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From flexibility to cross-functional alignment: Four trends impacting the customer success space in 2024

Customer Think

In 2024, businesses face shifting customer expectations, evolving technology, and global economic uncertainties. In this challenging environment, prioritizing customer success (CS) isn’t an option; it’s a lifeline. Customer-focused companies grow 2.5 times faster than companies not prioritizing CS.

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Aligning Customer Success and Sales to Grow Your Business

Brooks Group

Your customer success team can be your best ally. When you have satisfied customers, they’re likely to buy from you again, refer you to others, and, over time, spend more. But the most successful sales professionals understand the value of cultivating long-term relationships with their customers.

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How Royal Became a Trusted Advisor and Streamlined Solutions Saving $300,000 Per Patient

Strategic Account Management Association

By Roshni Patel, Customer Success Manager, Royal Ambulance. Specifically, we collaborated with the insurance network to develop the following list of prioritized objectives: Leverage transportation to ensure patients receive care within the provider network. Defining Objectives.

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The Future of SAM – Revisited

Strategic Account Management Association

This blog post is based on a keynote presentation from the 2021 SAMA Annual Conference. Panelists’ remarks have been paraphrased for this blog post. . We have to understand how SAM relates to the other ways that we engage with customers like marketing, sales, supply chain management.”. The future is now.

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People & Problems: The core of strategic account planning

Strategic Account Management Association

Many of us still can’t hop on planes and sell face-to-face—or at least not as much as we want to—and our customers are grappling with their own sets of shifting priorities made more urgent by forces beyond their control. Prioritizing relationships allows us to think more holistically about success. They’re critical,” he said.

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How Jaclyn D’Arcy at GHX Drives Sales Readiness | Building Modern Sellers Blog Series

Showpad

It goes like this: meet with field reps, customer success managers, executives, and sales leaders to understand where their pain points are coming from and where they feel like you could move the needle. The post How Jaclyn D’Arcy at GHX Drives Sales Readiness | Building Modern Sellers Blog Series appeared first on Showpad.

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Maximizing Customer Retention: The Role of Key Account Management in Customer Success Management

DemandFarm

In the business world, customer success management is no longer an afterthought; it’s a necessity. Consensus across research confirms: retaining existing customers costs 5 to 25 times less than acquiring new ones. Success lies in a tailored, strategic approach to customer success management.