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5 Hidden Metrics that
Drive Customer Success
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5 Hidden Metrics that
Drive Customer Success
July 16, 2015
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Housekeeping
• Q&A panel on your right
• Recording for colleagues who can’t make it
• All attendees will receive slides
• Twitter hashtag #customersuccess
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Presenter
Lincoln Murphy
Customer Success Evangelist
Gainsight
@lincolnmurphy
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What Is Customer Success?
Customer Success is when your customers
achieve their Desired Outcome through their
interactions with your company.
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Customer Success Management
1. Define what success means to your customer
2. Determine if the customer is achieving success
3. Drive internally and externally toward success
4. Demonstrate success back to the customer
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David Skok
Matrix Partners
http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/why-churn-is-critical-in-saas/
Customer
Success Drives
First-order
Growth
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CSM Drives Second-order Growth
Source: http://www.saastr.com/its-not-just-cltv-its-your-trgcltv-that-matters-total-all-in-revenue-generated-by-your-customer/
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CSM Drives Third-order Value
0x
5x
15x
20x
60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 110% 120%
Source: Altimeter and FactSet
10/2014
10x 7X
15X
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Customer Success Metrics
• Financial Metric
• Revenue
• Churn
• Customer Success-specific Metric
• Customer Health
• Satisfaction
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5 Hidden Metrics that Drive Customer Success
2 Headwind
3 Tailwind
4 Net Revenue Retention
5 Magic Number
Batting Average1
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1. Batting Average
# Customers
Renewed In Period
÷
# Customers
Renewable In
Period
Are customers
voting with their
signature on the
value of your
product or
service?
Best-in-class:
> 90%
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2. Headwind
ARR/MRR of churn dollars
including price decreases
and downgrades
÷
Beginning of period
ARR/MRR
How much drag
do you have on
your growth?
Best-in-class:
< 10%
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3. Tailwind
ARR/MRR of up-sell dollars
including price increases
and upgrades
÷
Beginning of period
ARR/MRR
How much
acceleration do
you have to new
bookings?
Best-in-class:
> 20%
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4. Net Revenue Retention
Beginning of period ARR/MRR +
ARR/MRR from tailwind –
ARR/MRR from headwind
÷
Beginning of period ARR/MRR
What’s the net
dollar impact
from Customer
Success?
Best-in-class:
> 120%
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5. Magic Number
ARR/MRR of renewals in
period + ARR/MRR of
up-sells in period
÷
Fully-loaded cost of
Customer Success
team + extended team
What’s the cost-
effectiveness of
Customer
Success?
Best-in-class:
3-5X or higher
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Other metrics to look at
- Same metrics by region, vertical, product, segment
- Churn by reason
- Top churns and up-sells
- Churn and up-sell by cohort
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Tense-Based Metrics
Sales Customer Success
Past Bookings Renewals / Up-Sell
Present Market Share Benchmark
Future Pipeline Health Score
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Lagging Indicators Leading Indicators
Too Late
Churn
Silence
Churn inquiry
Late payments
No product usage
Frustration
Low NPS scores
Long support TTR
Not referenceable
Disengaged
Not opening emails
Declining adoption
Sponsor leaves
Success
“Sticky” feature usage
Proven ROI
Increasing adoption
Future Metrics
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Customer Success Benchmark Report
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