CX Journey

MARCH 17, 2015

Jeanne talked about the role of the Chief Customer Officer, while I ran through my Six Steps to Turn VoC into Action. One of the questions posed by Bob during the webinar was: “ How can managers avoid the metric becoming a goal rather than an indicator? customer experience metrics voc voice of customer'

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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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Alida

MARCH 10, 2017

According to an Accenture-commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, only seven percent of business leaders think that their company’s shopping experience exceeds customer expectations. According to Forrester , a one percent increase in CX scores can translate up to $100 million in annual revenue. CX is a huge business opportunity.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 15, 2021

Looking back at our Customer Success predictions for 2020 , I can’t help but wonder if our CEO, You Mon Tsang, was gazing into his own crystal ball. Before the pandemic hit, You Mon predicted that Customer Success would undergo its first pressure test. “Be Partner success will be a growing need in 2021.

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Amity

APRIL 7, 2017

You might need additional funds to purchase a Customer Success Operations system to automate playbooks and avoid unnecessary manual work. You might need additional funds approved to hire additional Customer Success managers. This often means your customer success team’s impact on the company’s growth.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Top 5 Customer Success Blog Posts of 2018. You can’t have a business without a product and you can’t maintain a customer base without Customer Success. Gainsight Elements: The Science of Customer Success. How to Calculate 6 Key Customer Success Metrics.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

You might need additional funds to purchase a Customer Success Operations System to automate playbooks and avoid unnecessary manual work. You might also need additional funds approved to hire additional Customer Success managers. This means your customer success team’s impact on the company’s growth.

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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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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

You might need additional funds to purchase a Customer Success Operations system to automate playbooks and avoid unnecessary manual work. You might need additional funds approved to hire additional Customer Success managers. This often means your customer success team’s impact on the company’s growth.

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ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2020

To understand the why and how behind putting the customer at the center of your business, we hosted a webinar with two founding team members of customer-first organizations: ChurnZero’s Chief Customer Officer Abby Hammer and inSided’s CEO/Co-Founder Robin van Lieshout. That can be the tricky part.

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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.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

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. As you grow your customer base, you must also dedicate resources to Customer Success. A successful subscription model depends on retention.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It’s only recently that customer success has emerged from being a “nice-to-have.” Today, companies realize that a robust customer success function can help preempt churn and grow revenues without acquiring customers at an exponential pace. Why Customer Success Can Help VC Attention.

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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. How have the metrics evolved over the last few years?

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Kayako

OCTOBER 23, 2017

For a customer feedback project to begin, get a team’s attention, and close the loop across the business, these are the three areas you must focus on: Assign (or claim) accountability and choose the metrics to track. Close the loop with the customer. Assign accountability for a customer feedback loop.

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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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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Q&A: How to Get 20/20 Foresight for Your 2020 Customer Success Planning. . To help you and your team with this arduous process, we hosted a video panel-style webinar on this topic so you could to hear advice on: End-of-year retention and upsell efforts. Customer Success operations planning.

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CCO Council

OCTOBER 2, 2019

If every customer interaction is wrought with friction, bureaucracy, complexity, or wasted time, there can never be real loyalty and certainly not high lifetime value. How can you reduce customer friction or effort and become Easy to Do Business With? Strong customer measurements, analytics, and insights are critical.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 7, 2020

Customer success departments have different structures in different companies. The Director of Customer Success comes somewhere in the middle of the corporate ladder. Mostly they report to the Vice President of Customer Success or the Chief Customer Officer. Let’s dig in and see.

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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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ProProfs Chat

JUNE 30, 2020

It’s not the amount of knowledge you are willing to offer, but the efforts you wish to take to keep your customers satisfied and loyal to your brand. Customers wouldn’t see what you have to offer, but what you are willing to change for them. That’s the true essence of customer service experience. Theodore Roosevelt.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding.

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Metrics How To Effort Score Self Service 98

Amity

JUNE 28, 2017

In the first two parts of this blog series, we argued that while Customer Health Score (CHS) is a helpful metric it is insufficient to address opportunities and challenges with your customers. We differentiated CHS from CMI this way: Customer Health Score measures the relationship between the vendor and the customer.

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ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? That’s why they got into this relationship with you in the first place – and why customer success has become a non-negotiable. If you teach a customer how to use your product to fix a problem, you’re in the game.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2022

We, at CustomerSuccessBox , spoke to some of the Top Customer Success Influencers to know how they manage churn! Irit Ezips is the Chief Customer Officer and CEO at CSM Practice. Irit has played a pivotal role in shaping Customer Success best practices and methodologies. Q: Please introduce yourself.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 7, 2020

Customer success departments have different structures in different companies. The Director of Customer Success comes somewhere in the middle of the corporate ladder. Mostly they report to the Vice President of Customer Success or the Chief Customer Officer. Let’s dig in and see.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

His best-selling book in 2016 is called: How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing. As part of Qualtrics’ XM Institute, she focuses her efforts on helping organizations optimize their experience management (XM) programs. She is known globally for transforming businesses to earn customer-driven growth.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

His best-selling book in 2016 is called: How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing. As part of Qualtrics’ XM Institute, she focuses her efforts on helping organizations optimize their experience management (XM) programs. She is known globally for transforming businesses to earn customer-driven growth.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Chad Horenfeldt – Director of Customer Success at Kustomer. With over 15 years of experience in customer success, Chad Horenfeldt has a proven reputation as a driven, creative, outcome-focused leader specialized in building and developing Customer Success teams. LinkedIn: [link]. Website : [link].

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 23, 2019

Much like the evolution within the Sales team and the creation of “Sales Ops”, Customer Success is on a similar trajectory. It is becoming vitally important to drive successful outcomes for your customers (i.e. Customer Success) and it is even more critical to build out “Customer Success Operations”.

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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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Gainsight

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If you’ve been paying attention to our content the last few weeks, you know Gainsight is excited about our 10 New Laws of Customer Success. Of course, we know not everyone is as enthusiastic about the 10 New Laws of Customer Success. New Value-Driven Metrics. That’s fine. But things are starting to change.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 14, 2023

Alignment between Customer Success (CS) and product teams isn’t something that just happens—it takes work. The teams must have a shared understanding of customer needs, the company’s vision, and each other’s roles in fulfilling both. Think about it from a customer’s perspective. Both elements are important.

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Chattermill

MAY 12, 2019

Zappos founder Tony Hsieh’s book is essential reading for all customer experience professionals. in 2000 to over $1 billion in 2008 by focusing relentlessly on customer success. Instead, he focuses on getting companies to see CX as a company-wide effort, not the exclusive domain of the call center rep or the salesperson.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 10, 2022

Customer interaction has changed, and customers feel happy when their needs are met. Along with the Chief Customer Officer, CIO can enable customer loyalty and experience is maintained. The CIO needs to use data intelligence to create high-level customer experiences to win over competitors.

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Gainsight

MAY 1, 2023

The customer success (CS) community has come a long way in the last ten years since our first Pulse Conference in 2013. For many CS professionals, there is a clear track from Customer Success Manager (CSM) to Team Lead to Head of CS and eventually (Chief Customer Officer) CCO.

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