Alida

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But putting customers at the forefront of strategic decision-making isn’t always easy. Balancing budget constraints, departmental priorities and revenue growth against customer success can be a challenge, even for the most seasoned of executives. We are truly nothing without our customers.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

9 tips to get your CSMs to adopt Customer Success software. Have you ever worked at a company where the Customer Success team had to beg for its own tools? The CSM perspective: how to encourage the adoption of Customer Success software. As CSMs, we spend our days convincing our customers to adopt our tools.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 25, 2019

“Customer delight is incredibly important, but it’s also insufficient,” says Jon Herstein , Chief Customer Officer at Box , a cloud content management company that serves about 90,000 customers. Delivering value is ultimately the key point of B2B customer success and delight.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 3, 2020

What stays common between each member of your customer success company is the need to satisfy a hungry customer. Now many such designations and roles are designed to look after the specific needs of a customer. Both strive to bridge the gap from a company’s point to interact with a customer. Onboard new prospects.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 8, 2024

Higher costs to serve: customer service, returned materials, remedies, etc. More expense to retain customers: loyalty incentives, customer success, etc. Higher growth, with sustained upward trends, result from customer-aligned organizations. 24 Ways to Boost 2024 CX ROI. Otherwise, you’re in a Ponzi scheme.)

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

At ChurnZero, our mission is to be the best Customer Success platform out there – and Customer Success teams sit at the heart of this goal. Since the field of Customer Success is still maturing, we feel it’s key to learn from others in the industry. Amanda Berger, Chief Customer Officer, Lucidworks.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Amy Downs is the Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer at Lifesize, a company enabling communication and collaboration among many mediums (their slogan is “connecting people to make their workplace great” ), was quite interesting. At Lifesize, she was initially VP of Customer Care.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A well structured customer success organization is necessary for any SaaS company to achieve massive growth. So, a proper customer success organization is required to provide consistent growth. Setting Up a Customer Success Organization. Should Customer Success report to Sales?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

20 Customer Success Predictions for 2020 . T hat’s why we asked some of the top Customer Success (CS) leaders to share their industry predictions for 2020. Vanessa Hannay , Director of Customer Success, Muck Rack . Making customers happy is no longer good enough. . . The year was 1909.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

What’s Next For Customer Success? No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. In-product onboarding also affords CSMs more time to focus on the work that makes the greatest customer impact and return on effort.

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CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Blake who is the CEO for Client Success. Dave asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a judge for The Customer Success Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit.

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CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake who is the CEO for ClientSuccess. As a judge, assessing the finalists included meeting with 5 forward-thinking brainiacs, who all shared fascinating new approaches to doing customer success better.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 21, 2020

So, to reprieve our collective cry for clarity, we asked industry experts to give their best predictions on the future of Customer Success. So, without further ado, here’s what our Customer Success experts had to say: You Mon Tsang , CEO, ChurnZero. Greg Saiz , VP of Customer Success, Betterworks.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Our Chief Customer Officer, Ashvin Vaidyanathan , talks to customer success trailblazer Garin Landry in this conversation. Garin is the Insight Strategy Manager for Customer Operations and Strategy at Planview , a global leader in work and resource management (WRM). Ashvin: Hello, Garin!

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ClearAction

APRIL 13, 2023

Here are 3 success factors: Setting the right expectations : Consistency is at the heart of trust and relationship strength. After you nurture potential customers along their buying journey, there’s the handoff to Accounts Receivable, customer onboarding, account management, Customer Success, Customer Service, Customer Loyalty, etc.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

9 tips to get your CSMs to adopt Customer Success software Have you ever worked at a company where the Customer Success team had to beg for its own tools? I have a few tips to help you drive customer success software adoption that sticks. We know that if they adopt, ROI will happen naturally!

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CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

All About the Customer Success Performance Indicator . This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake (CEO for ClientSuccess ) who asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a Judge for The Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit.

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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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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Before customer success was introduced, companies used to spend massive funds in acquiring the customers only to see them finally go. But as customer retention became a major goal for these companies, customer success ROI started paying off. Importance of measuring customer success ROI.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do).

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Amity

MARCH 22, 2016

SaaS Tattler Issue 79 - Giving Customer Success a Voice at the Executive Table. In an era where the customer experience matters more than ever before, having a voice at the executive table changes everything. Cue the Chief Customer Officer (CCO), breaking down Silos, strapped with customer intuition.

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Gainsight

APRIL 21, 2022

Consequently, companies were looking for any way to control financial instability, especially the loss of customers. Customer success! According to the 2020 Forrester report, The Business Case For Customer Success Management, customer success plays a critical role in retaining customers.

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Gainsight

APRIL 29, 2021

Imagine gathering Customer Success executives together and having them open up about pain points, processes, and the future of CS. Recently, I did, and inevitably, one topic and the incessant accompanying question arose, which is: How do we measure the ROI of our Customer Success team? Logo Churn Would Go Up.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The themes today centered around Human-First Customer Success and Transforming Customer Centricity. Human-First Customer Success. The Key to Customer Success: Leadership with Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic and Co-founder of Gain Grow Retain at Higher Logic.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Frequently updated and always on point, the A-List is a snapshot of what's happening in the world of Customer Success. Director of Customer Success - Proven. Alex curates the Customer Success Newsletter which is a weekly curated collection of 4 helpful articles from around the Customer Success community.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This article is a continuation of 24 CX ROI Metrics for Your Chief Customer Officer Prosperity Playbook. There you can see the equations for 24 customer experience metrics expressed in money rather than percent or scores, making financial gains obvious. Does it cost you when you reduce value to customers?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do).

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Gainsight

JUNE 21, 2022

Gainsight and RevOps Squared had an incredible response to our Customer Sucess Index 2022. Investment in customer success (CS) is causing a significant impact on companies’ revenue and growth. According to the Index, companies spend anywhere from 3% to 20% of revenue on customer success. versus $0.63

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Gainsight

APRIL 27, 2020

From the beginning, we’ve said that Customer Success is not just a department – it’s a company-wide priority. We even wrote about how CEOs need to take more ownership of Customer Success. But one voice hasn’t been prominent enough in the Customer Success dialogue – Finance.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 6, 2021

If you are a customer success leader who’s being forced to use a sales tool that wasn’t built for you in the first place, we get you. how to sell your customer success tool to them. how to sell your customer success tool to them. The Impact of selling a customer success software to the C-suite.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 23, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Our CCO, Ashvin Vaidyanathan , and our Chief Strategist, Ruben Rabago , were honored to be invited to do an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit last week. Additionally, the Customer Success Subreddit is a great place to connect and network with other practitioners and leaders. If you’re on Reddit, you should definitely join!

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

At such times, CCO is the only leader who has to bear the brunt; after all, customer success is at an adolescence phase! Due to this very reason, it becomes extremely difficult for the CCOs to pitch budget ideas for customer success successfully. . The CCO’s guide to winning budget for customer success.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are honored to present our Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success to Follow list for 2022, celebrating 50 influential women leaders and their inspiring stories of strength and success. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The Customer SuccessCon event series provides an intimate setting to learn, share best practices and speak freely and openly about the current state of Customer Success. . The event, hosted by The Customer Success Association , featured sessions from a variety of CS thought leaders. Didn’t attend?

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Gainsight

JUNE 9, 2021

Whether you wanted to hear about Customer Success (CS) and Sales alignment, scaling through hypergrowth, or health score iterations, we had a little something for everyone. Here are the track highlights: Chart-Topping Customer Success Operations. Top Picks: Simplifying Customer Success.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 16, 2021

What’s the ROI of Customer Success?”. If you want to start a fight (or at least a spirited debate) at a Customer Success conference, yell the following question and run out of the room: “Should CSMs own renewals?”. “I don’t care about that Einstein quote. – Your CFO. What term should you optimize for?

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