Customer Bliss

MARCH 14, 2017

One of the more interesting aspects of this discussion is about the skill development necessary to grow into a customer-facing role — and how that professional journey can really start from anywhere. Diane has been working since the early 1980s, serving in a number of transformative customer experience roles. About Diane.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Because of this, 100% of SaaS companies are investing in Customer Success. But the reality is that not every CEO is actually doing Customer Success well : One of the biggest questions on the minds of CEOs is “how should I structure Customer Success?” But what about your customers?

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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’m addressing this post to the head of “post-sales” in your company. – Your CFO.

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Gainsight

APRIL 14, 2022

One of the biggest paradigm shifts is an increased appreciation for the customer base. We can’t take our customers for granted — ever. Investing in customer success (CS) isn’t a nice-to-have anymore — or even merely a high priority — it’s existential. Quick Level Set: What Customer Success Is, and Isn’t.

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Gainsight

MARCH 1, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of Customer Success (CS), where relationships and outcomes intersect, the voices of female leaders are increasingly shaping the trajectory of the industry. When I started out in 2019, not many knew what a Customer Success Manager (CSM) was. What’s changed: What hasn’t changed?

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Retently

OCTOBER 19, 2018

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? But taking customer satisfaction lightly can be dangerous too. Some studies from 2016 suggest that poor customer service costs businesses up to $62 million per year. trillion per year when their customers leave – and that’s only in the US. What Is a CCO?

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CloudCherry

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Who owns the customer experience in your organization? When it comes to putting customer experience management into action, it’s critical to know who owns the moving pieces. In today’s B2B world, customer experience management (CEM) often falls to the customer success team.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the demand for Customer Success surges within SaaS, so too does the need for effective leaders to spearhead this expanding function and steer its strategy and success. Over the course of the pandemic, Customer Success has cemented itself as a central business driver of growth and profit.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 18, 2017

As Chief Customer Officer and EVP of Technology Services, Lillie directly leads the Global Customer Success Organization, which includes Global Customer Care, Global Customer Experience, Global Customer Process, and Global Technology Services, including IT and Interconnection Product Engineering.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

However, it’s tough to predict the future alone — so we asked Customer Success leaders across the industry to share their top trends for 2023. Second, the power of AI in customer experience will become more evident and accessible—an innovation we at ChurnZero have jumped on with the introduction of Customer Success AI.

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CloudCherry

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Who owns the customer experience in your organization? When it comes to putting customer experience management into action, it’s critical to know who owns the moving pieces. In today’s B2B world, customer experience management (CEM) often falls to the customer success team.

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ChurnZero

MAY 29, 2020

Do you know what Customer Success metrics race through a Chief Customer Officer’s (CCO’s) mind all day long? With a dizzying number of SaaS metrics—from acquisition costs and account expansion to customer churn and satisfaction—all vying for headspace, CCOs must focus on the measurements that really matter.

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CSM Practice

AUGUST 3, 2020

is considered to be a crucial topic among the Customer Success community. That said, many experts in this field are taking time to brainstorm to come up with a specific answer to the question, “is it sales or customer success’ responsibility?”. We want to ensure initial deployment is successful.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The C hief Customer Officer Fall, 2018 (CCO), held September 12th-13th in San Diego, is an interactive peer-lead conference attracting senior-level customer focused professionals. The Customer Success Buzz at CCO. That’s where Customer Success comes into play.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 8, 2021

Against the backdrop of wild economic uncertainty, Customer Success has been the failsafe of SaaS businesses that were blindsided by pandemic-induced churn and contraction. With Customer Success demand at an all-time high, we expect to see more of its leaders join the executive ranks in the coming months and years.

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Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Your customer success team structure forms the organizational backbone supporting your CS strategy. A well-designed structure can help you streamline your operations for greater efficiency to deliver your customers better results. We’ll share four essential keys to structuring a customer success team.

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Gainsight

APRIL 15, 2022

The power dynamic has flipped from vendors to customers. Customers have more control than ever before, and companies that don’t build their offerings with the customer at the center will be left behind, sooner rather than later. . Customer success is a team effort, more Avengers than Batman. Get Alignment.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

Good sales teams typically get the budget, headcount and tools they desire because the function is tied to revenue. However, that’s not always the case for Customer Success (CS) teams even though they are often responsible for renewals and expansions. CS teams communicate using a different language than finance.

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Gainsight

MARCH 7, 2022

Over the past few years, we’ve been keeping our eye on an incredibly positive trend in the most successful companies: closer, more collaborative relationships between Customer Success and Product teams. . And now, we’re seeing more and more companies recognize that neither team can drive success by themselves.

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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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ECXO

APRIL 18, 2024

posts header on ECXO The Story of Jose – A Tale About Customer Experience Once upon a time in the bustling city of Metropolis, there was an extraordinary lion named Jose. Though TechEase was renowned for its innovative products, it was infamous for its lack of customer-centric culture.

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Totango

JUNE 10, 2022

As we saw in our 2021 State of the Customer Success Industry and Salary Report , the role of Customer Success Manager (CSM) is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the industry. In a recent webinar titled “Navigating Your Customer Success Career Path”, Totango’s Sr. Customer success is still new.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

I’d love to get your input on our Customer Success Organization.”. It’s so encouraging to see CEOs leaning into Customer Success. Inevitably, CEOs and leaders have the following common questions around how a Customer Success Organization should look: What should my Customer Success strategy be?

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Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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Gainsight

MAY 23, 2023

At its tenth annual Pulse conference last week, Customer Success (CS) platform Gainsight unveiled a new product designed to digitally connect the various fragments of customer experience, oriented around CS and supported by a new company-wide licensing option. So it’s complicated for the customer.”

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The results of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, based on the perspectives and insights of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, are in. The good news is Customer Success teams are growing both in size and budget. Panelists included: Alli Tiscornia, chief customer officer, ChurnZero.

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

There is no shortage of opinion in the market place about Customer Success; what it is, how to execute and whether growth should be a success metric are all hot topics. Do your processes work for 40 customers? Are there aspects of your customer touchpoints which can be tech touch? Involve Customer Marketing.

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Gainsight

MARCH 15, 2022

And now that customer success (CS) is the carrot every company is dangling to woo the best-and-brightest talent, you’ll often find job descriptions that tout the company’s rock-solid commitment to CS. How does the sales comp plan align to CS? Are CSMs invited to the sales kickoff? Game nights with the C-suite!

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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. Develop Core Values.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 14, 2020

ChurnZero Leverages LinkedIn Sales Navigator’s “Data Validation” to Improve Customer Data . New feature mitigates churn risk by flagging customer job changes. . LinkedIn launched Data Validation, a feature that helps Customer Success professionals manage their contacts and ensure they have the most up-to-date contact data.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 24, 2021

“Moments of truth” are those crucial points in your firm’s interaction with a customer. An article published in Harvard Business Review states that “the most important interactions [with a customer] are ‘moments of truth,’ those few points of contact that hold the greatest potential to delight — or alienate — an organization’s 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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Gainsight

JANUARY 17, 2023

In a rollercoaster global economy, you need to do everything in your power to take care of all of your customers. But when you’ve got customers across a wide variety of segments and geos, where do you start? You probably won’t be surprised at our answer: digital customer success (DCS). What does success look like?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic. A J oint Success Plan is a simple but powerful tool for outcome-based customer success management. It’s designed to help solution providers align with their customers’ business goals and objectives.

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Education Services Group

AUGUST 31, 2022

Speakers: Chris Singh , Chief Customer Officer, Blackbaud. . CCO of Blackbaud, Chris Singh, joined our VP of Customer Success, Peter Armaly for this month’s webinar, to discuss how to embrace the concept of the post-sale environment as an entire ecosystem. In there we get the experiential metric.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2021

12 Key Takeaways from ChurnZero’s BIG RYG Virtual Customer Success Conference. It’s a wrap on ChurnZero’s 2021 BIG RYG Virtual – our online Customer Success conference. An acronym for Red, Yellow and Green, RYG represents the common indicators of customer health. Then, back into the tech stack from there.”

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Where is Customer Success Headed in 2022? Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, came to exist. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, became essential to SaaS companies. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, joined the C-suite. Customer Success flexes its authority.

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