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As part of Akita’s recent re-launch, we have been looking at the channels where potential customers (and the CS community in general) can educate themselves about our solution. G2 crowd is a key player in the review/social proof space and forms an important part of most companies evaluation process when shopping for B2B software. It’s […]

Calculating customer health scores is a necessary (and transformative) step in building a strong Customer Success program for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies. Below I review what health scoring in SaaS is all about and identify the variables you should consider when building your customer health scoring model.

Does taking over 30 thousand steps in 2 days justify eating doughnuts for breakfast? I hope so … my feet are sore but I’m feeling optimistic after spending 2 days at SaaS Nordic’s Saasiest2023 conference in Malmo, southern Sweden. I attended to get a live sense of how SaaS companies are feeling about the technology […]

We sometimes share content from partner companies. Below, Patryk Kępa from Elastic Email discusses their framework for delivering Customer Support in a SaaS environment.  ———————————- How do we at Elastic Email, successfully communicate with customers to help maintain long-term valuable relationships? We believe it all starts with an empathic mindset. We are very aware that […]

Tldr: skip to the bottom to access a spreadsheet that calculates the Return-on-Investment (ROI) of a Customer Success platform PLUS a quick explainer video on how to use the spreadsheet. Customer Success Platforms (CSPs) are designed to move the needle on Net Revenue Retention (NRR). Improving your rate of NRR directly impacts your SaaS company’s […]

As part of a series of short [15-minute] demo/webinars to address some of the key topics in Customer Success. We delivered a session entitled … A Practical Guide to Customer Health Scoring … In less than 15 minutes, we reviewed:

As part of a series of short [15-minute] demo/webinars to address some of the key topics in Customer Success. We delivered a session focused on … The 360 Customer View … In less than 15 minutes, we looked at

Join team Akita for a series of 15-minute, no-nonsense, speed demos Register Below. We will examine how Customer Success technology can help CSMs move from a complex world of siloed data and manual processes to a place where managing customers is simple.

[TLDR … You can watch a webinar I gave covering the same ground as this post at the bottom of the page ] It’s a scary time for SaaS.  With continued pressure from investors to grow in the face of plummeting demand and no real understanding of when or how the economy is likely to […]

In a previous post, we looked at How We Built More Than 100 Customer Success-Integrations between Akita and apps like Hubspot, Salesforce, Intercom and Zendesk. We outlined our 3-step process for keeping data in sync: Schedule, Retrieve, and Process. The Scheduler kicks everything off and is responsible for determining which data needs retrieving at any […]

If there is one thing that sets Akita apart from its competitors in Customer Success software, it is our ability to ingest data from virtually any data source a customer may have. This includes: If the data is out there, Akita can usually import it and use it to transform your Customer Success department into […]