Kerry Bodine

JUNE 5, 2019

Two weeks ago, I delivered a webinar called “The Path To Journey Management” in partnership with Intouch Insight , a CX management solutions provider. So many, in fact, that I didn’t have time to answer them all on the webinar itself. Journeys & Journey Maps. Journey Managers.

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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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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Customer success (CS) didn’t start out digital but, rather, as a collection of practices to maintain customer relationships after a sale. Organizations felt their way toward a better understanding of their value, learning how to improve implementations and developing new solutions to serve customers as their businesses advanced.

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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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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Partner Success has been long talked about in Customer Success programs, but it’s had limitations in practice due to technology constraints like data security requirements and lack of Customer Success capabilities among partners. The average customer maintains seven trusted partnerships according to McBain.

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Clarivate

JANUARY 29, 2019

We’ve recorded over 75 videos and webinars over the last three and a half years here at CustomersFirst Now. 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.

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Totango

JUNE 8, 2021

You can watch the webinar here and check out a recap of some of the questions and answers from the live session below. From there, we decide which customer journey we put them down. . . So, sending very streamlined, short, to-the-point emails or engagements with your customers at the appropriate time is the most effective.

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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. Digital: Set up consistent journey metrics (e.g.

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Gainsight

MARCH 12, 2024

This is a very exciting time to be in the Customer Success (CS) profession. As economies and customer expectations shift and evolve, we as CS professionals need to evolve with them. It all comes down to Customer Success Managers (CSMs) owning certain revenue metrics: expansion revenue, churn, renewals, etc.

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Gainsight

MARCH 26, 2024

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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inSided

JUNE 4, 2021

This week, we decided to interrupt your regularly scheduled This is Digital Customer Success blog post to bring you some learnings (that just couldn’t wait) from last week’s webinar. Below, we’ve listed our favorite learnings.

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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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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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Totango

JUNE 21, 2023

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new product as part of our Composable Customer Success platform: Totango In-App ! Help users navigate complex workflows, resulting in quicker product proficiency and customer satisfaction. This enhances your user engagement and ensures your customers are always informed.

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2022

In the world of Customer Success, metrics often tell the story. Whether it’s Lifetime Value (LTV), customer acquisition cost (CAC), or the champion of them all, net revenue retention (NRR), companies rely on metrics to tell them how effectively they are serving their customers, and by extension, how well their businesses are doing.

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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. link] We’ve always been committed to elevating the role of CS within the customer journey and accelerating the path to scaled customer success.

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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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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.

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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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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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Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn.

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InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Oftentimes, the c-suite and the customer experience (CX) or customer success team live on the same planet, but almost in separate countries—they simply speak different languages. We know that customer experience can be a tough sell—after all, your business has so many priorities! Stories, stories, stories.

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 12, 2021

While this mantra may be on most of our minds this year (especially after the complete doozy of 2020), some customer success managers (CSMs) may be having other thoughts. Instead of trying to take a completely new approach to working with customers, CSMs should try to build off of what they learned this past year.

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Education Services Group

JULY 20, 2021

ESG’s own Madeline Evans, Britt Layman, and Marley Wagner joined last week’s ChurnZero webinar to discuss how high touch and tech touch engagement models can co-exist in Customer Success. Some concerns around customers feeling like they are being spammed. Watch it here if you missed it!). How much is too much automation?

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 2, 2017

In this recorded webinar, Dave Blake, CEO/Founder of ClientSuccess discusses a customer success maturity model that will help you build, scale, and optimize a high-impact team and culture of customer success. We held this webinar on Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 11:00 a.m.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Qlik’s Vice President of Customer Success Operations and Chief of Staff Chris Wood and his team were on the hunt for a customer success tool that could help them do three things: Streamline processes. Scale customers quickly and efficiently. Enable teams to work cross-functionally. 4 Key Takeaways . .

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Totango

APRIL 9, 2024

Is 2024 the year of customer success or sales? They unanimously agreed that 2024 is the year of the ICP (Ideal Customer Profile). The cohesion between these teams can significantly drive customer value and results, which impacts retention, expansion, and, ultimately, predictable growth.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Q&A: Digital Customer Success Strategies to Drive User Adoption. Accessing meaningful data points early in the customer journey can be difficult. You can easily miss opportunities to deeply understand your customers’ behavior when your insights depend on those data points.

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Education Services Group

OCTOBER 25, 2022

We had the pleasure of hosting a CEO panel on Customer Success Unlocked to discuss the economy and what we in Customer Success can and should be doing about its impacts to the business world. What percentage of revenue is spent on retaining the customer? Q: Customer Success in general is known to be very “nice.”

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Totango

AUGUST 8, 2021

Driving software adoption through customer success in the 2020s is a precision business. Your product adoption strategy—the process you follow to ensure your customer is achieving maximum value from their daily use of your product—should be based on solid data and driven by the pursuit of ever-evolving goals.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In today’s modern SaaS landscape, customer-focused teams constantly look for new ways to innovate and grow. How can this new platform move the needle with your customers? How does it impact critical metrics like growth, renewal rates, and customer churn? Best customer success software = the best results .

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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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Totango

AUGUST 14, 2020

In customer success, your customers define their own victories. No one-size-fits-all finish line exists that clients must strive to cross, and there is no Harvard Business School concept of accomplishment you can award your customer before resting on well-earned laurels. Creating Better Customers, by Definition.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This experience of value is critical to the health of your customer relationship, so you need a customer success adoption plan. Breaking down the customer journey into modular stages sta helps to operationalize customer success strategies. The customer journey can be divided into four main stages.

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past several years, customer success has gone from a department only forward-thinking organizations had to an integral part of every single SaaS company in the world. With every new customer issue or new solution on the market, the overarching message and focus of customer success becomes that much more convoluted.

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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? During the live presentation of the webinar, Harmon and Chu answered several questions from attendees about how they managed this feat. We didn’t use any special tool.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Without making those choices upfront, you’ll find it hard to create a good customer experience and scale it, and you’ll easily fall into the chaotic trap of “doing what it takes”. To make the right choices, however, you need a deep understanding of what your customers need and expect from you. Here’s the webinar in full.

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