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Chief Customer Officer in Manufacturing & Distribution With Anne Herman – CB47

Customer Bliss

Anne Herman is the Chief Customer Officer for MSA – The Safety Company, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of safety equipment. Anne is the third Chief Customer Officer for MSA. Episode Overview. She is an emerging breed of CCO doing double-duty as both transformist and operator.

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SaaS Customer Experience Starts in the C-Suite

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

In 2003 there were 30 Chief Customer Officers worldwide according to the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) Council, reaching 450 by 2011. The sales team is representing the product as it is today and not as they hope it will be tomorrow. Success means moving the relationship beyond the sale.

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Hunter Douglas’ B2B and B2C Customer Experience Leadership with Ross Garretson

Customer Bliss

On this episode of Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show, I chat with Ross Garretson , Vice President of Customer Experience at Hunter Douglas North America , about how he builds out both the business to business and business to consumer experience for the worldwide leader in custom window treatments and architectural products.

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Hunter Douglas’ B2B and B2C Customer Experience Leadership with Ross Garretson

Customer Bliss

On this episode of Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show, I chat with Ross Garretson , Vice President of Customer Experience at Hunter Douglas North America , about how he builds out both the business to business and business to consumer experience for the worldwide leader in custom window treatments and architectural products.

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

Customer Alignment

the number of Chief Customer Officers across all industries increased from 14 in 2014 to 90 in 2017; half of those roles were created in the last 15 months. months in 2013 but it still has the shortest lifespan among all C-suite executives, according to research conducted in 2010 by the Chief Customer Officer Council.

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8 Things Whitney Houston Taught Me About Category Creation

Gainsight

I joined our two founders ( Jim Eberlin and Sreedhar Peddineni ) very early (around $100K ARR) before officially launching Gainsight in 2013. To paraphrase a great quote from Gretchen Rubin, the days of helping to ignite the Customer Success movement were long , but the 8 years feel short. Customers wanted to be in the music videos.

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New Year’s Resolutions from the first Customer Success Meetup of 2014

Amity

The panelists included Mario Da Roza (Director of Customer Care at Trapeze Group), Kristian Gaetano (Manager, Customer Success at Achievers), Dave Strang (Team Lead, Professional Services at Achievers) and Jessica Weisz (Chief Customer Office at SoapBox). As a result, CSMs have had learn to “let things go”.