Gainsight

JULY 20, 2020

The Key to Customer Success Was Transformational Leadership. Just over a year ago, Commvault made the bold decision to alter its leadership approach significantly. There were new products, the first company acquisition in over 20 years, and a push for subscription customers. . Or did they?

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Customer Success Customer Journeys Leadership Customer Centricity 52

Help Scout

JUNE 5, 2019

It’s likely not a surprise to you that putting your customer first is good for business. But building a customer-centric marketing strategy for your business can be difficult. The good news is that putting in the work to deliver customer-centric marketing pays off. What is customer-centric marketing?

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Customer Centricity Strategy Marketing Leadership 40

Customer Bliss

JUNE 8, 2020

In your experience, what’s been your biggest challenge regarding disruption to the company culture toward a more customer centric or customer enlightened one? Customer centricity requires that your go-to-market functions work in sync. – Jeremy Uteza. – Anas Orwani.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Financial Culture 210

Totango

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

At Totango, we are working to “change the game” when it comes to customer success – and we’re breaking quite a few records in the process (watch out, Tom!). Changing the Customer Success Game. At Totango, we are unequivocally focused on making customer success frictionless to set up, learn and implement.

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Customer Success Hospitality Sports Leadership 62

ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 8, 2018

ClientSuccess will host Greg Daines (The Churn Whisper), Founder and CEO at Client Velocity , for this month’s customer success webinar series: The One Question that Will Transform Your Customer Success Strategy. Learn the one question backed by research and data that will help your customers stay and grow.

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Customer Success Strategy Customer Centricity Leadership 40

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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Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 141

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

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Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score 52

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

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Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score 52

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

At early startup stages , customer success teams and other customer-facing teams are usually familiar with their customer base. This relationship-driven engagement model becomes difficult as the customer base becomes larger and more diversified. Why Should Customer Success Be Obsessed with Data?

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Customer Success Data Engagement Effort Score 52

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 Success Chief Customer Officer Leadership Customer Retention 52

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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Customer Success Effort Score Self Service eBook 52

Gainsight

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Now that the era of easy money and growth-at-any-cost is over, they are looking to reconnect with the fundamentals of their business models, which in the case of SaaS means ongoing relationships with customers. . You might say it’s time for a customer-centric twist on that classic catchphrase: Keep calm and double down on your customers. .

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity eBook Customer Success 59

West Monroe

APRIL 9, 2023

Those notions may not adequately address the needs of their recently expanded customer base. Companies should actively engage and communicate with their newly acquired customer base—beginning on Day 1 of the post-sale integration—to gain a deeper understanding of their needs and expectations.

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Strategy Company Leadership Customer Centricity 52

West Monroe

APRIL 9, 2023

Those notions may not adequately address the needs of their recently expanded customer base. Companies should actively engage and communicate with their newly acquired customer base—beginning on Day 1 of the post-sale integration—to gain a deeper understanding of their needs and expectations.

Strategy 52

Strategy Company Leadership Customer Centricity 52

Amity

AUGUST 30, 2018

Customer Success is still a relatively young discipline, and as a result, leadership teams are often unsure about where it fits into their organization. This would be a short-sighted move since Customer Success and Account Management are distinguished by more than just a naming convention.

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Customer Success Management Fashion Leadership 67

Amity

JUNE 27, 2018

For our Customer Success meetup in Toronto, we had the privilege of hearing from James Scott , General Partner at SuccessHacker , who helps other companies achieve growth and success through their Customer Success (CS) teams. Customer Success hasn’t been around for nearly as long as we tend to think.

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Industry Customer Success Tips Customer Centricity 82

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 . Rather, the CS team is equally important to the success of a company.

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Customer Success Chief Customer Officer ROI Sales 80

CSM Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2020

CSM Leader Optimizes Customer Success Strategies and Processes in collaboration with top thought leaders in its industry. Dec 1, 2020 — Today, CSM Practice, the world’s first consulting firm dedicated to Customer Success Management (CSM) strategy, announced the formation of its new Advisory Board. Sunnyvale, Calif.—

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Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Success Groups 81

West Monroe

APRIL 9, 2023

Those notions may not adequately address the needs of their recently expanded customer base. Companies should actively engage and communicate with their newly acquired customer base—beginning on Day 1 of the post-sale integration—to gain a deeper understanding of their needs and expectations.

Strategy 40

Strategy Company Leadership Customer Centricity 40

ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. What does the chief customer officer role encompass?

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Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score Insurance Software 52

ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2020

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. Q: How do you know if you’re successfully putting the customer at the center of your organization?

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Customer Centricity Chief Customer Officer Effort Score Sports 98

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: FloQast As a Director of Customer Success, you will ensure the CS organization enables customers to reach desired outcomes while providing a great customer experience.

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Customer Success Case Study Analysis Customers 19

Alida

JULY 6, 2017

For concrete ideas on how companies can scale their CX programs, we recently sat down with Kia Puhm , a Toronto-based executive with over 22 years of experience in customer success, marketing and software engineering. Puhm’s leadership experience includes stints at Oracle, Eloqua and Adobe. She is now the principal of K!A

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Measurement Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Software 113

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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Chief Customer Officer Effort Score Customer Success Analytics 59

Customer Bliss

MARCH 28, 2018

Implementing a Customer Success Strategy is a Cultural Transformation. Leading Customer Success in a B2B Business with Jose Vergara. Not everybody in the company will understand customer success because it’s a buzz word. Business to Business Customer Experience Leadership with Tabitha Dunn.

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B2B Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score Culture 171

Amity

JANUARY 20, 2017

Customer Success is still a relatively young discipline, and as a result, leadership teams are often unsure about where it fits into their organization. This would be a short-sighted move since Customer Success and Account Management are distinguished by more than just a naming convention.

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Customer Success Management Fashion Leadership 48

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 27, 2021

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Remote, Salinas, CA, US Organization: HeavyConnect As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will act as a role model of HeavyConnect’s values for the Customer Success teams and build on the SaaS customer-centric environment.

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Customer Success Roadmap Sales Customers 19

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It is the moment where customers join once and stay forever. As per Deloitte , 8 out of 10 subscription companies are maintaining their customer base or growing their customer base in the pandemic. Today, businesses in the subscription economy have moved from selling one-off products to customers.

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Customer Centricity Multi-Channel Leadership Customer relationships 10

Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The themes today centered around Human-First Customer Success and Transforming Customer Centricity. Human-First Customer Success. The Key to Customer Success: Leadership with Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic and Co-founder of Gain Grow Retain at Higher Logic.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Success Handbook Knowledge Base 91

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

Metrics 59

Metrics Net Promoter Score Effort Score NPS 59

Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Stop organising by function and skill set, start organising by ‘ability to deliver customer success’ create ‘experience teams’ of people with different skills and different core competencies that can manage the entire customer life cycle and reward them together for the achievement of customer success, not completing tasks and activities.”.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Consulting 160

Totango

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Last year, we experienced record business growth—we more than doubled our revenue and customer base, tripled our engineering and support staff, introduced Totango Spark , a next generation flagship customer success solution, and announced a go-to-market partnership with SAP among many other exciting milestones.

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Industry Leadership Financial Customer Centricity 50

ClientSuccess

JUNE 26, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.

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Software Customer Success Marketing Sales 40

Education Services Group

APRIL 12, 2022

You know what I love about being part of the Customer Success movement? Because it stands at the edge between customer and provider, it has no choice but to be nimble, deliberate, and anticipatory. What is ESG and what is Customer Success as a Service (CSaaS)? The tectonic forces that are constantly at play.

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Customer Success Technology Customer Centricity Industry 52

ClearAction

APRIL 18, 2020

Customer requests for resolution expands your costs in technologies and personnel (including opportunity cost: productivity trade-off in problem-solving vs. value-creating) for customer service, customer success, warranties or returned material authorizations (RMA), and escalations.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Innovation Customer Centricity 62

SmartKarrot

JUNE 9, 2021

Representing the voice of the customer and influencing internal stakeholders by promoting a customer-centric mindset across the organization. Partnering very closely with sales teams to engage with leaders at prospective customers and existing customers to define goals and leverage the products and services to achieve them.

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Customer Success Roadmap Customers Customer Journeys 10

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

Kristina is a customer experience expert and host of “The Customer Experience Podcast for Business Leaders”, a podcast series for motivating C-Suite and leadership teams in improving customer experience. He educates about the transformative power of customer success to his clients.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115