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Ensure Customer Success with a VoC Program February 5, 2015

Ensure Customer Success with Voice of the Customer

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Ensure Customer Success

with a VoC Program

February 5, 2015

Housekeeping

• Q&A panel on your right

• Recording for colleagues who can’t make it

• All attendees will receive slides

• Twitter hashtag #customersuccess

Our Speakers

Paul PiazzaDirector of Customer Success

@PaulPiazza2

Steve BernsteinFounder & CEO

@sbernste

On Your Mind?

• Effective VoC Programs

• Why should I invest in a Voice of the Customer program?

• What should I expect from a VoC program?

• How do I succeed and avoid common pitfalls?

• Driving Customer Success

• Why does VoC and surveys matter for Customer Success?

• How do I take action on survey responses?

• What tangible Customer Success outcomes will surveys drive?

What Does “Survey Success” Look Like?A B2B Feedback Program Must Accelerate $ales

“We received an alert from one of our largest customers.

I called him straight back.”

“We put an action plan in place to resolve his issues and saved a $750k

account. THEN we upsold an additional $250k

revenue”

Area Director,

Consulting Services

Company

Old-style Survey Programs Are Difficult To Action

• Anonymous

• Aggregated

• Lagging

We must “think different” about surveys

By Contrast, We Need To Focus on the Individual Accounts

What’s More, Strategic Accounts == Complex Relationships

Account Manager

Sales & Pre-Sales teams

Consultants

Front-line Support

Legal / Billing / Contracts

Your firm

Decision Maker (CxO, VP)

Department Managers

End Users

IT

Legal / Purchasing

Your Customer

Objective Is To Get A Leading Indicator Of Customer Sentiment…and Then Take Action

Candid

Dialogs

with the right

people

at the

right time

enable the right

actions

to strengthen

relationships &

Accelerate

growth.

Survey as

“conversation

starters”

• Is it “Easy?”111111

• Is it enabling “Success?”333333

• Does it produce “Value?”222222

“With” you

Not “With”

You

Disengaged

Detractor

Promoter

Passive

So Now That You’ve Invited the Right People, Take Action In 4 Ways

Example: “How likely are you to recommend ACME to a friend or colleague?”

Disengaged

4x – 14x more likely to churn!

So Now That You’ve Invited the Right People, Establish the Right Treatment Strategies

ACTIVATE

ENGAGECONVERT

PROVE

“With” you

Not “With”

You

Disengaged

Detractor

Promoter

Passive

But What About Things I Can’t Action, Such as Product?

Amplify Act Address

Ensure Feedback Represents the Business

StrategicAccounts

Small Customers

Growth Accounts

~80% of

Sales

And Be Sure To Tell a Business Story With Your Results

• Which accounts are most likely to leave?

• Which accounts want to buy more?

• Where the organization can best benefit from your resources?

• How important are we to our customers?

• You can read the polls, or you can write the polls:

Driving Customer Success

Customer Success Isn’t Just Data

Track Holistic Customer Health

Surveys Can’t Be Left Hanging

Track Responses in CSM Cockpit

Understand Context

Apply Best Practice Playbook

Take and Automate Action

Measure Team To Optimize Processes

Customer Success Survey Benefits

1 2

3 4

Intervene with detractors

Identify advocates Partner with Marketing for case studies,

referrals, and more

Offer training, services, etc

How We Use Surveys At Gainsight

How We Use Surveys At Gainsight

How We Use Surveys At Gainsight

How We Use Surveys At Gainsight