We dig into how moving 70% of SMB customers from named CSMs to a pooled digital model exposed misaligned expectations created during sales and trial. We reframe scaled CS to start at acquisition, tie product to retention, and use enrichment and scoring to focus human effort. • abrupt shift from named CSMs to pooled model for SMBs • misaligned sales promises creating a broken handoff • product-led trial design to reduce high-touch conversion • capturing use cases and goals during onboarding •...
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We dig into how moving 70% of SMB customers from named CSMs to a pooled digital model exposed misaligned expectations created during sales and trial. We reframe scaled CS to start at acquisition, tie product to retention, and use enrichment and scoring to focus human effort. • abrupt shift from named CSMs to pooled model for SMBs • misaligned sales promises creating a broken handoff • product-led trial design to reduce high-touch conversion • capturing use cases and goals during onboarding •...
When Your Data Structure Derails Digital Customer Success w/ Aaron Hatton
The Customer UnSuccess Podcast
42 minutes
3 months ago
When Your Data Structure Derails Digital Customer Success w/ Aaron Hatton
Aaron Hatton, digital CS program builder at PV Case, shares how parent-child account relationships in data infrastructure nearly derailed a customer success platform rollout. His experience reveals the critical importance of cross-functional collaboration when establishing digital customer success programs and the challenges of defining who your customer truly is. • Working with complex data structures where the entity paying for software differs from the entity using it • Importance of invo...
The Customer UnSuccess Podcast
We dig into how moving 70% of SMB customers from named CSMs to a pooled digital model exposed misaligned expectations created during sales and trial. We reframe scaled CS to start at acquisition, tie product to retention, and use enrichment and scoring to focus human effort. • abrupt shift from named CSMs to pooled model for SMBs • misaligned sales promises creating a broken handoff • product-led trial design to reduce high-touch conversion • capturing use cases and goals during onboarding •...
