Customer Engagement15% of the exam
Nurturing relationships and driving adoption
What a rep does after the signature: check in with empathy, close adoption gaps with training and experts, stay transparent about problems, keep effort low for the customer, and grow satisfied customers into champions who refer others.
Nurture relationships and drive product adoption to maximize value for the customer.
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What the exam expects
- Explain why the sale is a beginning and where the highest return on new business comes from.
- Prepare a post-sale check-in around the customer's lifecycle, goals and next needs.
- Respond to low adoption by finding what blocks users and bringing training or experts.
- Build trust, demonstrate value and minimize customer effort.
- Recognize a champion, and handle a frustrating incident with self-management.
Key terms:
- Product adoption: the customer actually using what they bought, so they get the value they expected.
- Champion: a customer contact who is loyal to you and your solution and likely to refer others.
- Customer success (CS): the function that sets customers up to achieve their business goals, proactively.
- Customer effort: the time and resources a customer invests to work with you.
- Self-management: managing your own emotions and reactions in a positive way at work.
Key facts
Bullseye for continued business
- Detail
- Referrals
Highest return
- Detail
- More business from existing accounts
Path to Champion
- Detail
- Check in on success; connect with the right people and resources
Best champions
- Detail
- Loyal, likely to refer; articulate, dynamic, well respected
Empathy questions
- Detail
- Lifecycle stage, goals, next need, resources to share
Trust is grounded in
- Detail
- Transparency and integrity
CS vs support
- Detail
- CS is proactive; support addresses issues as they arise
- Why are referrals the bullseye for continued business?
- When a customer's users are not adopting the solution, what help can the rep bring in the Create phase?
- What four questions keep a check-in focused on the customer?
- Why tell a customer about a product gap they have not noticed yet?
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