Customer Success Glossary

Key terms and vernacular for today's customer success and product leaders to know.

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Annual Churn Rate

Annual churn rate is a calculated measure of attrition defined by businesses. Companies define how to calculate annual churn rate…

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Calculating Churn Rate

To proactively measure and manage logo churn, businesses have each developed their own terminology, approaches, and measurements to calculating churn…

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Call Center Feedback

Customer intelligence consists of collecting, analyzing and using information to increase customer satisfaction and optimize customer profitability levels in call…

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Churn Analysis

You know your company’s value depends on growth. But if your company has a business model (SaaS, pay-per-use, pay-per-transaction, cloud,…

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Churn Analytics

Companies that examine churn analytics to drive retention and up-sell achieve higher customer lifetime values. Therefore, they are able to…

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Churn Rate

If you have a recurring revenue business, do you know what your churn rate is? Have you dissected the data…

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CSM Company

Gainsight is a CSM company dedicated to ‘Success for All’ Customer Success Management is taking over the world and Gainsight…

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CSM Software

Gainsight is the first cloud-based CSM software designed specifically to focus on customer churn and retention rates. It combines multiple…

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Customer 360

The customer 360 view is the idea that companies can get a complete view of a customer’s past, present, and…

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Customer 360 View

Know thy customer is one of the fundamental principles of customer acquisition and retention. Deep understanding of customer interests and…

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Customer Adoption

Every company requires multiple customer feedback mechanism which can be utilized in a flexible fashion to capture insights about customers’…

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Customer Analytics

Predictive algorithms run on customer-specific data to assist in identifying customers with the potential to churn, calculating projected revenue or…

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Customer Churn

Businesses can no longer sell a product or service and move on. Whether it’s subscription, utility, freemium or other ongoing…

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Customer Engagement Tips

Customer engagement is a crucial activity that builds long-term cordial relationship with your customer. Customer engagement enables companies to promote…

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Customer Experience

Make consistently positive customer experiences a reality with Gainsight Customer experience plays a very important role in Customer Success. To…

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Customer Management CRM

The popularity of subscription-based business models makes it necessary to ensure effective customer management to prevent defection and increase retention.…

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Customer Monitoring

Gainsight is the premier solution for customer monitoring. Its five modules underpin customer monitoring efforts to increase retention and reduce…

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Customer Satisfaction

Gainsight’s Feedback Management module enables recurring revenue businesses to measure customer satisfaction through surveys and take action based upon survey…

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Drive Customer Adoption

Customer adoption is where product strategy, marketing and customer service intersect. Drive customer adoption using Gainsight’s Adoption Management module that…

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Growth Team

Staff that focuses on driving product awareness, demand generation, sign-ups, conversions and retention by liaising with internal and external stakeholders.

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How To Measure Success

Measurement of success depends on customer satisfaction ratings, customer retention and recurring revenue. Gainsight’s Adoption Management module enables businesses to…

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In App Messaging

In-app messages are communications your users receive while they are interacting with your product. Because in-app messaging is targeted to…

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In-App Surveys

A method to collect feedback, measure customer satisfaction and identify enhancements from users at a granular level within the application.

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Increase User Adoption

In order to address the demand for improved efficiency, effectiveness and productivity, most companies deploy technology solutions. However, the success…

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Increasing Revenue

For companies in the growing subscription economy, there are 3 ways to increase revenue. They are: Increase product adoption Identify…

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Journey Map

A visualization of the end-to-end path that a customer has with your product or service, including the outcomes, options, reactions,…

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Key SaaS Metrics

SaaS businesses are distinguished from conventional businesses and need specialized SaaS metrics to measure precision and success. Customer retention plays…

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Mobile Training

What’s Mobile Training? Mobile training is online learning that’s designed to be completed on mobile devices. Mobile training is becoming…

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Net Retention

Jump to Content What’s Net Retention? Net Revenue Retention Formula  Why’s Net Retention Revenue Important? How to Improve Net Revenue…

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NPS Score

The result of a Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey, which measures your customers’ overall satisfaction with your company’s product or…

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Product Adoption

Product adoption forms the core of Customer Success. It is imperative to measure user adoption to eliminate churn and improve…

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Product Feedback

Product feedback is the input you receive from anyone who uses your product, including customers and prospects, but also internal…

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Product Insights

Data collected from user interactions with your product or service that can be summarized to inform design, user experience and…

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Product Lifecycle

The specific phases, shaped by customer or internal team input, of a product or service, broken into hypothesis, build, test,…

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Product Operations

An organizational function that integrates design and engineering, customer service, product management and marketing with the goal of increasing product…

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Product Roadmap

A detailed, visual plan for organizations that outlines future areas of focus and improvement, chronologically organized. This can be used…

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Product Usage

A subcategory of behavior segmentation that includes metrics about when, for how long and how customers use a product, feature…

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Recurring Revenue Model

Most businesses today provide service offerings that generate recurring revenue. The recent economic downturn and the customer preference for ‘pay-as-you-use’…

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Reduce Churn

Take control of customer retention and reduce churn with Gainsight Churn is a primary focus for most customer-centric businesses and…

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Reduce Churn Rate

Customer intelligence forms the baseline information for many companies to increase customer retention and reduce churn rates. Churn rate is…

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Retention Analytics

Over the past decade, companies have leveraged data, analytics and automation to accelerate customer acquisition efforts from marketing through sales.…

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Retention as a Service

The systems and processes through which Gainsight uses AI-driven insights and automation to proactively prevent churn, scale customer success, and…

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SaaS Customer Growth

Gainsight is a customer success platform that analyzes churn, improves retention and measures the value of Customer Success initiatives. SaaS…

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SaaS Customer Service

SaaS customer service mainly focuses on customer retention. Customer retention is a reality only when happy, satisfied customers provide positive…

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SaaS Metrics

SaaS businesses vary from traditional businesses in concept and therefore require different metrics to accurately measure SaaS effectiveness and success.…

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Satisfaction Survey

A combination of market forces has converged to spark the rapid growth of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and broader Cloud Computing…

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Successful Customer

Happy and successful customers contribute towards churn reduction, business promotion, customer acquisition and business growth. Hence, ensuring customer success and…

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Survey Software

Gainsight’s Feedback Management module is survey software that enables companies that focus on recurring revenue to measure customer health through…

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User Analytics

A methodology for evaluating data that reflects how customers adopt, engage and experience products and services. This data can also…

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User Feedback

Perspectives, opinions, information and reactions to a product, service or experience that could be used to shape continuous improvement efforts.

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User Retention

User retention is typically viewed as a rate, which is the percentage of active customers from one time period who…

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User Segmentation

Creating different audience or user groups based on common attributes or characteristics in order to better understand and prioritize their…

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Utility Renewal Rates

Customer intelligence is critical for utility businesses looking to drive renewals Customer intelligence: The collection, analysis, and application of customer…

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