Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is the relationship of a customer with a business at all touchpoints during the period of the customer journey. It is widely said that customer experience is the next battleground for organizations. Adam is a globally recognized expert on customer experience.

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360Connext

MARCH 8, 2018

Jeannie Walters , speaker, writer and CEO of 360Connext, recently visited us at Hallmark and we had the opportunity to discuss the intricate weaving of the disciplines between marketing and customer experience. Jeannie and I share something in common: a passion for human evaluation of the customer experience.

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Eptica

JULY 26, 2017

Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Why customer experience needs to be led from the top. Author: Olivier Njamfa In today’s ultra-competitive world, senior managers understand the importance of customer experience to corporate success. Published on: July 26, 2017.

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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. No need for approvals.

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JustCall

MARCH 8, 2023

And customer experience has emerged as one of those areas where they have had a significant impact over the past few years. Annette Franz is a renowned customer experience thought leader, consultant, coach, and author with over 30 years of experience in the industry. Annette Franz Founder and CEO, CX Journey Inc.

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Contact Center Geek

MARCH 7, 2018

One thing that is still very common is the practice of putting most of the metric goals on the backs of the front line contact center team members. There’s a better way: stop using AHT and Adherence as team member performance metrics. There’s a better way: stop using AHT and Adherence as team member performance metrics.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 13, 2021

To help answer some questions you might have around the Customer Success job market, we created this overview that will describe what the different career paths are that you can pursue, with descriptions for each role and the industry salaries. . Chief Customer Officer. Build a profitable customer experience.

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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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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Dan Darcy, Chief Customer Officer at Qualified , explains how business leaders can double down on amazing customer experiences to not only cut costs but grow despite a tough economy. We all know it’s more expensive to bring on a new customer than it is to retain an existing one.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 8, 2024

Anything you do that bothers customers costs you! Extra marketing required to overcome negative word of mouth. Higher costs to serve: customer service, returned materials, remedies, etc. More expense to retain customers: loyalty incentives, customer success, etc. Why does this drive growth?

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Serenova

JUNE 16, 2020

The C-suite is focused more than ever on reducing agent turnover rates and improving customer experience ratings. As a result, CX leaders are revamping the agent experience with better compensation plans, compelling career paths and better technology capabilities. Chief Customer Officers have been laser-focused on analytics.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Establish customer metrics to define the relationship with the existing customers. As a change agent, it has become crucial for the chief customer officer (CCO) to establish customer metrics to manage customers as an asset. Like what you are reading? Sign up for our newsletter.

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Eptica

JUNE 17, 2016

Date: Friday, June 17, 2016 Transforming the customer experience in 5 steps. One of the key points raised is that while senior managers now understand the importance of customer experience , many are unsure where to start when it comes to improving what they offer to consumers. Published on: June 17, 2016.

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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. Did you know there are at least 10 silos impacting customer experience?

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ClearAction

JUNE 8, 2015

Creating World-Class Customer Experience Teams. In a recent #CXO tweet chat these same success factors were discussed as they apply to customer experience teams. In a recent #CXO tweet chat these same success factors were discussed as they apply to customer experience teams.

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

What is Customer Experience Ecosystem? 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. Lynn Hunsaker.

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Eptica

MAY 30, 2018

Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 Author: Olivier Njamfa The importance of customer experience in a winner takes all world. Author: Olivier Njamfa Trends such as digitalization, the rise of the experience economy and globalization are impacting every market. How artificial intelligence can transform your customer experience.

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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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Serenova

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Analytics are becoming vital to bring about improvements to the agent experience—ultimately reducing turnover rates and improving the service agents deliver. They also may couple this with contact-center agent performance, independently gathered sentiment analysis of customer interactions, and competitive analysis. Today, 37.2%

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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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Kayako

JANUARY 12, 2017

And celebrate how good service experiences will keep customers happy, improve loyalty and grow our business. Here’s our list of the best articles from last year to help you understand the trends and show how you can provide an amazing customer experience in 2017. The Customer Delight Playbook , by Sujan Patel.

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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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Serenova

JUNE 16, 2020

As contact center technology undergoes transformation at many organizations, so should the agent experience. The C-suite is focused more than ever on reducing agent turnover rates and improving customer experience (CX) ratings. Chief customer officers have been laser-focused on analytics.

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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. Bill Lapcevic , Sentry, Chief Operating Officer, @billlap, LinkedIn.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Despite the pandemic, customers have retained the expectation that if they call you, you’ll be there for them. Now more than ever, organizations need to actively manage the Average-Speed-of-Answer (ASA) metric. If human connection and empathy is central to the customer experience, the ultimate objective is answering the call.

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Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. Their success metrics should have a clear customer focus, and their leaders should care about customer experience. Share stories of their success.

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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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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2016, the questions of ownership and business impact of customer experience management are still open. Many agree that the success of any corporate undertaking in customer experience heavily depends on whether CEOs and other key decision makers (can be board members or other) buy into it.

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Toister Performance Solutions

JANUARY 20, 2022

More companies are adding a Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Customer experience pioneer and bestselling author, Jeanne Bliss , literally wrote the book on this topic. Customer experience pioneer and bestselling author, Jeanne Bliss , literally wrote the book on this topic.

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Vistio

MAY 28, 2022

From there, I went to yet another B2B SaaS company in healthcare and really worked in service transformation and led a lot of initiatives related to the customer experience. It’s really where I kind of fell in love with the whole concept of a customer experience. So that was a lot of fun.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

This shift requires new intelligence and new leadership in order to build and maintain customer loyalty. While many brands are prioritizing the customer experience, our newly-released study identifies a disconnect between goals and execution.

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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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Calabrio

JULY 26, 2017

We all know companies who claim their customer service is first-rate and that they put the customer first. However, when you look at their management structure, the customer is left without a seat at the table. Sales and marketing are busy attracting and signing new customers, but who’s nurturing those existing relationships?

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CX Journey

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

We’re one month into 2015, and it’s already apparent that Customer Experience is on everyone’s agenda - or at least on those of the 95% of retailers surveyed by Boston Retail Partners ,who identified customer experience as a top-three priority in the new year. And this number is only rising.

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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. The Enlightened Customer.

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