Is Open!

For this year’s Pulse Academy Live training day on May 16th, we’re doubling down on product training with 4 different tracks for Gainsight Admins, PX Users, and CS End Users!Each of these sessions has limited capacity, so you’ll want to register early to save your seat! The curriculum is hands-on and interactive, with opportunities to learn from peers as well as Gainsight experts, in fun collaborative spaces at the Moscone Convention Center. Questions? Feel free to comment here or email training@gainsight.com. We look forward to seeing many of you there!  Gainsight Admin 101: Foundations Fundamentals of Data Management One of the most important functions within the Gainsight feature set is the ability to ingest disparate data sources into our Matrix Data Architecture. By mastering our back end you will leave with the ability to create Gainsight Objects, create an Object automatically through a CSV file, load data into a Gainsight Object, create calculated fields and so much more!Levera

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jenlpro
Veteran Rookie
19 days ago
dshorter
Gainsight Employee: Shoshin
dshorterGainsight Employee: Shoshin
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
All Star
26 days ago
seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
sethGainsight Employee: ACE
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

After Your Level 3 Certification

It’s a stupendous achievement to earn your Level 3 Gainsight Admin Certification. People who’ve done it have said that certification gave them confidence in their technical expertise, opened doors to more interesting work, and overall helped their career. They’re also extremely clear, though, that they don’t know everything yet! (I mean, because it’s impossible, and not only because there are constantly new features.)One newly-certified Level 3 Admin asked me what resources I’d suggest so they could continue to grow. Here’s what I suggested:You will learn most, now, by doing. For you, it's less about learning functionality, and more about becoming creative, sophisticated, and elegant with how you combine and configure the functionality. So, give yourself a gentle pressure in that direction as you take on new projects, or even suggest to your stakeholders what might be possible. As you push the envelope of what you've built, lean on the admin community for questions around, "What might

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alizee
All Star
1 month ago
lila_meyer
Gainsight Employee: Grand Slammer
lila_meyerGainsight Employee: Grand Slammer
published in Product Experience Best Practices

Win Free Live PX Training by Sharing What You Love about PX

New Instructor-Led PX Training Starts Feb. 14thThis Valentine’s Day we’re kicking off new virtual instructor-led training on PX! We encourage newer PX users to join us for live hands-on training, where you’ll get to practice building in-app Engagements, configure a Knowledge Center Bot for onboarding your new customers, and explore PX Analytics. There are 3 classes delivered over the course of 3 days. Register now with the code px-iloveyou-15 and receive 15% off!Contest Details - Win a Free Ticket to TrainingOr, just for fun, here’s how to win a free seat in the training! Comment here about something specific that you love about Gainsight PX by eod on Feb. 8th. For every comment, I’ll enter your name into a drawing, and then choose a name (or maybe 2 or 3 😊) on Feb. 9th! I’ll get us started…I love how easy PX makes it to communicate with users directly in my application! We use PX on Gainsight University and our Pulse+ training platform to share new courses, provide users with a way t

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lila_meyer
Gainsight Employee: Grand Slammer
1 month ago
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Sharon BokRegistered User
posted in Product Experience Best Practices

Customer Insights: Automation Best Practices

In this Q&A with Jessica Kitt, Vice President of Client Experience with Popmenu, she discusses how during a time of significant growth, the company focused on automation to ensure customer interactions were efficient as well as meaningful. Read more about Popmenu’s approach to its automation strategy and insights from Jess for others going down this same path.https://www.ncloudintegrators.com/post/q-a-with-jess-kitt-vp-of-client-experience-with-popmenu

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1 month ago
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Sharon BokRegistered User
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Do you Automate with Intention?

“We need more automation.”   The topic of scaling is not a new concept in the Customer Success industry and continues to be a hot topic and one that most organizations want to pursue. However, most organizations struggle with finding a balance in adding automation to scale and often try to automate too much. Find out how to establish a balanced approach in this article, 4 Steps to Automate with Intention, by Kate Griffin, consulting team leader at nCloud Integrators. https://www.ncloudintegrators.com/post/automate-with-intention

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2 months ago
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kristin.campbellRegistered User
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

Success Plans

We are staring to implement the use of Success Plans in Gainsight and I was hoping to find out how others have been using them.  What types of things are you creating them for?   Are you keeping them simple and clear?   Just looking for some guidance and tips on what others have learned and how you have implemented them.   Thank you in advance! 

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john_apple
Golden Ruler
2 months ago
matthew_lind
All Star
matthew_lindAll Star
posted in Customer Success Inspiration

What are you reading / listening to that's adjacent to Customer Success?

What books, podcasts, authors, topics, etc. you follow to supplement your Customer Success career?I’m interested especially in what tangential material or subjects you follow. Perhaps there’s a leadership expert who relates her expertise in a way that particularly helps you. Or there’s a YouTuber who really shares his goal setting habits well. It’s not directly Customer Success knowledge, but it’s applicable to our field.What do you follow or listen to or read, perhaps that’s not directly in the Customer Success swim lane, that you’ve found especially helpful or inspirational?

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seth
Gainsight Employee: ACE
1 month ago

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