Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

While there are many experts on this field, we have created a list (in alphabetical order) of customer experience influencers (experts, speakers, consultants, and authors) who are leaders. Adam is a globally recognized expert on customer experience. Do follow these experts to learn from the best in business!

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TechSee

MARCH 7, 2023

Deborah Woods, Contact Center Manager, Costa Express Limited – With a strong track record of exceeding business metrics and a leader who can influence people at all levels and negotiate effectively, Deborah is a professional, goal-oriented people manager. We were excited to see her leading the conversation at MCW23 last week.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Irit: Hi everyone.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 13, 2021

To help answer some questions you might have around the Customer Success job market, we created this overview that will describe what the different career paths are that you can pursue, with descriptions for each role and the industry salaries. . Chief Customer Officer. Customer Success Vice President/Director .

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Mindtouch

APRIL 17, 2017

We evaluated thousands of members within the Customer Success community and created a measurement that took into account a wide range of metrics including internet presence, influence, authorship, individual contributions, community engagement and participation. Director: Customer Success Operations, @netmow, LinkedIn.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Alex curates the Customer Success Newsletter which is a weekly curated collection of 4 helpful articles from around the Customer Success community. The Customer Success Newsletter. Customer Success Expert - Glide Consulting. The Glide Consulting Blog. Director of Customer Success Education - CSM Practice.

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Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

The Net Promoter System® (or NPS) has been a popular customer experience metric since its creation in 2003. We have received 31 answers from 31 recognised thought leaders, consultants and great doers from all over the world across industries. I would NEVER rely on NPS as the only measurement of customer perception."

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

At Workshop — a tool built to improve company culture through open and efficient internal communication — Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer Derek Homann is focused on using customer service as a differentiator. Tip #8: Report on customer service metrics at company meetings. The same is true with metrics.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic. A J oint Success Plan is a simple but powerful tool for outcome-based customer success management. It’s designed to help solution providers align with their customers’ business goals and objectives. A – Attainable.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

Let’s step through a fictional customer journey and discuss how best to ask for feedback at each touchpoint, using this journey map developed by Jim Tincher of Heart of the Customer , a specialist in journey map consulting. . I’d like to close with thoughts on how best to engage customers as they progress through their journey.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

How do you break down your programs to achieve maximum benefit for both your customers and your company? Speaker Bio: Emilia D’Anzica is a Customer Success and Account Management Growth Consultant and Partner at Winning by Design. She has also held numerous Interim ‘Head of Customer Success’ roles.

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Amity

APRIL 7, 2017

Hiring a customer success operations manager could help your team develop templates, document your customer success playbooks and ensure efficiency when executing them. For example, if your company’s main goal is growth, identify key metrics that support achieving higher revenues. Step 2: Metrics.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

While many brands are prioritizing the customer experience, our newly-released study identifies a disconnect between goals and execution. Recently, we surveyed more than 800 marketing and customer experience leaders from the US and the UK in partnership with global research consultancy, Morar.

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Kayako

JANUARY 12, 2017

It’s easy to rush into 2017 without appreciating the good parts of 2016: there is now a lot of great content out there that supports you, the customer advocating superhero! How do you round off a year that’s been so good to the customer service industry? To remember why we do our jobs in the first place: the customer.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

This article dives into each side’s argument as they debated for and against Customer Success owning these revenue sources. Top 4 Metrics Chief Customer Officers (CCOs) Must Know. 5 Ways to Reduce Churn by Delivering a Consistent Customer Experience. To find out who wins, check out the recap.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

To help, we’ve curated this watchlist of Customer Success leaders who we believe you’ll gain some inspiration from and see them do great things in 2019. Amanda Berger, Chief Customer Officer, Lucidworks. Amanda’s commitment to business results drives each aspect of her work as Chief Customer Officer at Lucidworks.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US. Arie is a Customer Insight, Customer Strategy, Customer Lifecycle Management, and Innovation Independent Consultant.

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ChurnZero

MAY 24, 2022

is a customer intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses accelerate growth from existing data. Mary has over 20 years of experience in Customer Success, business consulting, and executive leadership. What does your team look like at your company, and how do you center around the customer?

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ChurnZero

MAY 24, 2022

is a customer intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses accelerate growth from existing data. Mary has over 20 years of experience in Customer Success, business consulting, and executive leadership. What does your team look like at your company, and how do you center around the customer?

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 10, 2020

Over the past number of years, the customer experience (otherwise known as “CX”) has become a profession unto itself. Roles like Chief Customer Officer, Customer Experience Director, Manager, Customer Success have been popping up. By Patricia Ballantyne.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Irit: Hi everyone.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

Hiring a customer success operations manager could help your team develop templates, document your customer success playbooks and ensure efficiency when executing them. For example, if your company’s main goal is growth, you should identify key metrics that support achieving higher revenues. Step 2: Metrics.

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360Connext

MARCH 8, 2018

A formal CCO (Chief Customer Officer) or CEO (Chief Experience Officer) is not important by title, but by the role they play in connecting the departments and employees of a company to create a unified, effortless, distinguished customer experience. You’re in charge of #CX!'”

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JustCall

MARCH 8, 2023

Annette Franz is a renowned customer experience thought leader, consultant, coach, and author with over 30 years of experience in the industry. Diane has a proven ability to identify opportunities in customer interactions, partnering with companies of all sizes to enhance their customer experience practices.

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ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

10 Silos Impact Customer Experience Lynn Hunsaker. This might be the highest-ROI effort of your customer experience council, chief customer officer, chief operating officer — or better yet, every employee. And the pain of business silos is well-known to everyone, whether employee or customer.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Metrics Aren’t Just for Board Meetings – The Value of Customer Metrics is Immeasurable . We often think about CS metrics as being interna l KPIs – after all, these figures surface in board meetings and other internal discussions.

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Pointillist

MAY 19, 2020

Organizations across industries struggle to connect customer behavior and journeys to business-critical KPIs, such as revenue, churn, cost to serve and more. Only 21% of respondents are very or extremely satisfied with their ability to quantify the impact of CX on business metrics.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In 2001, author and consultant Patricia Seybold could see that technology was having a profound impact on business economics. The customer, she wrote in her book “ The Customer Revolution ,” was in charge. Businesses had to become more customer-centric.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 22, 2021

To learn how selling and taking great care of your customers actually go hand in hand, we hosted a webinar with Bryan Neale, Founder of Blind Zebra Consulting and self-proclaimed “CS Sales Whisperer.”. Customer Success Around the Web. Neale explains how we think about selling is just as important as our tactics and execution.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The chief customer officer (CCO) owns the revenue number for an organization’s customer base and oversees all customer activities. They’re also responsible for creating a strong, customer-centric company culture with accountability and ownership of the customer experience at all levels.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Chief Customer Officer (CCO) owns the revenue number for an organization’s customer base and oversees all customer activities. They’re also responsible for creating a strong, customer-centric company culture with accountability and ownership of the customer experience at all levels.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For Small Companies: In small companies or in companies where the customer success division is in the early stages, a customer success leader should directly report to the CEO or COO. Should Customer Success report to Sales? Some early stage companies put the customer success department under sales.

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine by Jeanne Bliss. This book will show you how to launch a proven framework through customer experience expert, Jeanne Bliss’s, five-competency model. The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences by Matt Watkinson.

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Amity

JUNE 21, 2017

Current methods are focused on calculating a Customer Health Score (CHS) , which is a measure of the relationship between the vendor and the customer. We suggested that this metric is insufficient and a new analysis, CMI, is needed to augment it for it to be useful. And still something was missing.

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Education Services Group

APRIL 16, 2021

What is the ESG Customer Success Maturity Model? And TSIA agrees that a fundamental building block of Customer Success is having a proactive CS leader reporting to a higher-level executive team, ideally one in charge of customer growth like a Chief Customer Officer.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

Hiring a customer success operations manager could help your team develop templates, document your customer success playbooks and ensure efficiency when executing them. For example, if your company’s main goal is growth, identify key metrics that support achieving higher revenues. Step 2: Metrics.

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Here are 4 prerequisites to a successful customer experience ecosystem: 1st CX Ecosystem Prerequisite: Understand Your Company’s Whole Ecosystem. As Jeanne Bliss recommended in her book, Chief Customer Officer , know your company’s power core — is it product, sales, marketing, vertical business, IT, customer, or other?

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