Channext

Channext builds software for technology vendors to make their partnerships scalable & predictable. Our platform integrates with your partner's systems and proactively distributes content and information to their websites, social media, digital advertising, and CRMs. Data is automatically retrieved from the partners and displayed in a central dashboard to measure crucial partner engagement and end-user demand generation KPIs.

Founder & CEO

Virtual Retail

- Started a virtual reality agency as a student at 20 years old; sold in dec 2020 to fully focus on Channext
- Grew the company into a 6-figure business and a team of 7, working for brands like Ford, Mercedes, Coolblue, and MediaMarkt

Founder

I found my passion for partnerships at a very young age. This was thanks to my father, who's been active in indirect channels for >30 years and shared his lessons with me on a daily basis at our kitchen table.

When I founded my first company (a B2B agency) at the age of 20, we worked mainly for companies with an indirect channel of partners in automotive and ICT. I've experienced firsthand how hard it is to engage partners in vendor marketing activities. 

It could take months and dozens of touches to get something live on the website and social media profiles of partners. Once it was finally live, the campaign was almost over... Not to start about retrieving the data to measure the results and ROI, that was even harder.

Why was it so hard? Because most vendors rely on their partner portal for partner marketing. 

The partner portal... The tool that everybody has, but nobody likes. Portals are reactive, waiting for partners to proactively collect assets and publish them. But partners aren't doing this. In fact, less than 10% of partners actively use the portals provided by their vendors.

When we founded Channext, we asked ourselves the question: Why wait for partners to come to your portal? Why don't we bring the content of the portal to the partners?

Instead of a portal, we have built a SaaS solution that integrates with your partner's systems and proactively distributes content and information to their websites, social media, digital advertising, and CRMs. Data is automatically retrieved from the partners and displayed in a central dashboard. It helps channel professionals to measure crucial partner engagement and end-user demand generation KPIs.

We call it the Channext Partner Hub. The Partner Hub increases the partner participation from less than 10% to up to 95%. The integrations with partner systems enable a 12X faster go-to-market of new product introductions and campaigns. The Hub gives channel teams and partners access to real-time data, being able to iterate much faster.

With Channext, partnerships professionals can take the wheel and steer their channel towards Scalable & Predictable Growth. Our software helps channel teams to create happy & engaged partners, accelerate pipeline, and get more grip on their channel.

Rick van den Bosch

Customer Success Snack

Creating a network of Customer Success professionals in Amsterdam, with weekly interviews, coaching programs and in-depth consultancy the focus is growing as CS experts in Amsterdam.

Pavilion

Pavilion is powered by an international community of revenue leaders from the world’s fastest growing companies. Together, we teach new skills, forge meaningful connections, and help our companies grow. As Functional Group Leader, I lead an international group of functional Executives and support their journeys of continuous learning and development. Through moderation and group facilitation, I support my peers and create a space for them to share best-practices, strategize, and problem-solve. Unlock your professional potential and level up with community-powered learning for CEOs, GTM leaders, and teams.

CCO School Graduate (February 2022). Learned strategies, tactics, and novel approaches to earn a seat at the revenue table.

CCO Functional Group Leader EMEA

Executive member

Responsible for the Post Sales teams: CSM, Professional Services & Partner Success teams.

Director of Customer Success

SAASCollective

Customer Success Trainer and Coach

Vormats - Video Made Easy

Responsible for the Post Sales GTM & team planning.
Part of the MT and responsible for reporting the Customer & Revenue data (NRR, MRR, Churn) to the board & VC.

Within this role, I am responsible for the commercial CS team where we manage the full lifetime value of existing business with renewals and upsells. 
-Vormats Video University 
-Customer success 
-Online webinars 
-Video marketing

Head of Customer Success

Responsible for the product-market fit from launch to first round of Seed investment with a broad range of activities from sales, marketing, customer success, customer support. Responsible for the launch of:
-Video workshops
-On demand video training
-Masterclasses
-Data analytics
-Business expansion

Product launch team

Bookinglayer

Protecting SaaS sales processes
Analysing results
Automating Transactional and Self Service Sales

SMB & Self Service Sales Manager

Creating a product-market fit for a set vertical, surf and adventure camps, while also exploring other verticals. Securing angel investments and working on a niche. Responsible for:
-Managing OKR
-Managing P&L
-Business strategy
-Business development

Sales Manager

Mickweijers

Fully engaged in the Adventure and Surf travel industry. Helping companies matching communication and strategy with the market. Based on: visiting and consulting over 300 surf camps, luxury surf resorts and Online Travel Agencies.

Surf travel industry consultant

Bijles4Scholier

Disrupting the private tutor market in The Netherlands with a peer to peer platform with guaranteed quality.

Founder & Director

Lineupexplorers

Responsible for the Sales of surf trips in Europe, Morocco, South Africa, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, The Philippines and Bali.

•	Business development
•	Visited over 300 surfcamps
•	Developing markets
•	Email sales
•	Client oriented sales communication
•	Portfolio management
•	Site inspections

Regional Sales Manager

Stoepkrijt Events

Responsible for the Finances, Organization and Co-Creative perspective of the successful Stoepkrijt Events in Haarlem and Amsterdam.

- Creating partnerships with club owners and suppliers
- Negotiating affiliate deals and long term relationships 
- Developing social media outlets and strategies
- Developing Shoestring Marketing and Sales strategies
- Managing a team of promoters

Achievements:

- Stoepkrijt
- Disco Dip
- De Wal Keert het Schip
- Teidrijs

Co-Founder

"Building SaaS products" is not a destination, it is a journey. I've been able to work with teams from around the world and help, or be in, the leadership teams to find product-market fit. As a connector, I fully promote the power of communities and events. Building the community comes first and the product comes second.

I'm focused on customer success and passionate about customer centricity within product, marketing & sales. I love to help others and educate customers (usually with technology). I have demonstrated success by building highly productive teams, creating efficient and streamlined processes, reducing customer churn, managing change and increasing customer happiness.

I help people add emotion to business processes through Service design, experiments and scalability.

Lived and worked worldwide: The Netherlands, Austria, South Africa, The Caribbean, Portugal and Indonesia.

Mick Weijers

Sam Brown just completed his first month as a RevGuide. 🎉

Time for a proper introduction:

Sam and I go way back. We've been on stage together. We recorded a podcast four years ago that has a whopping 17 views on YouTube. (We're basically influencers.)

And in all that time, I've watched him move post-sales organizations through growth stages with a clarity most consultants never develop. 

When it came time to bring on our first RevGuide, there was one rule I stuck to: hire people better than yourself.

Sam is that person. A proven senior post-sales leader with a track record of moving companies through growth stages fast.

A RevGuide knows how to execute. They can walk into a post-sales organization, assess where they are, and immediately start moving them forward.

They've seen Stage 1 through Stage 5 enough times to know exactly what needs to happen at each level.

In his first month, Sam's already carrying deals through the pipeline and started consulting engagements.

That's the difference between a consultant who talks and a RevGuide who moves.

Welcome to the team, Sam.

This one's been a long time coming.

Consultancy and Interim CS, Post Sales & CX | I don’t care about happy customers, I care about successful ones | Founder of Customer Success Snack | Partner at Revguides

Yesterday wasn’t about SaaS metrics, ARR, or growth frameworks.
It was about connection across generations and why community matters beyond business.

With a group of SaaS and Post Sales leaders, we meet 12 times a year to work on growth, leadership, and personal development.

And once every year, we deliberately step outside our bubble to connect with a regional social initiative and help spread awareness.

This year, that was with Oma's Soep. We wanted to spread awareness about loneliness among the 75+ age group. 

We cooked, played shuffleboard, learned from the older generation, and I even got to spend it together with my own grandma.

Out of the 40 events I organised in 2025 with Customer Success Snack and Sessions Community, this was hands down the most unique one.

Growth is important.
But perspective is priceless.

Grateful for everyone who joined and for the stories, lessons, and laughs we shared. 💛 

Hope to see you next time. Are you a Post Sales professional or Leader and want to join, send me a DM and Ill direct you to the best community for you in Europe.

The 2025 Customer Success Salary Benchmark is out, and the data is clear: the gender pay gap in Customer Success is still very real. In some roles, it is widening.

I just published this year’s Customer Success Snack European salary report, and in the video below I walk through the three things leaders should not ignore:

The Executive Summary
Where compensation is heading and why some teams are unintentionally widening their pay gaps.

The Full 2025 Report
More than 900 data points across roles, countries and seniority levels, including the findings most companies avoid discussing.

The Interactive Benchmarking Tool
Filter by country, role and company size to see exactly how your compensation or your team’s compensation compares to the market.

Here is the uncomfortable headline:
Women in Customer Success are still being paid less than men in equivalent roles across Europe. Sometimes slightly. Sometimes significantly. And “market forces” does not justify it, especially when the data is this transparent.

If you are leading a CS team, this is the moment to take a hard look at your compensation structure.
If you work in CS, this is the data you can use to negotiate with confidence.

Download the 2025 Report and access the Interactive Benchmarking in the comments.

Are companies ready to address this now, or will we still be writing the same conclusion in next year’s report?

We’re hiring a STUDENT content creator (Internship in Amsterdam)
If this video made you think “I could make this so much better” — even better if you quietly judged us for the quality 😄 We’re genuinely looking for someone who will lovingly shame our content and then level it up.

You’ll work across Revguides (fast-growing consultancy) and Customer Success Snack (2,500+ member European CS community).

Your playground: events, podcasts, newsletters, social content, behind-the-scenes, and our annual salary benchmark.

This is not a “fetch coffee” internship. You’ll own real content that thousands of people will see.
Practical details
 • Start: January (flexible around your studies)
 • Duration: 4–6 months
 • Hours per week open for discussion
 • €450–€650 / month
 • Location: Keizersgracht, Amsterdam

 👉 We’re explicitly looking for students.

What you’ll get
Real creative ownership
Direct access to founders and European SaaS leaders
Portfolio-ready projects that actually go live
Hands-on experience with events, community, and brand building across Europe

You’re a fit if you care about storytelling, branding, consistency, and you’re comfortable with tools like Canva, Figma or Adobe (video/photo/podcast experience is a big plus).

How to apply:
Apply via the job ad in the comments
A short note on why this fits you
1–3 examples of your work (anything goes: socials, design, blog, school project)

🙏 Please share this with friends, family, classmates, or any creative student who would absolutely roast this video and do it better.

You might seriously change someone’s career with one share.

#Hiring #Students #Internship #ContentCreator #Amsterdam #SaaS #Community #MarketingInternship #ShareWithStudents

Companies ask employees to cancel 1 meeting per day. Guess which meetings get axed first?

The "check-ins."

If you're labeling something a "check-in," you're basically asking to be deprioritized. You're signaling: "This meeting has no specific purpose beyond me wanting to talk to you."

That doesn't cut it anymore.

We need to work harder to add value.

How?

Know your stakeholders’ objectives. All of them.

→ Company objectives - What metrics is their department measured on? Revenue targets? Efficiency gains? Customer satisfaction scores?

→ Team objectives - What's their immediate team trying to accomplish this quarter? New product launch? Process improvement? Headcount reduction?

→ Personal objectives - What does success look like for them individually? Promotion criteria? Visibility with leadership? Solving a specific pain point for their boss? (These are the most important ones, by the way.)

Then structure every meeting around moving one of those forward.

Lead with it. "I wanted to talk about how we can help you hit that Q4 efficiency target you mentioned."

When you tie your agenda to their goals, your meetings don't get canceled. They get prioritized.

We’re rolling out the eight topics that will shape our H1 2026 Customer Success Snack: Breakfast & Share sessions across Europe.

Your feedback guided every choice: keep it practical, keep it relevant, and create space for real leadership dialogue. So that’s exactly what we’ve done, with two leadership-only themes built into each round.

Round 1
• Practical AI (Agents) for Post-Sales
• Cutting Through the Noise: Getting Customer Attention
• Leadership: Strategic Leadership in the Age of AI
• Making the Most of Your CRM: Best Practices & Tips

Round 2
• Proving Value & ROI When Customers Are Under Pressure
• Executive Stakeholder Engagement
• Leadership: Designing the CS Organisation of the Future
• CS Ops Essentials: Tools, Data Strategy & Scalable Workflows

Hope you will join us in:
• Amsterdam - 13 March Mollie
• Paris - 13 March SAP
• Berlin - 20 March doinstruct & Superchat
• Ghent - 27 March Bizzcontrol
• Copenhagen - 24 April Dixa
• Hamburg - 24 April ECDB
TBD: Cologne, Barcelona, Dublin, Munich & more

2026 H1 Customer Success Snack topics

Customer Success has hit a breaking point. The human-driven model that worked for 20 years is cracking under pressure.

For two decades, the approach was to hire CSMs to manage customer relationships. One person handling 10-100 accounts through personal touchpoints and regular conversations.

That model is becoming unsustainable.

The business environment has fundamentally shifted. Boards prioritize profitability over pure growth. Companies need to manage hundreds or thousands of customers efficiently while protecting margins. At the same time, customers expect instant, frictionless experiences (the kind they get from their favorite consumer apps).

The old human-heavy model can't deliver both.

That’s why Tech Touch became the industry’s answer.

Technology now drives scale.

→ Automated workflows
→ Digital touchpoints
→ Self-service resources
→ Data-driven insights

Each replaces manual tasks that once filled a CSM’s calendar.

On paper, it’s the perfect solution.
Customers get speed and consistency.
Companies reduce costs and expand reach.

But here’s where most teams fall short:

Tech Touch demands a foundation that many CS teams still lack.

→ Clean data architecture
→ Clear customer segmentation
→ Defined lifecycle stages
→ Reliable health indicators

Without these, automation just amplifies chaos.
The companies that get it right follow a sequence.
They build the infrastructure first.
Then they scale on top of it.

What's your biggest Tech Touch transition frustration? Drop it in the comments.

Amy Carlson from Typeform said something during an assessment call last week that stuck with me:

"As a leader you can fail, but you can never be surprised."

She was talking about data ownership in Customer Success. And she's absolutely right.

Customer Success teams are structurally dependent on other functions for critical account intelligence. 

– Product owns usage data. 
– Sales controls contract details. 
– Finance has payment history.

That’s why most Customer Success teams can't answer basic questions about their accounts:

→ Why is this customer at risk?
→ How engaged are they with the product?
→ What's blocking their renewal?

The answers exist somewhere in the organization. But Customer Success doesn't have access to them.

BUT

Some teams have solved for this.

They've built systems that consolidate the signals that matter: health score automation, renewal scoring models, engagement tracking that captures both product behavior and relationship strength.

They own their data. 
Which means they control their outcomes.

Amy's insight gets to the core issue: the difference between reactive and strategic Customer Success comes down to data ownership.

When you own your data, 
you stop getting surprised. 
You start leading.

Why do we forgive human mistakes but crucify AI for the same thing?

When a CSM forgets to follow up, we say, → "They're stretched thin. It happens."

When an automated email hits the wrong segment, we panic. → "See? This is why we can’t trust automation."

It’s ironic.

Our entire profession is built on managing human imperfection.

→ Health scores exist to catch when customers fall off track.
→ Playbooks exist because people need reminders.
→ Success plans exist because adoption happens in stages.

But when it comes to automation, we expect flawless execution from day one.

I see that companies that embrace imperfect automation alongside imperfect humans are the only ones able to scale their customer success motions.

They test. They iterate. They accept that a digital touchpoint might miss the mark at first (just like a human one does).

The breakthrough happens when you stop comparing automated motions to an imaginary perfect standard. Compare them to your current reality instead.

Is your automated onboarding sequence better than the onboarding emails that sometimes don't get sent at all?

That's the actual question.

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