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Customer Success Marketing and Portfolio Management

By Tom Sweeny October 15, 2021

Customer success marketing must focus on lifetime customer value.

Technology service programs are evolving to offer new value and benefits such as use and adoption assistance and resources to help attain successful outcomes. As technology service programs change, service, support, and success marketing must evolve beyond selling the initial service engagement and focus on sustaining and growing relationship value.

Success Marketing and Portfolio Management

Technology service programs and offerings must evolve, and companies need to look beyond service marketing to focus on Success Marketing and Portfolio Management.

Success Marketing and Portfolio Management consists of the practices and activities necessary to create end-to-end, integrated success-focused programs capable of delivering a value-based message to promote adoption and attainment of tangible customer outcomes that sustain customer relationships and promote opportunities for growth.

The Subscription Impact on Service Programs

The very definition of technology service offerings is evolving.  Service entitlements that were once included as foundational elements of a service program may now be included as part of a product or subscription purchase.

Standalone service programs delivered by siloed services departments such as Professional Services, Training and Support are increasingly offered through integrated success-focused service portfolios.  Success-focused service programs may complement or fully displace legacy service and support offerings. The nature of how customers purchase services is evolving too. Support programs attached to license sales and professionals service engagements sold as custom time and materials engagement are displaced by integrated a-la-carte success services that may be purchased as add-ons or obtained by service credits.

Success Marketing and Portfolio Management Defined

Success Marketing and Portfolio Management consists of the practices and activities necessary to create end-to-end, integrated success-focused programs capable of delivering a value-based message to promote adoption and attainment of tangible customer outcomes that sustain customer relationships and promote opportunities for growth.

There are eight fundamental success marketing practices.  Several of these practices extend the focus and scope of traditional service marketing responsibilities. The expanded scope of Success Marketing must include the following:

  1. Customer Segmentation Strategy
  2. Ongoing Customer Needs Assessments
  3. Service Program Design Methods
  4. Portfolio Management
  5. Value Quantification
  6. Sales Enablement
  7. Marketing Tools and Resource Development
  8. Retention and Growth Planning

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