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Post-Sale and Onboarding Blog for B2B SaaS Teams

Thought leadership on onboarding, handoffs, and retention from 14+ years running post-sale for B2B SaaS teams.

Onboarding & Handoffs

The Sales-to-CS Handoff Is Probably Costing You More Than You Think

There is a moment in almost every SaaS company when Sales celebrates a closed deal and Customer Success starts asking questions.

Christine Borkowski · September 15, 2026 · 7 min read

CS Operations

Why Great CSMs Still Fail in Bad Systems

There is a particular kind of Customer Success team I’ve seen more than once. The CSMs are smart, experienced, proactive and genuinely care about their customers. They are the people everyone relies on when something gets complicated, and they usually find a way to make things work.

Christine Borkowski · September 10, 2026 · 5 min read

CS Operations

Before You Hire Another CSM, Look at Your Post-Sale System

When Customer Success starts struggling, one of the first instincts is usually to look at the team. Do we need another CSM? Does someone need more training? Are people being proactive enough? Is Implementation moving quickly enough?

Christine Borkowski · August 26, 2026 · 5 min read

Onboarding & Handoffs

The 3 Handoff Gaps That Quietly Kill Series A/B Onboarding

Churn and stalled expansion rarely trace back to the product. They trace back to the handoff between Sales and Customer Success, and three gaps that show up in almost every Series A/B team that has outgrown ad hoc onboarding.

Christine Borkowski · July 14, 2026 · 5 min read

Pre-Sale & Discovery

The Information You Collect Before the Contract Is Signed Determines Everything After

Most B2B SaaS implementations don't fail because the product didn't work. They fail because the wrong information, or none at all, was collected before the work began.

Christine Borkowski · June 23, 2026 · 6 min read

Founder's Note

I Was the Person B2B SaaS Companies Hired to Make Post-Sale Work

Then I realized I could do that for more than one company at a time. Why I built The SaaS Post-Sale Studio after 14 years running onboarding and CS inside global startups.

Christine Borkowski · June 8, 2026 · 4 min read

If you're scaling a SaaS company and your post-sale motion hasn't kept pace, that's the conversation I'm here to have.

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