Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 15, 2023

If you aspire for an effortless customer experience, should your employee experience also reflect that value? What are the ways you can showcase how the employee experience is reflective (OR not) of your aspirational customer experience? Ask your employees for examples. Share customer journey maps and insights.

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The first named customer success group was created in 1996. While the original driver for the role was to grow relationships and increase revenue, the customer success specialist job description has changed quite a bit since then. Learn from those examples, and apply the elements that fit for your team and situation.

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Totango

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Merging sales and customer success (CS) is a delicate art that is often challenging but necessary for driving business results and creating a frictionless customer journey. The GTM team uses these insights to determine the best way to work together to set customers up for success and future growth.

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SmartMessage Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Today, all brands spend a lot of effort on customer journey maps, that is, creating new customers and retaining their existing customers. From the moment of entering the customer’s radar to the phase of loyalty and advocacy, every touch matters. What is a Customer Experience Map?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating customer personas is an important part of any customer journey mapping exercise or really any customer experience management program. What is a Customer Persona? Personas are often used in marketing and sales efforts, and those names apply to those types of personas. How are they created?

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Totango

MARCH 19, 2021

The traditional customer journey infographic envisioned the customer’s experience from a sales and marketing standpoint, visualizing a funnel marking the steps from a lead acquisition through a sale, also known as the buyer’s journey.

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Feedbackly

JANUARY 13, 2023

This is where the customer journey comes in handy. What is customer journey? A customer journey , also known as the buyer’s journey, is a core element of any CX strategy. Call it the roadmap to understanding your customers! Here are the five main stages of a customer journey.

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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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Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This shift presents a compelling opportunity for B2B enterprises to invest in tailor-made tools for their post-sales organizations and customer success (CS) teams. Forrester recognizes the value customer success platforms can provide to B2B companies looking to foster retention, growth, and advocacy.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 24, 2021

When customers have seamless experiences from marketing to sales and on to delivery? One powerful way to inspire, inform, and motivate your organization to reach this next level of customer satisfaction is with deeper integration of sales staff with your organization’s customer success program.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. 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”. For example, email, video calls, QBRs?

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Totango

MAY 17, 2023

When it comes to understanding customer needs, marketing, sales, and CS teams are the experts, so it’s on us to work together to define today’s most valuable growth opportunities. VP of Customer Success at Veriforce, Andy Kearney. The idea that CS can own the entire customer journey is both unrealistic and outdated.

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BirdEye

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Investing in processes and tools that contribute to customer delight significantly impacts the bottom line. This blog details the panel discussion on Grow sales by delighting customers with George Grigoryan – Marketing Director, SEV, and Vandana Agarwal, VP of Pre and Post-Sales, Birdeye and Justin Meredith.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Customer listening posts are specific tools, locations and mechanisms to gather customer feedback along specific touchpoints on the customer journey. Listening posts: Help us understand individual customer needs and experiences closer to real-time. This is where a customer journey map can come in really handy!

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

Businesses are realizing the power of customer journey mapping to monitor customer experience performance and identify opportunities for improvement. What is Customer Journey Analytics? Why is it important to have Customer Journey Analytics?

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Customer Journeys Metrics Analytics Touchpoint 52

Help Scout

MAY 20, 2021

Lincoln Murphy sums up the value that existing customers offer to growing SaaS companies: “The majority of the revenue from your relationship with a customer happens post-sale. The emphasis is on both keeping the customer longer and also expanding the relationship.” What is customer success marketing?

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Totango

APRIL 2, 2019

So, how can you understand the customer experience and know when to offer extra support to grow your relationship? Through customer journey mapping. And that information helps you implement the right customer success strategy. The Customer Journey Stages, Step by Step.

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Education Services Group

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Success Plans are key to starting your customer relationships off on the right foot. CSMs use them to guide their first interactions with the customer, helping them clarify and set expectations, set up an action plan for moving forward, and establish critical milestones to work toward through the customer journey.

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Since there are multiple, distinct steps in the customer journey , some companies choose to separate these steps and have them managed by separate roles: The sales team handles pre-sales. A customer onboarding specialist manages onboarding. A customer success specialist owns lifecycle management.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 8, 2021

The CX Success Statement is really helpful here.). If you have a customer journey map, or you’re working on one, this is also a great thing to introduce here! How We Lead on Behalf of our Customers. How are customers included in decision making? This is where customization can be important.

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Totango

AUGUST 9, 2022

This lets B2B businesses customize their operations for groups of customers with common characteristics or personalize them for individual clients. This type of customization provides customers with better service while yielding better results for B2B teams working in marketing, sales, customer service, and customer success.

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Amity

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The sales to customer success handoff is one of the most important intersections in the customer journey. It can make the difference between successful product adoption or a churn risk waiting to happen. Let’s talk about where you need to start in order to avoid this from happening to your customers.

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Totango

OCTOBER 22, 2019

To retain customers long-term , you’re going to need a clear strategy. Here are some ways to create a customer journey strategy that will help you foster lasting customer relationships. How to Make a Customer Success Strategy that Demonstrates the Value of Your Product. Currently onboarding customers .

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Virtual events present uniquely flexible opportunities for Customer Success professionals to brush up on skills and to learn from peers, albeit from the safety of being behind a webcam. 1) Out of the Box: ABX Strategies for Marketing, Sales, and CX. 2) The Customer Conference. 3) The Customer Room.

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Totango

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Customer journey optimization is a way of not only mapping the stages of customer progression but also identifying ways to add customer value along the way. Because the customer journey is not linear, your customers may be split between your sales and customer success team.

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Customer Journeys Voice of Customer Customers Metrics 81

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. Onboarding.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 6, 2022

From a bird’s eye view, the customer journey is a simple, transactional journey happening between a seller and a buyer. However, a deeper dive into the ocean of customer journey brings you face-to-face with the complexities associated. Rather, it is a journey from A to Z with several touchpoints in between.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? So many CEOs and CROs are searching for a singular metric to measure performance because they’re used to managing sales teams. Here’s why.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 24, 2023

The Customer Success industry is constantly evolving and developing new strategies for driving customer-led growth. 1: Is NPS a Customer Success metric? So many CEOs and CROs are searching for a singular metric to measure performance because they’re used to managing sales teams. Here’s why.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 10, 2020

How to Nail Implementation and Customer Success Handoffs. As a deadline-driven team, Implementation fiercely adheres to project start and completion dates (for their sake and the customer’s). But issues arise when project handoffs occur at a less-than-ideal time for the next in the line of customer succession.

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Totango

JANUARY 29, 2021

When your product directly helps your customers achieve their goals, your brand wins their loyalty. Playbooks for customer success managers help drive processes that promote winning client outcomes. What Is a Customer Success Playbook? Why Do You Need Playbooks for Customer Success?

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Gainsight

MARCH 26, 2021

Examples include: “You’re either with us or against us” (seems like there are more options…). In the CS world, the equivalent is “should we focus on Customer Success or Sales?” In the beginning, there was Sales. Well, maybe some other stuff was before that, but Sales goes back a long way. why not both?).

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Totango

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Customer 360 enables a complete look into the health of all your customers by aggregating important data into one central location. With this feature, you can examine a number of insightful metrics and segment your client base for an optimized customer journey that surpasses what the competition can offer. .

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Totango

JANUARY 19, 2022

Whether you’ve worked in the customer success industry for a while or you’ve recently decided that this is the career path for you, searching for Customer Success Manager jobs can be intimidating – especially if you don’t know where to start. Top Skills Needed for All Customer Success Manager Jobs.

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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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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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