How To Align Your Company Around Customer Success

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Creating a Customer Success-Focused Enterprise While Customer Success Management may be defined as a specific department inside an organization – or even a functional role – Customer Success requires significant inter-departmental alignment. This unique roundtable webinar brings together Executives from Sales, Marketing, Product, and Customer Success to share exactly how you should go about aligning an organization around Customer Success. Specifically, we’ll cover: Defining success for your customers Understanding how Customer Success aligns with your company’s strategic direction Clearly defining each department’s role in both of those The most successful Enterprise SaaS companies know that growing revenue only through new customer acquisition is the less efficient way to scale. Rather, they understand that growing revenue within your existing customer base - through up-sells, cross-sells, and expanded use - is the most profitable way to scale. In fact, Enterprise SaaS companies that grow revenue - and company valuation - by expanding revenue within their existing customer base also know the key to making this work is to focus on - and operationalize - Customer Success.

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How to Align Your Company

Around Customer Success

Sept 17

2014

Roundtable Panel

Housekeeping

• Q&A panel on your right • Recording for colleagues who can’t make it• All attendees will receive slides• Twitter hashtag #customersuccess

B2B organizations with tightly aligned operations achieved 24% faster three-year revenue growth, and 27% faster three-year profit growth

Benefits of Alignment

Your Panelists

Anthony KennadaVP of Marketing

Puja RamaniDirector of Product

Kelly DeHartSr. CSM

1. Why should we align around the customer?

It’s How We’ll Survive

Source: October 10, 2013, “Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer” Forrester report

1900 1960 1990 2010

Age of Manufacturing

Mass manufacturing makes industrial powerhouses successful

Age of Distribution

Global connections and transportation systems make distribution key

Age of Information

Connected PCs and supply chains mean those that control information flow dominate

Age of the Customer

Empowered buyers demand a new level of customer obsession

Beyond

• Ford• Boeing• GE• RCA

• Wal-Mart• Toyota• P&G• UPS

• Amazon• Google• Comcast• Capital One

• Macy’s• Salesforce.com• USAA• Amazon

2. What’s standing in the way of organizational alignment?

76% of US employees work at least part of the time on the go

58% employees spend over an hour a day looking for information and 38% of time is lost duplicating work

3. Who should be the quarterback?

Central Cockpit of All Customer Interactions

4. What role does the rest of the team play?

Sell More As A Team

Market For and Identify Advocacy

Turn Support Delight Into New Revenue

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Guide Product Direction Based on Usage

5. Why does this matter now?

Q&A

You can still make an impact on renewals this year.

Contact your Account Executive or sales@gainsight.com for September specials.

Thank You!