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Sales vs. Account Management: What Every Sales Leader Needs to Know

Brooks Group

Account managers keep customer service and customer success top of mind. Essential Skills for Sales vs. Customer advocacy: Represent customer interests within your organization to secure resources and support. New sales metrics should track pipeline velocity, conversion rates, and new logo acquisition.

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Spigit Announces the Acquisition of Kindling Inc. and a Record Year

Planview

Spigit’s Acquisition of Kindling. First, I’m delighted to announce Spigit’s acquisition of Kindling Inc. I’m excited to enhance both the Spigit team as well as our customer base through this acquisition. Here’s to a successful New Year and welcome to the Spigit family, Kindling customers!

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Why you should align marketing and customer success teams

Insightly

Start by working closely with your customer success team. Why you should align customer success with marketing. At this point, the account moves to a dedicated account or customer success manager. It is in marketers’ best interest to build relationships with customer success managers.

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How customer success operations improves customer service

Zendesk

The band members face the audience, delivering an experience that creates loyal fans—similar to how your customer success managers (CSMs) work with your customers one-on-one. Customer success operations (CS Ops) is the behind-the-scenes crew that helps customer success managers excel at their jobs.

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Customer success vs. customer experience: What’s the difference?

Zendesk

How are customer success and customer experience different? Though they’re both customer-centric roles, customer success and customer experience teams perform distinct functions. What is the difference between customer success and customer experience? Customer success teams.

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A startup’s guide to building a customer success team

Zendesk

Customer success is key to business success, especially for startups that depend on retention for meeting revenue goals. For startups with a well-oiled customer success team, the opportunities for growth are immense. What is a customer success team? When to start your customer success team.

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5 Examples of Customer Success Marketing for SaaS Teams

Help Scout

So how can marketing teams create content and messaging to improve customer success and drive retention? In this post, we’re sharing some great examples of customer success marketing — marketing activities and features specifically designed to help existing customers be successful with your product.