Healthcare Staffing Platform:

250 customers – $40M

Team
  • No defined roles or career trajectory
  • Ambiguous targets with no tracking visibility
Tools
  • Incomplete CRM
  • No defined templates or communications
  • No defined playbook
Clients
  • No defined cadences
  • No proactive consultation
  • Limited executive engagement

Action

  • Developed CSM career trajectory and defined each role within team
  • Established a clear path to growth and retention with clear/obtainable/challenging targets and transparent reporting
  • Aligned with Sales Ops on CRM formatting, key objects, fields, and reporting for CS (Health, QBR, Audit, Billing, Revenue, Industry, Churn, Business Type, etc)
  • Developed, rolled out, and executed on Customer facing templates and communications
  • Developed, rolled out, and executed on CS Playbook
  • Developed qtr/annual cadence planning
  • Worked to develop TS team and platform to enable customers direct access to ticketing and TS resources (removing CSM from TS process)
  • Established campaign to capture key Exec Sponsors for top 20% accounts 

Results

  • Increased Retention Revenue by 3bps (94% to 97%)
  • Hit growth targets (90+% Attainment)
  • Managed churn to less than 6%
  • Improved CSM Proactive Productive time by 50% 
  • Increased Adoption:
    • Engagement (+15%)
    • Conversion (+20%)
    • Response (50%)

Field Service Software as a Service:

25 customers – $50M

  • Worked with an established firm that was working through challenges in the CX, and establishing new processes and templates
  • However, the new customer onboarding process was broken; manual emails post-signature. 
  • Manual follow up with next steps, inconsistent branding and messaging

Action

  • Created standard and branded template for first touchpoint after contract signature
  • Set an automated delivery of the template from CRM once opportunity marked Closed Won
  • Developed and aligned communication flow, branding, and message for each step following initial sale confirmation email; included next steps and direct links to key platforms (support, community, build and test places
  • Worked with Marketing and developed a Welcome Packet to finalize new customer onboarding; included next steps, key links, and key aspects of the company and offerings 

Results

  • Improved NPS and CSAT (3-5 points)
  • Streamlined handoffs and team introductions
  • Increased customer confidence
  • Set a firm foundation for onboarding go-forward

Field Service Software as a Service:

15 customer – $5M

  • Joined a start-up SaaS company to build CS Org and take it to the next level

Action

  • Developed team and the CSM role (RACI, Job descriptions, role definition, career growth)
  • Drove a “Customer First” message and mantra for the company
  • Engaged customers for support and feedback
  • Streamlined Onboarding process
  • Developed Customer Lifecycle with critical milestones and key touchpoints
  • Developed a full arsenal of tools (Success Plan, QBR, Updates, Reporting, Comms)
  • Integrated and launched a CS platform (admin, health, transparency)

Results

  • Improved retention by 5%
  • Improved time to market by 56%.
  • Improved user adoption by 65% 
  • Increased retention to 90%

Customer Feedback Platform:

435 customers – $40M+

  • Came into a situation where the Customer Success organization was heavily focused on growth and renewal.  
  • The current state was that quarterly customer churn was over 20%, and the quarterly net growth was just over 10%.

Action

  • Analyzed current CS team, their skills, roles and responsibilities
  • Developed a strategic approach to Customer Success (i.e. relationship development, strategic planning, KPI tracking, delivering outcomes and ROI)
  • Identified top players with best renewal  and growth numbers
  • Created account management team from top renewal/growth performers
  • Set appropriate targets, incentives and comp plans to reward retention performance
  • Trained team on key aspects of customer success
  • Developed templates and tools (i.e. Success Plan, QBR, Monthly, Email) to effectively communicate and collaborate with customers
  • Leveraged CS platform to monitor customer health, assign Calls To Action, and track detailed user adoption

Results

  • Gross Retention: from 78% to 90%
  • Net Retention: from 112% to 120%
  • Adoption: from 65% to 80%

Field Service Management Platform:

15 enterprise customers – $35M

  • New CS team with limited tools, working with large enterprise customers

  • Managing low retention rates and NPS

Action

  • Engaged enterprise customers to capture feedback
  • Identified key areas for improvement (communications, single point of contact, reporting, ROI, planning)
  • Established RACI to identify key personnel and what they were responsible for and accountable to
  • Established CSM as the “hub of the wheel”; leader of the enterprise account team, owner of the customer health and success; everyone owned the CX
  • Developed tools for CSMs to engage customers (i.e. Success Plan, QBR, Monthly, email templates, reporting)
  • Established customer lifecycle with engagement touchpoints, and key milestones

Results

  • Increased Adoption 22% (70% to 85%)
  • Increased QoQ adoption by 30% for new rollouts
  • Increased overall retention 19% (80% to 95%)
  • Improved NPS score by 20 points

Home Services Management Platform:

  • Came into a process within the call center vetting process that was manual and separate from the CRM.  
  • Too many manual touches and room for error.  Created mistakes in the CRM, required too many resources to ensure quality and efficiency. 
  • Was not working well to ultimately deliver a quality user and customer experience. 

Action

  • Implemented and successfully piloted a streamlined system of entry into CRM 
  • Introduced process and trained a select pilot group of agents
  • Tracked pilot progress daily for two weeks
  • Reported progress to executive leaders on a weekly cadence for 30 days
  • Rolled process into group segments over a two month period

Results (Areas of Improvement)

  • Time to Entry (from 1-2 days to within 2 hours)
  • Time to Market (from 2-3 weeks to 1-3 days)
  • Quality & Accuracy (from >3 errors to <1 error)
  • User Adoption (from 50% to 75%)
  • Retention (from 70% to 85%)
  • CSAT (from 6/10 to 9/10)

Foodservice Procurement System:

  • Acquired a client that was leaking revenue in their inventory and was unable to identify the leak or root cause

Action

  • Extracted raw purchasing and inventory data from system 
  • Conducted an analysis to identify gaps, anomalies, and trends
  • Provided plan and status reports throughout the project to the client CFO and team

Results

  • Uncovered a small revenue loss due to consistent purchasing errors
  • Made recommendations to help rectify and re-coup revenue with a slight shift in buying behavior
  • Uncovered $2M opportunity to leverage rebate programs on current purchases and recommended behavioral shifts