Lincoln Murphy has worked with 300+ SaaS and so ware vendors to accelerate growth through Customer Success. He is currently Customer Success Evangelist at Gainsight and is responsible for driving the company’s thought-leadership in the areas of Customer Success, retention, churn mitigation, and expansion revenue.
Your Existing Customers are a Major Source of New Revenue
Introducing Customer Nurture 1
Marketing / Sales Funnel Fallacy We need a better analogy… Introducing Customer Nurture
Nurture is the process of caring for and encouraging the growth or development of someone or something. (According to Google)
Introducing Customer Nurture • Everybody knows about Lead Nurturing • But once the sale is complete, “nurturing” stops • In Subscription businesses (but *any* business, actually) everything is Pre-Sales • Renewal • Upsell • Add-On • Next Transaction
Customer Nurture is Also Known As… Introducing Customer Nurture • Customer Marketing • Lifecycle Messaging • Marketing for Loyalty • Demand Generation w/ a Captive Audience• Customer Nurture is important because it accelerates all aspects of the customer lifecycle • Activation / Adoption / Engagement • Retention - Churn Reduction / Renewals • Expansion - LTV Growth • Advocacy - Virality
Segmenting Your Customers 2
How Should you Segment your Customers? • Most segment based on ARR • Consider Segmenting on Other Things • Advocacy Potential - Referencability • Industry • Complexity • Brand
Identify Success Milestones 3
Desired Outcome Identify Success Milestones
Success Milestones on the way to Desired Outcome Identify Success Milestones
Activation, Onboarding, Oh My! Identify Success Milestones • First Value Delivered = Activation • Time to First Value (TTFV) = Time to "Activation" • Adoption = Breadth and Depth of use • What Adoption NEEDs to look like though is congruent with Desired Outcome • If value is being delivered - if the Desired Outcome is being achieved - then Adoption is where needs to be.
Why Thinking in “Success Milestones” is best for all parties Identify Success Milestones • Your Customers • Structure • Expectations • Alignment • Understanding • To You: • All of the Above... • No more “boil the ocean” requests
Orchestrate Interactions 4
Who will you Interact With? Orchestrate Interactions • Customers • Users • Personas • Admins • Power Users • Champions • Advocates • Triggered vs. Timed • Tied to Success Milestones; tries to get you to take the next one • Core is Triggered • Have a Timed Track, too • Frequency • Email • SMS • Content • In-App Messaging • Social • Customer Summits • User Groups • Phone Calls • Communities • Webinars
Operationalize Engagement 5
Who Owns Customer Nurture? Operationalize Engagement • Content Creation • Customer Segmentation • Renewal or Upsell • Organizationally • Sales • Marketing • Customer Success Management
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Lincoln Murphy – Gainsight & Sixteen Ventures - @lincolnmurphy
Lincoln Murphy has worked with 300+ SaaS and so ware vendors to
accelerate growth through Customer Success. He is currently
Customer Success Evangelist at Gainsight and is responsible for
driving the company’s thought-leadership in the areas of Customer
Success, retention, churn mitigation, and expansion revenue.
9. Marketing / Sales Funnel Fallacy
We need a be er analogy…
Introducing Customer Nurture
10. Marketing / Sales Funnel Fallacy
We need a be er analogy…
Introducing Customer Nurture
11. Nurture is the process of caring
for and encouraging the growth
or development of someone or
something.
(According to Google)
12. Customer Nurture is…
Introducing Customer Nurture
• Everybody knows about Lead Nurturing
• But once the sale is complete, “nurturing” stops
• In Subscription businesses (but *any* business, actually)
everything is Pre-Sales
• Renewal
• Upsell
• Add-On
• Next Transaction
13. Customer Nurture is Also Known As…
Introducing Customer Nurture
• Customer Marketing
• Lifecycle Messaging
• Marketing for Loyalty
• Demand Generation w/ a Captive Audience
14. Customer Nurture is Important because…
Introducing Customer Nurture
• Customer Nurture is important because it accelerates all
aspects of the customer lifecycle
• Activation / Adoption / Engagement
• Retention - Churn Reduction / Renewals
• Expansion - LTV Growth
• Advocacy - Virality
15. It’s an AARRR accelerator…
Introducing Customer Nurture
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18. Why Should You Segment your Customers?
Segmenting Your Customer
19. How Should you Segment your Customers?
Segmenting Your Customers
• Most segment based on ARR
• Consider Segmenting on Other Things
• Advocacy Potential - Referencability
• Industry
• Complexity
• Brand
23. Activation, Onboarding, Oh My!
Identify Success Milestones
• First Value Delivered = Activation
• Time to First Value (TTFV) = Time to "Activation"
• Adoption = Breadth and Depth of use
• What Adoption NEEDs to look like though is congruent
with Desired Outcome
• If value is being delivered - if the Desired Outcome is
being achieved - then Adoption is where needs to be.
24. Why Thinking in “Success Milestones” is best for all parties
Identify Success Milestones
• Your Customers
• Structure
• Expectations
• Alignment
• Understanding
• To You:
• All of the Above...
• No more “boil the ocean” requests
26. Who will you Interact With?
Orchestrate Interactions
• Customers
• Users
• Personas
• Admins
• Power Users
• Champions
• Advocates
27. When Will you Interact With Them?
Orchestrate Interactions
• Triggered vs. Timed
• Tied to Success Milestones; tries to get you to take the next one
• Core is Triggered
• Have a Timed Track, too
• Frequency
28. How Will you Interact With Them?
Orchestrate Interactions
• Email
• SMS
• Content
• In-App Messaging
• Social
• Customer Summits
• User Groups
• Phone Calls
• Communities
• Webinars
32. Questions?
Lincoln Murphy
Gainsight & Sixteen Ventures
@lincolnmurphy
lincoln@lincolnmurphy.com
Sean Work
Inbound Marketing Director
KISSmetrics
@seanvwork