Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Augie Ray is the Research Director in customer experience for Marketing and CX leaders at Gartner. He advises Fortune 500 businesses on customer-centric CX strategy, goals, metrics, and procedures. He has tremendous experience in social media marketing and customer experience management. Bill Quiseng Follow @billquiseng.

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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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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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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. Tip #8: Report on customer service metrics at company meetings. The same is true with metrics.

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Amity

APRIL 7, 2017

For example, if your company’s main goal is growth, identify key metrics that support achieving higher revenues. In this case, the metrics you pick should allow you to show your team’s impact on both existing revenues as well as new business. Identifying your customer success team's primary goals is important.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Featuring real-world CSMs with real-world challenges, CSM From the Trenches offers a case study-like look at customer issues and presents an actionable solution to these common situations. The 2020 Customer Success Trends Toolkit. Everyone loves a good toolkit, especially customer success managers.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

While many members of the C-suite continue to put the customer experience as a brand’s top priority, the challenge of creating a customer-first model lies in the lack of tools, siloed data and misalignment on job ownership.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

For example, if your company’s main goal is growth, you should identify key metrics that support achieving higher revenues. In this case, the metrics you pick should allow you to show your team’s impact on both existing revenues as well as new business. Identifying your customer success team’s primary goals is important.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Top 5 Customer Success Takeaways from Chief Customer Officers USA. Our very own CCO, Abby Hammer, had a part of the action and was one of the presenters and spoke on- How to Drive Operational Excellence Through Data-Driven Customer Success. In this webinar, we will discuss how to: 1.

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Serenova

JUNE 16, 2020

The C-suite is focused more than ever on reducing agent turnover rates and improving customer experience (CX) ratings. Agent applications help them provide a better experience for customers, while also delivering important analytics data on their own performance. Chief customer officers have been laser-focused on analytics.

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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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Eptica

JUNE 17, 2016

One of the key points raised is that while senior managers now understand the importance of customer experience , many are unsure where to start when it comes to improving what they offer to consumers. In this post I’m going to talk about each of them based on Eptica’s own experiences of working with customers across the world.

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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.

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Pointillist

MAY 19, 2020

Organizations across industries struggle to connect customer behavior and journeys to business-critical KPIs, such as revenue, churn, cost to serve and more. Only 21% of respondents are very or extremely satisfied with their ability to quantify the impact of CX on business metrics.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Project management, to ensure that projects are well organized, completed on time and meet key metrics. A CXO must develop a long-term vision for customer experience and ensure that it aligns with the organization’s overall goals and strategy. In some cases, the two roles might be combined though.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

For example, if your company’s main goal is growth, identify key metrics that support achieving higher revenues. In this case, the metrics you pick should allow you to show your team’s impact on both existing revenues as well as new business. Identifying your customer success team’s primary goals is important.

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Mindtouch

AUGUST 21, 2019

Though widely used, the traditional knowledge base can present certain limitations in terms of functionality and scale which fail to meet the complex needs of larger organizations (and modern customer self-service). Agent adoption metrics. Others require third-party tools. Ticket deflection.

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Here are 4 prerequisites to a successful customer experience ecosystem: 1st CX Ecosystem Prerequisite: Understand Your Company’s Whole Ecosystem. As Jeanne Bliss recommended in her book, Chief Customer Officer , know your company’s power core — is it product, sales, marketing, vertical business, IT, customer, or other?

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Horizon CX

DECEMBER 27, 2019

During my ten years plus tenure as a corporate CX director, I introduced NPS to the leadership team to which they readily understood the concept and its simplicity and fully embraced NPS as the key performance metric in evaluating customer satisfaction and loyalty. It complements other CX metrics but is less likely to stand alone.

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Amity

JUNE 21, 2017

Current methods are focused on calculating a Customer Health Score (CHS) , which is a measure of the relationship between the vendor and the customer. We suggested that this metric is insufficient and a new analysis, CMI, is needed to augment it for it to be useful. And still something was missing.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

While many members of the C-suite continue to put the customer experience as a brand’s top priority, the challenge of creating a customer-first model lies in the lack of tools, siloed data and misalignment on job ownership.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

While many members of the C-suite continue to put the customer experience as a brand’s top priority, the challenge of creating a customer-first model lies in the lack of tools, siloed data and misalignment on job ownership.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 14, 2023

Better alignment drives increased product adoption , retention, and ideally deeper customer relationships. Note: this article is adapted from a session presented by ChurnZero Chief Customer Officer Alli Tiscornia and ChurnZero Chief Product Officer Abby Hammer at ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success conference, BIG RYG.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s why ChurnZero believes customer retention and loyalty are the most important stages of customer lifecycle management. For example, Forrester says just “11% of B2B decision-makers” say metrics for customer retention and loyalty are tracked by marketing leaders. So, how can we improve customer retention and loyalty?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s why ChurnZero believes customer retention and loyalty are the most important stages of customer lifecycle management. For example, Forrester says just “11% of B2B decision-makers” say metrics for customer retention and loyalty are tracked by marketing leaders. So, how can we improve customer retention and loyalty?

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Amity

JULY 26, 2018

For example: Purpose of the position: To increase customer loyalty within the existing customer base. Having metrics in this section is a plus because it tells applicants you have measurable (and hopefully attainable) goals in mind for them. Help the Chief Customer Officer to create a churn reduction plan.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Conversations are no longer driven by product features but rather about customer enablement and alignment on the expected impact from the partnership between the customer and a company. Making customers happy is no longer good enough. . . Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer , ChurnZero .

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ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

You can also host customer panel or ask me anything (AMA) webinars to encourage more interactive, dynamic discussions compared to the traditional format with a sole presenter or one-way dialogue. For these types of less scripted presentations, having a moderator who is highly knowledgeable on the topic is a must.

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Amity

JUNE 28, 2017

In the first two parts of this blog series, we argued that while Customer Health Score (CHS) is a helpful metric it is insufficient to address opportunities and challenges with your customers. Following that logic, we should develop a system of combining insights from the two metrics towards a plan of action.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Happier agents are also more productive, which means that they can better achieve contact center metrics. Just remember that if you adopt a Chatbot you’ll have to adjust your metrics a bit, to reflect the time that it takes to solve just complex queries). These costs can then be used to fund other, more important company endeavors.

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CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Instead, I am sharing with you examples of the ultimate Conqueror state in each pillar: Alignment: CS influenced the operations and compensation corporate-wide to align all teams around Customer Success via a Chief Revenue Officer or Chief Customer Officer.

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CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Instead, I am sharing with you examples of the ultimate Conqueror state in each pillar: Alignment: CS influenced the operations and compensation corporate-wide to align all teams around Customer Success via a Chief Revenue Officer or Chief Customer Officer.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 15, 2021

The number of integrations between Customer Success platforms and project management tools will also surge. A growing reliance on Customer Success metrics. I predict 2021 will be the year businesses rely on interdepartmental Customer Success metrics more than ever. Bigger budgets for Customer Success.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But this blog is specifically about Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Chief Customer Officer (CCO) is the highest position in the customer success department in any organization. These initiatives can be in any of the forms, from creating a customer loyalty program to driving training for employees.

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Kayako

DECEMBER 3, 2015

You know that building relationships with your customers turns a one-time purchaser into a loyal repeat-buyer. And you know just how powerful delightful customer service experiences can be to drive positive word-of-mouth. But how do you present this to those who are focused on ROI and efficiencies?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

CSAT measures customer satisfaction. Answer options are usually presented on a 3-point or 5-point scale (e.g., Read the complete guide: The ChurnZero guide to product walkthroughs The building blocks of customer satisfaction and loyalty Customer engagement is a building block of customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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