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Customer Success Benchmark Report

June 9, 2018 Jeremey Donovan

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  • What was your company’s most recent annual revenue?
  • What was your company’s average annual contract value per customer?
  • What was your company’s uncapped wallet retention rate?
  • What market do you primarily sell into?
  • At your company, who is primarily responsible for supporting sales professionals on deals?
  • At your company, who is primarily responsible for new customer training/onboarding?
  • At your company, who is primarily responsible for driving usage/engagement/adoption?
  • At your company, who is primarily responsible for inbound customer/technical support?
  • At your company, who is primarily responsible for conducting value reviews with customers?
  • At what frequency do you conduct value reviews?
  • At your company, who is primarily responsible for executing renewal transactions?
  • At your company, who is primarily responsible for upselling (expanding relationships with existing buyers)?
  • At your company, who is primarily responsible for cross-selling (expanding relationships to new buyers at existing client organizations)?
  • At your company, who is primarily responsible for capturing & creating case studies?
  • At your company, who is primarily responsible for providing professional services?
  • How frequently do your customer success professionals hold in-person meetings with clients?
  • To whom does your head of customer success report?
  • Which of the following do you use to assign accounts to customer success professionals?
  • Which of the following do you use for customer success workload/capacity planning?
  • On average, how many customer success individual contributors report to each first-line customer success people leader?
  • Do you pair customer success professionals with specific AEs?
  • How many years of prior work experience to you require for new customer success hires?
  • On average, how many months does it take ramp a new CSM?
  • Which criteria do you use to assess if a CSM is fully ramped?
  • What is your average annual base salary for customer success professionals? (in dollars – ex: $60,000)
  • What is your average annual variable/incentive compensation for customer success professionals? (in dollars – ex: $6,000)
  • Which of the following components are explicitly included as metrics in your customer success compensation plan?
  • Which tools do customer success professionals use for their workflow?
  • Which modes of communication do you customer success professional use?

 




























































 

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