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Customer Success Summit 2014
Taking the Guesswork out of a New
Product Launch
John Broady
General Manager, Thismoment
jbroady@thismoment.com
@johnbroadytm
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About me and my company
About me:
• 15 years of product management experience at
Yahoo, CBS Interactive, Adobe and Thismoment
• Total data junkie, with a belief in using real user
data to make business decisions
• I’ve trained my four dogs to line up on demand
for a photo shoot
About Thismoment:
• We’ve deployed more than 1,000 brand channels for the world’s most
recognizable brands
• We empower brand managers to find, mix and share content from
any source and publish to any platform
• Whether it’s #UGC or official brand content, we make our customers
true “Brand DJs”
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What led me to Customer Success
• I’ve worked in product management nearly my entire
career
• I continue to be blown away at how many critical product
decisions are made without real customer data
• As I’ve moved into the SaaS space, I’ve arrived at a
simple view of customer success:
The best predictive measure of customer
success is reflected in how our customers use
our software. Everything else is secondary.
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My Story
• We developed our first product offering without the
benefit of Totango or other customer success
tracking tools
• When it came time to launch our newest product, we
made a commitment to leverage customer usage
data (from Totango) to determine the success of our
introductory product trial
• Which meant we had to define success! (This is
harder to do that it sounds)
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KPIs for Success
1. Find content 2. Mix content
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Totango:
“Search
content”
“Add
content”
Totango:
“Content
added
to
playlist”
“Created
new
playlist”
“Viewed
playlists
page”
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KPIs for Success
3. Share content
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Totango:
“Previewed
playlist”
“Shared
playlist”
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Recommended Play
Use Customer Engagement to Drive
Feature Development!
Use when deploying a new feature
or product line !
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Clearly define KPIs for the
success of the new feature.
Instrument Totango to track these
KPIs. Take action depending on the
results.!
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We greatly increased our
confidence in our new product by
validating our assumptions. A game
changer!!
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Play Name:!
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When to use:!
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Play Anatomy:!
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Comments:!
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Lessons Learned:
• Define KPIs for success up front. This is harder
than it sounds, so set aside time to build consensus
• Have an action plan. What happens if you don’t
meet your KPIs? Prepare ahead of time so that you
can react quickly based on actual usage data
• Prepare to be surprised. Things that seem obvious
to you will not seem obvious to customers
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