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Communicating the Value of
Customer Success to Executives
Dutta Satadip
Google
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“ You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only
connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that
the dots will somehow connect in the future ”
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Operations
Engineering Sales
Product Marketing Product Management Partnerships
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Why is it hard to justify the value of customer success to
executives?
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Time is Precious
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Existing Perception Bias
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Pattern Recognition is Hard
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CUSTOMER
PROBLEMS
THAT
IMPACT
BUSINESS
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Moving customer success from reactive to proactive
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Is there a burning problem?
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Reduced resolution time from 5 days to 5 hours
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Can you identify a business problem?
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Reduced refunds from 5% to <1 %
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Can you help identify opportunity?
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Improved campaign performance by 35%. Increased Upsell.
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So what did I actually learn?
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Motivational theory - people are
motivated to achieve certain needs &
some needs take precedence over
others.
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Customer hierarchy of Needs
Thought Partner: Design the future with me
Insights: Tell me what I could do more
Adoption: Am I using everything I paid for
Implementation: Make it work the first time
Troubleshooting: Answer my questions fast
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Troubleshooting
Implementation Solution EngineeringCampaign Optimization
Insights
Organization grew over time: Improved CSAT by 35%
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Communicating the Value of Customer Success to Executives