5 Customer Success Processes You Can’t Manage With a CRMTraditional CRMs trap your team in routine client management tasks, making it hard to drive tangible business outcomes. Here are a few critical CS processes that you can only do with a CSP. Feb 15 25February 15, 2025Article at Vitally.io
How to Build a Customer Survey From Start to FinishLearn how your Customer Success team can build actionable surveys, improve data visibility, and discover customer insights that drive business results. Oct 04 24October 04, 2024Article at Vitally.io
How to Improve Collaboration Between Your Customer Success and Support TeamsWhat do peanut butter and jelly have in common with Customer Success and Support? They go better together. Just like peanut butter and jelly combine into a sandwich much greater than the sum of its parts, the same applies to Support and Customer… Apr 29 24April 29, 2024Article at Vitally.io
How To Track The Effectiveness Of Your Customer Success TeamCustomer Success is a key function in B2B organizations. It’s also one of the most complex roles to measure. Unlike some roles where a team or individual contributor’s performance is reflected in neat, quantifiable metrics, Customer Success defies… Mar 20 24March 20, 2024Article at Vitally.io
Understanding CSAT: The Complete Guide to Customer Satisfaction ScoreCustomers hardly let you know that they had a bad experience. They’ll instead churn or worse, stop people in their network from patronizing your business. To prevent this, you must proactively analyze customers’ sentiments after every core… Jan 12 24January 12, 2024Article at thinkific.com
The Perfect Playbook For First-Time Customer Success ManagersCongratulations, you just landed your first CSM role in a SaaS company! It’s an exciting opportunity...but the anxiety is real. You have many questions: What do a CSM’s day-to-day tasks look like? What if all my customers churn on the same day? How… Dec 04 23December 04, 2023Article at Vitally.io
How to Build Your First Customer Success TeamBuilding your first Customer Success team takes more than publishing a generic job ad and hiring any applicants who check the boxes off a list of skill requirements. You need to understand your product, customer pain points, and business structure… Aug 31 23August 31, 2023Article at Vitally.io
Build vs. Buy: Why Developing Your Own CSP Is Never a Good IdeaIn the early stages of your B2B business, you can get away with managing your entire sales funnel out of your CRM. But as your client base grows, you’ll likely begin building out a Customer Success function at your company, which brings with it a… Jul 26 23July 26, 2023Article at Vitally.io
The 5 Best Customer Success Platforms for Mid-Market Businesses"They used to be more responsive when they started. Now they're bigger, and everything has changed." Many mid-market businesses hear a variation of this statement from their customers as they scale. As a young startup with a small customer base, it's… Jul 09 23July 09, 2023Article at Vitally.io
How to Create a Customer Success Journey MapA great client experience doesn’t happen by chance. It is the product of understanding how clients interact with your brand and deliberately building in high points that: Delight clients at different stages of the customer journeyHelp them achieve… Mar 01 23March 01, 2023Article at thinkific.com
5 Client Communication Best Practices for Small AgenciesCustomers are the lifeblood of a business, and they’re letting companies know that they now expect more. According to a 2022 Customer Service survey, over 60% of respondents say they have higher customer service expectations. They demand… Sep 18 22September 18, 2022Article at The Portal Blog
What Is a Knowledge Base? Everything You need to KnowGladly’s 2020 Customer Expectations Report states that 35% of your customers “feel happy and proud when they use self-service to resolve an issue.” One way to empower customers to resolve issues independently is by creating a knowledge base. A… Jul 29 22July 29, 2022Article at The Portal Blog
Client Management: 7 Practical Tips for Winning and Retaining ClientsAgencies lose one in four clients every year, according to a 2020 report by Gould Partners. Most of this churn is the result of bad client experiences. PWC’s Future of CX Report states that “32% of all customers would stop doing business with a brand… Jul 21 22July 21, 2022Article at The Portal Blog
Why Is a Knowledge Base Important for Productized Agencies?Agencies productize their services to simplify the sales process. But when your team spends a significant amount of time answering questions your customers could have easily resolved independently, it defeats the purpose. If you want to run an… Jul 21 22July 21, 2022Article at The Portal Blog
How to Write a Knowledge Base Article Your Customers Will LoveA knowledge base article is supposed to be a self-service resource that helps your customers resolve issues independently. However, most knowledge base articles are difficult to understand, time consuming, or throw too much information at the reader,… Jun 21 22June 21, 2022Article at The Portal Blog
13 Questions You Should Include in Your Client Onboarding Questionnaire (+Free Template)Client onboarding is important because it sets the tone of your relationship with a new client. Yet, many agencies take this process for granted. According to Wyzowl’s 2020 Customer Onboarding Report, 90% of customers are not satisfied with their… Jun 10 22June 10, 2022Article at The Portal Blog
15 Questions To Ask Clients Before Signing a ContractYou’ve heard that “nothing is real until the contract is signed.” So, you want quickly put pen to paper with your new client and kick off your new project fast. But you might be making the wrong move. No matter how enticing it looks, client… Jun 09 22June 09, 2022Article at The Portal Blog
9 Best Client Management Systems for Small-sized AgenciesPoor client management is every agency's nightmare. It leads to scope creep, misaligned expectations, and lots of time and resources wasted. Every hour spent on tasks outside the project scope is literally eroding your profit, slowing down your… Apr 04 22April 04, 2022Article at The Portal Blog
The Client Communication Manifesto: 6 Simple Rules to Live ByGreat client communication is the most important ingredient for building successful agency-client relationships, but it isn’t easy to pull off. In an attempt to communicate effectively, many agencies end up providing their clients with too much… Mar 29 22March 29, 2022Article at The Portal Blog
4 Ways to Improve Your Client CollaborationClient collaboration means more than sending welcome emails to clients, jumping on quick Zoom calls, or adding them to your agency’s project management software. Client collaboration means empowering clients to feel like they can influence… Mar 17 22March 17, 2022Article at The Portal Blog