ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

To help make sense of the survey data, give their expert take on what it means for Customer Success teams, and offer up maturity recommendations based on the findings, we invited Megan Macaluso, VP Customer Success & Operations at ESG, and Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic, to join us for a webinar.

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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. The book, Chief Customer Officer 2.0 , spells out in great detail the role of the CCO. What does a Chief Customer Officer do?

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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. David Baga , Lyft, Chief Business Officer, @justbaga, LinkedIn.

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

At Workshop — a tool built to improve company culture through open and efficient internal communication — Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer Derek Homann is focused on using customer service as a differentiator. If you’ve ever worked in sales, you may be familiar with the idea of a ride-along.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

“We’ve taken snapshots from data across our customer base showing that customers who get the human-led onboarding typically are healthier customers than the ones that come in after the fact,” says Olson. We don’t know who that person is, and their experience is very different from those first individuals.”. .

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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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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The rising prominence of Customer Success is the result of it being the central business driver of growth and profit. Businesses were forced to wise up to this fact during the pandemic when new sales shriveled. Twenty years ago, when I did my first big round of funding for a different company, NRR was an “Oh, by the way” metric.

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360Connext

MARCH 8, 2018

Jeannie and I share something in common: a passion for human evaluation of the customer experience. We both enjoy dissecting the moments that matter to customers and employees to truly understand what fosters a great relationship and yields professional and personal results. So how do you make your marketing more effective?

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Maranda (VandenBroek) Dziekonski is the Chief Customer Officer at Swiftly, Inc. is a Data Platform that provides reliable data to 95+ city transit networks around the world and has helped customers improve arrival predictions by up to 30% and complete planning projects up to 90% faster. Pre-sales / Post Sales).

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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. Nika Filipkova is the Chief Customer Officer at SupportYourApp. “At Nika Filipkova. SupportYourApp.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

Early-stage SaaS businesses tend to put most of their focus on acquiring net new customers. For a little while, customer retention is a manageable task with existing staff. When you have only a handful of customers, your sales team, product team, customer support team—and even executives—can join forces to keep them happy.

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Customer Centric Support

MARCH 6, 2017

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. It was perfect for my gregarious, people-pleasing personality. After all, happy customers and revenue are very closely related. Read “Chief Customer Officer 2.0”

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Watch the session: Customer Success as a Profit Center. Get Sales invested in NRR by conducting weekly deal reviews and stipulating sales commission based on Customer Success acceptance of customers. You have to force the CEO, the VP of Sales, and the VP of Customer Success to be at the deal review.

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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. . . C S and Sales strengthen their bond. .

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

Develop personal brand. Navigate when office politics is on the rise. It’s nice to know that average IQ doesn’t limit a person to average performance. Chief Customer Officer 2.0. Books on Customer Service Culture. Books on Improving Customer Success. View critics at workplace.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Chad is an experienced and accomplished technology leader specializing in product management and strategy, product innovation, product marketing, sales engineering, usability, and customer experience management. CEO - C hief Customer Office Council. Chief Customer Officer - Gainsight. Colin Shaw.

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Amity

MAY 22, 2016

Before you begin, you need to have a plan in place to bring customer success to its full potential. This includes your vision, goals, customer data, metrics, timetable, journey map etc. A number of CEOs have walked in the shoes of their customers. You don’t know your customers. You don’t have a plan.

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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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Amity

JULY 26, 2018

Do you know exactly what kind of person should fill your missing role? What kind of person will be a good fit with your culture? For example: Amity is a fast-growing customer success company that loves collaboration and teamwork throughout the organization. Help the Chief Customer Officer to create a churn reduction plan.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 15, 2021

The time to adopt and level of adoption across your customer’s team will be the key indicator of health (as opposed to relationship with POC, engagement between POC & CSM, and expansion history). Customer Success will transcend the bottom of the funnel. A growing reliance on Customer Success metrics.

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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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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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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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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 7, 2022

They just don’t feel, you know, maybe their expectations weren’t met between the sales process and then the reality of being a customer. You have your overall churn metric, which is several metrics rolled up into it. Q: Automation vs In-person vs remote retention. And how do you gather them?

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Both Amazon and Zappos are prime examples of brands that are customer centric and have spent years creating a culture around the customer and their needs. This is so important that organizations like Oracle developed a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) to ensure a consistently amazing customer experience across all touch points.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I absolutely LOVE Jeanne Bliss and Chief Customer Officer 2.0. I often quote her book in class when referring to storytelling and it’s VITAL importance in Customer Success. I often quote her book in class when referring to storytelling and it’s VITAL importance in Customer Success. Question 3.

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Amity

JANUARY 30, 2014

The fast pace of new Social Media applications paired with the dominance of mobile devices is providing an increasingly accessible medium for customers to exercise their individual voice and personality; including tailoring how they choose to communicate with vendors in the ‘here’ and ‘now’ in a way that best suits their needs and lifestyle.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Bhumika sheds light on the common amalgamation of Customer Support with Customer Success, often resulting in a unified Customer Experience function. She warns against misinterpreting roles, as customer support tends to be more reactive, while customer success requires a proactive approach.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Articulates clearly what the customer needs to do to onboard and adopt your service for success. Begins in pre-sales to help ensure success factors are established during the sales process. Fundamentally, the modern, digitally-savvy customer now expects an effortless service experience. Customer Success Around the Web.

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Horizon CX

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Year-end has always been a time for personal reflection for me and as 2018 ends in just a few hours, I am inspired to share the following thoughts around Customer Experience both in reflection of the year just about to end and the one just about to begin. With that in mind, I offer the following observations and insights.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Customer Success starts and ends with helping others realize value. 2) From : Vic Kasoff , Director of Customer Experience | Company : NarrativeDx | Location : Austin, Texas. It can be exhausting to try and have a “work personality” and a “home personality.” Don’t focus on making your customers happy.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 7, 2020

The Director of Customer Success comes somewhere in the middle of the corporate ladder. Mostly they report to the Vice President of Customer Success or the Chief Customer Officer. A Director of Customer Success is responsible for building and leading the customer success team. Chief customer officer.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 23, 2019

Much like the evolution within the Sales team and the creation of “Sales Ops”, Customer Success is on a similar trajectory. It is becoming vitally important to drive successful outcomes for your customers (i.e. Customer Success) and it is even more critical to build out “Customer Success Operations”.

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ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

But if you’re like most companies, when it comes to attracting your customers, the only thing your marketing’s dropping is the ball. Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? Demonstrated ROI – does the customer have proven results?

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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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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Moderator: Abby Hammer, Chief Customer Officer, ChurnZero. Panelists: Geeta Arora, VP of Customer Success, LeagueApps. Antoinette Abboud, Director of Customer Success, Levelset. Director of Customer Success, Sendoso. . . As CS, we have a really close relationship with our sales managers.

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Amity

JULY 28, 2014

And to add more fuel to the fire: The probability of selling to an existing customer is 60 – 70%. The probability of selling to a new prospect is 5-20% – Marketing Metrics. A 5% reduction in the customer defection rate can increase profits by 5 – 95% – Bain & Company. You don’t know your customers.

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