JustCall

MARCH 8, 2023

With her expertise in employee and customer understanding, retention, satisfaction, engagement, and experience design, Annette is helping companies across the globe deliver better experiences for all their stakeholders. Sue Duris is a customer experience and marketing leader with over 20 years of experience in the B2B sector.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But this blog is specifically about Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Chief Customer Officer (CCO) is the highest position in the customer success department in any organization. These initiatives can be in any of the forms, from creating a customer loyalty program to driving training for employees.

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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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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

She has over 16 years of experience in areas of market research, program management, marketing, instructional design, and training. Amanda is a highly experienced customer experience consultant, adviser, and writer. She has helped organizations of all sizes and sectors transform themselves into customer-centric ones.

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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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Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Build customer-centric focus into marketing, sales, and product functions: Every team has some impact on your customer experience, but apart from customer service itself, these three teams have the greatest influence. Report on customer service metrics to your board. Share stories of their success.

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C Space

AUGUST 5, 2019

Customer Values: Q&A with Peter Fader, Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Peter Fader has written two books, both with “customer centricity” in the title: Customer Centricity and The Customer Centricity Playbook. Instead, he cringes. Daniel Sills.

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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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Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

This is true both in terms of Customer Experience – e.g., are there strategic goals around CSat or NPS ? -, and in terms of broader business objective – e.g., increasing market share, reducing churn, cutting costs, etc. And it will make it easier to build strong relationships and a strong culture of customer centricity.

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Eptica

JULY 26, 2017

Yet often there is a gap between theory and practice, with companies believing they offer a great customer experience, when consumers disagree. Lead from the front Being customer-centric must come from the very top, and that means that the CEO must demonstrate that they are taking CX seriously. Here are four places to start: 1.

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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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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

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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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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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. Barry Dalton.

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Pointillist

MAY 19, 2020

But what makes some organizations more effective than others at managing customer journeys, measuring outcomes and improving experiences? Pointillist surveyed over 1,050 CX, analytics, customer care and marketing professionals from a variety of industries across the world to discover what separates leaders from laggards.

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CX Journey

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

However, I’d caution that in order to create sustainable value, your CX strategy must be intertwined into your entire business and not simply a function of marketing. For the long term win, Customer Experience Management needs to be a continuous process of collecting - and acting on - customer insights. Yes, it’s important.

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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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Squelch

JULY 23, 2019

In part one of our interview with Irene , we discussed the relationship between customer success and customer experience and the impact that customer success can have on other departments across the organization. How has the role of customer success evolved with the rise of SaaS companies?

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ClearAction

JUNE 8, 2015

Account teams, customer service and accounts receivable departments, customer reference managers, market researchers and others throughout the company are a loose confederation of a CX team. Teams must meet often to checkpoint key metric: "Are customers truly happy with us?" Executing a Clever Playbook.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

To help you understand this essence and develop better customer service strategies, we’ve curated a list of some of the best customer service books below. Create a positive customer-centric culture amidst the support team. Create better customer loyalty programs. Improve your existing customer success strategies.

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Kayako

JANUARY 12, 2017

That doesn’t just mean making every support conversation with a customer effortlessly helpful, it means every process of their business was built with a low effort, intuitive framework that spans from hiring their first marketing employee to understanding which channels they will be contacted on prominently.

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Squelch

JULY 23, 2019

In part one of our interview with Irene , we discussed the relationship between customer success and customer experience and the impact that customer success can have on other departments across the organization. How has the role of customer success evolved with the rise of SaaS companies?

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Pointillist

JUNE 5, 2019

But how do leading organizations optimize their customers’ journeys, improve customer experience and measure its impact on their business? High Performers Are More Likely to Define Journey-based Metrics and Employ Customer Journey Analytics High-performers are more likely to employ quantitative, data-driven methods.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

The brand invites the customer to complete a survey after a touchpoint, at the end of a completed experience, or periodically to assess the overall relationships. They can range just a single yes/no question to elaborate market research tools. The main weakness of surveys is they tend to get input from very happy or unhappy customers.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The letter C, in this context, stands for “chief,” like a chief executive officer, chief, chief customer officer, and chief operating officer. The CCO can create awareness amongst different departments about the importance of advocating the success of customers.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Many customer service departments are actively implementing strategies, enabling their companies to achieve healthy growth in the face of challenging market conditions and intense competition. According to the Customers 2020 Report, by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 15, 2021

We asked Customer Success experts to share their industry predictions for the year ahead. Remco de Vries , Vice President of Marketing, inSided. More positions in the Customer Success organization will operate in the presale stages of the customer lifecycle. Customer Success will grow businesses.

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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. As a result, companies are investing more time and money in training their C S teams to have more customer-centric conversations. . Making customers happy is no longer good enough. . .

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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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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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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. The list, also, doesn’t have to be long.

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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

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.

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CX Journey

JANUARY 26, 2016

That's how I think about customer experience when I talk about the customer and the customer experience being ingrained in the company DNA. That's a true "what the hell is customer experience" culture. what would the customer say? what would the customer say? It's part of who you are.

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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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