Vonage

JULY 3, 2018

There’s no question that customer success impacts today’s businesses. We know that unhappy customers will not only take their business elsewhere, they will share bad experiences with friends, family, and colleagues, on social media and with anyone else who will listen. Success is also about mistakes. Venture capitalists.

Customer Success 204

Customer Success Social Media Metrics Customer Centricity 204

ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

You’re not alone,” says Sharon Winterton , vice president of Customer Success at Catalina Marketing during her session “ Battling imposter syndrome in Customer Success ” at BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success conference. You’ve never done Customer Success before. There’s so much to do.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success How To Customer Journeys Culture 98

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.

Customer Success 101

Customer Success Tips Chief Customer Officer Leadership 101

Totango

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Building and leading a customer success team is no easy feat. From gaining the buy-in of other departments to training team members and earning customers’ trust, the role of a customer success leader can be as challenging as it is rewarding. 5 Key Takeaways. 5 Key Takeaways. Need help leading your CS team?

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Tips Guidelines Leadership 98

Gainsight

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For a long time, proactive vs reactive was a common debate among Customer Success professionals. Now, the verdict is in, and everyone agrees that proactive Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are best positioned to drive value and deliver a better customer experience. Control over the customer experience.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Company How To Effort Score 52

Gainsight

MARCH 8, 2023

Today, financial leadership is transforming once again. Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta champions a concept known as “ human-first leadership.” In recent months, I’ve realized that to overcome the challenges we now face, we need a new evolution in financial leadership: the rise of the human-first CFO. Look in the mirror.

Leadership 52

Leadership Financial Conference Communication 52

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In the business landscape today, Customer Success is a bit of an outlier. One other thing that makes Customer Success particularly unique in an organization: formal Customer Success training, or lack thereof. The truth is that Customer Success training is far from standardized, and it doesn’t always happen.

Training 94

Training Customer Success Customers Culture 94

Totango

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Building and leading a customer success team is no easy feat. From gaining the buy-in of other departments to training team members and earning customers’ trust, the role of a customer success leader can be as challenging as it is rewarding. 5 Key Takeaways. 5 Key Takeaways. Need help leading your CS team?

Customer Success 85

Customer Success Tips Guidelines Leadership 85

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Have you ever wondered about the difference between customer success and customer support? While both are important for ensuring customer satisfaction and retention, they have different objectives and approaches. Unlike customer support, which is reactive, customer success is proactive.

Customer Success 70

Customer Success First Call Resolution eBook Customer Satisfaction 70

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 12, 2022

This is why establishing an executive sponsor program is critical to customer success – with an executive or team leader on your team working directly as an advocate for your customers, it’s easier to get more done both on the product side and on the customer success side. Toolkit: Team Leadership Toolkit.

Customer Success 75

Customer Success eBook Measurement Leadership 75

Kristina Evey

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Shownotes… I am going to be delivering a webinar later this week for a partner and our initial conversations were around moving from Customer Success to Customer experience. It seems that Customer Success has a wide range of definitions, as does Customer Experience. Customer Success (CS).

Customer Experience 136

Customer Experience Customer Success Culture Customers 136

Totango

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Building and leading a customer success team is no easy feat. From gaining the buy-in of other departments to training team members and earning customers’ trust, the role of a customer success leader can be as challenging as it is rewarding. 5 Key Takeaways. 5 Key Takeaways. Need help leading your CS team?

Customer Success 69

Customer Success Tips Guidelines Leadership 69

ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Customer success managers have their work cut out for them when it comes to retaining and growing customers. It takes a lot of hard work to draw customers into your company in the first place, so you must work to keep those customers more than satisfied once they decide to work with you. In Conclusion.

Customer Success 74

Customer Success Culture eBook Social Media 74

ClientSuccess

MARCH 8, 2023

A little bit of gratitude can go a long way in building a loyal customer base. In conclusion, writing an effective customer success follow-up email is about personalization, clarity, value, and gratitude. Let them know you appreciate their feedback and are committed to providing the best possible experience.

Customer Success 79

Customer Success Tips eBook Roadmap 79

Kayako

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When you think about businesses that are known for providing extraordinary customer service like Zappos, Amazon or Chick-Fil-A, they share a common trait. They’re obsessed with their customers. How do you build a customer-oriented culture? Make everyone interact with customers. Reward great customer service.

Culture 120

Culture Banking How To Customer Service 120

ClientSuccess

AUGUST 30, 2018

Notably, Carine Clark , CEO of Banyan , presented at last year’s premier customer success leadership event in Sundance, Utah, and her message was both powerful and practical. The rest of the company includes your CEO, which, in Carine’s opinion, shouldn’t be as hard as many customer success teams expect.

Leadership 40

Leadership Customer Success eBook Culture 40

ClientSuccess

JUNE 15, 2022

As any customer success professional knows, learning and growing in your profession never really ends. Why let your development as a customer success professional fall behind? Stop right there if you’re thinking, “what else about customer success do I stand to learn?”. Continuing education for CSMs.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success eBook Leadership Innovation 52

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC? 20 quick insights on Customer Success and SaaS metrics – The audience chat was on fire during this webinar. 5/ The startup’s guide to Customer Success.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Metrics Consulting Training 98

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To make the right choices, however, you need a deep understanding of what your customers need and expect from you. Second, desire for the role, or cultural fit, matters way more than skillset. Then, think about leadership in general. For more customer success webinars and resources, click here.

Sales 52

Sales Customer Success Tourism Roadmap 52

Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Amy Downs is the Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer at Lifesize, a company enabling communication and collaboration among many mediums (their slogan is “connecting people to make their workplace great” ), was quite interesting. Our #1 goal is to earn customers’ business for life! Episode Overview.

Customer Success 0

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer Leadership 0

Thematic

APRIL 12, 2023

People sit and have meetings at that table because it's so central to the company culture and values. There is a focus on empathy for and listening to customers. Another example is getting your executive leadership team to call detractors. Afterward, he’d talk to the customer success team about his learnings.

Customer Centricity 62

Customer Centricity Culture Company Omni-Channel 62

Amity

JANUARY 9, 2019

One of the most exciting aspects of developing customer success strategies is looking at how Customer Success is (or should be) integrated with other areas of the organization. It can also happen when the senior leadership team has not agreed on and adopted a cohesive customer success strategy and culture.

Customer Success 81

Customer Success Customer Journeys Leadership Metrics 81

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In today’s competitive customer success landscape, it is essential that CSMs are adequately and appropriately compensated for their work. When making a switch from one compensation plan to another for your Customer Success Managers (CSMs), it’s important to make the transition as smooth and considerate as possible.

Customer Success 87

Customer Success Tips Management Sales 87

ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While having great, well-planned, and well-executed customer check-ins is crucial for any successful customer success strategy, it’s only the first part. An additional step is needed to help the customer lifecycle move smoothly from one checkpoint to the next: the follow-up email.

Customer Success 64

Customer Success eBook Meeting Resources 64

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Why is your Customer Success team underfunded, marginalized, and overlooked? Acquisition gets all the glory while Customer Success gets relegated the part of the unsung hero.”. Anna’s Customer Success experience runs the gamut – from her early roles as an individual contributor to leading and scaling teams of her own.

Customer Success 59

Customer Success Leadership Net Promoter Score Culture 59

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2021

By creating healthy boundaries, Customer Success and Sales don’t have to spend their days assessing and arguing over every expansion situation. Building on the point above, when determining expansion ownership, you want to quantify the established relationships between a Customer Success Manager or salesperson and the customer.

Examples 98

Examples Sales Customer Success Engagement 98

Amity

AUGUST 5, 2017

When you think of company culture, what comes to mind? I consider these perks, which are certainly an expression of a company’s culture, but not the actual culture in itself. So what, exactly, is company culture? Empowered employees = better-served customers. What did you love about it?

Culture 63

Culture Company Leadership Study 63

One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Does our organization engage in a couch potato storytelling culture? A couch potato storytelling culture is self-focused. A couch potato storytelling culture emphasizes drama over minor skirmishes. What if current and potential customers run their businesses well-enough, so that big, hairy problems never, or rarely, occur?

Culture 71

Culture Course Leadership Strategy 71

ClientSuccess

MARCH 9, 2020

When many of us in the business world (yes, even those of us in customer-facing roles) hear the phrases ‘Customer Success’ and ‘Customer Experience’, we often think of them as interchangeable. After all, don’t they both deal with engaging customers? Understanding Customer Success.

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Customer Experience Case Study Customer relationships 97

Amity

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Why not start with some Customer Success videos? 6 TED Talks That Are Surprisingly Relevant to Customer Success. 5 Powerful Videos That Spotlight Customer Advocacy. 2017 Rewind: Your Customer Success Playlist. Here are some pieces around aligning Customer Success and other teams.

Customer Success 107

Customer Success Tips Video Measurement 107

Gainsight

JUNE 8, 2022

In Customer Success circles, we practice the belief that when a company has the customer at the center of all that it does, customer outcomes will be achieved. his means that the product or service that a company is providing satisfies customers’ business needs. Teach Employees How to Help.

Customer Success 59

Customer Success Customer Centricity Chief Customer Officer B2B 59

Amity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Amity sat down with Bradley Liou , Director of Customer Success at Densify to ask him about all things Customer Success. Read our interview with Bradley to find out where Customer Success started at Densify, where it is now, and where it’s headed in the future. I am the GM, the coach and the player.

Customer Success 106

Customer Success Competitive Advantage Customers Software 106

Amity

AUGUST 5, 2017

When you think of company culture, what comes to mind? I consider these perks, which are certainly an expression of a company’s culture, but not the actual culture in itself. So what, exactly, is company culture? Empowered employees = better-served customers. What did you love about it?

Culture 60

Culture Company Leadership Study 60

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 27, 2022

At the heart of any successful customer relationship is a clear and well-defined path to customer success. Here are key strategies to consider when creating a Customer Success Journey Map: 1. Develop clear tasks, milestones and goals throughout the customer lifecycle.

Customer Journeys 52

Customer Journeys Customer Success Tips eBook 52

Kustomer

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Annette Pedroza to learn about building a customer centric culture. Success Starts with Leadership. You’re listening to the Customer Service Secrets podcast by Kustomer. TRANSCRIPT.

Customer Centricity 59

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Effort Score 59

ClientSuccess

MARCH 17, 2021

Today’s CSMs and customer success leaders are masters in juggling multiple plates at once. Not all parts of being a CSM are nice and rosy, and sometimes issues must be escalated both with customers and with your internal leadership team. eBook: Customer Success as a Culture: Marketing Leaders Edition.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Case Study eBook Leadership 52

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 11, 2023

The concept of customer success continues to rapidly gain traction as businesses strive to improve their customer experience. Here’s an overview of what we call the Golden Rule of Customer Success – 8 Guiding Principles: Understand customer needs, goals and motivations. Read on to learn more. In fact, a lot.

Customer Success 80

Customer Success eBook Loyalty Conference 80