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7 Overlooked Support Skills when Dealing with Customers

Nicereply

However, in a customer service context, guessing is bad. Early in my technical support career, a customer asked me about an unusual upgrade path. As a leader, coaching people to speak up and then acting on what they say will give them confidence in their skills to help your customers thrive.

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Nov 14 – Customer Success Jobs 

SmartKarrot

As a Director of Customer Success, you will create efficient processes for managing all pre- post-sales technical support; including phone & e-mail support, lab-based troubleshooting, knowledge database, and interface with CRM. Establish both leading and lagging KPIs to enhance customer advocacy.

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Dec 14 – Customer Success Jobs 

SmartKarrot

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Jarvis Elliott As a Head of Customer Success, you will work with the C-suite/leadership team to develop a Customer Journey. Coach, manage, and grow the Customer Success team as they scale. manage the technical support team.

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Customer Success and Revenue: Why CS Should Embrace the Numbers

Education Services Group

Today, almost 20% of CSMs come from sales versus 24% from professional services and 19% from technical support, according to the 2017 Customer Success Compensation Study by TSIA. What are you incentivizing in how you coach and run your team to enable those behaviors? Maintaining customer advocacy at your core.

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Nov 11 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Work closely to manage and grow the current NA CS leaders (and the rapidly growing team of CS Coaches). Lead the knowledge-sharing effort derived from the voice of the customer between all departments of the company. Liaise with supporting teams (technical support, professional services, billing, and more) on behalf of the clients.

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Jul 14 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

This is a “player/coach” role by design. Support team’s post-sales customer lifecycle activities including training, professional services, technical support, renewals, expansion, and advocacy. Enable customer interactions in a manner that establishes credibility and trust as a business advisor.

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. They then help the clients develop a customer-centric business strategy that increases customer loyalty and retention. to career growth through individual coaching and mentoring.