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KICKING ASS WITH CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Lincoln Murphy, Founder, Sixteen Ventures
The Ultimate Growth Hack for Startups
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Lincoln Murphy@lincolnmurphy
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For a Deep-Dive on Customer Success
http://sixteenventures.com/case2015
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“The purpose of business is to create and keep a
customer.”
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“The purpose of business is to create and keep a
customer.”
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Startups are a BusinessThe Product / Market Fit Fallacy
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You’ve got 99 Problems…but Product / Market Fit isn’t One
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Startups need Churn to Learn?No. This is a dangerous lie.
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Customer Churn Kills!• Company Value• Total Addressable Market• Employee (and Founder) Morale• Time!
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Customer Success is Hot• Now part of the SaaS Business Model• Driver of Customer Lifetime Value (LTV)
• Customer Stays Longer• Customer Pays you More• Customer Brings in Other Customers
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Customer Success is not Required•You will not FAIL without it•But you will not THRIVE
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Without Customer Successyou will end-up…
AVERAGE!!!!!
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AVERAGESUCKS!
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What is Customer Success?
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Customer Success is not
Customer Support
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Customer Success is when your customers achieve their Desired
Outcome through their interactions with your
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Customer Success Management is proactively managing the process of your
customers achieving their Desired Outcome
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When to do Customer Success?
Before you Launch (or Now)…whichever is sooner
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Customer Development Process• Identify their Desired Outcome
• Required Outcome• Appropriate Experience
• Build your MVP around that• Give them what they need, not what they want
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Why is Customer Success the Ultimate
Growth Hack?
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David SkokMatrix Partners
http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/why-churn-is-critical-in-saas/
Customer Success Drives First-order Growth
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Source: http://www.saastr.com/its-not-just-cltv-its-your-trgcltv-that-matters-total-all-in-revenue-generated-by-your-customer/
Customer Success Drives Second-order Growth
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Customer Success Drives Third-order Value
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All of this is too important to be left to chance.
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Customer Success is Transformational1. Acquire the Best Customers2. Engage & Deliver Value Quickly3. Expand Their Investment4. Mobilize your Advocates5. Retain & Renew Customers
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1. ACQUIRE THE RIGHT CUSTOMERS
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ReadyWillingAbleAcquisition EfficiencySuccess PotentialExpansion PotentialAdvocacy Potential
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Ideal Customer Profile
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Ideal Customer ProfileReadyWillingAbleAcquisition EfficiencySuccess PotentialExpansion PotentialAdvocacy Potential
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Success Potential• Only Acquire Customers with Success Potential
• Technical Fit• Functional Fit• Experience Fit• Support Fit
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Use Customer Success to influence your
Marketing and Sales
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“Enter the conversation already taking place in your customer’s mind.” – Robert Collier
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“Enter the conversation already taking place in your customer’s mind.” – Robert Collier, c1937
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Customer Success = Their Desired Outcome
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The topic of the conversation in their
mind
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Customer Success = Their Desired Outcome
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2. ENGAGE & DELIVER VALUE QUICKLY
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The initial sale is critical, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg
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Success Milestones are the steps required
for a customer to achieve their Desired
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3. EXPAND THEIR INVESTMENT
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“Customers that take an upsell offer stay longer”
- McKinsey & Company
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Customer Lifetime Value is the Key Metric
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4. MOBILIZE YOUR ADVOCATES
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“Customers that come in through advocacy stay
longer and buy more.”- McKinsey & Company
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“Customers that advocate for you become stronger customers themselves.”
- Influitive
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5. RETAIN & RENEW CUSTOMERS
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When Customer Success is operationalized around Desired
Outcome-based Success Milestones, renewals become a non-issue…
renewals just happen.
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WHAT ABOUT CHURN?
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For a Deep-Dive on Customer Success
http://sixteenventures.com/case2015
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“The purpose of business is to create and keep a
customer.”
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Lincoln Murphy@lincolnmurphy
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For a Deep-Dive on Customer Success
http://sixteenventures.com/case2015