KIA CX Consulting
Improving Customer Retention by
Managing the Customer Journey
Kia Puhm
Principal, Kia CX Consulting
@kiapuhm
www.kiacx.com
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Tweet us and join the conversation
#CustomerLifecycle
@GetAmity @KiaPuhm
We’ll send slides and the recording
Q&A at the end - ask them in the questions box!
(If we run out of time, tweet or email us!)
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
About Kia Puhm
• Customer Experience Pioneer
• 21 years experience leading extremely fast growing software
companies (> 2x YOY growth)
• Computer Engineer University of Toronto
• Licensed Professional Engineer (PEO)
• Top 50 highest ranking business women in Switzerland
• Successful exits (Adobe & Oracle), IPO's (NASDAQ, SIX Swiss
Exchange) & venture funding rounds
• Principal, Kia CX Consulting
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
the key to customer retention is knowing why your
customers bought from you &
ensuring that you deliver on your commitment to
provide what you sold
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Improving Customer Retention
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Improving Customer Retention
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
+1% = $10 million
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Improving Customer Retention
1. Understand Renewal Challenges
2. Demonstrate Value
3. Make Customer Successful
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Understand Renewal Challenges
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Top Renewal Challenges
"Our renewals are 65-70% for
year 1 customers. We are above
88% once we get past year 1."
“We were losing a lot due to lack of
adoption. Seat vacancies and re-
purposed licenses became a
leading indicator for defections.”
“We weren’t delivering on what we
promised during our sales campaigns.
The customers grew frustrated and left
after their first year was finished.”
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Year 1 Challenge
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Year 1 Objectives
• Get customers using the product
• Focus on quick wins
• Establish trust
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Year 1 Tips
• Welcome Call
• Smart Start
• Success Coach Program
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Year 1
Goal Focus on quick wins & adoption to establish confidence
Threats • Customer still questioning whether they made the right decision
• Have not yet seen value from the product
• Trust has not been established
Actions • Get customers using the product quickly
• Provide early successes for the customer
• Show customers how to get value from your product
Results Renewal rates can be up to 10-20% higher past year 1
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
User Adoption Challenge
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User Adoption Objectives
• Manage to journey
• Regular touch points
• Quantify value delivered
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
User Adoption Tips
• Success Program
• Proactive Check-Ins
• Metrics & Benchmarking
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
User Adoption
Goal Manage to your customer journey; focus on objectives
Threats • Customer objectives unclear or changing
• Journey to achieve goal not being followed
• Customer not seeing/recognizing value delivered
Actions • Manage customer through journey
• Quantify value delivered regularly
• Use metrics & benchmarking to help customers win
Results QBR's improve retention
Success rate is 2.5x higher for customers that follow success program
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Didn't Deliver Challenge
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Didn't Deliver Objectives
• Level set on why bought
• Get in sync early
• Bring in sales if need be
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Didn't Deliver Tips
• Warm transition call with sales
• Level set meeting
• Reconfirm objectives
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Didn't Deliver
Goal Level set on why bought
Threats • Product is not a fit for customer
• Sales over-promised
• Customer veers off course
Actions • Include level setting as part of onboarding
• Understand expected results, confirm with customer
• Manage customer to those results
Results Recognize immediately if product is not a fit and part ways or
Re-set expectations to level set on what is achieveable
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Poll
Which of the following is the top renewal challenge for your
organization?
1. Year 1: we have significantly more churn in year 1 than following years
2. User Adoption: lack of adoption is a leading reason for defections
3. Didn't deliver: product fails to deliver on sales promise
4. Other
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Demonstrate Value
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Demonstrate Value
Use data with customers to demonstrate tangible business value
1. Metrics are valuable, use them!
2. Benchmark customer against best practice & relevant peer group
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Metrics are valuable, use them!
Use metrics to help your customers win & provide advanced warning
when they don’t.
• Identify jeopardy accounts
• Develop leading indicators
• Build risk profiles
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Benchmark customers
Use objective data to give customers the ability to measure themselves
against their peers.
• Provide performance metrics
• Provide gap analysis
• Deliver recommendations
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Poll
How mature is your organization's use of data in demonstrating value
to the customer?
1. Missing: We don't use data
2. Ad-hoc: CS uses data when necessary to "save" accounts
3. Repeatable: CS uses data regularly to identify jeopardy accounts & react accordingly
4. Systemic: CS uses data regularly to demonstrate value & provides proactive recommendations
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Make Customer Successful
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Make Customer Successful
Create opportunities for the customer to be successful
1. Be a strategic partner
2. Deploy strategic messaging
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Be a Strategic Partner
Collaborate on the customer roadmap.
• Be a strategic partner
• Provide "long-term" view for revenue
• Create success opportunities
• Show future roadmap for continued
value generation
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Deploy Strategic Messaging
Target content based on role, not customer.
• Message to individual
• Segment events based on roles
• Use metrics to determine communication
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Poll
How advanced would you say your organization is in deploying strategic
partnering & messaging?
1. We are rather reactive with our customers & communicate when need be.
2. We provide customers with a success plan for the year & communicate accordingly to move them along in their
journey.
3. We collaborate with our customers on their long-term roadmap and use communication strategically to help them
achieve their goals.
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
the key to customer retention is knowing why your
customers bought from you &
ensuring that you deliver on your commitment to
provide what you sold
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
the key to customer retention is knowing why your
customers bought from you &
ensuring that you deliver on your commitment to
provide what you sold
1. Use Customer Journey to navigate top renewal challenges
2. Use data to demonstrate value
3. Be a strategic partner & deploy strategic messaging
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
How to Get Started: 4 Questions to Answer Now…
Do you know why your customers are your customers?
Do you have a process in place to make first year customers successful?
Do you know the leading indicators that cause customers to defect?
Do your customers know how they compare to their biggest competitors?
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
About Kia CX Consulting
KIA CX Consulting accelerates business growth through Customer
Experience innovation.
Kia provides the leading methodology to establish a disciplined and
sustainable CX framework that drives revenue, retention and scale.
kia@kiacx.com
647.588.1447
@kiapuhm
www.kiacx.com
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Meet Our Host
Paul Philp
Founder & CEO
paul@getamity.com
@pphilp
www.getamity.com
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Q&A
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Join Kia on April 26 for the next webinar
in the Defining & Managing Your Customer Lifecycle
Visit getamity.com/resources to register!
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Many Thanks To Our Presenter!
KIA CX Consulting accelerates business growth through Customer
Experience innovation. Kia provides the leading methodology to
establish a disciplined and sustainable CX framework that drives
revenue, retention, and scale.
kia@kiacx.com
647.588.1447
@kiapuhm
www.kiacx.com
KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
Thank you for being here!

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Improving Customer Retention by Managing the Customer Journey Webinar Slides

  • 1. KIA CX Consulting Improving Customer Retention by Managing the Customer Journey Kia Puhm Principal, Kia CX Consulting @kiapuhm www.kiacx.com
  • 2. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Tweet us and join the conversation #CustomerLifecycle @GetAmity @KiaPuhm We’ll send slides and the recording Q&A at the end - ask them in the questions box! (If we run out of time, tweet or email us!)
  • 3. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting About Kia Puhm • Customer Experience Pioneer • 21 years experience leading extremely fast growing software companies (> 2x YOY growth) • Computer Engineer University of Toronto • Licensed Professional Engineer (PEO) • Top 50 highest ranking business women in Switzerland • Successful exits (Adobe & Oracle), IPO's (NASDAQ, SIX Swiss Exchange) & venture funding rounds • Principal, Kia CX Consulting
  • 4. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting the key to customer retention is knowing why your customers bought from you & ensuring that you deliver on your commitment to provide what you sold
  • 5. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting
  • 6. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Improving Customer Retention
  • 7. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Improving Customer Retention
  • 8. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting +1% = $10 million
  • 9. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Improving Customer Retention 1. Understand Renewal Challenges 2. Demonstrate Value 3. Make Customer Successful
  • 10. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Understand Renewal Challenges
  • 11. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Top Renewal Challenges "Our renewals are 65-70% for year 1 customers. We are above 88% once we get past year 1." “We were losing a lot due to lack of adoption. Seat vacancies and re- purposed licenses became a leading indicator for defections.” “We weren’t delivering on what we promised during our sales campaigns. The customers grew frustrated and left after their first year was finished.”
  • 12. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Year 1 Challenge
  • 13. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Year 1 Objectives • Get customers using the product • Focus on quick wins • Establish trust
  • 14. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Year 1 Tips • Welcome Call • Smart Start • Success Coach Program
  • 15. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Year 1 Goal Focus on quick wins & adoption to establish confidence Threats • Customer still questioning whether they made the right decision • Have not yet seen value from the product • Trust has not been established Actions • Get customers using the product quickly • Provide early successes for the customer • Show customers how to get value from your product Results Renewal rates can be up to 10-20% higher past year 1
  • 16. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting User Adoption Challenge
  • 17. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting User Adoption Objectives • Manage to journey • Regular touch points • Quantify value delivered
  • 18. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting User Adoption Tips • Success Program • Proactive Check-Ins • Metrics & Benchmarking
  • 19. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting User Adoption Goal Manage to your customer journey; focus on objectives Threats • Customer objectives unclear or changing • Journey to achieve goal not being followed • Customer not seeing/recognizing value delivered Actions • Manage customer through journey • Quantify value delivered regularly • Use metrics & benchmarking to help customers win Results QBR's improve retention Success rate is 2.5x higher for customers that follow success program
  • 20. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Didn't Deliver Challenge
  • 21. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Didn't Deliver Objectives • Level set on why bought • Get in sync early • Bring in sales if need be
  • 22. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Didn't Deliver Tips • Warm transition call with sales • Level set meeting • Reconfirm objectives
  • 23. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Didn't Deliver Goal Level set on why bought Threats • Product is not a fit for customer • Sales over-promised • Customer veers off course Actions • Include level setting as part of onboarding • Understand expected results, confirm with customer • Manage customer to those results Results Recognize immediately if product is not a fit and part ways or Re-set expectations to level set on what is achieveable
  • 24. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Poll Which of the following is the top renewal challenge for your organization? 1. Year 1: we have significantly more churn in year 1 than following years 2. User Adoption: lack of adoption is a leading reason for defections 3. Didn't deliver: product fails to deliver on sales promise 4. Other
  • 25. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Demonstrate Value
  • 26. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Demonstrate Value Use data with customers to demonstrate tangible business value 1. Metrics are valuable, use them! 2. Benchmark customer against best practice & relevant peer group
  • 27. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Metrics are valuable, use them! Use metrics to help your customers win & provide advanced warning when they don’t. • Identify jeopardy accounts • Develop leading indicators • Build risk profiles
  • 28. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Benchmark customers Use objective data to give customers the ability to measure themselves against their peers. • Provide performance metrics • Provide gap analysis • Deliver recommendations
  • 29. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Poll How mature is your organization's use of data in demonstrating value to the customer? 1. Missing: We don't use data 2. Ad-hoc: CS uses data when necessary to "save" accounts 3. Repeatable: CS uses data regularly to identify jeopardy accounts & react accordingly 4. Systemic: CS uses data regularly to demonstrate value & provides proactive recommendations
  • 30. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Make Customer Successful
  • 31. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Make Customer Successful Create opportunities for the customer to be successful 1. Be a strategic partner 2. Deploy strategic messaging
  • 32. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Be a Strategic Partner Collaborate on the customer roadmap. • Be a strategic partner • Provide "long-term" view for revenue • Create success opportunities • Show future roadmap for continued value generation
  • 33. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Deploy Strategic Messaging Target content based on role, not customer. • Message to individual • Segment events based on roles • Use metrics to determine communication
  • 34. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Poll How advanced would you say your organization is in deploying strategic partnering & messaging? 1. We are rather reactive with our customers & communicate when need be. 2. We provide customers with a success plan for the year & communicate accordingly to move them along in their journey. 3. We collaborate with our customers on their long-term roadmap and use communication strategically to help them achieve their goals.
  • 35. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting the key to customer retention is knowing why your customers bought from you & ensuring that you deliver on your commitment to provide what you sold
  • 36. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting the key to customer retention is knowing why your customers bought from you & ensuring that you deliver on your commitment to provide what you sold 1. Use Customer Journey to navigate top renewal challenges 2. Use data to demonstrate value 3. Be a strategic partner & deploy strategic messaging
  • 37. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting How to Get Started: 4 Questions to Answer Now… Do you know why your customers are your customers? Do you have a process in place to make first year customers successful? Do you know the leading indicators that cause customers to defect? Do your customers know how they compare to their biggest competitors?
  • 38. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting About Kia CX Consulting KIA CX Consulting accelerates business growth through Customer Experience innovation. Kia provides the leading methodology to establish a disciplined and sustainable CX framework that drives revenue, retention and scale. [email protected] 647.588.1447 @kiapuhm www.kiacx.com
  • 39. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Meet Our Host Paul Philp Founder & CEO [email protected] @pphilp www.getamity.com
  • 40. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Q&A
  • 41. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Join Kia on April 26 for the next webinar in the Defining & Managing Your Customer Lifecycle Visit getamity.com/resources to register!
  • 42. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Many Thanks To Our Presenter! KIA CX Consulting accelerates business growth through Customer Experience innovation. Kia provides the leading methodology to establish a disciplined and sustainable CX framework that drives revenue, retention, and scale. [email protected] 647.588.1447 @kiapuhm www.kiacx.com
  • 43. KIA CX ConsultingKIA CX Consulting Thank you for being here!