ProProfs Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

Customers wouldn’t see what you have to offer, but what you are willing to change for them. That’s the true essence of customer service experience. 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.

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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. They can do that by discussing it with the CEO.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 8, 2024

Anything you do that bothers customers costs you! Higher costs to serve: customer service, returned materials, remedies, etc. More expense to retain customers: loyalty incentives, customer success, etc. Longer sales cycles due to distrust. Extra marketing required to overcome negative word of mouth.

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JustCall

MARCH 8, 2023

Blake Morgan Customer Experience Futurist, Keynote Speaker, Author, Consultant Blake Morgan is a renowned customer experience leader and a prominent industry voice with over 15 years of experience studying customer experience. Gain insights into successful customer-focused strategies through their stories and experiences.

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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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Toister Performance Solutions

JANUARY 20, 2022

Advertising disclosure: This blog participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon and affiliated sites. More companies are adding a Chief Customer Officer (CCO). What does a Chief Customer Officer do?

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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.” Share this page on: Tweet.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As SaaS organizations and their customers slowly but surely get used to the ‘new normal’ that 2020 ushered in, customer success managers and team leaders are more focused than ever before. Luckily for customer success teams, there is no shortage of resources available. The 2020 Customer Success Trends Toolkit.

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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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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. Nika Filipkova. SupportYourApp. James Boatwright. TheCodeGalaxy.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

He is the co-founder and director of Genroe, a consultancy that specializes in Net Promoter®, customer feedback management, data analysis, and customer experience management. Adam Toporek is internationally renowned for his expertise as a keynote speaker, customer service expert, and front-line trainer. ” 29.

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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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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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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. Mary Poppen , Glint, Chief Customer Officer, @Mary__Poppen, LinkedIn.

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Amity

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Customer support and customer service have been around for decades. These were the necessary evils of the traditional sector – the old-model reactive break/fix cost center – to resolve problems resulting from breaks and service interruptions. Joel York is the king of SaaS financial metrics.

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Eptica

JUNE 17, 2016

When choosing new technology look at the impact it will have (backed up by metrics), frequency of use and applicability (the range of uses it will have). I recommend agreeing the metrics early and also ensuring that everyone agrees how they will be measured. What can be built on and what new solutions will you have to deploy?

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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. Source – Pixabay.

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Sometimes we learn important customer service skills through training, or through years of hard-earned experience. But we still want you to be able to take advantage of the books that can transform your current customer support operations. Chief Customer Officer 2.0: Customer Service Culture.

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Eptica

AUGUST 19, 2020

However, while businesses know they need to be customer-centric, achieving it consistently is not always easy. By making this group responsible for the entire customer experience it provides focus to CX initiatives, and the resources to drive deep and lasting change. Does your customer experience pass the #MakeMomProud test?

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Kayako

DECEMBER 3, 2015

You’ve been hired as a customer service manager, tasked with delivering great customer service. Customer service is a cost-center, it doesn’t impact earnings, and investing money into it is like pouring money down the drain… isn’t it? You know that customer feedback helps build a better product.

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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. Just one dissatisfied customer can influence an entire network of prospective customers.

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Eptica

MAY 30, 2018

Research from both sides of the Atlantic provides clear evidence of the link between superior CX and company success: - A $100 investment in 2000 into a portfolio of the top brands in the American Customer Satisfaction Index provided a return of over $760 by the end of 2016. This will rise to 81% in just two years.

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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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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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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 2, 2021

You need to show how you’ll impact those metrics one segment at a time.”. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic. Probably the top one or two most impactful things you can do for your company is to improve these metrics each quarter.”. What’s Next for Customer Success? Software vendors want in.

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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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

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. Making customers happy is no longer good enough. . . Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer , ChurnZero .

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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. No company can afford to be a customer service laggard. Staffing Adjustments.

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Amity

JULY 26, 2018

For example: Amity is a fast-growing customer success company that loves collaboration and teamwork throughout the organization. Our ideal candidate has experience in customer success, customer service, or a related idea. For example: Purpose of the position: To increase customer loyalty within the existing customer base.

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Kayako

OCTOBER 23, 2017

For a customer feedback project to begin, get a team’s attention, and close the loop across the business, these are the three areas you must focus on: Assign (or claim) accountability and choose the metrics to track. Close the loop with the customer. Assign accountability for a customer feedback loop.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The first deals with dividing responsibilities and defining customer experience ownership, that is, identifying real people behind the very vague term of ‘CX practitioners’ as well as searching for the place that technology has come to occupy in the CXM governance models. Challenge 1: Who should govern customer experience management?

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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. Additionally, he serves as the Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic. Jeanne Bliss.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 27, 2020

Keep The Customer is a repository of resources for Customer Success Professionals. Subscribe to this newsletter to learn about retention/expansion/renewals, metrics and more from the top voices in the industry. #3 by Customer Thermometer. 5 Chief Customer Officer Council. 6 Enlightened Customers.

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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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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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