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Identifying and Addressing Churn Problems
Learn how to analyze the root causes of churn and capture data from lost customers, as well as the importance of post-churn activities, such as conducting retrospectives.
Stephanie Berner is a Customer Success Executive at LinkedIn. Since 2018, Stephanie has spearheaded all post-sales functions at LinkedIn Sales Solutions through its period of rapid growth. With a background in building and scaling customer success teams at Box, Medallia, and Opower, Stephanie has extensive experience in delivering exceptional customer experiences across various company stages.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(02:21) Formalizing customer success at a startup
(05:01) Hiring ICs before CSMs
(06:22) Tactics for hiring standout talent
(11:39) 3 questions to ask candidates
(15:38) Fail-case patterns among customer success hires
(17:49) Considering candidates with non-traditional backgrounds
(21:21) Indexing toward a bias for action
(24:17) What v1 of customer success looks like
(26:03) Key early-stage customer success metrics
(28:21) Whether customer success or sales should own renewals
(30:40) Where customer success fits into the org
(32:14) Why customer success doesn’t report to an executive
(33:48) Distinguishing a product problem from a customer success one
(35:18) Simple way to deal with customer churn
(39:21) Tactics to get customers to give honest feedback
(40:58) What happens when customer success and product teams collaborate
(44:14) Rituals for zero-to-one customer success
(48:23) How to structure an early customer success team
(52:01) Structuring compensation packages
(54:35) Aligning customer success with the business model
(60:14) The role of customer success in B2B software
(62:17) Common customer success mistakes
(67:44) People who had an outsized impact on Stephanie
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