One Vital Question 12: Unpopular Customer Success Opinions

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Vitally asked six CS leaders: "What's your most unpopular Customer Success opinion?" Brace yourselves!

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  • 00:00 Intro
  • 00:13 Your customers don't care about your product
  • 01:25 CSMs should be on a variable comp plan, with retention as the metric
  • 02:28 Don't sell to customers who won't be successful
  • 03:31 Customer Success is still sales
  • 04:27 It's easy to point fingers at the challenges that are preventing us from providing value
  • 05:34 Customer Success is not dead

Featured in this episode:

  • Ola Ogungbemile / Customer Success Manager, SME - Distribution & GTM at PartnerStack
  • Ed Porter / Fractional Chief Revenue Officer and Owner at Blue Chip CRO
  • Corrin Kuzemko / Director of Customer Experience at Rose Rocket
  • Joe Di Grande / Founder of Joe Does Tech Touch
  • Donna Weber / Customer Onboarding and Value Realization Expert at DonnaWeber.com
  • Tyler Diderich / Manager of Customer Success Engineering at runZero

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