Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Customer experience is not a fad or a trend or a buzzy phrase. That’s why the foundational work of defining CX at your organization — through a CX Mission Statement and CX Success Statement — is so critically important to accomplishing real change and delivering on real outcomes through customer experience.

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Communication Tips Customer Journeys Customer Experience 304

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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 Success Contact Center Average Handle Time Touchpoint 177

Education Services Group

JANUARY 5, 2022

They may sound the same, but customer journey maps are different from touchpoint maps (also known as service blueprints). They are both ways of looking at the customer journey, but one concentrates on the front-end, customer experience and the other focuses on the back-end processes that drive those experiences.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Net Promoter Score Exercises 52

Education Services Group

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Over the years, we’ve helped many of our clients build customer journey maps as part of our Customer Success as a Service® business model. I want to give you an inside look at what makes journey mapping the ESG way so special. Because we get asked about our customer journey mapping workshops a lot.

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Customer Journeys Exercises Customer Success Customer Satisfaction 52

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Customer journey optimization lets you map a path to consistently satisfying experiences throughout client lifecycles. This delivers better service for your customers and better results for your company, promoting higher retention rates and greater motivation for customers to become brand advocates.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Self Service Customers 91

Totango

JANUARY 2, 2024

In an era when customer success (CS) has become pivotal, it’s no longer enough to have a team dedicated to CS. More importantly, you need an organizational strategy that ensures your customers don’t just come to you but stay, thrive, and become your biggest promoters.

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Customer Success Tips Self Service Customer Journeys 99

Education Services Group

JUNE 21, 2018

While this wise quote may have come from the unlikely lips of Drake (award-winning hip-hop artist for the uninitiated), it couldn’t more accurately describe the importance of Customer Success (CS). In fact, it’s also a solid place to start answering the question of what is customer journey mapping.

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Customer Journeys Customer Philosophy Exercises Customer Retention 53

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Customer journey optimization lets you map a path to consistently satisfying experiences throughout client lifecycles. This delivers better service for your customers and better results for your company, promoting higher retention rates and greater motivation for customers to become brand advocates.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Self Service Customers 72

Totango

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In order to achieve step-change growth, you need to deliver value to your customers at scale—and across their entire journey with your company. That’s the question that Sumo Logic Chief Customer Officer Dione Hedgpeth and Totango President & COO Jamie Bertasi discussed during their session at the TSIA World: ENVISION conference.

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Customer Journeys Tips Chief Customer Officer Healthcare 62

Retently

MAY 2, 2023

The key to success for SaaS companies lies in prioritizing the positive experience of their clients through a customer-centric approach. While there are many ways to do that, measuring satisfaction levels and actively seeking relevant feedback is critical to improving customer journeys. What is NPS, CSAT, and CES?

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Customer Journeys Survey Effort Score NPS 146

Totango

MAY 26, 2021

We recently polled the Customer Success industry asking about the top challenges they are facing. Over the years, we’ve found that most companies are very oriented around a high-touch customer engagement model. Data is the lifeblood of a digital customer success program. The customer journey is not linear.

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Customer Journeys How To Resources Customer Success 95

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Customer journey optimization lets you map a path to consistently satisfying experiences throughout client lifecycles. This delivers better service for your customers and better results for your company, promoting higher retention rates and greater motivation for customers to become brand advocates.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Self Service Customers 62

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To help you amp up your Customer Success management skills here’s a breakdown of our top recommendations for courses to consider taking. Customer Success Management Fundamentals. Course Description: New to customer success management (CSM)? Value Realization Best Practices for Customer Success Management.

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Course Customer Journeys Customer Success Consulting 98

Education Services Group

APRIL 21, 2021

If you’re wondering what the ESG Customer Success Maturity Model is and why we built it, go back and read the first installment of this three-part series. Here in part two, I’ll talk about the second phase of Customer Success maturity – Operationalize. If you’ve already devoured that and are ready for more, read on!

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Customer Journeys System Customer Success NPS 94

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs often start with a general plan on how to gather customer feedback. The plan typically includes suggestions for customer listening posts. Customer listening posts are specific tools, locations and mechanisms to gather customer feedback along specific touchpoints on the customer journey.

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Totango

DECEMBER 1, 2021

When you bring agile innovation to customer success , you empower your CS strategy with the latest technology. In this blog, we’ll look deeper at what an agile customer success strategy means and why you can benefit from using one. Then we’ll lay out seven steps to bring agile innovation to customer success.

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Innovation Customer Success Customer Journeys How To 96

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 8, 2021

“ Customer service shouldn’t just be a department; it should be the entire company” – Tony Hsieh (CEO, Zappos) . To deliver exceptional customer experiences, everyone in your organization needs to be on board. This is where understanding the right learning path for overall customer experience excellence can be very powerful.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Culture Customer Centricity 271

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what is top of mind for companies when it comes to Customer Success? Here are the top business challenges in descending order for Customer Success professionals according to TSIA, along with some recommend resources to help in each of those areas. TSIA Resource: The State of Customer Success: 2021.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Customer success is driving value to customers. Digital customer success is driving value more efficiently using a software or service that allows companies to grow and deliver value without using excessive resources” – Chris Dishman, SVP Customer Success, Totango.

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Customer Success Effort Score Touchpoint Customers 103

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Understanding Vectors by Vecteezy As an industry and a discipline, customer success managers are getting better at delivering a higher percentage of positive customer experiences. Customers want to feel heard, understood, and supported – and empathy helps customer service teams meet those needs.

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Customer Success Customer Journeys eBook Exercises 80

Retently

MARCH 16, 2022

With new SaaS companies popping up every day and a customer-centric culture coming into play, there’s (understandably) some confusion about how to manage customer interactions. For many companies, the entire conversation takes place under the umbrella of Customer Support (or Technical Support). reduced customer churn.

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Customer Success Net Promoter Score Customers Customer Retention 166

Clarivate

JANUARY 29, 2019

These videos are a valuable resource and have covered many interesting insights, trends, and best practices on Customer Experience, Journey Mapping, Employee Experience, Voice of the Customer, and Customer Success. CX Leaders Webinar: The Road to Customer Excellence. Top CX Themes.

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Customer Journeys Video Case Study Study 65

ChurnZero

APRIL 18, 2024

Congratulations – you’re adopting a digital customer success strategy! Those are some big shifts – whether it’s updating your books , implementing a new management system, or revamping the tools, resources, and customer journeys you already have. So, now what? Wait, say that again? Balance is key.

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Interaction Customer Engagement Engagement Customer Journeys 52

Totango

APRIL 18, 2023

As businesses are laser-focused on retaining and growing current clients, they’re turning to their customer success (CS) teams and leaders to make it happen. With the launch of this new feature, you will be able to simply use a natural language prompt to identify which Salesforce objects to map.

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Innovation Customer Success Customer Journeys System 98

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 19, 2021

If you’re like most modern customer success team leaders, you already have some sort of platform in place to help optimize and streamline your internal processes while keeping things straight with customers. What is the customer journey?

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Customer Journeys Customer Success How To eBook 69

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Any CSM who has spent more than a few days in the SaaS industry working directly with customer contacts understands the incredible importance and value of customer feedback. Here are six winning customer journey survey strategies to introduce to your customers this year: 1. The customer success survey.

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Customer Journeys Survey Strategy NPS 83

ChurnZero

MAY 3, 2022

Whether you’re building your expertise in cooking, crocheting, coding, or Customer Success, YouTube is now the place to level up. Let’s explore five of the best Customer Success YouTube channels for learning how to fight churn, understand industry trends, and position yourself for professional success in CS.

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Customer Success Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Tips 98

Totango

MARCH 8, 2022

Getting involved in the best customer success communities can give you access to the resources you need to take your CS team to new levels of performance. Here’s our guide to the top customer success communities in 2022 and what they have to offer. What Is a Customer Success Community?

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Customer Success Guidelines Social Media Tips 115

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 4, 2021

A customer success manager’s relationship with a customer account doesn’t just begin and end at random. A CSM manages and owns a customer account throughout their entire partnership with a vendor organization, from the minute a sale closes throughout many rounds of renewals. Webinar: The Customer Success Maturity Model.

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Customer Journeys Customer Centricity eBook NPS 104

Totango

MARCH 4, 2022

B2B customer service is often confused with B2B customer success, but they are not the same. Despite their differences, however, they do share an intimate relationship – you need strong customer service to achieve customer success. What is B2B Customer Service? B2B vs. B2C Customer Service.

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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. ” How will customer success teams evolve and adapt to meet those expectations, and what challenges will they encounter?

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Customer Success Industry Trends Chief Customer Officer 52

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To help you amp up your Customer Success management skills here’s a breakdown of our top recommendations for courses to consider taking. Customer Success Management Fundamentals. Course Description: New to customer success management (CSM)? Value Realization Best Practices for Customer Success Management.

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Course Customer Journeys Customer Success Consulting 52

Gainsight

JULY 7, 2023

Many organizations face the challenge of a fragmented customer journey—especially because their tech stack, with many disparate customer-facing tools and resources, is disjointed and disconnected. How Does the DCS Package Drive Cohesive Customer Journeys?

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Customer Success Self Service Touchpoint Customer Journeys 52

Totango

MARCH 15, 2022

Efforts to scale customer success team activity often fall short because of failure to avoid common mistakes. Your human resources practices, your project management procedures and your technology strategy all need to come together in order for you to scale up without overextending yourself.

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Customer Success Customer Journeys Resources Technology 95

Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

What do you do when you realize that 95 percent of your customer base is tech-touch and you don’t have the manpower to properly engage with and measure this group? Getting Started: Tips for Implementing an Effective Customer Engagement Strategy. So, that team is kind of like the architect who designs the journey for the customer.

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Customer Engagement Customer Journeys Engagement Strategy 110

Totango

JUNE 15, 2022

We’ve been here before, however, and we know that during uncertain times, protecting your customer base is the most important thing you can do for your business. Customer retention is the lifeblood of recurring revenue enterprises, no matter what the external economic circumstances may be. Reach out and check in with them regularly.

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Customer Success Customer relationships Exercises Communication 101

ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

However, that’s not always the case for Customer Success (CS) teams even though they are often responsible for renewals and expansions. So said Randy Wootton , chief executive officer at Maxio and Alli Tiscornia , chief customer officer at ChurnZero in our webinar, “ Finance & CS: Charting a path to profitability.”

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