The biggest thing for me was the fact that it essentially does my job, lol. No more having to go through emails, notes, calendars, or databases to find information I need. Everything is right there, all customer engagements are planned out and all historical data is available to provide context as to whats taken place with the customer through their lifecycle. The automated messages and playbooks are great and provide a lot of value from the standpoint of staying on top of things but really i think the biggest key in terms of value for myself and my team was time saved. No more bouncing between emails, excel, salesforce, notes, support tickets just to bring myself up to speed/remind myself about where i am with a customer. Not sure what the average number of accounts other CSM's here have, but I myself have about 30+, so when I need a quick refresher on where I am/what I've done with a customer and what outstanding/resolved issues exist (from a support ticket standpoint) Gainsight has saved me a TON of time. Days used to be a redundant cycle of prepping for a meeting, take a meeting, prepping for a meeting, take a meeting, etc. Now I actually have a lot of time between engagements to focus on other things as i have all the info i could possibly need in one place.

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wow thanks a lot. Will you come and speak to my team?  ;) seriously this is very helpful and I will use this in my presentation. Anyone else?

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This might be a great resource for you too Karen - this is the work of our Gainsight CSM's and how they use Gainsight to get their job done well.


http://www.gainsight.com/customer-success-best-practices/a-week-in-the-life-of-a-customer-success-ma...

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Karen, as a Gainsight CSM who came from a company that was a Gainsight customer, I have a somewhat unique perspective. The biggest value for me at my previous company was the time savings afforded by having so much relevant information in one place: the Customer360. Usage data, support ticket information, survey responses, to name a few, all had to be pulled from different sources when preparing for a customer meeting, prior to having Gainsight. It went from a 2 hour process of pulling information from all of those sources into spreadsheets, then manipulating the data, to taking maybe 30 minutes to review the C360. And we had not yet even implemented CTAs in Cockpit, another time saving aspect of Gainsight which facilitates organized workflow management. I now use manual CTAs for my to-do list and am able to rely on automated ones to tell me when a risk or opportunity crops up, or an event needs to take place. Again, less time I have to spend digging around for this information. Time is something every CSM wants to save, and this is truly where the value lies for us. 

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For us, we have been able to pull together data from several sources into one place. We are still working with our CSMs to move them fully into Gainsight (old habits die hard). One of the biggest wins we had with the team is being able to provide them insight into information they did not have before. They can now see all the support interactions as well as NPS in one place.

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Hi Community! I'm bumping this post with some fresh new content! 





I recently wrote an article for the Gainsight Blog that talks about this very subject - "what's in it for the CSM". I focused on the ways that Gainsight acts like a personal assistant helping the CSM stay organized, make their bosses happy and focus on the customers and moments that have the most impact. 





Please check out the article and let me know what you think. And please do share with your teams as well. http://www.gainsight.com/2016/06/29/gainsight-personal-assistant/





Thanks!


-Dan

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Thanks Dan and others who have responded. We are now just at the start of onboarding our CSMs and I'm planning to share Dan's blog post, as well as the others' comments about Gainsight as a time-saver. Some of the CSMs seem a bit daunted at the prospect of learning how to use yet another new system, so I'm hoping to counter their trepidation with the idea that GS will save them time in the end. 

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Karen, one of the keys, in my estimation, is taking the crawl, walk, run approach, as far as rolling out CTAs, so that the CSMs don't get overwhelmed in Cockpit right out of the gate. Please check out this insightful new post from another customer, "What makes a good CTA?":


https://community.gainsight.com/gainsight/topics/what-makes-a-good-cta 





Tracy

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