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Impact Weekly

Customer Onboarding: Navigating Practical Challenges and Complexities

Jan 3, 2024
This podcast episode explores strategies for enhancing customer cooperation and engagement during onboarding, best practices for kickoff calls and initial customer communications, managing transitions and changes during the onboarding process, and the importance of focusing on the customer and managing their expectations. The episode also discusses the process of transitioning from onboarding to adoption, the role shift of the customer success manager, and the significance of managing customer expectations and recording calls.
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Quick takeaways

  • Joint accountability and shared goals foster client cooperation during onboarding.
  • Clear and customer-centric communication during kickoff calls prevents disengagement and promotes successful onboarding.

Deep dives

Benefits and limitations of the new sales onboarding model

The podcast discusses the shift from separating sales onboarding and customer success management (CSM) roles to engaging the CSM to manage customers during onboarding, supported by an onboarding specialist. While this new model improves capacity and communication handoffs, it does not necessarily solve the underlying issues of data centralization and efficient communication. The key is to address these issues in order to effectively improve the onboarding process.

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