Customer Success Management is the next evolution in complex sales that drives growth. Moreover, Customer Success Management is a modern holistic sales philosophy and part of a professional customer experience management strategy. The following conceptual paper discusses fundamental thoughts based on value-based selling, customer success focus, and a clear view on a perspective beyond selling that will gain importance in the future.

The concept of “social commerce” refers to a synthesis of e-commerce and social media. Despite the rapid growth in users of and revenues from social commerce, so far little in-depth research has been conducted in Germany on this topic. The goal here, therefore, is to conduct schematic research of the literature and an online survey of German consumers to analyze the potential opportunities for companies.