When HubSpot hit the market a few years ago, they revolutionized the marketing landscape by allowing marketing teams to do things that were previously unimaginable, like create journeys of content unique to individual prospects and customers. Today, Customer Success Management tools like Amity are doing the same thing for Customer Success teams.
In this webinar, Uberflip's Director of Customer Success, Sam Brennand, will explore how Uberflip has combined the power of HubSpot with the power of Amity to help a dedicated team of seven do the work of a team of twenty.
Scaling Customer Success on a Rocketship Webinar Slides
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Scaling Customer Success
on a Rocketship
Sam Brennand
Director of Customer Success
Amity Welcomes
#PracticalCustomerSuccess
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Scaling Customer Success on a Rocketship
How Uberflip Scales Customer Success
Sam Brennand
Director of Customer Success
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Uberflip, huh?
Sounds a lot like Uber.
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Uberflip, huh?
Sounds a lot like Uber.
(we’re not)
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We’re your content marketing system.
Some of the world’s biggest brands use Uberflip to streamline content
management, accelerate lead generation, and fuel marketing automation.
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Our Growth
2008 2015
1,700+
From product to platform.
225+
2012
100
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Customer Segment #2
• 2010-2012
• Heavy single-product usage
• New use cases
• Month-to-month payment
• Medium $ value
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Customer Segment #3
• 2012-2014
• Light multi-product usage
• New use cases
• Mix of month-to-month and annual
• Medium to high $ value
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Content Marketing Automation
Marketers easily connect their content:
To a beautiful, optimized front-end experience that is:
With built-in tools to:
RESPONSIVE DISCOVERABLE SOCIAL
CONVERT AND UNDERSTAND LEADS
ORGANIZED PERSONALIZED
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The Uberflippin’ Challenge
How do we (with a unique, 1,700+ customer base)…
(a) reduce churn,
(b) improve customer health, and
(c) scale upmarket
…all with a team of just six people?
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Marketing automation has
changed the way that marketers
operate.
Marketing automation platforms like HubSpot,
Marketo, Eloqua, Pardot, Act-On, and
MailChimp have helped marketers to market
better, save time, and scale.
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Customer Success Management
tools are starting to do the
same for CSMs.
It’s now possible to understand which
customers need attention and why, and to do it
at scale for the first time.
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+
Better Together
How we use Amity & HubSpot to scale success
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Trigger workflows in
HubSpot based on
Amity Insights
Understand how content
engagement impacts the
health of our customers
1 2
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Insights
Insights let us know where our attention is
required. Insights we trigger in Amity are based
on a few key things:
• Activities
• Outcomes
Each tells us something very important.
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If we notice that an account hasn’t been engaged with for 60 days, we’ll
automatically drop contacts from that account into a HubSpot workflow that’s
been specially designed to re-engage them over the span of a few days or weeks.
The goal? Spurring conversations.
Triggering Workflows with Insights
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84%
increase in engaged accounts
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Understanding the Customer-
Impact of Content
Why do I care whether or not customers are
engaging with marketing content like blog
posts, webinars, infographics, eBooks, and
white papers ?
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HubSpot’s CHI – Customer Happiness Index
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HubSpot’s CHI – Customer Happiness Index
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Takeaways
• Segment, segment, segment
• Find a Customer Success Management tool –
yesterday! You can’t start too soon
• Build out processes based on key activities
and outcomes to make the most use of the
tool you choose
• Automate as much as you can using by
combining a CS tool with marketing automation
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Meet Our Host
Paul Philp
Founder & CEO
@pphilp
@GetAmity
GetAmity.com
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Questions?
#PracticalCustomerSuccess
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Many Thanks To Our Presenter
@sambrennand
@uberflip
hub.uberflip.com
info@uberflip.com
Sam Brennand
Director of Customer Success
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Join us on October 7 & October 28 for the next webinars
in the Practical Customer Success, Fall 2015 Series
Visit getamity.com/resources to register!
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Let’s continue the conversation
Thank you for being here!
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Editor's Notes
Low = 32% of MRR
High = 68% of MRR
We started with our onboarding program. For us, and for most SaaS businesses, onboarding is the silver bullet. If your onboarding process isn’t succeeding at turning new customers into advocates in the first 100 days, you’re ultimately just setting yourself up for failure.
Take the time to understand the actions that lead to successful outcomes.
Take the time to understand the actions that lead to successful customer outcomes. THE RESULT OF THIS EXERCISE SHOULD BE A SERIES OF INSIGHTS THAT TELL YOU THINGS ABOUT YOUR CUSTOMERS BASE.
Ultimately, automation is the key. Processes don’t matter if you don’t have the bandwidth to follow them. And with a team of 6 and a customer base of 1700, bandwidth is obviously a huge concern for me.
For guidance, I turned to the members of our team who know automation better than almost anyone: our marketing team.
When marketing automation tools like HubSpot, Marketo, Eloqua, Pardot, Act-On, and MailChimp first launched, they completely changed the way that Marketing teams operate, allowing even small teams to reach huge audiences at scale. With a marketing automation tool in place, a single marketer could do alone what used to take entire teams – and in many cases, do it better.
And marketers have been quick to embrace marketing automation – according to Pardot, 79% of top performing companies have been using marketing automation for two or more y ears.
The beauty of marketing automation tools is that they have allowed marketers to spend less time doing repetitive, low-value tasks, and instead spend more time on the work that truly matters, such as creating and distributing amazing content.
Marketers operate in an environment where scale is a necessity. Accordingly, they’ve become very adept at managing a one-to-many relationship through automation.
It’s now easier than ever (if not possible for the first time, in many cases) to understand which customers need our attention and why, and to do it at scale for a customer base that could number into the tens of thousands.
Insights are based on the processes we’ve laid out in step 2.
Since we’ve started tracking, our % of engaged accounts has risen 84% in the span of a few weeks. Our customer base has never been more engaged.
It’s now easier than ever (if not possible for the first time, in many cases) to understand which customers need our attention and why, and to do it at scale for a customer base that could number into the tens of thousands.
HubSpot example – the HubSpot CHI index measures customers not just on how they’re using the product, but in terms of how much they’ve embraced what HubSpot preaches. In other words, how much they’ve drank the HubSpot Kool-Aid.
HubSpot example – the HubSpot CHI index measures customers not just on how they’re using the product, but in terms of how much they’ve embraced what HubSpot preaches. In other words, how much they’ve drank the HubSpot Kool-Aid.
At Uberflip, we take a similar approach. Uberflippers that aren’t regularly consuming content aren’t as likely to be as successful over the long-term. For example, churned customers were likely to open X% of marketing emails and clickthrough to 13%, while our best customers average 90% and a CTR of 25%.
Early indications are that our best customers are much more likely to engage with our marketing content than churned customers (as you might expect). Because of the unique nature of our product, we also hope to be able to tie information about Knowledge Base content consumption into our health scoring model.
It’s now easier than ever (if not possible for the first time, in many cases) to understand which customers need our attention and why, and to do it at scale for a customer base that could number into the tens of thousands.