{"id":251703,"date":"2021-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/blog\/customer-success-activities\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:29:21","slug":"customer-success-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/blog\/customer-success-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Customer Success Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Customer Success\u2014and the recurring revenue it generates\u2014results from a series of intentional, interrelated activities performed throughout the customer relationship lifecycle. As shown in this graphic, effective customer success activities comprise a continuum:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Essential Customer Success Activities<\/h1>\n

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Effective Customer Success activities fall into 6 distinct categories.\u00a0 All are essential, yet recent ServiceXRG research revealed that half of companies surveyed are doing only half the job:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Customer Success Activities Defined<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Onboarding<\/h2>\n

Onboarding activities aim to remove barriers that may inhibit successful product use. Onboarding can encompass activities to welcome and introduce customers to the resources necessary to use new products, as well as verification that customers can access and use products.<\/p>\n

Onboarding activities can include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Initial welcome<\/li>\n
  • Kick-off-meeting<\/li>\n
  • Goals and objectives inventory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Success Planning<\/h2>\n

    Success planning helps customers realize the full potential of products. These activities can increase understanding customer business objectives, introducing customers to product capabilities, and aligning services to help yield tangible business results.<\/p>\n

    Success Planning activities can include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Goal setting<\/li>\n
    • Account planning<\/li>\n
    • Journey mapping<\/li>\n
    • Business reviews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Drive Adoption<\/h2>\n

      Adoption activities occur throughout the product ownership lifecycle. They are designed to advance Customer Success by encouraging the full and successful use of product features and capabilities by all targeted users.<\/p>\n

      Adoption activities can include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • Coaching<\/li>\n
      • Training<\/li>\n
      • Best practices<\/li>\n
      • Templates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Health Monitoring<\/h2>\n

        By monitoring the customer ownership experience, your team gains insights about the extent to which customers are using products successfully. Early-warning signs of low adoption or low success rates trigger corrective actions.<\/p>\n

        Health monitoring activities can include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • Usage tracking<\/li>\n
        • Sentiment analysis<\/li>\n
        • Risk assessment<\/li>\n
        • Intervention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Customer Retention<\/h2>\n

          Customer retention activities facilitate the contract-renewal actions that are necessary to assure sustained customer relationships and continuation of recurring revenues.<\/p>\n

          Customer retention activities can include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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          • Renewal notification<\/li>\n
          • Budget planning<\/li>\n
          • Follow-up<\/li>\n
          • Win-loss analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Up-Sell and Cross-Sell<\/h2>\n

            These expansion activities focus on the growth of customer relationship value by offering additional capabilities or capacity. This is where Customer Success activities pay off in additional, and ideally recurring revenue.<\/p>\n

            Up-sell and cross-sell activities can include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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            • Account reviews<\/li>\n
            • ROI analysis<\/li>\n
            • Goal setting<\/li>\n
            • Opportunity alignment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Half of the organizations we surveyed executed on LESS than half of these core Customer Success actions. How does your company stack up \u2014 and where can you improve?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":251619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[27,35,51,8,9],"tags":[59,78,80,60,108,61,48,72,114],"class_list":["post-251703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-retain","category-success","category-grow","category-process","tag-adoption","tag-churn","tag-customer-health","tag-customer-success","tag-expand","tag-onboarding","tag-retention","tag-success-plan","tag-up-sell","post_outcome-retain-customers","post_outcome-success","post_activity-account-management","post_activity-adoption","post_activity-customer-success","post_activity-onboarding","post_activity-success-planning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251703"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254939,"href":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251703\/revisions\/254939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servicexrg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}