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Amazing Business Radio: Scott Walker

ShepHyken

There are three levels where a company may be at in their roadmap to customer optimization. Instead of just focusing on meeting your monthly sales numbers, try focusing on customer retention. Before founding ethosIQ in 2009, he worked with companies like Apple, Microsoft, Ticketmaster, and Nike. Intermediate/Operations focused.

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Amazing Business Radio: Scott Walker

ShepHyken

There are three levels where a company may be at in their roadmap to customer optimization. Instead of just focusing on meeting your monthly sales numbers, try focusing on customer retention. Before founding ethosIQ in 2009, he worked with companies like Apple, Microsoft, Ticketmaster, and Nike. Intermediate/Operations focused.

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Making an impact on the customer experience in the first 90 days

Customer Alignment

The average tenure also lengthened from 23 months in 2009 to 34.5 Although she came from a customer facing sales environment, she sought guidance on how she might hit the ground running if she decided to take up this new role. Ensure these work streams underpin the blueprint and structure them into a time bound roadmap.

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Is This the End of Customer Success Software as We Know It?

Gainsight

If I was to tell you in 2009 that in just a few years there would be a new category of software almost as prolific as CRMs, customer support, and project management software you wouldn’t have believed me. The same could be said for CRMs—a quintessential sales tool. Sales tools like CRMs and customer communication.

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Why Qualtrics – Ali BaderEddin – Manager, Software Engineering – Seattle, WA

Qualtrics

I moved to Seattle in 2009, worked as an SDET on the SharePoint Developer team for another 3 years, and then transitioned to SDE role in the Microsoft SQL org. Two weeks in, John Thimsen offered me the opportunity to own a product, called Site Intercept , and drive the engineering roadmap for it. What is your day to day like?

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Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020

SurveySensum

Shane Goldberg has 20 of experience across customer experience, business improvement, sales operations, and product management. James has worked with both start-ups & top S&P 500 organizations, including co-founding a successful iGaming business that was successfully exited through sale to a U.K. Website : [link].

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Your Customer Experience is Superficial unless you have the “Q”

CX University

The liquid within lithium ion batteries is highly flammable, which explains other phone explosions and issues over time , including Nokia issues in 2009 and an iPhone giving someone third-degree burns in 2015. Involve customers, partners, and employees in the testing process: Add this to roadmap and delivery.