Customer Growth

Most startups don't fail because they can't build a product. Most startups fail because they can't get traction. Startup advice tends to be a lot of platitudes repackaged with new buzzwords, but Traction is something else entirely. As Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares learned from their own experiences, building a successful company is hard. For every startup that grows to the point where it can go public or be profitably acquired, hundreds of others sputter and die.

The Customer Success Manager has become a critical asset to organizations across the business landscape. As the subscription model has spread from the cloud and SaaS to more sectors of the economy, that pivotal role will only grow in importance. That's because if you want to compete and thrive in this new environment, you need to put the customer at the center of your strategy. You need to recognize you're no longer selling just a product. You're selling an outcome.  

🚀 AI Tools. Real Results. Marketing That Works While You Sleep. What if you could automate your marketing, personalize every customer interaction, and double your ROI - without hiring a single employee? AI Marketing for Small Business is your step-by-step playbook to mastering artificial intelligence for growth, even if you don’t have a tech background or a full marketing team. You’ll learn how to: ✅ Generate high-performing content with AI - fast ✅ Predict customer actions and personalize marketing at scale ✅ Recover lost sales with AI-powered email and cart automation ✅ ...

The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond. It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Airbnb was the best-kept secret of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pinterest was a niche web site...

Unlock the transformative power of AI and propel your business into the future—even if you're new to AI! Are you hesitant about integrating AI into your business, unsure of the right tools, or worried about staying competitive? This guide addresses your concerns, offering clear, actionable steps to harness AI's potential without disruption.

Let’s face it. Today’s users are impulsive and easily distracted. They don’t have the time (or patience) to try and figure things out by themselves. They expect the product to be intuitive, easy, and fast. What’s more, they want more than they paid (or didn’t pay) for, and they want it now.

Master the art of what to say in your funnels to convert your online visitors into lifelong customers in this updated edition from the $100M entrepreneur and co-founder of the software company ClickFunnels. Your business is a calling. You've been called to serve a group of people with the...

“A page-turner that reads like a mystery”​ (Mark Bertolini, former chairman and CEO, Aetna) that delivers key insights to the questions: who really are our customers, why do we lose them, how do we regain them? Customers can be a mystery. Despite the availability of more data than ever...

Building a successful company is hard. Smart entrepreneurs know that the key to success isn't the originality of your offering, the brilliance of your team or how much money you raise. It's how consistently you can grow and acquire new customers. Traction will teach you the 19 channels you can use to build a customer base and offers a three-step framework to figure out which ones will work best for your business. No matter how you apply them, the lessons and examples in Traction will help you create and sustain the growth your business desperately needs.

In Digital Customer Success: The Next Frontier, a team of trailblazing customer success professionals and digital entrepreneurs delivers an insightful discussion of the next stage in customer success management. In the book, you'll discover how to design and deploy touchless and automated digital interventions that help your software users learn and grow as they use your product and unlock the value trapped within it-without ever needing to reach out to a live customer success manager.

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf. Read it and you'll know...

Chief Customer Officer 2.0 will give you a proven framework that has launched and advanced the customer experience transformation in businesses around the world. And it will take years off your learning curve. Written by Jeanne Bliss, worldwide authority on customer experience, and preeminent thought leader on the role of the customer leadership executive, this book follows the five-competency model she uses to coach the C-Suite and chief customer officers.

Master the evergreen traffic strategies to fill your website and funnels with your dream customers in this timeless audiobook from the $100M entrepreneur and co-founder of the software company ClickFunnels. The biggest problem that most entrepreneurs have isn't creating an amazing product or...

WORK SMARTER. CREATE FASTER. GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH CLAUDE AI. What if you could use AI to save hours every week, create better content, understand your customers, generate new ideas, improve customer service, and make smarter business decisions? Claude AI for Small Business Owners is a practical, easy-to-follow guide designed to help entrepreneurs, freelancers, consultants, online sellers, and small-business owners turn Claude AI into a useful everyday business assistant. Inside this expanded edition, you'll discover how to use Claude AI for: • Marketing and content creation • Social ...

Clayton M. Christensen is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Michael E. Raynor is a director at Deloitte Research. Together, they outline an innovative plan that urges businesses to create disruption rather than fleeing from it. Named one of 2003's Best Business Books by Business Week, this book is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times best seller.

Learn how to become a great manager in this Wall Street Journal bestseller from the leadership experts at FranklinCovey. The essential guide when you make the challenging yet rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful, Everyone Deserves a...

Master SaaS sales and accelerate recurring revenue in 30 days—even if you’ve never closed a software deal before. Are you tired of generic sales advice that doesn’t translate to SaaS? Struggling to shorten sales cycles, overcome endless objections, or keep churn from killing your quota? Have you tried “plug-and-play” tools or hired star reps, only to watch your pipeline stall? If so, you’re not alone—and you’re in the right place. Most SaaS sales pros crave a repeatable, SaaS-specific playbook to turn demos into deals, boost MRR, and build a sales team that scales. My SaaS ...

The subscription business model is hot - from software to music to movies to diet programs, investors and public markets want businesses that create recurring payments from unlimited customers. The old sales and marketing methods can handle attracting new customers for growth; however, only in the last five years has a discipline emerged that views growth in relation to retention, not just sales.

Most of what you offer is parity. You and the alternative both turn up, both do competent work, both answer the phone. None of that decides anything. The decision happens at the one or two things you do that the alternative does not, and that this particular customer values. Finding those two is harder than it sounds, because the methods everyone recommends do not work well. WHAT IS IN IT Why the most widely used customer satisfaction score predicts revenue growth no better than the measures it replaced, shown across 21 firms and more than 15,500 interviews Why asking customers what they ...

Unleash the Power of Customer Experience: Create a Winning Program Are you ready to take your organization's customer experience (CX) to the next level? In this thrilling guide, you'll discover the tools and strategies to build an unstoppable CX management program that propels your business from good to great. Step into the role of a daring leader equipped with the knowledge to craft a top-performing CX program that adds tangible value and agility and sets your business apart from the competition. Say goodbye to obsessing over surveys and scores and instead focus on intentional business ...