Reduce Churn with Adoption All-stars
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Reduce Churn with Adoption All-stars
Guest Presenter: Pete Davis@pjdavis71
Director, Technical Services AmericasCisco Systems, Inc.
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Adoption teams accelerate time-to-value thorough timely, relevant interactions with your customers.
Adoption is delivering on promised value.
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Adoption is critical to satisfaction.
Customers’ expectations must be met in a
subscription-based economy.
Customers want your commitment to helping them
achieve outcomes.
Focusing your efforts on adoption will reduce churn
and increase renewal rates.
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Leading on the Edge of Chaos, Emmet Murphy & Mark Murphy
“A 2% increase in customer retention has the same effect as decreasing costs by 10%.”
Reduce Cost
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Bain & Company
“A customer is 4 times more likely to defect to a competitor if the problem is service-related than price- or product-related.”
Retain Customers
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Marketing Metrics
“The probability of selling to an existing customer is 60 – 70%. The probability of selling to a new prospect is 5-20%.”
Sell More
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Audience Poll
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Does your company currently have an adoption team or resource in place to support your customer success practice?
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Meet your adoption all-stars.
Client Services Manager Onboarding Specialist Training Specialist
Customer Success Manager
Get Your Winning Team infographic
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Your customer’s trusted advisor.
Customer Success Manager
Function: Customer Advocate
Priorities:• Track usage metrics• Monitor engagement• Accelerate time-to-value• Coordinate customer support
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Your customer’s guide for getting started.
Client Services Manager
Function: Customer Enablement
Priorities:• Product delivery• Onboarding coordination• Timely execution
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Your customer’s technical resource.
Onboarding Specialist
Function: Technical Performance
Priorities:• Collector deployment• Data upload• System access
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Your customer’s teacher.
Training Specialist
Function: Solutions Education
Priorities:• Basic understanding• Stickiest features• Advanced functionality
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Get to know your customer success team.
Empathetic, Attentive Listeners
Excellent Communicators
Committed Team Players
Passionate Customer Champions
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Tips for Building an Effective Team
Sometimes assembling a new team can be challenging. You can use these tips to guide your recruitment process and assist you in selecting candidates that will embrace your customer success goals.
Virtual Handout
Watch Anatomy of a Customer Success Team
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0 – 30 Days
31 – 60 Days
61 – 90 Days
91+ Days
Audience Poll
In your experience with Smart Net Total Care implementations, how long does it generally take to get a customer activated?
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Your adoption team’s primary mission is to accelerate implementation.! !
Watch Expand Selling Practices in Action
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Engaged Customers = Revenue Opportunities.
Plan Deliver Monitor Assess Engage
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• Define and agree on customer expectations (desired business outcomes)
• Assess current state of network
• Outline deliverables
• Develop implementation timelines
• Assign responsibilities
• Establish communication cadence
Kickoff
Client Services Manager
Onboarding Specialist Training Specialist
Customer Success Manager
Plan | Engage
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Role Function
Delegated Administrator Manages access to Cisco Services and for assigning user roles. Cisco recommends having at least one backup delegated administrator.
Smart Net Total Care Administrator
Oversees role-based access control capabilities in the Smart Net Total Care portal to grant and revoke permissions (such as access to configuration data, product alerts, and letter of authorization).
IT Management Identifies primary priorities and goals and sponsors the network integration. They are major users of Smart Net Total Care.
Network Operations/ Engineers
Works directly with you for technical integration. It is critical to assign a single point of contact to be responsible for effective deployment and maintenance of the solution, expertise in the network infrastructure and starting the inventory collection process.
Purchasing/Contract Managers Uses data and reports accessible through the portal that can help them proactively plan and budget for future purchases as well as better manage Cisco Services contracts and renewal processes.
Data Center Operations/ Engineers
Uses the portal to get visibility into data center equipment to help confirm proper coverage on business-critical devices as well as security alerts to help identify any vulnerabilities in the data center network.
Information Security Officer Facilitates the installation of a common services platform collector (CSPC) and will need visibility into the security alerts affecting the network to assess potential threats/vulnerabilities.
Customer StakeholdersAttendee Checklist
Virtual Handout
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Deliver | Engage
• Enable system access
• Create a Cisco user profile
• Appoint a delegated administrator
• Submit change management requests
• Open ACLs and firewalls
Onboarding
Client Services Manager
Onboarding Specialist
Customer Success Manager
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• Deploy collector
• Assemble initial device list
• Complete device discovery
• Confirm managed device coverage
• Verify collector configuration
Technical Implementation
Client Services Manager
Onboarding Specialist
Customer Success Manager
Deliver | Engage
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• Schedule a basic product training
• Review online training courses
• Determine any advanced training requirements
• Schedule live training sessions as required
Training
Training Specialist
Customer Success Manager
Deliver | Monitor | Engage
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• Verify customer activity
• Monitor report usage
• Schedule necessary trainings
• Provide helpful “getting started” materials
Initial Usage
Customer Success Manager
Monitor | Engage
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• Perform customer health checks
• Track product usage (reports/downloads)
• Monitor TAC cases
• Identify professional services opportunities
• Promote milestone achievements
• Measure Key Performance Indicators (KPI) tracking
• Conduct ongoing training
• Complete quarterly business reviews (QRBs)
Monitoring & Engagement
Training Specialist
Customer Success Manager
Monitor | Assess | Engage
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Getting started.
Create an adoption strategy Recruit qualified candidates Execute your adoption plan
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Protect your recurring revenue by building a comprehensive customer adoption journey that is engaging and relevant for your customers. Learn more about how to create a successful Smart Net Total Care adoption practice.
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