Gainsight

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we embark on the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on Gainsight’s Customer Success resources from 2020. We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Launching Customer Success. Customer Success Team Management.

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Sometimes we learn important customer service skills through training, or through years of hard-earned experience. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 5, 2022

When times change, Customer Success changes with them. Most Customer Success myths stem from the early days when our industry was in its infancy. Mythbuster monthly is a ChurnZero series dedicated to laying those common Customer Success misconceptions to rest. Let’s find out.

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Amity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Amity sat down with Bradley Liou , Director of Customer Success at Densify to ask him about all things Customer Success. Read our interview with Bradley to find out where Customer Success started at Densify, where it is now, and where it’s headed in the future. I am the GM, the coach and the player.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 25, 2024

There are so many questions to answer when considering how to scale a customer success team. Whatever the decade it originated, if you fast forward to today, this concept certainly crosses many customer success leaders’ minds as they’re considering growing their teams. So, why does any of this matter in customer success?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 17, 2022

As a follow-up to our well-attended webinar on “ The startup’s guide to Customer Success ” with Jennifer Chiang (the author of the book by the same name), we wanted to get more of our audience’s questions answered. Speaker: Jennifer Chiang , Head of Customer Success, Seso.

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Totango

JANUARY 12, 2022

Being a Customer Success Manager (CSM) can be an extremely rewarding career. A CSM works hand-in-hand with customers, guiding them through the customer journey and fostering a positive connection. 5 Key Customer Success Manager Interview Questions. . Customer Success Managers are leaders.

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Blake Morgan

APRIL 3, 2025

Eggemeier shared why Zendesk believes resolution is the only metric that mattersand how their new pay-for-outcomes model directly aligns with customer success. She is a customer experience futurist and author of three books on customer experience. Businesses see real results. Everyone wins. 8CXLaws.com.

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C3Centricity

AUGUST 6, 2024

This seismic shift often faces resistance from employees deeply rooted in traditional practices, who may struggle to see the immediate benefits of a customer-first approach. Companies grapple with ingrained behaviours, leadership communication gaps, and inadequate training programs. times higher customer retention and 1.9

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 15, 2022

As any customer success professional knows, learning and growing in your profession never really ends. Why let your development as a customer success professional fall behind? Stop right there if you’re thinking, “what else about customer success do I stand to learn?”. This book has the answers.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 23, 2021

If you are a high-touch Customer Success Manager (CSM) and simply cannot imagine a world where you actually enjoy using Customer Success software, I’m here to help. Allow me to convince you that high-touch Customer Success paired with automation is actually a match made in heaven. Let’s roll with that.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In the spirit of “Staying Thirsty” we’ve compiled this list of books, blogs, Slack communities, and podcasts for product-obsessed people that want to develop themselves in and out of the office. So treat yourself to a book every quarter. Books for Product Managers. Books for Product Managers. Blogs for Product Managers.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI also emerged as a topic when we asked three of our executive leaders – Chief Marketing Officer Karen Budell , SVP of Customer Success Chris Dishman , and Chief Revenue Officer Dennis Reardon – to share their industry predictions for 2024. By nature, CSMs feel inclined to assume any responsibility involving the customer.

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ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In this post, I’ll address the most frequent question I’m asked by customer success leaders—what is the best compensation plan for Customer Success Managers (CSMs)? Compensation Plans for Customer Success Managers (CSMs). Download Customer Success Compensation Models Image. Three Models.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

You’re not alone,” says Sharon Winterton , vice president of Customer Success at Catalina Marketing during her session “ Battling imposter syndrome in Customer Success ” at BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success conference. You’ve never done Customer Success before. There’s so much to do.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic.

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CSM Practice

AUGUST 11, 2020

Maranda Dziekonski, Vice President Customer Success and People’s Operations at Swiftly, shared her insights into CSM’s career paths and ways to further develop the skills needed for a successful customer journey. It doesn’t just work for the customers, but also for the team that you handle as a CSM.

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Lumoa

MAY 21, 2018

Most of the functions in an organization have something to do in improving the customer experience. In the new world, that inverts." - Jeff Bezos , CEO at Amazon But hold on in there, marketing doesn't (and shouldn't) manage the whole customer journey alone. You can see the very surprising results below.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

His best-selling book in 2016 is called: How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing. She recently wrote the book on customer understanding ! She’s the author of Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of the Business).

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2021

By creating healthy boundaries, Customer Success and Sales don’t have to spend their days assessing and arguing over every expansion situation. Building on the point above, when determining expansion ownership, you want to quantify the established relationships between a Customer Success Manager or salesperson and the customer.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC? 20 quick insights on Customer Success and SaaS metrics – The audience chat was on fire during this webinar. 5/ The startup’s guide to Customer Success.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You can devote your energy towards solving complex customer problems and brainstorming new ways to bring value instead of letting the coordination of routine communications dictate your day’s productiveness. . Don’t lose the customer’s momentum and excitement with a delayed transition from Sales to Customer Success.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 22, 2021

Looking for a way to upskill or even reskill your Customer Success career? Their mission is to improve lives through learning and it’s the largest online destination that help students and businesses gain skills from expert instructors teaching over 155,00 online courses on topics from programming to leadership to Customer Success.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 28, 2018

Implementing a Customer Success Strategy is a Cultural Transformation. Leading Customer Success in a B2B Business with Jose Vergara. Not everybody in the company will understand customer success because it’s a buzz word. Business to Business Customer Experience Leadership with Tabitha Dunn.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 14, 2017

Because Brainshark has been around 17 years, they have a huge renewal book of business. “I had real data and anecdotal customer data that customers really liked Brainshark,” she says. “So I had to drill down into why these customers were leaving.” The First 3-5 Months. Examples Of The Above.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Chad Horenfeldt – Director of Customer Success at Kustomer. With over 15 years of experience in customer success, Chad Horenfeldt has a proven reputation as a driven, creative, outcome-focused leader specialized in building and developing Customer Success teams. LinkedIn: [link]. Website : [link].

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The chatbot can then suggest available appointments with a human bank representative, book the time slot customers prefer, add it to the rep’s calendar, and set the system to send a reminder text to the customers when the appointment approaches. Post-sale, your chatbot can be a 24/7 customer success manager.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 25, 2019

Delivering value is ultimately the key point of B2B customer success and delight. 2 Tactics to Further Customer Success. Jon says, “in pre-sales, your sales team knows why the customer is buying the product because they’re the ones who convinced the customer to do so.”

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

Following the trajectory of these more established functions, the next natural progression in Customer Success’ evolution is specialization. As Customer Success teams continue to mature, and their need to scale and automate grows , having their own operations roles will become evermore essential and prevalent.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

His best-selling book in 2016 is called: How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing. She recently wrote the book on customer understanding ! She’s the author of Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of the Business).

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

When you build a Customer Success organization from the ground up, it’s easy to get caught in the trap of doing the wrong things well. To figure out where you should begin on your growth and scaling journey, it’s helpful to first orient yourself with where you stand using a Customer Success maturity model.

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Amity

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

So, you want to pursue a career in Customer Success? Based on their extensive jobs landscape data, LinkedIn even identified Customer Success Manager as the third most promising job of 2018. Things to consider for your career in Customer Success: Is Customer Success For You? Paths to Leadership.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 19, 2020

In these conversations, we talk with customer success leaders who are role models for others who want to serve customers better. Arvind Stokes , VP of Customer Success and Support at Omada Health , certainly fits the bill. Before we talk about customer success, let’s take a moment to learn something about you.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For a team to be truly successful in the customer success world, data and metrics should inform every decision made. Leading indicators are variables or occurrences which can help your team forecast how a customer account will fare over time. Five customer success leading indicators.

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Michelli Experience

AUGUST 1, 2017

Whether it is leadership miscalculations or service breakdowns, employees and customers often doubt that leaders and businesses will fulfill promises; particularly if something goes wrong during an interaction. Success in the Minority. That opportunity is standing-up when things go wrong. Fertile Ground. Zappos Example.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 24, 2018

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.

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