Amity

JANUARY 25, 2017

This is, after all, why so many Customer Success Professionals fall in love with the industry. The social nature of Customer Success work brings CSMs to chat with everyone they know: sales, marketing, product, and of course, customers. Sometimes, it’s nice to talk with other Customer Success Professionals.

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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.

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C3Centricity

MAY 11, 2020

” However, unlike most other projects, adopting a customer first strategy will not have an end date! It should have a timeline to identify milestones, of course. But as the customer will continue to change, the actions needed will need constant adaptation. ” Customer-centricity is a journey, not a destination.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges. While you might be tempted to renew their subscription or sell them a new product, the best course of action is to empathize with their current situation and listen to what they truly need. I’m sure you have too.

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Amity

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Over the course of the last 12 months, I’ve done regular Google queries on “Customer Success Manager” and the number of jobs on LinkedIn continues to increase. I’m talking about many companies likely looking to solve the same problem you are, by staffing a Customer Success team. Communication.

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Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Their success metrics should have a clear customer focus, and their leaders should care about customer experience. Elevate your service teams: Include your customer service leadership at the highest levels, perhaps through a Chief Customer Officer-type role. Report on customer service metrics to your board.

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CX Journey

JUNE 14, 2017

Build your personal brand Whether you're just entering this field or looking to advance your career, having a personal brand that speaks to your passion and expertise in customer experience will take you far. There are a lot of different ways you can build your personal brand. and spoken at industry events.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

When it comes to product adoption, as our Chief Customer Officer likes to analogize, showing up to the gym isn’t enough; you have to run on the treadmill to see results. To continue with this analogy, let’s say you hired a personal trainer when you joined the gym. Intention means nothing without action.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Speakers: Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer, ChurnZero. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic. I think CS is more the scaled model in that world where you’re doing one-to-many outreaches, you’re doing marketing-type interactions with big cohorts of customers all at once.

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Toister Performance Solutions

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Every person has a significant positive impact on wait times—a ripple effect far beyond the contacts they directly handle. Chief Customer Office, SalesLoft. First, they keep your connection with team members strong and are a terrific forum for investing in their continued personal and professional growth.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 21, 2020

Given the world’s current state of affairs, I think we feel this on a much deeper level than before both professionally and personally. Help customers be agile: Customer Success will be increasingly defined by how much your product could adapt to customer’s changing requirements.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Maranda (VandenBroek) Dziekonski is the Chief Customer Officer at Swiftly, Inc. is a Data Platform that provides reliable data to 95+ city transit networks around the world and has helped customers improve arrival predictions by up to 30% and complete planning projects up to 90% faster. Swiftly I nc.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Customer Success starts and ends with helping others realize value. 2) From : Vic Kasoff , Director of Customer Experience | Company : NarrativeDx | Location : Austin, Texas. It can be exhausting to try and have a “work personality” and a “home personality.” Don’t focus on making your customers happy.

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Amity

JUNE 3, 2016

Over the course of the last 12 months, I’ve done regular Google queries on “Customer Success Manager” and the number of jobs on LinkedIn continues to increase. I’m talking about many companies likely looking to solve the same problem you are, by staffing a Customer Success team. Communication.

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Are there aspects of your customer touchpoints which can be tech touch? Perhaps there are activities that need to be executed by a human and if so, can the activity be centralized with one person vs. all your CSMs performing the same action? Are you still onboarding every user/customer with a web-call?

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Horizon CX

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Year-end has always been a time for personal reflection for me and as 2018 ends in just a few hours, I am inspired to share the following thoughts around Customer Experience both in reflection of the year just about to end and the one just about to begin. With that in mind, I offer the following observations and insights.

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Kapta Customer Success

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

On her blog, Franz provides some incredible insights into how Customer Success professionals can better serve their customers and constantly improve their experiences. The Chief Customer Officer (CCO) Council grew from a need to provide CCOs with the information, resources, and support to help them succeed.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, came to exist. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, became essential to SaaS companies. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, joined the C-suite. The rising prominence of Customer Success is the result of it being the central business driver of growth and profit.

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ClearAction

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The way it’s designed is unique in setting up your profile so the content is curated personally to you,” said Milista. Find out how to connect and course-correct with those whose agendas or styles are different from yours. .” “We’re finding resources like the ClearAction Value Exchange to help with that.

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Mindtouch

AUGUST 21, 2019

Typically, contact center leadership is focused on how knowledge management can help impact call center KPIs such as average handle time (AHT), first call resolution (FCR), and customer satisfaction (CSAT). Of course, there is one more “stakeholder” that ought to be in the room for any conversation about knowledge management: the customer.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

LinkedIn: David Avrin – Customer Experience Keynote Speaker and Consultant – Visibility International, LLC. Through her expertise and personal approach, Denise has become an in-demand keynote speaker inspiring business leaders around the world to build great brands and exceptional organizations. Denise Lee Yohn.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 7, 2022

And then the customer experience isn’t going to be great and then they’ll leave too. So it really is, um, something that every person in the company should, should have a hand in versus just, you know, certain people owning that metric and being their responsibility to do something about it. And how do you gather them?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Emilia , Partner at Winning by Design, gives Customer Success leaders a practical blueprint to execute incremental change that won’t overwhelm your team. I am absolutely a huge advocate of operations for Customer Success. Q: How quickly would you build a Customer Success team from one person to many?

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2021

“I’ll talk to Customer Success leaders and they’ll say things like ‘I’ve got a new CEO and I need to find out what they think about Customer Success.’ Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic. To see what’s next for Customer Success, check out our top three Customer Success trends to look out for in 2022.

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

Of course, you want every new hire to be a hero, but replicating the star-like quality of your founding team is not only hard, but unrealistic. If you have a five-person Customer Success team and adding a Customer Success Operations role makes each CSM 20% more efficient, then do it.

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CSM Practice

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Irit Eizips, CSM Practice Chief Customer Officer and CEO was featured by Business Therapy, an engaging series where a number of professional challenges and problems are discussed in depth. Irit Eizips: (01:16) If you look at the industries and all the businesses dealing with customers, everybody is affected very differently.

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Amity

MAY 27, 2014

Over the course of the last 12 months, I’ve done regular Google queries on “customer success manager” and the number of jobs on LinkedIn continues to increase – did you know that there are over 16,000 today? That is a lot of companies likely looking to solve the same problem you are by staffing a customer success team.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

If you can somehow—this is of course magic, although maybe it’s not magic—[achieve] near zero-cost renewable energy. I first heard this term—I even remember where I was—I was in a cafe in Cupertino, that’s about 10 years ago, with the CEO of Ansys, and I remember thinking at the time when he was talking about customers.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

If you can somehow—this is of course magic, although maybe it’s not magic—[achieve] near zero-cost renewable energy. I first heard this term—I even remember where I was—I was in a cafe in Cupertino, that’s about 10 years ago, with the CEO of Ansys, and I remember thinking at the time when he was talking about customers.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Irit is an immaculate Customer Success Strategist who balances strategic thought-leadership with hands-on tactical management to create rapid results. She’s been a key figure in the CS industry, by shaping Customer Success methodologies and best practices used today. Irit is also the Chief Customer Officer & CEO at CSM Practice.

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Branch Mesenger

MAY 29, 2018

Jeanne Bliss is a best-selling author and an expert on customer-centric leadership. She pioneered the Chief Customer Officer role and has deeply applied her experience in writing and research from time spent working at companies including Allstate, Coldwell Banker, and Microsoft. It's really about personalizing.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 10, 2020

In this blog post, we are going to share with you the following resources on CS: Blogs Newsletters Podcasts Books Courses and Certifications. This is one of the most followed blogs on Customer Success. 4 Chief Customer Officer Council. 5 Enlightened Customers. 3 Chief Customer Officer 2.0:

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ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

At ChurnZero, we created our Admin Academy – a series of live, recurring webinars – to give customers the knowledge and skills they need to configure ChurnZero. After each instruction-based webinar, customers have a 1:1 consultation with their Customer Success Manager.

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Kayako

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Instead of one person feeling the full weight of responsibility to save a life, the responsibility is split between one hundred witnesses, and no one is compelled enough to act. If the bystander effect can have this effect on witnessing a murder, imagine what it does to a Voice of the Customer program !

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Both Amazon and Zappos are prime examples of brands that are customer centric and have spent years creating a culture around the customer and their needs. This is so important that organizations like Oracle developed a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) to ensure a consistently amazing customer experience across all touch points.

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ChurnZero

MAY 1, 2020

For instance, let’s say you were selling Customer Success software to your C-Suite. To persuade your Chief Customer Officer, you’d want to address their top concerns such as optimizing the customer experience without adding internal headcount. Adapt to your audience’s decision-making style.

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