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Why SaaS Leaders Should Outsource Their Customer Success Program

BlueOcean

When we are talking to organizations in the sales cycle, we will often hear from SaaS companies that the customer success role is too complex, too critical, too deeply embedded in their internal operations to ever be outsourced. But with this new height of significance, is customer success really something you can outsource?

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Customer Experience vs. Customer Success: Explained

Help Scout

Many want to draw strict boundaries around customer experience and customer success, but I find it much more satisfying to live inside the spectrum rather than at the edges. I see customer experience and customer success as flavors inside the same ice cream parlor of treating the customer well.

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Customer Experience vs. Customer Success: Are They the Same?

ChurnZero

It’s not uncommon to find it difficult to grasp the concept of Customer Experience vs. Customer Success. For some, the Customer Experience definition is not that different from the one for Customer Success. So, are Customer Experience and Customer Success really the same?

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Customer Success vs Customer Experience

ClientSuccess

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.

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How to Prevent Brand Ambassador Burnout

Speaker: Kristi Faltorusso, VP of Customer Success at ClientSuccess

They contribute to brand awareness, improve revenue, and build trust among existing and prospective customers. However, many advocacy programs experience huge levels of burnout due to overtasking advocates. Once you burn out an advocate, it can be difficult to incentivize them for future advocacy participation.

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Rocking Customer Experience with Jim Serger

ShepHyken

This episode of  Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken  answers the following questions and more: How can businesses create experiences that get repeat business and nurture brand loyalty? How can businesses think outside the box to create fan-like loyalty among their customer base? You are trying to create loyal fans.”

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Unleashing the Full Potential of Customer Success: A CSMs’ Perspective

Gainsight

As Customer Success enters its second decade, the industry has never been hotter. Organizations are seeing how the efforts of Customer Success professionals have a direct impact on a business’s bottom line. Filley’s first priority was understanding the health of the customers in her book of business.

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Customer Success Needs to Grow (Up)

Speaker: Peter Armaly - Senior Director and Advisor of Customer Success at Oracle

Customer success is a well-established practice in the enterprise business world (70% of companies have a dedicated team, according to TSIA) and the benefits it delivers to customers are real and well-documented. With accountability, comes a deepening of the relationship with customers. With revenue, comes accountability.

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The Modern Customer Success Playbook

The evolution of every high-functioning, effective customer success strategy centers around three C’s: connected experiences, an engaging customer journey, and a culture built on customer-centricity. Satisfaction won’t cut it. But where do you start? But where do you start? Download the playbook today!

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The Customer Success Onboarding Playbook

Customer onboarding is a very crucial – yet sometimes overlooked – step in the customer journey. A successful customer onboarding process improves efficiency, increases capacity and decreases churn.

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The Ultimate Guide to Customer Success in SaaS

The SaaS business model, which runs on recurring revenue, needs Customer Success to survive. As such, people are looking for answers on how to nail their Customer Success initiatives. Whether you’re finding yourself asking “what is Customer Success?” How do you build a Customer Success strategy?

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CCO + CMO: A Winning Partnership for Accelerated CX Growth

Centering a business around the customer is critical for accelerated growth and customer-centricity requires a strong CCO and CMO alliance. When they work together, the CMO and CCO can build better customer experience, satisfaction, and retention. How the CCO can improve CX and drive advocacy. Download the ebook now!

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The Better Way to Onboard Customers

Speaker: Skilljar Experts

Here at Skilljar, we’ve learned a thing or two about onboarding, both by crafting our own experience, and by collaborating with the best Customer Education professionals in the world. Join Skilljar's all-star team of onboarding pros for this next webinar featuring: Sara Robba, Director, Customer Success.

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CCO + CMO: The Unstoppable Duo of Business Growth

Speaker: Rachel Orston, CCO of SmartRecruiters & Latane Conant, CMO of 6Sense

With this paradigm shift in buyer behavior, the partnership between the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) has become critical for organizations. How to effectively engage and optimize your customer experience. In this session we will discuss: The emerging importance of advocacy in the buyer journey.