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Customer's Success vs Customer Success

March 29, 2026

This article explains why common customer success tenets are no longer sufficient. It is for customer success professionals and SaaS leaders who want to improve customer retention.

Leadership & Organisation
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Your Renewal Strategy Starts the Day You Deliver First Results

February 17, 2026·By David Jackson

This post explains why SaaS renewals fail despite customer satisfaction. It shows suppliers how to improve renewal outcomes by focusing on defensibility.

The Agentic Future: From Systems of Record to Systems of Outcome

February 5, 2026·By David Jackson

This article describes how Systems of Outcome differ from traditional Systems of Record. It is for B2B software users and businesses looking to improve their technology investments.

Improving LTV:CAC Ratio

January 22, 2026

This post details strategies for improving LTV:CAC ratio by increasing LTV and reducing CAC. It is for anyone seeking to optimize customer lifetime value and acquisition costs.

Measure & improve customer results
Alignment
Revenue Management
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How should I prioritise my product roadmap?

January 22, 2026

This article covers how to prioritize a product roadmap. It is for product managers and anyone involved in product strategy.

Product
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How buyers survive decisions

January 15, 2026·By David Jackson

This article explains why most B2B go-to-market strategies fail and introduces Customer-Led Growth. It is for CEOs and CROs seeking to understand the buyer's perspective and improve GTM effectiveness.

Revenue Management
Customer Understanding
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Measuring Customer Results - A Maturity Model

January 12, 2026·By David Jackson

This article describes different stages of customer results measurement maturity. It is for businesses that want to improve how they track the value their products provide to customers.

Measure & improve customer results
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Customer value

December 3, 2025·By David Jackson

This article discusses how to define customer value. It is for product managers, marketers, and sales professionals who want to understand value in concrete terms.

Customer Understanding
Measure & improve customer results
Alignment
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5 Ideas to kickstart GTM

November 21, 2025

This article provides five strategies for improving GTM performance. It is for anyone responsible for designing and executing go-to-market plans.

Revenue Management
Measure & improve customer results
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CLG vs PLG

November 17, 2025·By David Jackson

This article clarifies the relationship between Customer Led Growth and Product Led Growth. It is for those interested in understanding these two distinct but often co-existing business strategies.

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CLG Defined

November 17, 2025

This article defines Customer-Led Growth for B2B SaaS organizations. It details each element of the strategy, explaining its importance for CEOs and leaders.

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Role of an ICP

November 15, 2025

This post explains the essential role of an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) in customer-led growth. It informs business leaders and marketing professionals about how an ICP drives GTM efficiency and improves customer outcomes.

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How CLG Differs from Customer Success

November 15, 2025

This post explains how Customer-Led Growth differs from traditional Customer Success. It is for business leaders and teams interested in strategic growth models.

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CLG & New Business Sales

November 15, 2025

This resource explains Customer-Led Growth for new business sales. It is for sales professionals and leaders interested in this sales approach.

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Building a Product Roadmap

November 15, 2025·By David Jackson

This resource covers prioritizing product roadmaps for measurable customer results and revenue. It is for product managers and leaders who want to build impactful product strategies.

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Alignment by Design

November 15, 2025

This post covers how CEOs can improve underperforming Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies through purposeful organization design. It is for business leaders who seek to build collaborative GTM teams and achieve better business outcomes.

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Aligning Sales and Customer Results

November 15, 2025

This post covers different organizational structures to align sales and value enablement. It is for leaders designing go-to-market teams.

Customer Understanding
Revenue Management
Alignment
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Using Product-Results Fit to improve NRR

November 5, 2025·By David Jackson

This blog explains how Product-Results Fit identifies expansion sales opportunities. It is for product teams, sales teams, and customer success managers seeking to improve customer retention and revenue growth.

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Tech buyers favour results

November 5, 2025·By David Jackson

This resource explains why technology buyers prioritize measurable results. It is for B2B SaaS companies seeking to align their strategies with these buyer behaviors.

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Letter to a CEO

November 5, 2025

This post covers aligning GTM teams around customer results to drive profitable revenue. It is for CEOs and leaders seeking to build a sustainable growth engine.

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Build your pipeline backwards

November 5, 2025

This resource covers how to design a go-to-market process by starting with the ideal customer advocate and working backward. It is for those interested in a customer-led growth strategy.

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GTM Alignment By Design - Letter to a CEO

October 21, 2025·By David Jackson

This post discusses designing a Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for improved performance. It helps CEOs understand how to create effective organizational structures, processes, and metrics.

Tech buyers value results

July 25, 2025·By David Jackson

This post explains why measurable customer results are crucial for Go-To-Market strategies. It helps B2B SaaS companies understand and implement a customer-led growth approach.

Customer Understanding
Measure & improve customer results
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Customer results: where buyers and suppliers meet

June 12, 2025·By David Jackson

This post investigates how B2B SaaS buying can shift from features to measurable results. It is for B2B sellers and buyers interested in better outcomes from technology investments.

Customer Understanding
Alignment
Revenue Management

Implementing Minimum Customer Value

May 28, 2025·By Andrew Barton

Third in a series Minimum Customer Value explores what it takes to implement across the customer lifecycle

Measure & improve customer results
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Content and customer results

May 22, 2025·By David Jackson

This blog post discusses common content marketing challenges. It explains how a customer-centric approach can address these issues for marketing and sales professionals.

Customer Understanding
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Customer's Success or Customer Success

March 29, 2025·By Dave Jackson

This piece examines the distinction between "customer's success" as a philosophy and "Customer Success" as a department. It is for business leaders and customer success professionals seeking to understand declining NRR despite investments in customer success.

Other
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Improving NRR

March 12, 2025·By David Jackson

This post covers how Product-Results Fit identifies expansion sales opportunities. It is for product managers, customer success managers, and account managers.

Measure & improve customer results
Product
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The Return on Customer Results

February 3, 2025·By David Jackson

This article covers customer-led growth for B2B SaaS suppliers. It is for leaders and teams interested in adopting a customer results approach across the organization.

Aligning sales and customer value

November 21, 2024·By David Jackson

This post describes different organizational options for aligning sales and value enablement teams. It offers insights for leaders structuring their go-to-market roles.

Alignment
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Building a CLG Approach

November 15, 2024

This post covers building a Customer-Led Growth (CLG) strategy for SaaS companies. It is for executives seeking to address critical weaknesses in customer understanding and go-to-market alignment.

Guide

Are we building SaaS products the wrong way?

June 6, 2024·By David Jackson

This post explains how B2B SaaS companies can leverage a product-led customer success strategy. It is for product managers and SaaS leaders.

Measure & improve customer results
Product
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Are CS departments facing an existential crisis?

March 8, 2024·By David Jackson

This post examines the effectiveness of Customer Success departments in SaaS companies. It is for business leaders and professionals interested in SaaS and customer retention.

Leadership & Organisation
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5 Misconceptions About CLG

October 12, 2023·By David Jackson

This post addresses common misunderstandings about Customer-Led Growth. It is for B2B SaaS professionals and leaders seeking to improve their company's customer-centric strategies.

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Is your ICP working?

July 12, 2023·By David Jackson

This guide explains how to build an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) for customer-led growth. It is for businesses seeking to improve acquisition, retention, and expansion through a data-driven approach to customer targeting.

Customer Understanding
Alignment
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Five misconceptions about Customer-Led Growth

May 23, 2023·By David Jackson

This post discusses common misconceptions about Customer-Led Growth. It is for business leaders and teams interested in implementing customer-centric strategies.

Other
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The trouble with customer value

April 25, 2023·By David Jackson

This post explains why "customer value" is too vague for GTM professionals and product leaders. It introduces a new framework centered on measurable results important to key customer roles.

Measure & improve customer results
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7 Principles of CLG

October 4, 2022

This post outlines seven principles for Customer-Led Growth (CLG). It is for business leaders and entrepreneurs interested in implementing a customer-centric strategy for sustainable growth.

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