🎧 BC Startup Sales Podcast – Building Your Initial Customer Success Team with Allison Pickens (Gainsight)
June 24, 2016
Building your initial Customer Success team can be challenging and time consuming without understanding how to properly execute and manage the process. This week on the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast, we are joined by Allison Pickens, who sheds some light on exactly how she setup and manages the Customer Success team at Gainsight. For those of you that don’t know, Gainsight provides a Customer Success software solution and also manages a community of Customer Success leaders.
Listen to the podcast here.
Today, Allison spoke with us about all the do’s and don’ts of establishing a Customer Success team. In the episode, we cover how to define CS, when the right time is to create a customer success team, how to manage your first CS hire, and even some common pitfalls to look out for. We also discuss the goals of Customer Success and how it should fit into a company to maximize it’s positive impact.