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What made you decide to choose customer success over sales?

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Customer Success Soft and Hard Skills
  1. Manil Vasantha
    Manil Vasantha

    Leader, Customer Service • 3y

    For me personally, the decision was easy. I moved from technical support to Customer Success. They combine in what we deliver called Customer Experience—transitioning a customer from pre-sales to post-sales and then a steady state followed by expansion. It is called the customer journey or roadmap. Influencing a ‘Promoter’ and a reference customer is a powerful and exciting feeling. This roadmap is driving thru an effective success program. It is essential to ensure that the customer journey tie ...Read More

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  2. Conor Holmes
    Conor Holmes

    Confluent Senior Director of CS & Account Management • 3y

    I greatly respect the sales role, and CS and sales must work well together to drive successful customer outcomes. I have been in sales at various times throughout my career within multiple functions, be it expanding customers or working on net new logo acquisition. I have been honest about where I see my strengths and get my most energy from, and it's working with existing customers to make them wildly successful!

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  3. Meenal Shukla
    Meenal Shukla

    Zoom Head of Scaled Customer Success, Onboarding, Learning and Adoption • 3y

    Personally, I love the AHA moments when customers achieve value and get to see the magic happen! Building Long-Term Relationships: A Customer Success Manager (CSM) typically works with customers over the long term, helping them get the most out of a product or service after they've made a purchase. This can be appealing if you enjoy building and maintaining long-term relationships instead of the often shorter-term relationships in sales. Problem-Solving: Customer success involves helping custome ...Read More

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  4. Natasha Evans
    Natasha Evans

    Hook VP Customer Growth • 2y

    Relationship management is where Customer Success and Sales meet in the middle, but I liked the other skills that I'd develop in CS like project management and change management as well as that more consultative focus.

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