Contact Center Geek

MARCH 7, 2018

One thing that is still very common is the practice of putting most of the metric goals on the backs of the front line contact center team members. There’s a better way: stop using AHT and Adherence as team member performance metrics. Using data and performance metrics are important elements of a contact center leader's job.

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Metrics Chief Customer Officer Abandon rate Contact Center 63

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.

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Customer Service Customer centricity Chief Customer Officer Metrics 139

ChurnZero

APRIL 13, 2020

“Each ChurnZero customer receives a dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM) that guides them through training to gain a deep understanding and full adoption of the entire platform,” says Abby Hammer, Chief Customer Officer at ChurnZero. ChurnZero is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

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Consulting Consulting Chief Customer Officer Construction 98

Mindtouch

APRIL 17, 2017

We evaluated thousands of members within the Customer Success community and created a measurement that took into account a wide range of metrics including internet presence, influence, authorship, individual contributions, community engagement and participation. Mary Poppen , Glint, Chief Customer Officer, @Mary__Poppen, LinkedIn.

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Education Services Group

APRIL 13, 2020

“Each ChurnZero customer receives a dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM) that guides them through training to gain a deep understanding and full adoption of the entire platform,” says Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer at ChurnZero. ChurnZero is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Consulting 89

Consulting Consulting Chief Customer Officer Construction 89

ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2020

To understand the why and how behind putting the customer at the center of your business, we hosted a webinar with two founding team members of customer-first organizations: ChurnZero’s Chief Customer Officer Abby Hammer and inSided’s CEO/Co-Founder Robin van Lieshout. That can be the tricky part.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Best practices Metrics 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. A – Attainable.

Management 98

Management Chief Customer Officer Upselling SaaS 98

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. In either case, what it’s meant to do is get the non-support person thinking about support issues.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

To help make sense of the survey data, give their expert take on what it means for Customer Success teams, and offer up maturity recommendations based on the findings, we invited Megan Macaluso, VP Customer Success & Operations at ESG, and Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic, to join us for a webinar.

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Chief Customer Officer Finance SaaS Benchmark 87

Satrix Solutions

JULY 21, 2021

We had an opportunity to sit down and chat about this topic, as well as what’s coming up in the Customer Success industry with Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer with ChurnZero. ChurnZero is a real-time Customer Success platform that helps subscription businesses fight customer churn.

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Chief Customer Officer SaaS Customer retention Metrics 78

Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

CEO - C hief Customer Office Council. Curtis founded the Chief Customer Officer Council™, the first peer-led advisory group for CCOs. The Council has helped its members create customer-centric cultures as well as drive profitable customer engagement. Chief Customer Officer - Gainsight.

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SaaS Chief Customer Officer Consulting Consulting 96

Customer Centric Support

MARCH 6, 2017

For six years, I’d held a Customer Service job with essentially one objective: make everyone around me happy, and make customers happy as a consequence. It was perfect for my gregarious, people-pleasing personality. After all, happy customers and revenue are very closely related. Read “Chief Customer Officer 2.0”

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Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Enterprise Engineering 84

Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What Roles Are on a Customer Success Team? The tiers of a SaaS company’s customer success team structure may have a variety of roles. VP of Customer Success : This person oversees the development and implementation of CS strategies, manages the existing customer base, and handles the management and growth of the CS team.

Best practices 101

Best practices Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Sales 101

Amity

MARCH 24, 2016

How is Customer Success structured at Vend? We have four pillars under the Customer Success umbrella; Education, Enablement, Experience, and Support. All four pillars report to Sharad Mohan, our Chief Customer Officer. What does the Customer Success Culture look like at Vend?

Chief Customer Officer 91

Chief Customer Officer Metrics Surveys SaaS 91

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. 5 Ways to Reduce Churn by Delivering a Consistent Customer Experience. Not to be that person, but you kind of had to be there.

SaaS 98

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Upselling Metrics 98

Pointillist

MAY 19, 2020

High performers are 7 to 8 times more likely to be effective at integrating data into a single view of the customer, analyzing customer interactions across channels and engaging customers with personalized cross-channel experiences.

Management 94

Management Journey mapping Analytics Customer centricity 94

Interactions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

His expertise in analytics and strategy, combined with a deep understanding of customer needs, helps create a seamless, personalized shopping experience. Leigh’s focus on cross-functional team leadership mirrors Interactions’ value of fostering deep connections with customers​.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Chief Customer Officer Banking 62

Interactions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

His expertise in analytics and strategy, combined with a deep understanding of customer needs, helps create a seamless, personalized shopping experience. Leigh’s focus on cross-functional team leadership mirrors Interactions’ value of fostering deep connections with customers​.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Chief Customer Officer Banking 62

CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 2, 2022

This means, customer success as well provides service and support as that of customer support but with a key distinction that it tries to understand the pain points well before they arrive but with customer support, only appear after when the problem arises and that’s how the key metrics they both look into differs as well.

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Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

The Net Promoter System® (or NPS) has been a popular customer experience metric since its creation in 2003. 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. There is no perfect metric.

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Consulting Consulting Metrics Feedback 126

ProProfs Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

Develop personal brand. Navigate when office politics is on the rise. It’s nice to know that average IQ doesn’t limit a person to average performance. Chief Customer Officer 2.0. Books on Customer Service Culture. Books on Improving Customer Success. View critics at workplace.

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360Connext

MARCH 8, 2018

Jeannie and I share something in common: a passion for human evaluation of the customer experience. We both enjoy dissecting the moments that matter to customers and employees to truly understand what fosters a great relationship and yields professional and personal results. You’re in charge of #CX!'”

Marketing 63

Marketing Journey mapping Chief Customer Officer Advertising 63

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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Kayako

JANUARY 12, 2017

“ The History of Customer Service: Ticket Troubleshooting to Proactive and Personal. “This post really captures how it all started and how the customer service space has evolved over time. The Customer Delight Playbook , by Sujan Patel. This is the ultimate customer experience guide.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity B2B 79

Eptica

AUGUST 19, 2020

When it comes to creating the right organisational structure to truly deliver superior customer experience, there are two models promoted by CX analysts and experts: The centralised approach Create a customer experience department headed by a board-level director/ Chief Customer Officer and with its own, dedicated budget and KPIs.

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Customer centricity Chief Customer Officer Best practices Customer Experience 82

Totango

JANUARY 21, 2020

Oversees the development and implementation of customer success strategies. Manages the existing customer base. Handles the management and growth of the customer success team. Chief Customer Officer. Champions a customer-centered mindset within the company. Customer Success Manager Team Lead(s).

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Chief Customer Officer Enterprise Management Customer retention 87

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Twenty years ago, when I did my first big round of funding for a different company, NRR was an “Oh, by the way” metric. Then, by the third meeting, they said, ‘Oh, by the way, what are your customer metrics?’ Within the last 36 months, NRR claims the top spot as a qualifying metric. The VC firm gave me the term sheet.

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Benchmark Metrics Chief Customer Officer SaaS 97

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

“We’ve taken snapshots from data across our customer base showing that customers who get the human-led onboarding typically are healthier customers than the ones that come in after the fact,” says Olson. We don’t know who that person is, and their experience is very different from those first individuals.”. .

SaaS 93

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Sales Metrics 93

Eptica

JULY 26, 2017

However it is achieved they need to demonstrate to everyone in the organization that it is their personal priority – and therefore should be theirs too. Give it board recognition While he or she needs to be a figurehead for CX and lead from the front, a CEO clearly won’t be able to devote all their energies to customer experience.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 22, 2021

This was followed by 20% of respondents who cited a fear of failing or getting a “no” from a customer and 17% who fear not having an answer to a question and looking silly. Q: How do you set a clear future meeting date when using chat or email as opposed to phone or in-person conversation? Customer Success Around the Web.

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Sales Chief Customer Officer Upselling Metrics 98

Amity

MAY 22, 2016

Before you begin, you need to have a plan in place to bring customer success to its full potential. This includes your vision, goals, customer data, metrics, timetable, journey map etc. A number of CEOs have walked in the shoes of their customers. You don’t know your customers. You don’t have a plan.

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Journey mapping Chief Customer Officer B2B SaaS 57

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

Amity

JANUARY 30, 2014

The fast pace of new Social Media applications paired with the dominance of mobile devices is providing an increasingly accessible medium for customers to exercise their individual voice and personality; including tailoring how they choose to communicate with vendors in the ‘here’ and ‘now’ in a way that best suits their needs and lifestyle.

Chief Customer Officer 48

Chief Customer Officer SaaS B2B Metrics 48

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. But there are general metrics of success around the work that they’re doing. Swati: What kind of CX metrics do organizations employ to measure success? Annette: It’s a mixed bag.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Metrics 40

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). Agent adoption metrics. Personalization and permissions. Others require third-party tools. Ticket deflection.

Management 88

Management Self service Chief Customer Officer Chatbots 88

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Speakers: Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer, ChurnZero. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic. Jay: Having clarity on the metrics that you want to measure for the team that you manage is job number one, from an operational perspective. And then what are your targets for those metrics?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2021

You need to show how you’ll impact those metrics one segment at a time.”. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic. Probably the top one or two most impactful things you can do for your company is to improve these metrics each quarter.”. What’s Next for Customer Success? Software vendors want in.

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