The perils of leaving customer engagement and retention to chance After onboarding, SaaS customers usually have to navigate their own way to success—with maybe a few customer success manager (CSM) calls if they’re a large enough account to warrant having one, and a...
The rules of the game have changed—having the best software is no longer enough. Instead, delighting customers throughout their buying journey is the only way to meaningfully engage and retain them in today’s marketplace. A recent study by Walker predicts that “by...
In the 1989 film Field Of Dreams, a disembodied voice talked Kevin Costner into building a baseball field with some of the worst marketing advice of all time: “If you build it, they will come.” Success in advocate marketing takes way more than just launching a...
On Valentine’s Day this year, Nicole Dingley, Director of Customer Success at Wiley—a publishing and education technology company—gave each of her customers a gift card and asked them what it is that they love most about the company and product. Within 24 hours, she...
For a modern technology company to thrive, having a community of engaged customers is essential. Nobody knows this better than Kate Cohen, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Carbon Black, a leading provider of endpoint security solutions. Carbon Black’s customer...
I walked into an all-day meeting back in February, and on one of the tables I saw a piece of notebook paper with my name and a heart written on it. To the side of the paper was a Starbucks tea (I abhor coffee) and a bottle of water. While it was a small gesture, I...