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Support Talks: Sales as Part of a Customer Experience Team

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Some treat Customer Experience as a synonym to Customer Success, others see Success and Support as part of the CX team, and still, others prefer it reports into Sales as a way to increase upsells and renewals. She had a very unique solution to this structure: incorporating Sales into the Customer Experience team.

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Reshaping The Future of Digital Customer Service: 23 Influential Leaders to Watch in 2023

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Adrian Swinscoe, Customer experience advisor, author, speaker Adrian is a huge fan of organizations that do great things for their customers and has been helping many achieve their own level of greatness for over 25 years via consulting, writing, speaking workshops, and advisory work. Follow on LinkedIn John R.

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Practical Advice For Influencing People: 6 Key Principles

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As a specialist in applying the science of influence and persuasion in sales, leadership, and coaching, Ahearn spoke to us about the six fundamental principles on how to influence people. Most people think of it as convincing somebody or changing somebody’s thinking, which he says is an excellent start to the definition.

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Do you have a definite customer success organization structure?

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Most SaaS businesses have well defined product, engineering, marketing and sales teams. But someone needs to be responsible and held accountable for the results and ROI of customer success. Should Customer Success report to Sales? Some early stage companies put the customer success department under sales.

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Beware! Don’t Make These Mistakes When Measuring Success

Beyond Philosophy

We find that many organizations measure performance in sales growth or stock price. In our global Customer Experience consultancy, we recommend measuring CX performance that does the two following things: Reflects the CX definition you have determined as your goal, also called the Customer Experience Statement or CES.

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Exploring the Differences Between a Customer Success Manager and Account Manager

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We often hear the roles of Customer Success Manager (CSM) and Account Manager (AM) used interchangeably. The ultimate difference between a Customer Services Manager and an Account Manager is both in their area of concentration and how each target their customers. . Let’s talk about Account Managers first.

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5 Ways to Align Better With Clients Through Joint Account Planning

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In today’s world of SaaS customer success, most CSMs and/or Account Managers are held to some sort of revenue goal. While some organizations have CSMs handle the entire upsell process, others bring in sales team members to help facilitate negotiating and contracts. This is what’s commonly known as joint account planning.