Which guides are published?
10 guides covering the handoff, onboarding execution, measurement and the customer-facing side of post-sales.
| Guide | What it answers |
|---|---|
| The sales-to-CS handoff | What should a sales-to-customer-success handoff include? |
| Accounts per CSM | How many accounts should one CSM manage? |
| Time to first value | How do you reduce time to first value? |
| Onboarding metrics | Which customer onboarding metrics actually matter? |
| Why onboarding slips | Why does customer onboarding slip? |
| QBR preparation | How do you prepare for a QBR? |
| Milestone tracking | How should you track onboarding milestones? |
| Onboarding RACI | What does a customer onboarding RACI look like? |
| Onboarding SLAs | Should you set an onboarding SLA? |
| The onboarding portal | What is a customer onboarding portal, and do you need one? |
Why does a product company publish these?
Because the problems are real whether or not you ever buy anything, and because a vendor that can only describe its own product is not much use at 11pm.
These guides are written to be useful on their own. Several of them conclude that you do not need a tool yet — the guide on onboarding portals says plainly when a shared document is enough, and the one on book size refuses to give you a benchmark because no honest one exists.
Where ValueRamp is relevant we say so and link it. If you want the product argument directly, that is what the products page and the comparisons are for.