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Source: Accenture Global Consumer Pulse Research, 2013 Amazon is really a great example of a customer-focused, customer-centric company. Actually, the better phrase, their phrase, is "obsessed over customers." The customer is an afterthought. The customer is not an outcome. The customer is an input.
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VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. He said we need Customer Success managers. This was back in 2013. I do think it’s worth starting by putting some definitions in place, starting with what is customer success.
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It’s a metric—not a program— a topic that has been regurgitated and rehashed ad nauseum to the point where it has become so mundane that its value is being questioned and, in some cases, dismissed. Case in point—How many more articles are necessary to explain NPS?
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