Beyond Philosophy

MAY 12, 2021

All these factors together—the changes in customer expectations and behaviors, the digital transformation disruption, and workforce changes—accelerated the intensity of challenges facing businesses this year. Voice of the customer continues to be a hot investment, too. Porte said the numbers were surprising.

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Chief Customer Officer Analytics Technology Surveys 221

CSM Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Jason Grier, EVP and Chief Customer Officer at Reputation looks at the future of customer feedback surveys and how customer emotion is better captured on social media than by traditional survey forms. Even video is emerging on the customer-feedback scene.

Surveys 59

Surveys Chief Customer Officer Feedback Customer emotions 59

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.

Chief Customer Officer 98

Chief Customer Officer SaaS Engineering Consulting 98

ClearAction

JANUARY 20, 2020

Deming said, “What everyone in a company does can be reduced to one of two functions: to serve the customer or serve someone who does.” ” The primary purpose of a Chief Customer Officer or customer experience manager is to facilitate all employees’ self-management of their ripple-effect on customer experience.

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Surveys Metrics Chief Customer Officer 120

ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Always respond to all feedback on Social Media within minutes, negative and positive since this will announce to the world, you address issues quickly. Be prompt to deliver and respond back to all feedbacks and queries to keep your customers delighted this season. Don’t ask your staff members, ask your actual customers.

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Customer Service Brand ambassadors Chief Customer Officer Interactive Voice Response 145

Kayako

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Customer feedback loops suffer from a lack of commitment. Most teams believe that a response to their customer marks the end of a closed-loop feedback system. Departments that could help improve the business end up swimming in an ocean of valuable feedback that isn’t acted upon. Close the loop with the customer.

Accountability 54

Accountability Feedback Chief Customer Officer Metrics 54

Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

I would NEVER rely on NPS as the only measurement of customer perception." Jeannie Walters TEDx Speaker, Customer Experience Expert, Trainer, Consultant, Podcaster. Tracking feedback of any kind helps leaders recognize when things are going well and when they are not. Peter Lavers Customer Experience and CRM Expert.

Consulting 126

Consulting Consulting Metrics Feedback 126

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

How do you break down your programs to achieve maximum benefit for both your customers and your company? Fundamental: Basic Leading and Lagging Indicators in Customer Success – Understand the cause and effect relationship between leading and lagging indicators to plan for 2020.

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Chief Customer Officer Education Upselling SaaS 17

CX Journey

MARCH 17, 2015

I joined Bob, along with Jeanne Bliss, in the first webinar to discuss Creating Actionable Insight from a Customer Listening Engine. Jeanne talked about the role of the Chief Customer Officer, while I ran through my Six Steps to Turn VoC into Action.

Metrics 77

Metrics Chief Customer Officer Coaching Feedback 77

ClearAction

JANUARY 14, 2015

Therefore, surveys of B2B practices may understate the actual work being done. One in four B2B firms has established processes for connecting data across customers' end-to-end experience with the company; 25% more are just starting this. Presentation of customer survey results to all employees.

Customer Experience 97

Customer Experience B2B Management B2C 97

Etech

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Provide training in all relevant areas and then empower your agents to do what they need to do to resolve the customer’s issue. Always seek feedback: Regular customer feedback is essential to creating and maintaining a superior socially enabled call center.

Call Center 67

Call Center Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Surveys 67

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.

Customer Experience 106

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Surveys Journey mapping 106

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Hoping to shed light on the current state of Customer Success and its influence within B2B SaaS organizations, ChurnZero along with ESG and Higher Logic, invited Customer Success leaders to participate in a survey to learn more about the top initiatives and issues facing this function today. What are your metrics?

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Chief Customer Officer Finance SaaS Benchmark 87

ClearAction

JANUARY 20, 2020

Deming said, “What everyone in a company does can be reduced to one of two functions: to serve the customer or serve someone who does.” ” The primary purpose of a Chief Customer Officer or customer experience manager is to facilitate all employees’ self-management of their ripple-effect on customer experience.

Surveys 90

Surveys Metrics Chief Customer Officer Feedback 90

CSM Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2021

While the former claims the inner strengths of a business will lead to success, the latter is guided by the belief that optimizing the customer experience throughout the customer journey is most important. So, what can organizations do to embrace the outside-in approach and start making the customer a priority?

Chief Customer Officer 59

Chief Customer Officer Feedback Consulting Consulting 59

ChurnZero

MAY 5, 2020

Fortunately, Customer Success teams are uniquely positioned to step up and provide business continuity—serving as a company’s compass to guide them through this treacherous terrain. This allows customers to passively give direct feedback and you to collect real-time insights for customer segmentation.

Customer retention 72

Customer retention Chief Customer Officer Construction Morale 72

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Understanding customers is a key step to success, and organizations do it best when they have a customer experience department in place. This department is tasked with analyzing customer feedback and data and disseminating its findings to improve the organization’s processes, products, and services.

Customer Experience 88

Customer Experience Metrics Feedback Employee engagement 88

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. Customer Success Around the Web. To find out who wins, check out the recap.

SaaS 98

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Upselling Metrics 98

Pointillist

JUNE 5, 2019

By Gary DeAsi It’s no surprise that customer experience is now a make-or-break factor for business success. But how do leading organizations optimize their customers’ journeys, improve customer experience and measure its impact on their business? Annette Franz Founder and CEO CX Journey Inc.

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Management Analytics Chief Customer Officer Metrics 89

Pointillist

MAY 19, 2020

By Stephanie Ventura Customer experience is more important than ever in 2020. But what makes some organizations more effective than others at managing customer journeys, measuring outcomes and improving experiences? The #1 challenge with VoC data is connecting customer feedback to outcomes such as churn, lifetime value and revenue.

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Management Journey mapping Analytics Customer centricity 94

ClearAction

MAY 26, 2023

Ask : First, make full use of Almost-Free VoC (voice of the customer). This is unsolicited feedback and internal sources of customer insights. There is a wealth of inspiration waiting to be mined from all sources of complaints and inquiries, digital behaviors and recordings, customer-facing people, and so on. ” Wow!

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Chief Customer Officer Enterprise Big data Customer centricity 62

ChurnZero

MAY 15, 2024

Yet, the data suggests, there’s something else at play: a lack of operational leadership experience within our survey respondents’ teams. 73%) Supporting CSMs in difficult customer situations. (71%) 67%) Elsewhere in the survey, 68% of CSMs say they like and appreciate their managers. 71%) Being a good advocate for our team. (67%)

Chief Customer Officer 52

Chief Customer Officer Coaching Surveys Best practices 52

Clarabridge

MARCH 15, 2017

You need to crush contact center silos if you are serious about putting the customer first. Even in organizations with a dedicated Chief Customer Officer, the role of the contact center in the customer experience is sometimes overlooked. And someone else is processing your NPS® survey results and scores.

Contact Center 53

Contact Center Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer First call resolution 53

Kayako

JUNE 9, 2016

When we put together the Customer Support State of Profession, one of the biggest surprises we found was the disparity in salaries. Start by grabbing these two resources, and we can help get you on your way to earning more: Customer Support State of Profession 2016. Support Driven Salary Survey. ” Jeanne Bliss.

Customer Support 54

Customer Support Chief Customer Officer Management Benchmark 54

CSM Practice

MARCH 9, 2021

Mary Poppen, Glint’s Chief Customer Officer, leads their team, responsible for driving and scaling the company’s ability to delight its customers. How did Glint manage to get customer feedback? Glint implemented a closed-loop feedback approach.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Management Chief Customer Officer 59

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.

Best practices 52

Best practices Chief Customer Officer Sales Upselling 52

ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

However, you should also have a feedback loop to identify when and if those engagements fall short of expectations. How to measure customer engagement A straightforward way to gain insight and measure customer engagement is to simply ask customers for feedback. NPS indicates customer loyalty.

SaaS 52

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Surveys Feedback 52

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Reimagining the way processes work can tremendously improve customer experience. This way each touchpoint with your customer-whether it’s through marketing, or sales, or product team- is an opportunity to make that impression. Consider surveying your customers at significant points in your interaction with them.

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Journey mapping Chief Customer Officer Upselling Customer retention 52

ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

In this preliminary phase, you’re still likely trying to reach product-market fit, you can count your customers on two hands, and you have a good sense of your customers’ satisfaction with your service despite not having any formal surveying. 6M to $10M of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) or ~10 Customer Success Mangers (CSMs).

Chief Customer Officer 90

Chief Customer Officer Journey mapping Accountability Customer advocacy 90

Kayako

JUNE 9, 2016

When we put together the Customer Support State of Profession, one of the biggest surprises we found was the disparity in salaries. Start by grabbing these two resources, and we can help get you on your way to earning more: Customer Support State of Profession 2016. Support Driven Salary Survey. ” Jeanne Bliss.

Customer Support 48

Customer Support Chief Customer Officer Management Benchmark 48

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The idea of a single-question survey was in stark contrast to lengthy surveys with multiple questions that took long enough to answer that customers either abandoned the survey mid-stream or bypassed the survey entirely, yielding increasingly lower response rates—a trend that started to decline back then and has been declining ever since.

B2B 52

B2B B2C Surveys Metrics 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

An onboarding can look successful on paper, but if the customer doesn’t feel it was successful, then none of that matters. Use post-onboarding surveys (NPS, CES, CSAT) to confirm. Recognize and follow up on any individual customer’s concerns. Is this dashboard for a specific customer? Bree: This is a holistic view.

Metrics 98

Metrics SaaS Surveys Self service 98

Pointillist

JUNE 6, 2018

I’ve got clients where the Chief Customer Officer reports directly to the CEO and where CX teams report to Marketing. I think another challenge is capturing and quantifying the impact of customer emotion. Right now, it’s mostly about getting feedback from customers in the form of survey data.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Metrics 40

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Our prediction for the industry over the next year is that more companies will embrace the motto “do less, more often” when it comes to collecting customer feedback. 14.) “While many forward-looking companies already have the leader of Customer Success report directly to the CEO, it is not yet a sure thing.

SaaS 73

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Education Consulting 73

CX Journey

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Survey methodologists, statisticians, sample designers, marketing communications experts or project managers? Tools of the VoC / CX trade vary but can include technology to facilitate database management, data analysis, survey design and deployment, web programming, and Mar Comm tools. customer experience voc voice of customer'

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Consulting Consulting Chief Customer Officer Journey mapping 68

Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

His coverage topics include the ROI of CX, CX strategy and governance, how CX leaders secure and retain sponsorship, the buy/own/advocate customer journey, voice of customer (VoC) and survey strategies, customer journey mapping, CX analytics and measurement, the role of social media and word of mouth (WOM) in CX, and persona development.

Customer Experience 98

Customer Experience Customer Service Consulting Consulting 98

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Amy shares a few practical applications of a force field analysis, such as improving processes like onboarding, removing barriers to adoption, managing product feedback, making a change or difficult decision, helping a team resolve issues and focus on broader goals, and helping a sales organization close deals faster. Should you let them?

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Customer advocacy SaaS Chief Customer Officer Sales 98