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[Update 7th February 2022 – If you are a quota carrying CSM, check out our FREE tool to help you figure out how to achieve your sales target]. CSMs from over 90 SaaS firms participated in our 2016 Customer Success Managers Survey. Over the next few weeks, I will be reflecting on some of the […]

There is a county in Ireland with a reputation for being cheap (you know who you are ;-)). They say people from this county can peel an orange in their pockets. There’s also a (hopefully) apocryphal tale of a man from the county who eats his dinner in a drawer (if anyone calls around, he […]

In a previous post, we looked at How We Built More Than 100 Customer Success-Integrations between Akita and apps like Hubspot, Salesforce, Intercom and Zendesk. We outlined our 3-step process for keeping data in sync: Schedule, Retrieve, and Process. The Scheduler kicks everything off and is responsible for determining which data needs retrieving at any […]

The SaaS community can now find Akita’s Customer Success platform through the Tekpon software review platform. The listing can be found HERE. If you are looking for Customer Success software and need to understand which platforms might suit your use case or fit your profile or budget, visiting Tekpon.com allows you to browse through the […]

Does taking over 30 thousand steps in 2 days justify eating doughnuts for breakfast? I hope so … my feet are sore but I’m feeling optimistic after spending 2 days at SaaS Nordic’s Saasiest2023 conference in Malmo, southern Sweden. I attended to get a live sense of how SaaS companies are feeling about the technology […]

We sometimes share content from partner companies. Below, Patryk Kępa from Elastic Email discusses their framework for delivering Customer Support in a SaaS environment. How do we at Elastic Email, successfully communicate with customers to help maintain long-term valuable relationships?

Tldr: skip to the bottom to access a spreadsheet that calculates the Return on Investment (ROI) of a Customer Success platform PLUS a quick explainer video on how to use the spreadsheet. Customer Success Platforms (CSPs) are designed to move the needle on Net Revenue Retention (NRR). Improving your rate of NRR directly impacts your […]

As part of a series of short [15-minute] demo/webinars to address some of the key topics in Customer Success. We delivered a session entitled to customer health scores.

As part of a series of short [15-minute] demo / webinars to address some of the key topics in Customer Success. We delivered a session focused on … The 360 Customer View … In less than 15 minutes, we looked at