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Automation playbook

Learn about best practise automations and how to set them up

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Written by Lucas Flobecker
Updated over 2 months ago

Maximizing Customer Success with Workflow Automation in Startdeliver

In today's fast-paced business environment, manual processes can slow down teams and reduce efficiency, especially when managing large volumes of customer data. This is where automation becomes a game-changer. The Startdeliver platform is designed to help Customer Success (CS) teams not only manage their customer interactions but also streamline their workflows by automating repetitive tasks, ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks. Let’s explore how Startdeliver’s automation features can elevate your customer success operations.

Automating Projects and Tasks

A common pain point for customer success teams is staying on top of multiple customer projects and their respective milestones. With automations in Startdeliver, you can automatically assign projects based on predefined criterias. For example:

  • Onboarding Automation: Automatically trigger onboarding projects when a new customer is created in Startdeliver. Send out welcome emails, share onboarding resources, and assign tasks to your team members to ensure customers are smoothly guided through their onboarding journey. Below is a video of how this automation can be setup:

  • Milestone Tracking: Automate task reminders as a customer approaches key milestones. This ensures your team stays proactive in engaging with customers at crucial points. For example if the customer has been a customer for 6 months you might want to have a check-in to make sure that they are making progress.

Identifying At-Risk Customers

Keeping customers satisfied is essential for retaining business, but it can be challenging to track every signal indicating a customer might be at risk. Startdeliver’s automation tools allow you to:

  • Monitor Usage Metrics: Automatically flag customers whose product usage has significantly declined or stopped. These triggers can prompt your team to reach out before a customer’s issues become critical.

  • NPS Feedback Triggers: Set up automation to take action when a customer submits negative feedback through a Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey. This could trigger an internal task for a CS manager to follow up personally or send a predefined email offering support.

Automating Renewals and Upsell Opportunities

Retaining existing customers is more cost-effective than acquiring new ones. Startdeliver can help your team automate renewal processes and even identify upsell opportunities, ensuring you never miss a chance to drive additional value.

  • Renewal Reminders: Automate the sending of renewal reminders, making sure your team contacts the customer well before the contract ends. Automations can notify the responsible CSM to schedule a renewal meeting, send automated emails and more.

  • Upsell Triggers: When a customer reaches a usage threshold or adds more users than their license allows, Startdeliver can automatically notify your team of potential upsell opportunities, allowing them to act quickly with personalized offers.

Automating Customer Health Checks

Regular customer check-ins are crucial to maintaining a strong relationship, but it can be hard to keep track of each customer’s individual needs. Startdeliver allows you to automate health checks, providing timely reminders and actions based on specific customer data.

  • Health Score Alerts: Automate alerts based on customer health scores, which are calculated from metrics like product usage, recent interactions, or support tickets. If a score drops below a threshold, a task can be automatically assigned to your CS team to investigate and rectify the situation.

  • Proactive Customer Touchpoints: You can also automate touchpoints, ensuring that every customer gets the attention they deserve. For example, set automated reminders to check in with top-tier customers quarterly, offering them exclusive content or updates on upcoming features.

Conclusion

Automation in Startdeliver empowers customer success teams to optimize their workflows, enhance customer relationships, and focus on strategic activities rather than manual tasks. By automating project workflows, identifying at-risk customers, facilitating upsell opportunities, and generating data-driven insights, your CS team can stay ahead of the curve and drive growth through proactive, data-informed customer management.

By implementing these automations, you can ensure that your team is always one step ahead, providing customers with timely support and relevant opportunities, while driving success and growth for your business.

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