Helping Sells Radio

The purpose of customer success is to turn customers, who desire value and have bought your product, into customers who are getting value from your product. This according to Rick Adams, author of Practical Customer Success Management: Best Practice Framework for Rapid Generation of Customer Success. Since that is the purpose, customer success managers (CSMs) should focus their energy close this gap and help customers realize the value they were promised when they bought your product. Rick's book is written specifically for CSMs and lays out a framework for how a CSM can be successful at the job of customer success. In just one example for a competency that CSMs should master, and we talked about this in the show, is that the CSM should proactively seek further sales opportunities. This is a critically important competence. It doesn't mean CSMs should have a quota, and it's not an argument for who should own the renewal. It does mean that a CSM, who wants to be good at their job and maximize their c