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The Road To: Scaling Up Your Customer Success and Support Department

Writer's picture: Stephanie RoulicStephanie Roulic

Building and scaling a strong customer success and support team is crucial for any startup. As your company grows, so does the complexity of managing customer relationships, ensuring satisfaction, and maintaining strong communication across departments. Whether you're refining your post-sales processes or preparing to expand your customer base, these expert-led sessions provide valuable insights into the strategies and tools you need to effectively manage and empower your customer success teams.


In this blog, we've curated a collection of on-demand videos that explore key topics, from designing seamless customer journeys and diffusing difficult client situations to measuring customer health and scaling your customer support function. These sessions are packed with practical advice, best practices, and real-world examples to help you navigate challenges and build strong, lasting relationships with your customers.


No matter where you are in your customer success journey, these videos offer actionable tips to help you grow your team, improve your processes, and deliver exceptional experiences that drive customer loyalty and business growth.


Table of Contents:


 

Customer Support 101: Setting up the Function

Providing top-tier customer support is essential for helping your users succeed with your product. The quality of your support can be the deciding factor between a subpar and a standout experience. After all, everyone appreciates receiving great assistance when using a product or service. In this workshop, we will explore how to establish a high-performing customer support function. 


Topics Covered:

  • How to initiate customer support for your product

  • Key metrics for measuring success

  • Tailoring support for end users vs. clients (corporates/companies)

  • Essential systems and tools to implement

  • Developing an issue escalation path for optimal response




Everyone Wants a Representative: Scaling Customer Support

As your customer base expands, it's crucial to maintain the same high level of support you promised during the sales process. In this panel, we’ll discuss strategies for scaling customer support during periods of rapid growth.


Topics Covered:

  • Onboarding customers at scale

  • Leveraging a customer community for support

  • When to introduce automation in customer service




Leader of the Pack: Ensuring Your CS Team & Customer Crush Onboarding

A strong onboarding process ensures a seamless customer experience and sets the foundation for long-term success. Proper delegation and structure are key to achieving this.


Topics Covered:

  • Customer onboarding best practices

  • Delegating onboarding responsibilities

  • Setting expectations for onboarding and post-onboarding support




No I in Team: Empowering Customer Support and Success Teams

Strong collaboration across departments is essential for delivering a seamless client experience. Establishing effective workflows and communication systems is key.


Topics Covered:

  • Successful transitions from Sales to Customer Success

  • Raising challenges, generating solutions, and taking action across teams

  • Aligning customer expectations with their experience

  • Sharing customer feedback constructively between Product, Sales, and Customer Success




Tech-Touch Chess: Scaling with Consistency and Scale

What is tech-touch, and how can it enhance your customer success strategy and scalability? In this panel, we’ll explore digital customer success methodologies and how they can bring consistency and efficiency to your initiatives, ensuring a positive experience for both clients and your business.


Topics Covered:

  • Why tech-touch is crucial in today’s funding environment

  • Tech tools CS teams can leverage throughout the customer journey

  • Key metrics for a successful tech-touch program

  • Risks associated with a tech-touch approach




The Devil is in the Details: Understand Customer Satisfaction via Metrics and Tools

Tools for collecting customer satisfaction data are only effective when paired with the right systems for interpretation. The what, when, and how of metrics are critical to your business success.


Topics Covered:

  • Key KPIs for measuring success in Customer Support

  • When to review and adjust metrics

  • Building a strong future with Customer Success metrics

  • Sharing customer feedback across departments for continuous improvement




Put a Ring on It: How to Fortify Engaging Client Relationships

Building strong client relationships is challenging but essential, especially during the early-to-growth stage. In this session, leaders from growth-stage startups will share the challenges and solutions they face in fostering and managing client relationships. 


Topics Covered:

  • Customer success “golden rules”

  • Knowing when to invest time in strengthening connections

  • Identifying and nurturing strong client relationships




Building Empathy: Customer Journey through the Customer Success Lens

What do great products have in common? A seamless user experience from sign-up to purchase, whether interacting with sales or support.


Topics Covered:

  • How to design a successful customer journey from sales handoff to retention and renewal

  • What a positive user experience looks like with sales and account management teams

  • Leveraging technology to enhance the customer experience




Take a Breath: The Art of Diffusing Difficult Clients

As the post-sales contact, you often face misaligned expectations and the frustration that follows. How do you handle these challenging situations? And how can you equip your team to navigate them effectively?


Topics Covered:

  • Why customers escalate and what’s behind their frustration

  • Methods for showing empathy, even when it’s difficult

  • How to provide constructive feedback and reset a positive narrative

  • Persuading customers to consider alternative solutions while still achieving their goals




Temperature Check: Measuring Customer Health

Customer health is the key to understanding whether your customers are succeeding with your product or service. Healthy customers drive growth, while unhealthy ones can lead to churn and other challenges. In this round robin, experts will share their experiences with customer retention, successful interventions, and more, followed by a Q&A session.


Topics Covered:

  • Key metrics to monitor

  • Avoiding vanity metrics

  • Understanding and managing normal customer churn

  • Strategies to prevent churn

  • Ad hoc interventions to consider

  • The best tools for tracking customer engagement and attrition




Metrics Magic: Measuring a High Functioning Post Sales Team

As a post-sales leader, you have countless metrics to track—but how do you know which ones matter most for your team, your C-Suite, and your company? In this panel, we’ll discuss how to focus on the right data and use it to measure your team’s success in delighting and empowering customers.


Topics Covered:

  • Becoming more data-driven in post-sales

  • Using metrics to boost team growth and your leadership career

  • Understanding which metrics matter most to the C-Suite




A Tale of Two Departments: Who Owns Customer Expansion

The debate between Sales and Customer Success over who should own customer expansion strategies is more relevant than ever. Join us for a lively debate where we’ll discuss the pros and cons of different approaches to customer expansion.


Topics Covered:

  • Customer Success solely owning net revenue retention

  • Sales handling all renewal and expansion conversations

  • Hiring an account manager for expansion and renewal

  • Customer Success reporting to Sales instead of Operations or the CEO




As you continue to scale your customer success and support teams, applying the right strategies, tools, and insights is essential to building strong customer relationships and driving growth. The videos in this series provide expert advice to help you navigate the complexities of customer retention, support scaling, and team empowerment.


Keep refining your approach, applying these lessons, and tackling challenges with confidence to elevate your customer experience. To stay up-to-date with the latest trends, best practices, and resources for scaling your customer success function, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter (directly below). Receive regular updates filled with actionable insights and stay ahead in the dynamic startup landscape. Join our community and keep growing!

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