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The Path Beyond CSM

Gainsight

Imagine you are a Customer Success Manager (CSM), and you wonder what the future holds for you. Let’s begin with what makes you unique as a customer success professional. Over the past ten years, the role of Customer Success Manager has evolved and changed as much as the field of SaaS has. Core CSM competencies.

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How to be a Great Product Manager According to Experts at Dropbox, Stripe, and Concur

Alchemer Mobile

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I run the Customer Success team at Apptentive, and I’m gonna be here today just as a moderator for this panel. Can you provide any interesting insights on being a female PM? How do you give yourself the space to make those big bets?

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How to Collaborate between Customer Success and Product Teams to Ensure a Successful Product Launch

Gainsight

How involved is your Customer Success team in product launches? Customer Success brings a deep understanding of customers’ needs and pain points. Within your organization, customer feedback is likely being funneled across different functions—product, marketing, sales, customer success, etc.

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How Today’s Top SaaS Companies Build an Ecosystem Moat by Austin Yang, Product Drive 2022

Userpilot

An ecosystem in SaaS is a group of related apps, 3rd party components, and content that seamlessly work together to solve user pain points. Ecosystems allow companies to better satisfy user needs and improve user experience. Templates allow companies to showcase their products and onboard customers quickly.

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How to Write App Development Request For Proposals (RFP) Correctly

The Product Coalition

And, you know, sometimes such a request is better than a 75-pages technical requirement. Of course, only after you share business goals, limitations, and pain points that the product is expected to cover. Technical specification might be helpful for accounting? There were no other details. Left: All-packed chat.

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What is Value Realization in SaaS and Why Does It Matter?

Userpilot

Value realization can make the difference between a customer who unsubscribes and a customer who becomes a brand advocate. If you want to build a loyal customer base and nurture product growth , your focus should be spent on making users realize the value of your product as soon as possible—which might be trickier than you think.

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. A CRM for Product.