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Enterprise Onboarding

High-touch onboarding processes for large enterprise customers with complex implementation needs.

Definition

Enterprise onboarding is the structured process of helping large customers successfully implement and adopt your product. Unlike self-serve onboarding for SMB, enterprise onboarding typically involves multiple stakeholders, dedicated customer success resources, custom integrations, training sessions, and extended timelines. Email supports but does not replace human-led onboarding.

Why It Matters

Enterprise deals represent significant revenue and often come with high expectations. A botched onboarding creates churn risk for your highest-value accounts. Thoughtful enterprise onboarding accelerates time to value, builds champion relationships, and sets the stage for expansion. Email ensures nothing falls through the cracks in complex implementations.

How It Works

Enterprise onboarding combines human touchpoints (kickoff calls, training sessions, check-ins) with automated support (welcome emails, resource sharing, progress reminders). Email sequences remind stakeholders about next steps, share relevant documentation, and keep implementations moving forward between live meetings.

Best Practices

  • 1Assign dedicated customer success resources for enterprise accounts
  • 2Create a formal onboarding timeline with clear milestones
  • 3Use email to supplement, not replace, human touchpoints
  • 4Involve multiple stakeholders with role-appropriate content
  • 5Share progress updates with executive sponsors
  • 6Track time to first value and optimize the onboarding path
  • 7Build feedback loops to continuously improve the process

High-Touch Sequences

Build onboarding campaigns for enterprise customers with multiple stakeholders, milestone triggers, and manual touchpoint integration.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Enterprise onboarding is high-touch with dedicated resources, custom implementations, and longer timelines. Self-serve is automated and scalable. Enterprise customers expect personalized attention. Email plays a supporting role in enterprise versus a primary role in self-serve.

Kickoff confirmations, milestone reminders, resource sharing, training invitations, check-in scheduling, and progress summaries. Avoid generic onboarding sequences. Enterprise emails should feel like part of a coordinated implementation plan.

Track time to first value, milestone completion rates, stakeholder engagement, support ticket volume, and early expansion signals. Ultimate success shows in retention and net revenue retention for enterprise cohorts.