This document discusses setting up for success with measurable goals and quarterly business reviews (QBRs). It includes perspectives from customer success managers at Gainsight, Workday, and Apttus. They discuss determining key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure against business objectives, what metrics to track over the customer lifecycle, and how to conduct QBRs to ensure business value is being realized.
If your customer doesn’t see value from your product or service, there low switching costs, lots of options
Low Barrier To Entry
Fast customer acquisition
Revenue growth potential
You know so much more about your customer
Speed of innovation
Lower barrier to exit
Large customer volumes
Revenue growth expectations
Multiple sources of data to manage
Competitive landscape & fickle customer base
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Change to circles
Pay as you go pricing
Apttus provides end to end QTC functionality for your business and integrated QTC Intelligence that aligns your business teams across every region and channel to provide the most complete understanding available of each stage of your QTC process.
Subscription vs Perpetual
Realizing value = renewal
A KPI is a metric, but a metric is not always a KPI. The key difference is that KPIs always reflect strategic value drivers whereas metrics may represent the measurement of any business activity.