Unlocking Growth and Differentiation with Customer Health Scores and Experience Management
Michael Williamson
CEO, TechGrowth 🔹 Growth Strategy for Tech & SaaS Scale-Ups 🔹 Former GM/CMO at O2, Vodafone, Symantec, Staples, Equifax 🔹 London Business School MBA 🔹 £24B in Tech Sales Across 100+ Countries
Customer health scores and experience management are crucial for driving growth and market differentiation in the B2B tech space. For marketing, customer retention, customer experience, and customer success leaders, deeply understanding your customers is the key to unlocking long-term success.
What Are Customer Health Scores?
A customer health score is a rolled-up metric that captures the overall relationship strength and value of a given customer account. It takes into consideration factors like:
By tracking these inputs and boiling them down to a single health score, typically on a 0-100 scale, you get an at-a-glance view of which customers are thriving and which may be at risk.
Why Customer Health Scores Matter for B2B Tech & Telecom
Customer health scores are vital for B2B tech and telecom companies for several key reasons:
1. Reducing Churn
In the subscription economy, retaining customers is just as important as acquiring them. Health scores serve as an early warning system to flag at-risk accounts before they churn, allowing you to take proactive steps to address issues and keep customers on board.
2. Growing Accounts
Healthy, successful, loyal customers are prime candidates for expansion. Health scores shine a light on your best upsell opportunities, helping you focus your efforts on the accounts with the greatest potential for growth.
3. Improving Products
If you see health score trends declining, it's a sign that something may be missing in your product or service. This insight can guide your voice of customer research, helping you identify areas for improvement and innovation.
4. Aligning Teams
A shared health score gets everyone on the same page - marketing, sales, success, support, and product. It unites your company around the customer, fostering a culture of customer-centricity and collaboration.
Real-World Success Stories
At TechGrowth Insights, we've seen the incredible impact that customer health scores and experience management can have for our B2B tech and telecom clients.
Enterprise Software Company
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We worked with a leading enterprise software company to design and implement a robust health scoring system. By analysing product telemetry, CRM data, support metrics, and survey feedback, we developed a machine learning model to predict churn risk and growth potential. As a result, the company saw a 24% reduction in churn, a 31% increase in expansion revenue, and a 45 point boost in NPS.
Telecom Client
Another telecom client struggled with visibility into their SMB segment. We launched an insights community and customer advisory board to capture in-depth voice of customer feedback, marrying this qualitative data with health score inputs to identify key drivers of satisfaction and retention. These insights fueled multiple initiatives, leading to a doubling of their SMB Net Retention Rate to 115% and 25% higher adoption of new products.
Developing a Culture of Customer-Centricity
While customer health scores are powerful, they're just a number without the right customer experience management to back them up. To truly move the needle, B2B tech companies need to develop a culture of customer-centricity, where every decision revolves around creating value for clients.
This starts with executive alignment around the importance of customer retention and growth, not just new bookings. It requires getting in front of customers to intimately understand their goals, challenges, and expectations. And it means breaking down silos to share these insights and coordinate actions across the organization.
Done right, this renewed focus on customer experience, guided by robust health scores, is an incredible growth lever and competitive differentiator, especially in crowded markets where your product and service are the main things setting you apart.
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As a marketing, CX, or customer success leader, I encourage you to take a hard look at how you're measuring and operationalising customer health today. Are you getting a complete view of the customer relationship? Are you taking targeted actions based on those insights? Are you rallying your entire organization around the customer?
If you have any questions or would like to discuss how TechGrowth Insights can help you harness the power of customer health scores and experience management, feel free to reach out. I'm always happy to chat and share more insights from our work with B2B tech and telecom leaders.
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