Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Listen to customers: It is terribly easy to become too busy to stay connected to your customers, especially in a growing company. Look for ways to hear their voices regularly , perhaps on sales calls or in the support queue. Talk about customers: Help the rest of your company be exposed to real customers, too.

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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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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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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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C3Centricity

MAY 11, 2020

As mentioned above, everyone has a role to play in satisfying and delighting the customer. It is not the job of marketing, sales or market research alone to understand their needs. It is vital that each employee thinks customer first and ensures that every action and decision they make is customer centric.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But of course, you’re far from alone in feeling this way. Save time by creating a Play in your Customer Success software to automate the creation and scheduling of that recycled email. The Customer Success leader perspective: how to encourage the adoption of Customer Success software. No one will ignore this!

CRM 98

CRM Chief Customer Officer SaaS Morale 98

ClearAction

JANUARY 20, 2020

Customer experience (CX) is something that has always existed, from the first people on earth who bartered: does the recipient (customer) view their realities as matching/exceeding their expectations? CX is cumulative, encompassing pre-sale and post-sale. Take a course in organizational change management.

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Customer Experience Surveys Metrics Feedback 120

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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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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Watch the session: Customer Success as a Profit Center. Get Sales invested in NRR by conducting weekly deal reviews and stipulating sales commission based on Customer Success acceptance of customers. You have to force the CEO, the VP of Sales, and the VP of Customer Success to be at the deal review.

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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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Customer retention Chief Customer Officer SaaS Accountability 97

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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ChurnZero

AUGUST 21, 2020

Not only with their customers feeling pressure to show ROI and deal with a struggling economy, but also their leaders will depend on them to shore up the health of the company’s financials. In a major economic downturn, hard light is shined on Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 24, 2018

It is also relevant for anyone who is interested in CX or wants to learn more about how customer feedback can be used to drive business results. Entrepreneurs looking for a crash course on how to best listen to customers and use that feedback to improve their business will benefit from the book as well.

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Mindtouch

AUGUST 21, 2019

Customers, on the other hand, might seek information within their product (in-product contextual help content ), using Google, or through a company’s website and chatbot interface. 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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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

Activities: Customer segmentation, defined CSM engagement models, defined customer journey maps, alignment between Sales and Customer Success. Key Focus Areas: Get your foundation in order: data and processes People assume that Customer Success is all about relationships and no science. Warning Sign to Level Up.

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Chief Customer Officer Accountability Journey mapping Customer advocacy 90

ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

But some of the most common metrics you want to track include CSM engagement (meetings, emails), support tickets (volume, frequency, topics), and resources (engagement with help guides, courses, videos, etc.). The customer’s perception of success is everything. We’ve got 68 customers in onboarding right now.

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Metrics SaaS Surveys Self service 98

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. A: I can’t tell you how important a Customer Success Operations role is. Can you imagine a Sales Manager setting up your Salesforce? That would be a disaster.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 20, 2020

Customer experience (CX) is something that has always existed, from the first people on earth who bartered: does the recipient (customer) view their realities as matching/exceeding their expectations? CX is cumulative, encompassing pre-sale and post-sale. Take a course in organizational change management.

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Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

However, the Net Promoter System — which includes things like the timing of surveys, transactional versus relational NPS, and closing the loop — can be an effective approach to improving customer experience. For that reason I would score it a 6 which is, of course,100% worse than a score of 9 in NPS maths. Of course you don't.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 27, 2019

This post focuses on how to maximize the biggest sales quarter and close out the year strong, but these same strategies can be applied to make every quarter in 2020 your best on e yet. . They say good things come in threes which takes no exception to us welcoming our new CCO, CMO, and VP of Sales to our powerhouse executive team.

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Vcaretec

JUNE 6, 2022

Join Shep’s 71,000+ followers on Twitter and subscribe to the Shepard Letter for weekly customer service tips. vcare-expert-anna-sabryan Anna Sabryan : Anna is an experienced social media and modern marketer at Oracle who blogs about the digital customer service and customer experience. Join Anna’s 28,000+ followers on Twitter.

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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. Pre-sales / Post Sales).

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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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Squelch

JULY 23, 2019

With the growth of SaaS, companies shifted their sales models and began to figure out the break-even point for customers. Companies started measuring the cost to acquire a customer (known as CAC), which is a very common measurement in software sales now. In early-stage companies, it’s all about customer acquisition.

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Kapta Customer Success

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Customer Success is a vital component to startup success so you will find analytical blog posts about the ins and outs of customer acquisition and metrics to help bolster your brand. 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 28, 2021

Speakers: Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer, ChurnZero. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic. For example, Sales might want you to be something because it’s going to help them in some way. We actually helped some customers do that back in the day. Q&A Recap.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In other words, it’s far easier to convince someone who already knows, likes and trusts you to buy more—than it is to reach, educate and convert new customers—in a time when most budgets are under scrutiny. Further, additional sales with existing customers have a lower customer acquisition cost (CAC).

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In other words, it’s far easier to convince someone who already knows, likes and trusts you to buy more—than it is to reach, educate and convert new customers—in a time when most budgets are under scrutiny. Further, additional sales with existing customers have a lower customer acquisition cost (CAC).

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SmartKarrot

JULY 6, 2022

Congratulations on becoming the new chief customer officer of the organization. The biggest challenge you will face as the new chief customer officer is that the customer situation has shifted dramatically in the last couple of years. Questions the new chief customer officer must ask themselves.

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Squelch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Well, just as today’s companies must consider the experience of customers across all interactions, we wanted to ensure a positive experience for conference attendees. Of course, the true win took place after the putter was set aside and our team members had the opportunity to talk one-on-one with attendees.

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Are your education courses available on-demand, on a platform with usage metrics easily tracked in one location? Are you still onboarding every user/customer with a web-call? As you grow and as your customers mature, so too should your segmentation. If so, why? I would argue few organizations have done this well.

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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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Amity

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

And like the pioneers in marketing, there is a lot we can learn by revisiting how the pioneers in Customer Success, like Paul Teshima, realized why helping customers succeed was integral to SaaS success and in doing so, shaped this discipline. Amity: You were a pioneer in the Customer Success – how did you break ground?

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Kayako

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Assign accountability for a customer feedback loop. For example, sales teams are accountable for their leads. For example, when I worked at Payfirma, the customer support team was put in charge of reducing churn. Sunan Spriggs, the Chief Customer Officer, calmly replied, “Exactly.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But of course, you’re far from alone in feeling this way. Save time by creating a Play in your Customer Success software to automate the creation and scheduling of that recycled email. Make it clear how using the new Customer Success software will lead to full variable compensation attainment. No one will ignore this!

CRM 52

CRM Chief Customer Officer SaaS Morale 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

In the episode, You Mon covers the gamut of Customer Success insights—from defining its (oft-misunderstood) purpose, seeing what a day in the life of a CSM looks like, knowing when to add CS to an organization, handling tension with sales, and more. He said we need Customer Success managers. I had never heard the phrase before.

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