No one likes churn. And no one can afford a bad churn problem. So how do you prevent it? You need a way to monitor and manage the current health of every customer so you can accurately forecast each account’s likeliness to renew.
Check out this webinar featuring Brian Merritt, VP of Customer Success at Trustpilot, and Omer Gotlieb, Chief Customer Officer at Totango. The two of them will introduce 5 variables you should track to not only prevent churn, but to also grow recurring revenue.
5. Who is Trustpilot?
Online community & business solution connecting consumers & businesses via reviews
140,000 reviewed websites
27,000 websites get new reviews/month
150,000 unique profiles viewed/month
24 million online reviews
700,000 new reviews/month
Reviews from 120 countries
72 million visitors/year
7 million unique visits/month
Over 1.4 billion impressions/month
6. For Businesses:For Consumers:
Why does Trustpilot Exist?
Open online review community to read, write,
and engage with authentic reviews to provide
trustworthy customer experience information
and make better buying decisions.
Solution to implement an automated review
collection strategy, moderate and engage with
reviews, and leverage reviews to accelerate
business improvement and growth.
7. The Trustpilot Business Solution
BRAND BUILDER
Establish a trusted brand
MARKETING ACCELERATOR
Maximize digital ROI
INSIGHT GENERATOR
Improve customer experience
10. is the leader in customer success technology.
"Totango is a veteran in
a young market”
- VP, Principal Analyst Kate
Leggett in Market Overview:
Customer Success Solutions,
October 2014
Guy Nirpaz
CEO & Founder,
Totango
Author, Farm Don’t Hunt
Established Customer
Success Summit
11. Connect all of
your customer
data to drive
action
Use the
connected data
to monitor for
meaningful
health changes
Deliver the right
engagement
every time using
customer
behavior &
triggered events
With , you can:
12. Totango is a complete Customer Success Platform
Engagement
Sensors
16. 1. Product Consumption
Measure, track, and report on how customers use
your product.
Why?
• It’s the best way to know if your customers are getting
value from your product or service
• It’s helps identify risk. 90% of churn is preceded by poor
product usage
17. 1. Product Consumption
Things to know:
• Smartly track consumption (i.e. not just log-ins)
• Product engagement varies across job levels (frontline,
management, execs)
• Best-in-class companies focus on creating value for every user
• Creating passionate, power users is key to retention
• Be proactive! Send contextual messages at the right time to
drive adoption
21. Considerations for a customer feedback strategy:
• Proactive collection
• Timing & cadence
• Easy & seamless experience
• Feedback format
• To incent or not to incent…
2. Customer Feedback
22. 2. Customer Feedback
Once you have customer feedback:
• Respond!
• Categorize & traffic within the org
• Take micro-action
• Take macro-action (trends)
• Ask customers if issue is improved/resolved
25. 3. Business Outcomes
Check to see if the customer is getting the end
result they desired, or at least expected.
26. 3. Business Outcomes
How do you do that?
• Identify your customer’s
goals during onboarding
• Roll that up into a health
score
• Monitor health changes
and be alerted when score
drops
Example
• Marketing automation co.
• Goal: Converting Leads
• 30% lead conversion =
Good health
• Get notification if customer
trends down to 25%
30. A good indicator of retention if:
• 100% of licensed seats are active
• They need to buy more seats
• Increase Capacity (leads, storage, data points, ads, etc.)
4. Service Utilization
32. 5. Support Escalations
Track the customer’s interactions with support,
following any issues that arise from start to
resolution.
33. Steps to Great Support:
1. Understand where your customers are talking to you
2. Funnel all of these to the same place
3. Use a unified voice and channel for responding/resolving
4. Consider customer value to determine action
5. Resolve
6. Confirm it was actually resolved
7. Ask for feedback on the resolution
8. Categorize/route within org based on underlying cause
5. Support Escalations
34. Ensure issues are socialized outside of support:
• Surface issues to Customer Success through technology
• Track trends with underlying causes to separate one-off’s
from systematic failures
• Socialize trends to relevant internal teams
• Work with teams to set goals, create action plan, and
measure success of improving
5. Support Escalations
36. 5. Support Escalations
Equip Customer Success with help desk data:
• Allows CSMs to course-correct their engagements so
customers are brought back onto the right path
37.
38. Your Homework
Measure, track, and report on how customers use
your product.
Proactively ask your customers for feedback
throughout their journey, then act on that feedback.
Check to see if the customer is getting the end result
they desired, or at least expected.
Understand to what extent customers are utilizing
their subscription.
Track the customer’s interactions with support,
following any issues that arise from start to resolution.
Act on your insights, and watch your retention grow!
For those that aren’t familiar, Trustpilot is a review community that helps businesses collect and publish reviews from their customers. Consumers and businesses use Trusptilot to research brands in order to make informed buying decisions.
Trustpilot was founded in 2007 in Copenhagen with over 17 million online reviews for 120,000 business in 65 different countries. One thing that we’re really proud of is that our Trustpilot widgets have over 1 billion impressions a month via our partners sites, sharing 3rd party validated reviews with the world.
Allow you to build an EWS
Support every phase of lifecycle
Directly connect you to
Sit on a data platform that allows you to listen and connect every signal that is meaningful to customer success operations.
Proactive collection from EVERY customer is critical
Consider timing & cadence to get GOOD feedback
Make it easy & seamless for the customer
Consider the feedback format rating & open text!
Categorize the feedback once you have it, and traffic it to the right people in the organization
Act on feedback at both the micro & macro level
Ask customers if they noticed improvement/resolution
To incent or not to incent…
Proactive collection from EVERY customer is critical
Consider timing & cadence to get GOOD feedback
Make it easy & seamless for the customer
Consider the feedback format rating & open text!
Categorize the feedback once you have it, and traffic it to the right people in the organization
Act on feedback at both the micro & macro level
Ask customers if they noticed improvement/resolution
To incent or not to incent…
Understand the channels your customer are talking to you on (social, support, phone, chat, reviews)
Funnel these all to the same place (ZenDesk integration)
Unified voice and channel for responding
Consider customer value in your responses – higher LTV etc
Following up again to make sure the issue is resolved, if not, how can we – no stone unturned
Surfacing issues happening through support, social, etc. to make sure CS is aware – Totango, CRM, etc. everyone is aware, consistent
Macro level – trend analysis, seasonality, UX issues, org problems, etc.
Understand the channels your customer are talking to you on (social, support, phone, chat, reviews)
Funnel these all to the same place (ZenDesk integration)
Unified voice and channel for responding
Consider customer value in your responses – higher LTV etc
Following up again to make sure the issue is resolved, if not, how can we – no stone unturned
Surfacing issues happening through support, social, etc. to make sure CS is aware – Totango, CRM, etc. everyone is aware, consistent
Macro level – trend analysis, seasonality, UX issues, org problems, etc.