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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CCNG

JUNE 14, 2023

Here are some key metrics and approaches to consider: Key Metrics to Assess Customer Engagement and Loyalty In Jeanne Bliss’s book, Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine , "Competency #1 is to Honor and Manage Customers as Assets".

Customer Experience 195

Customer Experience Airlines CCNG Chief Customer Officer 195

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Our recent Customer Success Leadership Study showed that 61% of respondents reported a Vice President and above as being the highest leader in their Customer Success organization in 2021 – an increase of 7% from the previous year. This is in part due to a rise in the standing of the Chief Customer Officer role.

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Chief Customer Officer SaaS Engineering Consulting 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 8, 2021

With their visibility elevated, Customer Success leaders stepped up to carry the weight of their fellow revenue-driven teams and prove their value within the broader organization. With Customer Success demand at an all-time high, we expect to see more of its leaders join the executive ranks in the coming months and years.

Chief Customer Officer 98

Chief Customer Officer Healthcare Customer centricity Customer retention 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 22, 2021

“But I didn’t want a job in sales!”. If you’ve internally cursed the idea of selling or simply desire to take your sales skills up a notch, then this webinar is for you. Apply a language framework to “get into” the sales conversations. Never get ghosted by a customer again. Customer Success Around the Web.

Sales 98

Sales Chief Customer Officer Upselling Metrics 98

CSM Practice

DECEMBER 7, 2020

CSM Leader Optimizes Customer Success Strategies and Processes in collaboration with top thought leaders in its industry. Dec 1, 2020 — Today, CSM Practice, the world’s first consulting firm dedicated to Customer Success Management (CSM) strategy, announced the formation of its new Advisory Board. Sunnyvale, Calif.—

Chief Customer Officer 81

Chief Customer Officer Upselling SaaS Consulting 81

Mindtouch

APRIL 17, 2017

Allison Ewell , Seismic Software, Director of Customer Success, @SeismicSoftware, LinkedIn. Allison Pickens , Gainsight, Chief Customer Officer, @PickensAllison, LinkedIn. Andrew Bergen , Seismic Software, VP of Customer Success, @SeismicSoftware, LinkedIn. Andy Mowat , Box, Sr.

Chief Customer Officer 91

Chief Customer Officer Education Consulting Consulting 91

Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Jeanne has been helping companies create deeper relationships with their customers for over 35 years. She has worked Microsoft, Allstate, and Lands’ End, pioneering the role of the “Chief Customer Officer” . Top Pick: 7 tips and resources for Chief Customer Officers and C-Suite Customer Experience Leaders.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Call Center 136

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.

SaaS 96

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Consulting Consulting 96

Vcaretec

JUNE 6, 2022

Customer Care & Contact Center Influencers Mike Aoki Bio: Contact center expert and trainer for Agents (customer service, dealing with "irates," sales skills) and Managers (coaching, presentation skills). I tweet about customer focus, leadership, IT, and tech. Connect: @mikeaoki Roy Atkinson Bio:Sr. Tweets are my own.

Customer Care 98

Customer Care Chief Customer Officer CRM Wireless 98

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.

Management 98

Management Chief Customer Officer Upselling SaaS 98

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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Chief Customer Officer SaaS Education Customer advocacy 53

ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Her focus is on capital-efficient , go-to-market strategies across sales, marketing, customer success and support. She thrives on helping entrepreneurs tackle challenges like reducing customer churn, creating efficient sales teams , increasing product adoption, and building a positive culture.

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Chief Customer Officer SaaS B2B Technical Support 69

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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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Surveys Journey mapping 106

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.

Chief Customer Officer 52

Chief Customer Officer Consulting Consulting Customer centricity 52

Comm100

MARCH 8, 2017

Connect with this customer service expert on Twitter today to make sure that your company doesn’t miss out! Chelsea Krost is a self-named Millennial spokesperson and brand consultant. Jeanne Bliss is the Founder and President of CustomerBliss , and the Co-Founder of The Customer Experience Professionals Association. Colin Shaw.

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Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Scripts 0

Natalie Petouhof

JUNE 4, 2015

Key Principle #5: Consulting, Big Data Consulting, Analytics Consulting, Managed Services. CEO’s that “get the value of data” are looking to someone in their organization to do it – CIO, CTO, CMO, Customer Service Professional to lead data revelations. Key Principle#3: Cloud for Analytics.

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Big data Chief Customer Officer Analytics Consulting 53

CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A well structured customer success organization is necessary for any SaaS company to achieve massive growth. Most SaaS businesses have well defined product, engineering, marketing and sales teams. So, a proper customer success organization is required to provide consistent growth. Should Customer Success report to Sales?

Upselling 65

Upselling Chief Customer Officer SaaS Sales 65

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. If you’ve ever worked in sales, you may be familiar with the idea of a ride-along.

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Customer Service outsourcing Chief Customer Officer Self service 128

ProProfs Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

Chief Customer Officer 2.0. Want a proven framework to help you launch and advance the customer experience transformation in businesses in every vertical around the world? Want a proven framework to help you launch and advance the customer experience transformation in businesses in every vertical around the world?

Customer Service 128

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Coaching 128

360Connext

MARCH 8, 2018

It advertises, but does not build a relationship between companies and their customers. Make it a customer experience—the kind of marketing that builds sales and profitability by being authentic, genuine and in the best interest of customers. Marketing plays a role in customer experience (and vice versa.). .”

Marketing 63

Marketing Journey mapping Chief Customer Officer Advertising 63

Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

We have received 31 answers from 31 recognised thought leaders, consultants and great doers from all over the world across industries. As a rule, I would always suggest collecting NPS as one of a number of metrics (including CSAT and Customer Effort) unless there is a compelling reason why you should not. Why did you give that score?

Consulting 126

Consulting Consulting Metrics Feedback 126

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Check out this post to see if you’re inadvertently sending subliminal negativity to your customers. Customer Success Operations 101: Drive Productivity with Purpose, People, and Process. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity sales, marketing, or product team without a designated operations function.

SaaS 98

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Upselling Metrics 98

CSM Practice

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Video Title: Importance of Customer Success Strategy investments. Host: Irit Eizips , Chief Customer Officer & CEO | CSM Practice. Guest: Nick Mehta , Chief Executive Officer | Gainsight. 06:27 – Nick’s overview of cross-selling and upsell trends for existing customers. The Interview: .

Upselling 85

Upselling Surveys Chief Customer Officer Consulting 85

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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Chief Customer Officer Benchmark SaaS Customer centricity 52

ClearAction

MAY 29, 2016

How Executives Think of Customer Experience. Executives tend to think of customer experiences as something happening at the periphery of the company. Marketing, sales, and service are typically most in-touch and in-tune with customers, compared to the other business functional areas.

Marketing 67

Marketing Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Calibration 67

PeopleMetrics

MAY 24, 2018

and Chief Customer Officer 2.0. If you've been collecting customer feedback for a year or so, you'll get strategies for ramping it up. Sean has over 20 years of experience helping companies measure and improve the customer experience. Jeanne Bliss , Best-selling Author of Would You Do That To Your Mother?

Feedback 54

Feedback Chief Customer Officer Best practices Consulting 54

CSM Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

. “Avaya carefully chooses partners based upon their innovation and ingenuity − adding the perfect elements and expertise to complete our solutions,” said John Lindsley, Vice President of North America Channel Sales, Avaya. About Waterfield Tech Waterfield Tech transforms customer engagement for organizations worldwide.

Chief Customer Officer 52

Chief Customer Officer Education Government Consulting 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

SaaS 73

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Education Consulting 73

DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Contact centers need to undergo the following transformations to position themselves to enhance the brand they represent: From cost center to profit center – Sales and collections departments are profit centers, as their primary function is revenue generation. It’s Time to Transform.

Contact Center 48

Contact Center Chief Customer Officer CRM Cloud contact 48

ClearAction

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Penney’s case, its core customers appreciated getting good deals through discount sales. Ellen DeGeneres polarized its core customers: some loved the modern, humorous tone, and others felt a clash with their conservative views. What is Customer-Centricity DNA? (4-point The post What is Customer Experience Ecosystem?

Customer Experience 76

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Airlines 76

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

T hey can serve to increase the accountability of both your customer s and your team. . . Customer Success Skepticism Exists in Many Organizations (But Can B e Co mbated) . Drivers for corporate growth are no longer limited to Sales and Marketing. Customer Success has proven itself as a new driver for growth.

Chief Customer Officer 75

Chief Customer Officer SaaS Education Metrics 75

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

C S and Sales strengthen their bond. . As we move into 2020, I envision a stronger alignment between C S and Sales. By joining forces and clarifying roles, both teams can deliver a better customer experience and drive more revenue for their organizations. . . Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer , ChurnZero .

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Chief Customer Officer Sales SaaS Customer centricity 61

Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Influencers have been able to use products or try clothes on in real time, giving customers chances to ask questions, sign up for one-on-one virtual consultations or even buy as they watch. Influencers and consultants are leveraging video to show how products can work better together, encouraging customers to buy them both.

Contact Center 87

Contact Center Brand ambassadors Consulting Consulting 87

GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

Customer service agent notes and messages. Text from sales team interactions. . So, when developing your VoC strategy, think about how to collect survey data at each touchpoint and what other data can be used to build a more complete picture of your customers’ “voice.”. Output from Advisor council meeting.

Surveys 146

Surveys Journey mapping Feedback B2B 146

CustomerSuccessBox

OCTOBER 31, 2021

We hope to give a fresh perspective regarding the QBR process which will take your customer success efforts to the next level. Mary Poppen is the Chief Customer Officer, Glint at LinkedIn. All of the information obtained should be shared with all functions to help in the prioritization of delivering customer value.

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Chief Customer Officer Consulting Consulting Coaching 52

Solvvy

JUNE 12, 2018

AI, Bots and Humans – The Future Customer Journey is Here. Jim Whatton , VP Solutions Consulting, Genesys. Chas Bowman , Senior Technical Sales Consultant, Genesys. We all know that technology is changing the customer experience landscape. Brian Quigg , Sales Director, Virtual Hold Technology.

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Chief Customer Officer Consulting Consulting Contact Center 48