Vitally asked seven Customer Success leaders to share their best tips for how CS teams can drive more expansion revenue through cross-functional collaboration.

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00:00 Intro
00:13 Work with Product, Finance, and Sales to create ROI calculators
01:17 Have the empathy to understand what other departments care about
02:35 Develop executive alignment across the business
04:10 Track CSQLs and align CSM compensation with them
04:51 Work with Marketing to build a customer advocacy program and build a strong relationship with the Product team
05:23 Be the voice of the customer in monthly meetings between CS, product, and engineering
06:22 Get CSMs teamed up with AEs/AMs and incentivize the right behaviors
07:21 Use "dealstorming" to leverage the ideas of your cross-functional team

Featured in this episode:

Dalia Vainer / Director of Customer Experience at Viafoura
www.linkedin.com/in/daliavainer/

Dillon Young / Founder & CEO of Lifetime Value Media
www.linkedin.com/in/dillonryoung/

Laura Kightlinger / Customer Success Executive
www.linkedin.com/in/laurakightlinger/

Alex Turkovic / Director of Digital CS at Flexera, Founder of the Digital Customer Success Podcast
www.linkedin.com/in/alexturkovic/

Deonne Decker / Director of GTM Systems at Typeform
www.linkedin.com/in/deonnedecker/

Michi Pezeshki / Chief Customer Officer of RecastSuccess
www.linkedin.com/in/michihupez/

Carolien Dekeersmaeker / Director of Customer Success at ThoughtFarmer
www.linkedin.com/in/caroliendekeersmaeker/

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