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		<title>The Whole Company Should Be Paid on NRR</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 02:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Home Blog Net Revenue Retention isn&#8217;t a Customer Success metric. It&#8217;s a company metric. The organizations that realize this first will win. There is a quiet dysfunction running through most SaaS companies. A small team, — usually called Customer Success (CS), is handed the most consequential metric in the business: Net Revenue Retention. They are [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Lifecycle Design and Operations</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Salazar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 22:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Home Blog There&#8217;s a conversation happening in boardrooms and on Zoom calls across B2B companies right now. A CRO walks in with a clear strategic vision: &#8220;We need to focus on high-potential accounts. We need to improve our retention. We need to move upmarket.&#8221; Everyone nods. The slide deck is compelling. And then&#8230; not much [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The 50/50 Future of Support: Humans + AI</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roberto Moctezuma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Home Blog Salesforce’s CEO just said the quiet part out loud: AI agents replaced ~4,000 customer support roles, cutting the organization from ~9,000 to ~5,000. For some, that’s shocking. For those of us close to the work, it isn’t. This is the new baseline for customer service: a 50/50 human–AI split when you do it [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>B2B SaaS Customer Success Maturity Model</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 15:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Home Blog A Customer Success Maturity Model provides a structured framework for B2B SaaS organizations to evaluate and enhance their customer success operations systematically. By defining clear stages of maturity, the model helps companies identify their current capabilities and outlines a pathway for progressive improvement. This strategic tool facilitates better alignment of customer success practices [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Better Way to Manage Salesforce Page Layouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Home Blog Salesforce has always been at the forefront of empowering businesses with customizable and flexible solutions. While page layouts define how a record appears to the end user, their management and flexibility are somewhat limited. Field displays are typically static, and only with record types and page layout assignments could admins achieve a modicum [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Imperative of Maintaining Current and High-Quality Lead Data</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roberto Moctezuma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Home Blog You invest a lot of time and money to generate leads &#8211; are they providing the value you need? In today&#8217;s digitally driven world, businesses thrive on data. Among the myriad types of data crucial to a company&#8217;s success, lead data holds a special significance. Leads are the lifeblood of sales and marketing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>No matter your size, measure customer experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Home Blog Startup leaders often ask, “is my company big enough to worry about measuring customer experience?” I most often respond with a few questions of my own. Do you care about retention? Do you care about revenue? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then you are big enough to worry [&#8230;]]]></description>
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