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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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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ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

Does your marketing often drop the L-bomb? Entire marketing budgets are devoted to their infinite pursuit and persuasion. But if you’re like most companies, when it comes to attracting your customers, the only thing your marketing’s dropping is the ball. The Forgotten CSM: Customer Success Marketing.

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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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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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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. Joe Chernov , InsightSquared, VP of Marketing, @jchernov, LinkedIn.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For example, Forrester says just “11% of B2B decision-makers” say metrics for customer retention and loyalty are tracked by marketing leaders. The challenge is that growth through retention and loyalty requires “strong customer relationships.” The key to effectively managing a customer lifecycle is metrics.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For example, Forrester says just “11% of B2B decision-makers” say metrics for customer retention and loyalty are tracked by marketing leaders. The challenge is that growth through retention and loyalty requires “strong customer relationships.” The key to effectively managing a customer lifecycle is metrics.

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So why exactly is customer service important for small businesses? There are three main reasons: It helps attract and retain customers. It increases the lifetime value of customers. It delivers insights that improve your product, marketing, and/or service. Happy customers don’t tend to take their business elsewhere.

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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 Marketing - ServiceRocket. CSM Corner.

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Education Services Group

APRIL 16, 2021

What is the ESG Customer Success Maturity Model? Customer segmentation influences everything from how well you allocate your CS resources to whether or not your customers renew. If your customers are properly categorized, Customer Success costs actually go down and, over time, sales and marketing costs will decrease as well.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

While many brands are prioritizing the customer experience, our newly-released study identifies a disconnect between goals and execution. Recently, we surveyed more than 800 marketing and customer experience leaders from the US and the UK in partnership with global research consultancy, Morar.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Metrics Aren’t Just for Board Meetings – The Value of Customer Metrics is Immeasurable . We often think about CS metrics as being interna l KPIs – after all, these figures surface in board meetings and other internal discussions. Drivers for corporate growth are no longer limited to Sales and Marketing.

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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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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

Hiring a customer success operations manager could help your team develop templates, document your customer success playbooks and ensure efficiency when executing them. For example, if your company’s main goal is growth, you should identify key metrics that support achieving higher revenues. Step 2: Metrics.

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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. Should Customer Success report to Sales?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 15, 2021

Remco de Vries , Vice President of Marketing, inSided. A customer savvy CSM, whom is part Marketer, part Digital Specialist as well, will head up your digital-led customer strategies, e.g., sophisticated training, self-service onboarding, and community and customer advocacy programs. Marley Wagner , Sr.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

While many brands are prioritizing the customer experience, our newly-released study identifies a disconnect between goals and execution. Recently, we surveyed more than 800 marketing and customer experience leaders from the US and the UK in partnership with global research consultancy, Morar.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

While many brands are prioritizing the customer experience, our newly-released study identifies a disconnect between goals and execution. Recently, we surveyed more than 800 marketing and customer experience leaders from the US and the UK in partnership with global research consultancy, Morar.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

Hiring a customer success operations manager could help your team develop templates, document your customer success playbooks and ensure efficiency when executing them. For example, if your company’s main goal is growth, identify key metrics that support achieving higher revenues. Step 2: Metrics.

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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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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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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. Who should own customer experience?

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Kayako

JANUARY 12, 2017

It’s easy to rush into 2017 without appreciating the good parts of 2016: there is now a lot of great content out there that supports you, the customer advocating superhero! How do you round off a year that’s been so good to the customer service industry? To remember why we do our jobs in the first place: the 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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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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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. Dave Jackson.

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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. Conversations are no longer driven by product features but rather about customer enablement and alignment on the expected impact from the partnership between the customer and a company.

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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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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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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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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 10, 2018

5) From : Adam Kuznia , Chief Customer Officer | Company : DataCamp | Location : New York City. Don’t focus on making your customers happy. 6) From : Jesse Brightman , Head of Customer Success | Company : stensul | Location : New York City. Adding value to your customers is always going to pay off.

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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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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Here are 4 prerequisites to a successful customer experience ecosystem: 1st CX Ecosystem Prerequisite: Understand Your Company’s Whole Ecosystem. As Jeanne Bliss recommended in her book, Chief Customer Officer , know your company’s power core — is it product, sales, marketing, vertical business, IT, customer, or other?

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 7, 2022

We asked Anita to share her opinion on customer churn and retention. A: Surprisingly, most people think that I’m a consultant. We’re actually a full-service agency that helps with the voice of the customer and customer feedback as a way to reduce churn. The following is what she has to say. I’m not.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

They then help the clients develop a customer-centric business strategy that increases customer loyalty and retention. With over 30 years in the industry, Annette is a professional coach, consultant, customer journey mapping facilitator, thought leader, and influencer. Annette Franz. Caroline Andreola. Dana Alvarenga.

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