Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2018

As “customer experience” has become a hot topic and nearly every industry has embraced it as a priority for their business, it is important that it also become united across your organization. Develop your customer experience strategy. It unites the organization in building a framework for “Earning the Right” to Customer Asset Growth.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

How do you transform the culture and operations of your company to benefit the lives of your customers? Determine What Your Customers Value and What Makes Them Happy. Determine What Your Customers Value and What Makes Them Happy. Take on the responsibility to talk to customers and provide them with a sense of trust.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 12, 2016

A customer listening path unites leaders and the organization in understanding experiences that impact customer growth or loss. Customer Listening Requires Agreement on Your Customer Journey Stages. As you build out your listening path, your customer journey provides the frame for storytelling.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2019

“I am a bridge builder and I really like that aspect of my role,” says Yamini Rangan , chief customer officer at Dropbox , a SaaS company that offers file storage and collaboration solutions to both individuals and companies. Her love for being customer-focused was what helped drive her success at Dropbox, .

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I speak with customer experience professionals every day. Some of them have fancy, customer-focused titles like Chief Customer Officer or Vice President of Customer Experience. Others have more common org chart regulars, like Chief Marketing Officer or Voice fo the Customer (VoC) Director.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Apple and IBM Peanut butter and jelly Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg Marketing and Customer Success They are all unexpected — yet incredibly successful — partnerships. On the other hand, the CCO focuses on what happens after the sale, overseeing onboarding, customer support, driving retention, and minimizing churn.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 12, 2016

A customer listening path unites leaders and the organization in understanding experiences that impact customer growth or loss. Customer Listening Requires Agreement on Your Customer Journey Stages. As you build out your listening path, your customer journey provides the frame for storytelling.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

You need it to have a better understanding of who does what in the company and how it trickles down to the customer experience. Ultimately, headcount affects employee experience which affects your customers. The decision will need to be made in year one regarding customer issues. Customer listening path inputs will increase.

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Customer Bliss

MAY 26, 2016

Note: On June 2, I’ll be presenting at a Vision Critical webinar on the rise of the chief customer officer. Customer Experience is not a new idea. However, the acceptance of customer experience as a differentiator to grow your business is new to most companies. Three Market Conditions.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 6, 2022

Congratulations on becoming the new chief customer officer of the organization. The biggest challenge you will face as the new chief customer officer is that the customer situation has shifted dramatically in the last couple of years. Questions the new chief customer officer must ask themselves.

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Education Services Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Raise your hand if you’ve ever read a job description like this: We’re hiring a Chief Customer Officer! Because we expect that orientation to benefit the customer and the company, it will require the CCO to be the individual at the leading edge of enabling its realization. Is this you? We desperately need you.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In this interview, Jay also shares examples from 3 companies (B2C and B2B) who’ve successfully operationalized talk triggers that keep their businesses booming and customers talking. The employment of these triggers means these companies don’t have to rely on paid advertising to grow and reach new customers.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Have you ever thought about the end-to-end customer experience of a student in higher education? From interfacing with the admissions department to the platforms used to register and access school resources – the overall customer and user experience impacts a student’s success and perception of the program.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The following post is an excerpt from my book: Chief Customer Officer 2.0. In this “My Rock, My Story,” Aisling Hassell , Head of International Customer Experience at Airbnb , shares how her team works together in the customer listening process to establish a baseline before setting targets for metrics goals.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In today’s episode, I chat with Alvin Stokes , Senior VP of Customer Experience at Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W) , and we discuss how he began a CX transformation in an international telecommunications industry spanning 17 markets. Serve Customers with Passion. Build the Foundation and Improve Upon it.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. We often talk about the customer journey or experience with us by stages of the journey, but I have been really trying to move people and focus them instead on customers goals.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Do you put the needs of your customers first and focus on the value you provide them? Today, we’re replaying an episode that many of you enjoyed, featuring Francis Cordon , the first Chief Customer Officer at Rigor , a SaaS company. Focus on the Customer Value.

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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. Customer Journey Mapping is another case in point.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is the relationship of a customer with a business at all touchpoints during the period of the customer journey. It is widely said that customer experience is the next battleground for organizations. Adam is a globally recognized expert on customer experience.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 24, 2020

It’s just over 4 weeks until Reuters Events Customer Service and Experience (26 th -27 th August). To plot the next steps, Reuters Events Customer Service and Experience Europe (26th-27th August) is fully virtualised. Fidaa Chaar, Chief Operations and Customer Officer, Societe Generale.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We know from industry research and personal experience that despite all the attention on it, Customer Experience is either stagnating or not getting the results CEO’s desire. I am also disappointed in the frequency of bad experiences I have had lately, despite the focus on Customer Experience.

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 9, 2018

Long gone are the days when customers almost expected to experience IVR hell and would pretty much tolerate jaw-dropping wait times. IBM reports that by 2020 – that’s just two years away – 85% of all customer service interactions will occur without a human agent. What Does AI Customer Service Look Like?

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 10, 2018

In my most recent podcast episode, I interviewed Daniel Coullet and Elizabeth Curtin , CX leaders of the SaaS company, PTC , about the customer room they designed to enhance both employee and customer experience within their organization. And why does the customer room work? Building Our Customer Room.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 10, 2022

Past: Customer Success Started as a Community. The word “community” captures how the Customer Success movement got started. Customer Success Managers” were cropping up in dozens of SaaS companies, but they often felt isolated. Product leaders joined the Customer Success movement with the addition of PX to our product portfolio.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

Gainsight product leadership took to the stage to unveil new Gainsight innovations that will supercharge the way you deliver outcomes along the customer journey. He then introduced Megs Suratkal, Global Vice President of Customer Experience & Customer Success at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, who happened to join remotely from Boston.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 25, 2016

Companies have always understood the value of customers — as in, customers pay for your product/service — but only in the last decade or two have companies gotten more strategic around customer engagement, customer journey maps, etc. That’s a problem, because you need that buy-in.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 13, 2018

Over the past two years, the CX leaders and CCOs that I’ve spoken with have shared great actionable advice and tactics to help you transform the culture of your organization to be customer-driven. Envision Yourself as a Customer and Take the Journey. Understand the Pain Points of your Customers, Employees, and C-Suite.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In my recent vlog, Jeanne’s Daily Dose…Of Reality , I discuss the importance of customer journey mapping and how you can use it to break down silos and unite your leadership team. First, we’ll hear from Kathy Tobiasen , the Vice President of Customer Experience at The Nature’s Bounty Company.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 16, 2018

On today’s episode, we’re talking to Lee Roquet , the Chief Customer Officer at Yellowfin , a B2B SaaS company that provides a business intelligence analytics platform. Understanding your company’s power core is a first crucial step in knowing how to proceed with your customer experience agenda.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Top 5 Customer Success Takeaways from Chief Customer Officers USA. Our very own CCO, Abby Hammer, had a part of the action and was one of the presenters and spoke on- How to Drive Operational Excellence Through Data-Driven Customer Success. Surprise and Delight Your Customers.

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Gainsight

MAY 3, 2023

The future of Customer Success (CS) is digital, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be beautifully simple. At Pulse 2023 , the largest conference in the Customer Success industry, we’re dedicating an entire track to unpacking Digital Customer Success (DCS): Digital Strategies to Help You Achieve More With Less.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2020

As SaaS gets more serious about Customer Success, their representation on the executive and C-suite level will follow (as envisioned in our 2020 Customer Success predictions ; see #2). Based on LinkedIn research, Customer Success r oles saw 34% annual growth —qualifying them as one of the top emerging jobs in 2020.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 23, 2018

At a time when more and more people are taking public transportation, customer experience for commuters has a big impact on their daily lives. Over time, as the customer insights manager, Anand’s role began to evolve and he was able to start framing his work as the head of customer experience.

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Customer Bliss

MAY 5, 2016

If you start talking about cross-functional teams and what that means for customer experience, the journey for your organization is even more nuanced. Silos band together to work on the problem, but often without starting with customers’ lives. Who has time for cross-functional teams in a modern business environment?

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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 Bliss

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I had the pleasure of speaking with Bob Buiaroski , the SVP of Manulife , a leading Canadian-based financial services group that serves millions of customers in 22 countries and territories world-wide. Bob explores this concept with us well, as we chat about the incorporation of robotics to improve employee and customer experience.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 17, 2018

He started by methodically gathering customer feedback that he could share with the C-Suite. He had to ask, “How do you define a customer metric that is valid and useful for your company?” With this new focus, the CFO began to think of and view customers in a new way. CustomerExperience #CX Click To Tweet.

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