Drive Customer Retention and Expansion
Skill for customer success management - health scoring, lifecycle stages, and retention/expansion metrics.
Why it matters
Maximize customer lifetime value by proactively managing customer success, ensuring retention, and identifying expansion opportunities.
Outcomes
What it gets done
Develop and execute customer onboarding plans.
Monitor customer health scores and identify at-risk accounts.
Manage renewal processes and identify upsell/cross-sell opportunities.
Conduct executive business reviews to demonstrate value.
Install
Add it to your toolbox
Run in your project directory:
curl -fsSL https://spark.entire.vc/get/vb-customer-success | bash Overview
Customer Success Manager
A skill for customer success management - a weighted health-scoring model, a four-stage customer lifecycle, and named retention, expansion, and satisfaction metric targets. Use it for post-sale customer-success operations, not sales prospecting or lead generation.
What it does
Comprehensive expertise in driving customer value, retention, and growth as a Customer Success Manager. Core competencies span customer onboarding (implementation planning, kick-off meetings, training and enablement, go-live support, time-to-value acceleration), relationship management (executive business reviews/QBRs, health-score monitoring, stakeholder mapping, champion development, escalation management), and retention and expansion (renewal management, upsell/cross-sell identification, churn prevention, account-expansion plays, advocacy development).
Customer health scoring weights five factors: product usage (30% - active users, features used), engagement (25% - meetings, responses), support (20% - ticket volume, sentiment), business results (15% - reported outcomes), and relationship (10% - champion strength), rolled into three categories: green (80-100, healthy with expansion opportunity), yellow (50-79, at risk and needing attention), and red (0-49, critical and needing immediate action). The customer lifecycle spans four stages: onboarding (0-90 days: implementation, training, first value milestone), adoption (90-180 days: feature expansion, use-case development, internal advocacy), maturity (180+ days: optimization, expansion opportunities, executive alignment), and renewal (-90 to +30 days: business review, value documentation, contract negotiation). Key metrics targeted: Net Revenue Retention above 110%, Gross Retention above 90%, an average Customer Health Score above 75, Time to Value under 30 days, NPS above 50, and CSAT above 4.5 out of 5.
When to use - and when NOT to
Use it when running customer-success operations - onboarding new accounts, scoring account health, managing the customer lifecycle, or driving renewal and expansion. It is not a sales-prospecting or lead-generation tool - it is scoped to the post-sale customer relationship.
Inputs and outputs
Given an account's usage, engagement, and support data, it can produce a weighted health score with a risk category, a lifecycle-stage assessment, and target metrics to track against.
Who it's for
Customer success managers and teams driving onboarding, retention, and expansion for existing accounts.
Source README
Customer Success Manager
Comprehensive expertise in driving customer value, retention, and growth.
Core Competencies
Customer Onboarding
- Implementation planning
- Kick-off meetings
- Training and enablement
- Go-live support
- Time-to-value acceleration
Relationship Management
- Executive business reviews (QBRs)
- Health score monitoring
- Stakeholder mapping
- Champion development
- Escalation management
Retention & Expansion
- Renewal management
- Upsell/cross-sell identification
- Churn prevention
- Account expansion plays
- Advocacy development
Customer Health Scoring
Health Indicators
| Factor | Weight | Measure |
|---|---|---|
| Product usage | 30% | Active users, features used |
| Engagement | 25% | Meetings, responses |
| Support | 20% | Ticket volume, sentiment |
| Business results | 15% | Reported outcomes |
| Relationship | 10% | Champion strength |
Health Categories
- Green (80-100): Healthy, expansion opportunity
- Yellow (50-79): At risk, needs attention
- Red (0-49): Critical, immediate action
Customer Lifecycle
Onboarding (0-90 days)
- Implementation
- Training
- First value milestone
Adoption (90-180 days)
- Feature expansion
- Use case development
- Internal advocacy
Maturity (180+ days)
- Optimization
- Expansion opportunities
- Executive alignment
Renewal (-90 to +30 days)
- Business review
- Value documentation
- Contract negotiation
Key Metrics
| Metric | Target |
|---|---|
| Net Revenue Retention | >110% |
| Gross Retention | >90% |
| Customer Health Score | >75 avg |
| Time to Value | <30 days |
| NPS | >50 |
| CSAT | >4.5/5 |
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