Kapta Customer Success

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Customer Success is one of the biggest buzzwords floating around the B2B SaaS space today. Ensuring that your customers achieve their desired outcome using your product is at the core of Customer Success. Yet, it’s easily one of the most important elements to the growth of your company. CX Journey. CCO Council.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 3, 2020

One such that we are talking about is the difference between Chief Customer Officer and Head of Customer Success. Both strive to bridge the gap from a company’s point to interact with a customer. Chief Customer Officer is a relatively new term in the CS space, but it is accelerating in its popularity.

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JustCall

MARCH 8, 2023

Diane Magers Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Experience Catalysts Diane Magers is an accomplished senior executive with over 25 years of experience in customer experience, sales, and marketing. Sue Duris is a customer experience and marketing leader with over 20 years of experience in the B2B sector.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2020

As SaaS gets more serious about Customer Success, their representation on the executive and C-suite level will follow (as envisioned in our 2020 Customer Success predictions ; see #2). Based on LinkedIn research, Customer Success r oles saw 34% annual growth —qualifying them as one of the top emerging jobs in 2020.

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Netomi

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many industries worldwide, customer experience proved to be more important than ever. Dione Hedgpeth – Chief Customer Officer, Sumo Logic. Emilie Chell – Head of Marketing, Growth and Experience, Circles.Life. Erin Wallace – VP, Integrated Marketing, thredUP.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Reducing churn is at the forefront of all marketers’ minds. 82% of marketers say that “active customer retention” is one of the most important objectives for their CRM team , leading many Marketing and Customer Success team members to seek out new ways to understand customer pain points and improve the customer experience.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Check out this post to see if you’re inadvertently sending subliminal negativity to your customers. Customer Success Operations 101: Drive Productivity with Purpose, People, and Process. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity sales, marketing, or product team without a designated operations function.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Annette is a recognized Customer Experience thought leader who is passionate about helping build people-focused organizations. Director of Marketing - ServiceRocket. Deliver the World's Best Customer Experience. Market Strategy Manager - OpenView Venture Partners. GVP Customer Success - Oracle Marketing Cloud.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A well structured customer success organization is necessary for any SaaS company to achieve massive growth. Most SaaS businesses have well defined product, engineering, marketing and sales teams. So, a proper customer success organization is required to provide consistent growth.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

When your manager introduces your new Customer Success software, you might internally object: “But can’t I already do that in our CRM?” But CRM functionality only accounts for a tiny sliver of what Customer Success software was built to do in regards to automation, adoption tracking, and journey lifecycle management.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Jay Nathan is the Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic. In 2020, he co-founded Gain Grow Retain, a community for customer success leaders. Here, he talks about the best practices in Customer Onboarding. It is aimed at creating an ever-growing knowledge base to help customers scale up faster.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2020

SaaStr is the largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs in the world and they are brought together at their flagship event – SaaStr Annual. With 12,500 attendees, 250 speakers, 200 sponsors, their missions is to provide the SaaS community with unparalleled access to the top minds in SaaS.

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Amity

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Dear Louise, Although we have a lot of trial participants for our SaaS product, we are finding it difficult to convert them and we are experiencing some churn. I think it’s time, perhaps overdue actually, to bring a Customer Success Hero or two on board. Best regards, - From a SaaS in need of saving!

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

T hey can serve to increase the accountability of both your customer s and your team. . . Customer Success Skepticism Exists in Many Organizations (But Can B e Co mbated) . Drivers for corporate growth are no longer limited to Sales and Marketing. As she explained: .

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ChurnZero

JULY 17, 2020

This is a guest blog post by Irit Eizips , Chief Customer Officer and CEO of CSM Practice. . Keeping a renewing client allows you to increase your Customer Success team’s efficiency and grow your SaaS business. Account Executive – A hunter. Account Manager – A farmer.

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Squelch

JUNE 4, 2019

As we continue our series exploring Influential Women in CX , we had the pleasure of sitting down with Mary Poppen, Chief Customer Officer at Glint and 2018 Top Customer Success Influencer. You’re a pioneer in customer success. With the rise of SaaS , we began to really see the need for customer success.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Her areas of expertise include market research, program management, marketing, instructional design, and training. Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Tip #3 for CSMs: discuss overlap with other tools When your manager introduces your new Customer Success software, you might internally object: “But can’t I already do that in our CRM?” Establishing transparency around SaaS business metrics , especially ones that you directly influence, increases trust, accountability, and productivity.

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

You don’t know why your customers churn. In this preliminary phase, you’re still likely trying to reach product-market fit, you can count your customers on two hands, and you have a good sense of your customers’ satisfaction with your service despite not having any formal surveying. Traits: Product-market fit. $6M

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

But perhaps more importantly, when customers are more self-sufficient, they also are better equipped to know what is possible with your software and use it more often and use more of it. “– Bill Cushard, Director of Marketing, ServiceRocket. If we’re not at peak SaaS, we’re probably close to it.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

He delves into the powerful idea of The Golden Circle based on which organizations can further lead, inspire and grow in a competitive market. Chief Customer Officer 2.0. Want a proven framework to help you launch and advance the customer experience transformation in businesses in every vertical around the world?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 15, 2021

Customer Success teams rose to the challenge of retaining customers during a global health and economic crisis. For SaaS businesses, protecting the customer base became the main, if not only, priority during this tumultuous time. We asked Customer Success experts to share their industry predictions for the year ahead.

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Amity

JUNE 3, 2016

Dear Louise, Although we have a lot of trial participants for our SaaS product, we are finding it difficult to convert them and we are experiencing some churn. I think it’s time, perhaps overdue actually, to bring a Customer Success Hero or two on board. Best regards, - From a SaaS in need of saving!

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Customer success careers have become the buzzwords in the business environment. The hot topic that is running around in the SaaS industry is the need for customer success to have a seat and a voice at the leadership table. So, what exactly has resulted in this change in the SaaS industry? Definition of C-Suite.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here’s our Top 50 Customer Success Influencers list celebrating those frontiersmen and women pushing the boundaries and making Customer Success the force that it is today. His blog is highly credited as one of the richest sources of actionable information and guidance on Customer Success and SaaS growth. Allison Pickens.

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Amity

MAY 22, 2016

Customer success is an exciting and game-changing opportunity, and a prerequisite for the majority of B2B SaaS companies, but are you ready for it? According to an Aberdeen Report* on Customer Experience Management, the top three drivers for investing in customer experience management are: Improve customer retention – (42%).

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

But perhaps more importantly, when customers are more self-sufficient, they also are better equipped to know what is possible with your software and use it more often and use more of it. “– Bill Cushard, Director of Marketing, ServiceRocket. If we’re not at peak SaaS, we’re probably close to it.

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ChurnZero

MAY 29, 2020

Do you know what Customer Success metrics race through a Chief Customer Officer’s (CCO’s) mind all day long? With a dizzying number of SaaS metrics—from acquisition costs and account expansion to customer churn and satisfaction—all vying for headspace, CCOs must focus on the measurements that really matter.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Today, companies realize that a robust customer success function can help preempt churn and grow revenues without acquiring customers at an exponential pace. Yet, customer success is limited to growth-stage and mature SaaS companies, and only 9% of organizations have a Chief Success Officer and Chief Customer Officer roles.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

Jeff Piper , Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at SpringCM , demonstrates his team’s impact on new business by tracking the increase in advocacy and referrals. Your CSM team has a direct influence on overall customer satisfaction scores and the number of reference-able clients.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The winners in C S Management will align their business objectives to the customer’s desired outcomes and experiences. By joining forces and clarifying roles, both teams can deliver a better customer experience and drive more revenue for their organizations. . . Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer , ChurnZero .

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

There is no shortage of opinion in the market place about Customer Success; what it is, how to execute and whether growth should be a success metric are all hot topics. Remember, it’s a lot harder to implement scale when both your internal and external customers are used to the individual, personalized touch you’re offering today.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

A star in the world of Customer Success, Amarachi Ogueji is known for her exceptional skills in retaining B2B and B2C SaaS clients. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales. Bhavika Kochhar is an Enterprise Customer Success Manager, Americas, at Algonomy. Anika Zubair.

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Amity

MAY 27, 2014

Dear Louise, Although we have a lot of trial participants for our SaaS product, we are finding it difficult to convert them and we are experiencing some churn. I think it’s time, perhaps overdue actually, to bring a customer success hero or two on board. Best regards, From a SaaS in need of saving! What should I be looking for?

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Amity

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Fifty-eight years ago, from 1956 to 1961, the Journal of Marketing published a series of short biographical profiles under the heading “Pioneers in Marketing”. Amity: You were a pioneer in the Customer Success – how did you break ground? I recognized that in SaaS you had to have a more pervasive accountability to the customer.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

Jeff Piper , Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at SpringCM , demonstrates his team’s impact on new business by tracking the increase in advocacy and referrals. Your CSM team has a direct influence on overall customer satisfaction scores and number of reference-able clients.

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