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Sales and Customer Success

Customer Success and Retention

Design onboarding, monitoring, renewal and churn-reduction processes that keep customers longer and grow recurring revenue.

  • Intermediate
  • About 7 hours
  • 4 modules
  • 16 lessons
  • Certificate of completion

About this course

Keep customers for life. Learn onboarding, engagement, and retention strategies that reduce churn and grow recurring revenue.

What you will learn

  • Calculate churn, lifetime value, gross revenue retention and net revenue retention correctly
  • Map a customer lifecycle with owners, success signals and risk signals for each stage
  • Design a 90-day onboarding journey built around the customer's first value
  • Build and validate a customer health score that directs your weekly priorities
  • Run business reviews and renewal conversations that focus on customer outcomes
  • Diagnose root causes of churn and apply save plays, win-back campaigns and value-led expansion

Curriculum

Module 1Customer Success Foundations4 lessons
  1. 1Why Retention Beats Acquisition Free preview
  2. 2The Customer Success Role
  3. 3Mapping the Customer Lifecycle
  4. 4Defining Success Metrics That Matter
  5. QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 2Onboarding for Success4 lessons
  1. 5Designing a First-90-Days Journey
  2. 6Setting Expectations and Milestones
  3. 7Driving Product Adoption
  4. 8Early Warning Signs of Churn
  5. QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 3Ongoing Value Delivery4 lessons
  1. 9Business Reviews That Customers Value
  2. 10Health Scores and Account Monitoring
  3. 11Renewal Conversations
  4. 12Turning Customers into Advocates
  5. QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 4Reducing Churn4 lessons
  1. 13Root-Cause Analysis of Churn
  2. 14Save Plays and Win-Back Campaigns
  3. 15Expansion Revenue: Upsell and Cross-Sell
  4. 16Course Project: Customer Success Plan
  5. QModule quiz (4 questions)
PFinal project: Customer Success Plan

Who this course is for

  • Customer success, account management and support staff who want a structured approach
  • Founders and managers of subscription or repeat-purchase businesses
  • Sales professionals moving into post-sale and renewal roles

Requirements

  • A computer or tablet with an internet connection and a spreadsheet program
  • Basic familiarity with how a business sells to and serves its customers
  • Access to real or realistic customer information for the exercises is helpful but not essential

What is included

Written lessons

16 lessons, each with a practical exercise and key points to remember.

Module quizzes

A short quiz at the end of each module. Pass mark 70%, and you can retake it.

Final project

Customer Success Plan. A practical brief with steps and a way to check your own work.

Certificate

A certificate of completion from EMFAD Courses with a unique code anyone can verify.

How the certificate works

Complete every lesson and pass every module quiz with 70% or more. Your certificate then appears in your learner area, ready to print or save as PDF. It shows your name, the course title, the completion date and a unique code. It is a certificate of completion from EMFAD Courses, not an accredited qualification.

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