ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2020

While our 2020 Customer Success leaders watchlist below includes long-time Customer Success champions, we’re excited to see several prominent SaaS companies welcome their first-ever Chief Customer Officer to their C-suite roster—a promising sign for the unlimited potential of a career in Customer Success. .

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Customer Centric Support

MARCH 6, 2017

How to foster a customer-centric mindset in a dollars-driven reality. For six years, I’d held a Customer Service job with essentially one objective: make everyone around me happy, and make customers happy as a consequence. After all, happy customers and revenue are very closely related.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Enterprise Engineering 84

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

We’ll walk you through the key steps to building a successful customer experience department in this guide. We will discuss topics such as defining the department’s goals and objectives, assessing the current state of customer service, and developing a strategy. It’s hard work, we know!

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Eptica

JULY 26, 2017

Commenting on the study, Gartner Fellow Mark Raskino noted , “a big rise in explicit mentions of the word ‘customer’ in the results, and that "CEOs seem to be concerned about improving customer service, relationship and satisfaction levels.” Here are four places to start: 1.

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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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ClearAction

JUNE 8, 2015

While formal CX management is a relatively new endeavor for many companies, the experience of customers has in fact been managed by various people all along. Teams must meet often to checkpoint key metric: "Are customers truly happy with us?" Wrong metrics or being pushed to the wrong targets — @OptimiseOrDie.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Chief Experience Office - Bill Quiseng. Bill's blog posts will help you establish the guidelines to capatalize on associate commitment whole delivering exemplary customer service. Deliver the World's Best Customer Experience. CEO - C hief Customer Office Council. W in the Customer.

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Kayako

JANUARY 12, 2017

There’s been a lot of development around the customer support world this past year with more blogs, conferences, podcasts and consultancies popping up everywhere. 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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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Organizational success and long-term growth primarily depends on customer satisfaction and loyalty, and customer service has always supported corporate growth by keeping customers happy and ensuring their ongoing loyalty. Strategies in Optimizing Call Center Customer Support for Increased Revenue.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Customer service leaders come in all shapes and sizes. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Top 51 Customer Service Leaders and CX Influencers (Editor’s Choice): Adam Toporek.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As a result, companies are investing more time and money in training their C S teams to have more customer-centric conversations. . 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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Amity

JULY 26, 2018

Top applicants who are aware of this change will notice when a company has a broad, unspecific idea of a customer success role in their job description. Applicants will assume the company isn't truly customer-centric and hasn't defined the department well enough. 2+ years B2B customer success or related field (e.g.

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ClearAction

MARCH 22, 2024

CX is a Team Sport: 2 Surprising Views Lynn Hunsaker CX is a Team Sport was the CX Day 1 theme in 2021, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Customer Experience Professionals Association. Camaraderie within the Customer Service (or Success) department is another way CX is a Team Sport. Controlling Touchpoints Model.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Airlines Metrics 62

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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SmartKarrot

APRIL 27, 2020

One of the most followed newsletters in the Customer Success space, it does a great job of offering you the latest customer-centric growth tips. #2 2 Keep THE CUSTOMER. Keep The Customer is a repository of resources for Customer Success Professionals. by Customer Thermometer. by Diana De Jesus.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Coaching Metrics 12

Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

This interview is with Mike Milburn, Chief Customer Officer of Service Cloud at Salesforce. You meet with customers all the time. When it comes to call centers and service centers what are people focusing on today compared to a decade ago? Customers are switching services and switching brands rapidly.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

A highly celebrated, award-winning, successful Customer Success Strategist, Anita Toth describes herself as a churn-crusher whose primary focus is to decrease the attrition rate of businesses. Anita leads a team that dives into the customer insights of B2B SaaS clients and extracts actionable information from it. Annette Franz.

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

This interview is with Mike Milburn, Chief Customer Officer of Service Cloud at Salesforce. You meet with customers all the time. When it comes to call centers and service centers what are people focusing on today compared to a decade ago? Customers are switching services and switching brands rapidly.

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Average Handle Time Chief Customer Officer Wireless Enterprise 40

SmartKarrot

JUNE 10, 2020

Follow him to enhance your knowledge especially on Customer Success, Customer Experience and Customer-centric business. #2 Although this blog covers all aspects of customer success, it is mainly focused on churn reduction, revenue expansion and improving customer satisfaction. #3 By Customer Thermometer.

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Vistio

MAY 28, 2022

They acquired us and I learned a ton under that organization about how to be just incredibly customer-centric in everything we do. There are a lot of terms floating around to define our industry and what customer experience is. There’s CX, customer support, customer service, customer success, and on and on.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 21, 2022

Customer-centricity is the need of the hour for B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) companies. It is considered the only way to provide a positive customer experience and improve customer loyalty. It needs more than simple customer service. The customer is not a single CS professional’s responsibility.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 21, 2022

Customer-centricity is the need of the hour for B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) companies. It is considered the only way to provide a positive customer experience and improve customer loyalty. It needs more than simple customer service. The customer is not a single CS professional’s responsibility.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

Customer service agent notes and messages. I can’t overemphasize the importance of building maps with real customer intelligence, not just internal opinions. You need to keep a pulse on the various players in a customer account who have a say in purchase decisions. Best Metric: CSAT. Best Metric: CSAT.

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Customer Guru

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The biggest challenge is aligning the organization towards the goal of customer centricity. While companies are making their biggest investments in technology to improve customer experience, they should be prioritizing organizational re-alignment over everything else. Coaching mid-management on customer experience.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. When your friend was looking for a Customer Success manager, the challenge he may have had, which we have today, is salespeople are born one way and customer service are born another way.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. When your friend was looking for a Customer Success manager, the challenge he may have had, which we have today, is salespeople are born one way and customer service are born another way.

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SaaS B2B Upselling Metrics 52

Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

The Net Promoter System® (or NPS) has been a popular customer experience metric since its creation in 2003. As a rule, I would always suggest collecting NPS as one of a number of metrics (including CSAT and Customer Effort) unless there is a compelling reason why you should not. There is no perfect metric.

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Consulting Consulting Metrics Feedback 135

Branch Mesenger

MAY 29, 2018

Jeanne Bliss, author of "Would You Do That To Your Mother" joined us to explain how these important maternal lessons can help positively shape your customer service and empower frontline employees. Jeanne Bliss is a best-selling author and an expert on customer-centric leadership. The importance of empathy.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

It’s hard to remember a time when Chatbots weren’t a hot (albeit, polarizing) topic in the customer service and tech industries. From customized Chatbots on major brand websites to Siri and Alexa in our own homes, it seems like Chatbots have entered the discussion (and our lives) for good. Source: Alex Knight.

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