CX Journey

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

For the long term win, Customer Experience Management needs to be a continuous process of collecting - and acting on - customer insights. It needs to be a comprehensive strategy with engineering, analytics, sales, marketing, and all job functions sharing the same appreciation for the customer and aligned with the same objectives. #2

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Customer Guru

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Mapping the customers for each department gives a clear view of how the department’s work impacts the customer experience of the end customer, who is most likely being served by the sales and account management department. The best way to achieve this is to build a Customer Journey Map (CJM).

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Customer Centric Support

MARCH 6, 2017

Start with these simple actions: Solve a problem that’s not (directly) your problem – Understand the challenges that your sales and marketing leaders are experiencing and find a way for customer service to be involved in the solution. Customer service can nearly always make a positive impact on sales and marketing challenges.

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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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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Chad is an experienced and accomplished technology leader specializing in product management and strategy, product innovation, product marketing, sales engineering, usability, and customer experience management. CEO - C hief Customer Office Council. Chief Customer Officer - Gainsight.

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

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2020

While our 2020 Customer Success leaders watchlist below includes long-time Customer Success champions, we’re excited to see several prominent SaaS companies welcome their first-ever Chief Customer Officer to their C-suite roster—a promising sign for the unlimited potential of a career in Customer Success. .

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ClearAction

APRIL 13, 2023

Brand Integrity and Your Ideal Customer Lynn Hunsaker Ideal Customer Profiles can be your key to sales velocity, retention, recurring revenue, and CAGR (compound average growth rate). You need to “own” this customer segment. Championing brand integrity is the ideal purpose of Chief Customer Officers.

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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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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?

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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.). .”

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine by Jeanne Bliss. When asked how their customer service measures up, 71% of business leaders think they provide better customer service than their competitors.

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Natalie Petouhof

JUNE 4, 2015

Key Principle #6: Future Markets: Healthcare, Government, Innovation, People, Passion… In a digital world, where business models are changing very fast (note not everyone agrees with this or sees it) business will need real-time data to make better decisions to make the customer experience the best it can be.

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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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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.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The Q&A portion of the webinar covered additional acute topics including the one process every Customer Success leader must focus on in 2023, why CSM book size should be based on customer count, and how to move Customer Success out of the sales team’s shadow. Peter Armaly, vice president of Customer Success, ESG.

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JustCall

MARCH 8, 2023

Diane Magers Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Experience Catalysts Diane Magers is an accomplished senior executive with over 25 years of experience in customer experience, sales, and marketing. She is the Chief Customer Officer at Gainsight and is responsible for leading the post-sales organization.

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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.

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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.

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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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Amity

JULY 26, 2018

For example: Amity is a fast-growing customer success company that loves collaboration and teamwork throughout the organization. Our ideal candidate has experience in customer success, customer service, or a related idea. He/she is a fast learner and will work with Sales, Marketing, and Engineering to improve customer relations.

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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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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It s workstreams rely upon inputs like data entered by sales or even ‘gut instincts. ’ Since buyers typically follow a uniform purchasing journey , CRMs are ideal for managing a sales pipeline. . Customer Success Platforms work to foster on-going customer value after the initial purchase.

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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. One commonality is that their leadership is very customer centric.

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Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

Could you tell us a bit about your personal story that led to you building a career in Customer Experience? I completed my engineering in 2001, majoring in Electronics. However, to be honest, there were really very few jobs for engineers in that year. Mine has been a roller coaster journey. by Jeanne Bliss.

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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. Create a revenue engine through communication and education that enable your team to achieve your organization’s top goals. Can you imagine a Sales Manager setting up your Salesforce?

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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. by Ryan Levesque.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 3, 2022

The second: 10 laws of “Customer Success” The third deals with CCO – Chief customer officer, Technology and The Future. When sales cared more about attracting new customers, only in the recent five years, we realized the game changer is retention. Customer rating: 4.5

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 6, 2021

He is a world-renowned Customer Success growth expert, consultant, and thought leader, Lincoln is one of those celebrated earliest evangelists for Customer Success. He is a complete customer-centric growth mastermind. Rick started his career as a system engineer before moving into business ownership. Dave Jackson.

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As you grow and as your customers mature, so too should your segmentation. If you split the commercial relationship between sales and customer success, I would examine if there was a segment of your customers who would renew and organically grow a single CSM on the account vs. having two resources (sales and CSM) on the account.

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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. One commonality is that their leadership is very customer centric.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A purchase decision is determined by customers- they will look at a positive experience over anything else. Customer experience is now a priority for any company. This is why more businesses are appointing Chief Customer officers to focus on customers. Should Chief Customer Officer oversee marketing chores?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 15, 2021

The time to adopt and level of adoption across your customer’s team will be the key indicator of health (as opposed to relationship with POC, engagement between POC & CSM, and expansion history). Customer Success will transcend the bottom of the funnel. George DeCherney , Director of InApp Engineering, ChurnZero.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Agents might also let emotionality or a bad day get in the way of what they can do for a customer – Chatbots, on the other hand, don’t have that problem. As Joe Gagnon, Chief Customer Officer of Aspect Software writes , “There is a predictable and reliable component of Chatbots. Drive Revenue.

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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. Your role is to make sure that [the customer] is scheduled for a welcome call.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

In the episode, You Mon covers the gamut of Customer Success topics—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. Your role is to make sure that [the customer] is scheduled for a welcome call.

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