Explore strategies, methods, critical skills that top CSMs exhibit in delivering well-designed, proactive customer success services, fostering lasting customer relationships and sowing the seeds for advocacyKey FeaturesMaster the art of driving measurable customer value, a cornerstone of business success
Explore techniques to ensure your work is relevant, stimulating, and aligns with the evolving needs of your customers and business
Ratchet up your understanding of building and operating dynamic and resilient CS organizations
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Book Description
The rapidly evolving customer success landscape has left many Customer Success Managers (CSMs) struggling to keep pace with the complexities of this dynamic role. This Customer Success book bridges the gap by providing a comprehensive framework for mastering the essential skills required to excel.
You'll find out why the Customer Success function is indispensable today and gain expert insights into account segmentation, financial tiering, ideal customer profiles, and the complexity of customer engagement process design. You'll then delve into playbook development, where you'll find practical guidance for CSMs and Customer Success Operations Managers who want to improve their ability to drive desired business outcomes. Through insightful case studies, the authors illustrate their own experience of successful Customer Success implementation, showing you what it takes to exceed customer expectations with well-designed, proactive services. The journey doesn't end there-it extends to highlighting the resilience required to build and operate successful Customer Success organizations.
By the end of this guide, you'll be equipped with the tactics and mindset necessary to stand out as a world-class Customer Success leader in your organization, driving growth at every [...] you will learnDrive higher customer retention and expansion rates with a customer-centric strategy
Understand the essential role of measurement in achieving service delivery excellence
Recognize the importance of the human dimension in vendor-customer relationships in the age of AI
Refine engagement models by incorporating observations of customer behavior
Discover techniques for creating ideal customer profiles
Leverage technology to boost business relevance of CSMs
Identify how to drive successful customer outcomes through collaboration

Who this book is for
This book is for aspiring and established Customer Success professionals who want to learn how to develop and refine service delivery in customer engagements. Professionals embarking on a journey to excellence will be able to master the evolving business landscape of Customer Success and foster relationships with other internal organizations and external partners. A foundational understanding of business basics, typical B2B structures, and Customer Success concepts is necessary to get started. Intermediate to advanced customer engagement skills from customer-facing roles will prove useful.