CCO Council

MAY 6, 2014

A common challenge of chief customer officers and other customer executives is the need to prove the ROI of customer centricity. To effectively demonstrate value, customer executives need to show how their customer initiatives impact one or more of these key factors.

Customer Centricity 75

Customer Centricity ROI Measurement Chief Customer Officer 75

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. You can’t measure it.

Sales 52

Sales Effort Score Chief Customer Officer NPS 52

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.

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Effort Score Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer 97

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 9, 2018

In today’s episode, I chat with Daniel Coullet , Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Experience, and Elizabeth Curtin , Customer Experience Practice Manager at PTC , about defining customer success, and the value of designing customer room for enhancing employee and customer experience.

Customer Experience 175

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer Effort Score 175

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.

Customer Engagement 52

Customer Engagement Engagement Company Strategy 52

Customer Bliss

JANUARY 7, 2016

Using survey scores alone to quantify and drive action puts CX work (and your role) in the “leap of faith” category. The connection between improved scores and improved customer growth is not always clear. That means ‘Customer Focus’ is a top agenda item of the organization, but it’s not easily quantified.

Effort Score 100

Effort Score Chief Customer Officer Social Media Customers 100

Customer Bliss

JANUARY 7, 2016

Using survey scores alone to quantify and drive action puts CX work (and your role) in the “leap of faith” category. The connection between improved scores and improved customer growth is not always clear. That means ‘Customer Focus’ is a top agenda item of the organization, but it’s not easily quantified.

Effort Score 100

Effort Score Chief Customer Officer Social Media Customers 100

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.

Trends 98

Trends Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Customer Journeys 98

Wootric CX Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Wootric, the CX management platform for maximizing customer lifetime value (CLV), has been recognized as a High Performer in the G2 Crowd Grid Report for Experience Management for Fall 2020. Wootric also outperforms the category on all satisfaction measures including ease of use.

ROI 52

ROI Report Net Promoter Score Effort Score 52

Wootric CX Blog

JULY 1, 2020

We are excited to announce a new integration with Freshworks that enables cloud-based businesses to optimize the customer support touchpoint, a crucial moment in every customer journey. This customization boosts response rates and improves the quality of the feedback received. .

Net Promoter Score 52

Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer Effort Score Touchpoint 52

Kayako

JANUARY 12, 2017

It’s easy to rush into 2017 without appreciating the good parts of 2016: there is now a lot of great content out there that supports you, the customer advocating superhero! How do you round off a year that’s been so good to the customer service industry? To remember why we do our jobs in the first place: the customer.

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Effort Score Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity 120

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s an exciting time to be in customer success. “2024 will continue to see the chief customer officer move into the leadership phase,” predicts ChurnZero CEO and co-founder You Mon Tsang. Expanded roles and responsibilities: how will customer success evolve in 2024?

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Industry Trends Chief Customer Officer 52

Customer Bliss

MARCH 24, 2015

Most CEO’s no longer need to be convinced of the importance of retaining customers and developing relationships with profitable customers. If there’s a void, it may be right to consider a Chief Customer Officer. Implementation Tip: This needs to be a group effort. Consider each statement.

Tips 100

Tips Chief Customer Officer Effort Score Roadmap 100

ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2020

The term “customer-first” gets thrown around and cited often in the B2B world. The challenges to becoming a customer-centric company are not easy to overcome alone. It takes a village to raise a customer-centric company. Your entire organization must invest in rallying around the customer.

Customer Centricity 98

Customer Centricity Chief Customer Officer Effort Score Sports 98

Kayako

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Customer feedback loops suffer from a lack of commitment. Most teams believe that a response to their customer marks the end of a closed-loop feedback system. Let’s go back to the start and reiterate your feedback process so you can improve both user and customer experiences. Close the loop with the customer.

Feedback 136

Feedback Net Promoter Score e-support Metrics 136

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. It makes perfect sense too.

Trends 52

Trends Net Promoter Score NPS Return on Investment 52

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.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Tools Management Chief Customer Officer 98

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

6 Ways to Capitalize on the C-Suite’s Attention on Customer Success. As a customer success leader, you’re likely familiar with the struggles of gaining executive buy-in and advocating for the criticality of customer success to the larger organization. Tell a story using direct customer input. Make a recommendation.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Conference Customers 98

CX Journey

MARCH 17, 2015

In November 2014, I participated in the Hooked On Customers Summit , a webinar series hosted by Bob Thompson of CustomerThink. I joined Bob, along with Jeanne Bliss, in the first webinar to discuss Creating Actionable Insight from a Customer Listening Engine. And then act on what you hear.

Metrics 80

Metrics Chief Customer Officer Effort Score Voice of Customer 80

CCO Council

OCTOBER 14, 2019

If you asked your customers, “How easy is it to do business with us?” ” If you asked customers to compare you with Amazon or Lyft or USAA, they might say, “Not at all!” ” How do we make it easier for our customers to buy from us? Isn’t it just about improving the customer experience?

Effort Score 40

Effort Score Chief Customer Officer Metrics Touchpoint 40

CCO Council

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A good friend and colleague, Anne Bowman, commented on a recent article saying, “We need to create human versions of WD-40” to lubricate away the friction between our company and our customers. Friction between you and your customers can ruin the relationship no matter how invested you both are in working together.

Effort Score 40

Effort Score Chief Customer Officer Metrics Roadmap 40

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

We’re honored to be honored for our work alongside so many of our customer service and customer experience colleagues. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Adrian Swinscoe.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

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. You will see it in the way customers talk about the product. More strategic customer journeys.

Customer Success 59

Customer Success ROI Effort Score Metrics 59

Eptica

JUNE 17, 2016

Date: Friday, June 17, 2016 Transforming the customer experience in 5 steps. One of the key points raised is that while senior managers now understand the importance of customer experience , many are unsure where to start when it comes to improving what they offer to consumers. Bring in new customers? Improve retention rates?

Self Service 48

Self Service Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Knowledge Base 48

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. So, let’s get started!

Customer Service 85

Customer Service Handbook Customer Satisfaction Loyalty 85

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

We’re honored to be honored for our work alongside so many of our customer service and customer experience colleagues. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Adrian Swinscoe.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

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. To create a consistent onboarding experience, irrespective of a user’s onboarding cohort, Olson says Customer Success needs to ramp up automation.

Customer Success 93

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score NPS 93

ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

Every onboarding task, meeting, communication, and training must serve a single purpose—and that is to get the customer to realize value. You don’t want your customers biting off more than they can chew. At the same time, your onboarding needs to be fairly intensive so that customers see early success, not only potential.

Metrics 98

Metrics How To Effort Score Self Service 98

Eptica

MAY 30, 2018

Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 Author: Olivier Njamfa The importance of customer experience in a winner takes all world. That was the message from Ed Thompson of Gartner at the analyst’s Customer Experience & Technologies Summit 2018 , which Eptica attended. For those with just slightly lower scores (8-8.9/10)

Customer Experience 50

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer Effort Score 50

Pointillist

JUNE 6, 2018

I’ve got clients where the Chief Customer Officer reports directly to the CEO and where CX teams report to Marketing. I’ve also seen it start from HR because more and more companies are realizing that employee experience drives customer experience. Swati: What kind of KPIs are CX teams typically being measured on today?

Customer Journeys 40

Customer Journeys Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer First Call Resolution 40

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. Step 1: Goals.

Customer Success 56

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Metrics Effort Score 56

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

It’s around twenty years since businesses began to think seriously about customer service as a means of growing competitive advantage. The answer, of course, was great customer service. The journey to customer and revenue retention. What could they offer over and above their competitors? But how do we prove this?

Financial 40

Financial Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score Effort Score 40

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. to drive better customer-centric decision-making.

Handbook 52

Handbook NPS Chief Customer Officer Metrics 52

Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

Recently, our Chief Customer Officer, Ashvin Vaidyanathan , met with Mike Rivisto , Senior Vice President, Customer Success, and Services at ServiceChannel along with their Senior Director of Customer Success, Jessica Countess. While their recent NPS score of 73.8 While their recent NPS score of 73.8

NPS 52

NPS Effort Score Survey Roadmap 52

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.

Effort Score 60

Effort Score Conference Chief Customer Officer Consulting 60

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 1, 2024

The discussion among customer success professionals, Shagun from What Fits, Anindra from Mately Extreme, and Darshan from the Customer Service Revenue team delved into the evolving landscape of customer success strategies. The discussion revealed that customer success has moved beyond being a standalone function.

Customer Success 8

Customer Success Strategy Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score 8

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 1, 2024

The discussion among customer success professionals, Shagun from What Fits, Anindra from Mately Extreme, and Darshan from the Customer Service Revenue team delved into the evolving landscape of customer success strategies. The discussion revealed that customer success has moved beyond being a standalone function.

Customer Success 8

Customer Success Strategy Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score 8