Collecting feedback on your customer onboarding process

What can your customer success teams use to strategize smooth onboarding?
May 25, 2022
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Sivaprakash

Identifying bottlenecks is crucial to your customer onboarding journey. Minimizing the possibility of any surprises during onboarding takes you one step closer to successful onboarding.  

Organizations need to adopt the proper collection mechanisms to get the data and feedback right. What can your customer success teams use to strategize smooth onboarding?

In this blog, Preflighters give us insights into picking suitable methodologies. When the questions are right, there is a higher probability of hitting closer to the bullseye in your answers. 

Tami Tirheridge, Product Engagement & Support Lead at Kapiche 

It is helpful to identify and often validate the areas where users experience the most friction or are getting the most stuck when adopting your platform. Including a section about content preferences and content requests can provide invaluable data points as you build out your product content roadmap.

Oliver Tilford, Senior Manager, Implementation at Mindbody 

Customers tend to provide product feedback/suggestions about the implementation and onboarding experience in other open text fields. We’ve recently added a question about product usability, but it doesn’t have a dedicated space for suggestions. Having a dedicated space would surely make reporting and sharing feedback with our product teams much faster. 

Jeff Kushmerek, CEO of Infinite Renewals 

Try to get the Net Promoter Score(NPS) first, then the Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT), and balance it with the CSM sentiment. Then blend in usage! Nothing beats calling your customers and asking them about their onboarding and implementation experience. 

Your post-project survey is the baseline. It would be great to track against the post-project survey and set goals/KPIs for improvement.

If you have any additional strategies you want to share, we’d love to have you join Preflight Community and share it with our members!

More resources from industry leaders and experts

  1. Propel22 recordings
  2. Implementation Stories
  3. Preflight Conversations
  4. The Launch Station - a podcast for all things customer onboarding
  5. Customer onboarding resources from Rocketlane
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Myth

Enterprise implementations fail because customers don’t follow the process or provide clean data on time. Most delays are purely “customer-side” issues.

Fact

Implementations fail because complex environments need real-time technical problem-solving. FDEs unblock workflows, integrations, and unknown constraints that traditional onboarding teams can’t resolve on their own.

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A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) embeds in the customer environment to implement, customize, and operationalize complex products. They unblock integrations, fix data issues, adapt workflows, and bridge engineering gaps — accelerating onboarding, adoption, and customer value far beyond traditional post-sales roles

Did you Know?

Companies that embed engineers directly with customers see significantly higher enterprise retention compared to traditional post-sales models — because embedded engineers uncover “unknowns” that never surface in ticket queues.

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VP Sales, Intercom

A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) embeds in the customer environment to implement, customize, and operationalize complex products. They unblock integrations, fix data issues, adapt workflows, and bridge engineering gaps — accelerating onboarding, adoption, and customer value far beyond traditional post-sales roles.