Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

While customer vulnerability isn’t new, it’s time companies take action to identify vulnerable customers and implement solutions to better equip company representatives and customer service agents to interact with customers experiencing vulnerability. Adrian Travis is the Founder and President of Trindent Consulting.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What your Customer Success team looks like will largely depend on your organization’s size, solution complexity, and go-to-market strategy. If you’re standing up a Customer Success function for the first time, you may only have one or a handful of Customer Success managers who do it all.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What your Customer Success team looks like will largely depend on your organization’s size, solution complexity, and go-to-market strategy. If you’re standing up a Customer Success function for the first time, you may only have one or a handful of Customer Success Managers who do it all.

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ChurnZero

MAY 24, 2022

is a customer intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses accelerate growth from existing data. Mary has over 20 years of experience in Customer Success, business consulting, and executive leadership. What does your team look like at your company, and how do you center around the customer?

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ChurnZero

MAY 24, 2022

is a customer intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses accelerate growth from existing data. Mary has over 20 years of experience in Customer Success, business consulting, and executive leadership. What does your team look like at your company, and how do you center around the customer?

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

While there are many experts on this field, we have created a list (in alphabetical order) of customer experience influencers (experts, speakers, consultants, and authors) who are leaders. Adam is a globally recognized expert on customer experience. Do follow these experts to learn from the best in business!

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Satrix Solutions

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We started off life here at Waypoint as a consulting company and worked with our clients around change management all the time. A manager, whether it’s the CEO or frontline manager, and everybody in between, they need to be asking the right questions. TopBox equips those managers with good metrics, the KPIs.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 7, 2022

The capacity to forecast that a specific customer is at a high risk of churning while there is still time to do something about it is a major new possible revenue generator for any company. We, at CustomerSuccessBox , spoke to some of the Top Customer Success Influencers to know how they manage churn! I’m not.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

To help, we’ve curated this watchlist of Customer Success leaders who we believe you’ll gain some inspiration from and see them do great things in 2019. Amanda Berger, Chief Customer Officer, Lucidworks. Amanda’s commitment to business results drives each aspect of her work as Chief Customer Officer at Lucidworks.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In the past decade, we’ve seen the number of companies with an individual in the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) – nicely defined by Wikipedia as “the executive responsible for the total relationship with an organization’s customers” – grow from under 100 to thousands today. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Mindtouch

APRIL 17, 2017

We evaluated thousands of members within the Customer Success community and created a measurement that took into account a wide range of metrics including internet presence, influence, authorship, individual contributions, community engagement and participation. Director: Customer Success Operations, @netmow, LinkedIn.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2022

The capacity to forecast that a specific customer is at a high risk of churning while there is still time to do something about it is a major new possible revenue generator for any company. We, at CustomerSuccessBox , spoke to some of the Top Customer Success Influencers to know how they manage churn! That should the churn.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. We’ve compiled a list of 19 Pieces of Advice Customer Success Mentors Would Give Frontline Customer Success Managers. Let’s get started!

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Amity

APRIL 7, 2017

You might need additional funds to purchase a Customer Success Operations system to automate playbooks and avoid unnecessary manual work. You might need additional funds approved to hire additional Customer Success managers. Before asking for a budget for your customer success team, you need to set clear, quantifiable goals.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Alex curates the Customer Success Newsletter which is a weekly curated collection of 4 helpful articles from around the Customer Success community. The Customer Success Newsletter. Customer Success Expert - Glide Consulting. The Glide Consulting Blog. Director of Customer Success Education - CSM Practice.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Careful end-to-end change management is a must when working to position CS as a profitability center. As a part of change management , e xecutive, CSM and client buy – in is essential. Metrics Aren’t Just for Board Meetings – The Value of Customer Metrics is Immeasurable .

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

You might need additional funds to purchase a Customer Success Operations System to automate playbooks and avoid unnecessary manual work. You might also need additional funds approved to hire additional Customer Success managers. Identifying your customer success team’s primary goals is important.

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

At Workshop — a tool built to improve company culture through open and efficient internal communication — Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer Derek Homann is focused on using customer service as a differentiator. It becomes very easy for things to slip through the cracks if someone’s not actively managing it.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Learn why an operations role is the key to scaling Customer Success, what this role looks like within a mature organization, and when you should hire for it. Customer Success teams (and their customers alike) feel the pain of conducting QBRs dictated by a now seemingly arbitrary timeframe and requisite.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

You might need additional funds to purchase a Customer Success Operations system to automate playbooks and avoid unnecessary manual work. You might need additional funds approved to hire additional Customer Success managers. Before asking for a budget for your customer success team, you need to set clear, quantifiable goals.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 15, 2021

Ed Powers , Customer Success Consultant. As global, multibillion-dollar software and computing infrastructure companies transition to subscription-based models, they must work with their extensive channel partner networks to enable and deliver Customer Success to end customers. Bigger budgets for Customer Success.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 22, 2021

To learn how selling and taking great care of your customers actually go hand in hand, we hosted a webinar with Bryan Neale, Founder of Blind Zebra Consulting and self-proclaimed “CS Sales Whisperer.”. Q: Should Customer Success Managers be comped like sales reps? Managers] do that “Hey, here’s a bonus.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For Small Companies: In small companies or in companies where the customer success division is in the early stages, a customer success leader should directly report to the CEO or COO. Should Customer Success report to Sales? Some early stage companies put the customer success department under sales.

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 10, 2020

Over the past number of years, the customer experience (otherwise known as “CX”) has become a profession unto itself. Roles like Chief Customer Officer, Customer Experience Director, Manager, Customer Success have been popping up. By Patricia Ballantyne.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

She identifies shortcomings such as social, communication, and self-management behaviors that limit leaders in their career. To help leaders master soft skills, she reflects on how leaders can: Work towards managing their workload. Navigate when office politics is on the rise. Chief Customer Officer 2.0.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Customer results will sell, not features. The winners in C S Management will align their business objectives to the customer’s desired outcomes and experiences. Making customers happy is no longer good enough. . . Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer , ChurnZero .

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2016, the questions of ownership and business impact of customer experience management are still open. Learn more from the CRM consulting perspective. They say executive buy-in makes for an easier road to the happy customer, thanks to allocated budgets and all-round support with resources.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To delve deeper into the nuances of the Customer Success Career Path to Leadership, we bring you a compelling conversation between two industry experts, Bhumika Arora, Founder and Consulting Coach at Ruffday Coaching Services, and Rohan Sheth, Director of Growth at SmartKarrot Inc.

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Amity

JUNE 21, 2017

Current methods are focused on calculating a Customer Health Score (CHS) , which is a measure of the relationship between the vendor and the customer. We suggested that this metric is insufficient and a new analysis, CMI, is needed to augment it for it to be useful. And still something was missing.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Irit: Hi everyone.

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Horizon CX

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is good news for those of us among the CX consulting community and especially the CX provider community. It’s a metric—not a program— a topic that has been regurgitated and rehashed ad nauseum to the point where it has become so mundane that its value is being questioned and, in some cases, dismissed.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2021

This list has been compiled by the editorial team at SmartKarrot taking into account overall influence in the form of original insights, industry contributions, community engagement, followership, and similar guiding metrics. Without further ado, here is presenting to you our Top 50 Customer Success Influencers for 2021. Jeanne Bliss.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 23, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. The key is being consultative and guide customers to their outcomes. What are their metrics? To give us an even better solution.

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ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

10 Silos Impact Customer Experience Lynn Hunsaker. This might be the highest-ROI effort of your customer experience council, chief customer officer, chief operating officer — or better yet, every employee. And the pain of business silos is well-known to everyone, whether employee or customer.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Recent snafus caused by faulty customer experience ecosystem management include United Airlines dragging a paying customer out of his seat and off the plane per a random drawing of passengers to make room for a flight crew to fly on that overbooked flight. We’ve all known customer experience programs that have come and gone.

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Amity

JUNE 28, 2017

In the first two parts of this blog series, we argued that while Customer Health Score (CHS) is a helpful metric it is insufficient to address opportunities and challenges with your customers. Following that logic, we should develop a system of combining insights from the two metrics towards a plan of action.

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