the economic value of customer success for enterprise saas companies

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Guest presenter Kate Leggett, Principal Analyst from Forrester Research, shares The Economic Value of Customer Success. In this presentation she goes into the real economic and monetary impact that having a Customer Success focus brings to a Subscription business like Enterprise SaaS. In fact, the most successful Enterprise SaaS companies know that growing revenue only through new customer acquisition is the less efficient way to scale. Rather, they understand that growing revenue within your existing customer base - through up-sells, cross-sells, and expanded use - is the most profitable way to scale. Enterprise SaaS companies that grow revenue - and company valuation - by expanding revenue within their existing customer base also know the key to making this work is to focus on - and operationalize - Customer Success.

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The Economic Value of Customer

Success

June

2014

#customersuccess

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Housekeeping

• Q&A panel on your right • Recording for colleagues who can’t make

it• Attendees will receive slides and final

Forrester report• Twitter hashtag #customersuccess

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Your Speakers

Lincoln MurphyCustomer Success Evangelist

@lincolnmurphy

Kate LeggettPrincipal Analyst

@kateleggett

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What We’ll Cover

1. The State of Customer Success2. The Economic Value of Customer Success3. AKA CSM

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The Conversation

PULSE2013

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The Roles

5500 companies hiring

Making Leaders Successful Every Day

The Economic Value Of Customer Success

Kate Leggett

Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

@kateleggett

kleggett@forrester.com

We have entered the “age of the customer”

Source: October 10, 2013, “Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer” Forrester report

1900 1960 1990 2010

Age of ManufacturingMass manufacturing makes industrial powerhouses successful

Age of DistributionGlobal connections and transportation systems make distribution key

Age of InformationConnected PCs and supply chains mean those that control information flow dominate

Age of the CustomerEmpowered buyers demand a new level of customer obsession

Beyond

• Ford• Boeing• GE• RCA

• Wal-Mart• Toyota• P&G• UPS

• Amazon• Google• Comcast• Capital One

• Macy’s• Salesforce.com• USAA• Amazon

Our world is moving to a subscription economy

Credit: www.zuora.com

Our world is moving to a subscription economy

And the business model for technology is moving to subscriptions

14%

January 2014 “TechRadar™: Software-As-A-Service, Q1 2014”

And the business model for technology is moving to subscriptions

21%

January 2014 “TechRadar™: Software-As-A-Service, Q1 2014”

And the business model for technology is moving to subscriptions

13%

January 2014 “TechRadar™: Software-As-A-Service, Q1 2014”

The subscription model has tipped for many B2B software categories

January 2014 “TechRadar™: Software-As-A-Service, Q1 2014”

The subscription model has tipped for many B2B software categories

January 2014 “TechRadar™: Software-As-A-Service, Q1 2014”

The subscription model has tipped for many B2B software categories

January 2014 “TechRadar™: Software-As-A-Service, Q1 2014”

And because of this relationships are becoming more important

Product Focused Relationship Focusedwww.zuora.com

Good relationships have business value

March 2012 “The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2012”

Relationships improve business metrics

April 2012 “Define the Right CRM Metrics”

Customer success managers actively manage customer relationships to reduce churn, increase existing revenue and influence new sales

CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGEMENT REDUCES CHURN

25

Companies follow a standard growth trajectory

26

Where are you in your growth?

27

Where are you in your growth?

28

Along the way, you tier your customers

29

As you grow, revenue from existing customers becomes a larger and larger part of your company’s economic value

30

Calculating the impact of customer churn

31

The negative impact of churn can be quantifiedre

venu

e

time

95% retention rate- Acquired 600 customers- Lost 30

80% retention rate- Acquired 600 customers- Lost 120

$2M difference

32

Churn is dependent on deal size

CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGEMENT INCREASES NEW REVENUE

Data-driven conversations make cross-selling and upselling easy

• Product utilization data. Can be used to have data-driven conversations on the economic benefit of the purchased solution

• Active users exceed purchased users. Indicates a customer who is utilizing their purchased products beyond the negotiated terms of their contract. Customer success managers can use this data in customer conversations to showcase the value of their purchase, as well as drive upsells and upgrades.

• Active features exceed purchased capabilities. Indicates a customer who has a greater need for product capabilities than what is purchased.

Find the white space

CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGEMENT INCREASES ADVOCACY

Brand advocates are more valuable than average customers

38

Happy champions will buy you again

CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGEMENT DRIVES TEAM PERFORMANCE

You can amplify the effects of each team member

Teams automate manual reporting and task management to deliver more value.

ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY

ENGAGEMENT PROCESSES

ENGAGERS ENGAGEMENT LEVERS

Customer success management takes coordinated effort across four dimensions

ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY

ENGAGEMENT PROCESSES

ENGAGERS ENGAGEMENT LEVERS

Customer success management takes coordinated effort across four dimensions

What data do you need?

44

Customer

Goal

Inactive users

Provisioned users

ContractTerms

Renewal

Realized economic

value

Audit records

Feedback

Advocacy

Support feedbackCustomer

feedback

Active users

Measures of success

Features

Alerts

Calls and tickets

Onboarding

What do you do with data?

Integration Validation Visualization

Analytics Exploration

Workflow

Data

Insights

Action

The Advanced Playbook

LOBData

Enterprise Insights

Outside-inAction

• Customer360• Alerts

• Surveys• Automated Email

• Health Scorecards• Playbooks• Workflow

• Embedded Apps

• External Sponsor Alerts• Automated Customer

Presentations• Mobile

• Data Science

ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY

ENGAGEMENT PROCESSES

ENGAGERS ENGAGEMENT LEVERS

Customer success management takes coordinated effort across four dimensions

Thank youKate LeggettPrincipal Analystkleggett@forrester.com@kateleggett

Thank you

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