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User: "Kevin Mitchell Leonor"
Updated by Heather Wendt

Would love to hear from the community. Here's a story:

Today, I had a customer who experienced these challenges:

  • original CSM was unengaging and unresponsive so they requested a CSM change. They got me.
  • Things improved and they were comfortable doing a one year extension to see how things continue to progress.
  • Major outage changed their tune
  • They wanted to go month to month (so at least we are keeping them and I have an opportunity to repair value)
  • We told them they can't because one of their products is outsourced and doesn't allow month to month so they were looking to extend long enough to replace us
  • They decided they only wanted to talk to me and not the renewals department. They pressed on me to cut a deal for them.
  • I managed to set expectations and tell them about the benefits of them coming to the table
  • They agreed to come to the table and provided legal and executive sponsor to the meeting scheduled tomorrow.

Rollercoaster. My leaders are impressed with how I got them to commit to the call.

I was well within reason to write this churn off as not my fault and would have been able to mourn without feeling responsible. Solid customer to work with so I would have mourned losing them, but instead I gave our company a chance to win them back.

 

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