customer nurture: your new growth engine
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Lincoln Murphy
Customer Nurture: Your New Growth Engine January 2015 Presentation
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Sean Work - KISSmetrics - @seanvwork Sean Work runs the blog at KISSmetrics.com. He’s been with the team since 2010. He loves working from Southern California where he can surf, snowboard and camp under the bright starts with no blankies.
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.
Your Existing Customers are a Major Source of New Revenue
1 Introducing Customer Nurture
2 Segmenting Your Customers
3 Identify Success Milestones
Table of Contents
4 Orchestrate Interactions
5 Operationalize Engagement
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Introducing Customer Nurture
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Marketing / Sales Funnel Fallacy We need a be!er analogy…
Introducing Customer Nurture
Marketing / Sales Funnel Fallacy We need a be!er analogy…
Introducing Customer Nurture
Nurture is the process of caring for and encouraging the growth or development of someone or
something. (According to Google)
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
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…
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
It’s an AARRR accelerator…
Introducing Customer Nurture
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Segmenting Your Customers
2
Why Should You Segment your Customers?
Segmenting Your Customer
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
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
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
How Will you Interact With Them?
Orchestrate Interactions
• 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
Orchestrating the Workflow
Operationalize Engagement
• Automation
• Playbooks
• Determining the Right Mix for you
Questions?
Lincoln Murphy Gainsight & Sixteen Ventures
@lincolnmurphy [email protected]
Sean Work Inbound Marketing Director
KISSmetrics @seanvwork