ECXO

MARCH 6, 2025

Ideally, the CEO and other senior leaders champion the effort, making it clear through their actions and priorities that customer experience is not just a frontline issue but a strategic, company-wide imperative. This group regularly reviews customer experience metrics and initiative outcomes, reinforcing cross-functional accountability.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2003 there were 30 Chief Customer Officers worldwide according to the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) Council, reaching 450 by 2011. The customer success team is abreast of the entire customer lifecycle to ensure the client experience is positive from closing until forever.

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CloudCherry

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In today’s B2B world, customer experience management (CEM) often falls to the customer success team. They naturally gravitate to the role because they spend a lot of time talking with customers and they have an intimate understanding of what customers need. Customer experience comprises the entire customer journey.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 18, 2017

It’s often from Operations or Marketing, but in the case of Brian Lillie, he went from Chief Information Officer of Equinix , the world’s largest IBX data center and colocation provider, to CCO. I wanted to learn more about that transition, his background, and how he built out the new role.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In a world where customer expectations are sky-high and data complexity is ever-increasing, Totango Unison is the game-changer that customer success and post-sales teams have been waiting for. Welcome to the future of customer success with Unison. Today, it’s about lighting the path to growth.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 22, 2018

11 Statements to Assess if Your Company Needs a Chief Customer Officer. There is someone in our company who clarifies what we are to accomplish with customers. A process exists for marketing achievements to customers and internally. I call this “marketing hope.” Yes, there is.

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ECXO

APRIL 18, 2024

posts header on ECXO The Story of Jose – A Tale About Customer Experience Once upon a time in the bustling city of Metropolis, there was an extraordinary lion named Jose. They sought Jose’s help in understanding customer pain points and used that insight to improve their products.

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ChurnZero

MAY 13, 2022

When’s the right time to add Customer Success operations? How do you make product and Customer Success work better together? What’s the most effective way to gather customer feedback? Tackling these questions is tough for even the most seasoned Customer Success leader. Episode highlights.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 22, 2018

11 Statements to Assess if Your Company Needs a Chief Customer Officer. There is someone in our company who clarifies what we are to accomplish with customers. A process exists for marketing achievements to customers and internally. I call this “marketing hope.” Yes, there is.

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Chief Customer Officer Company Tips Leadership 107

BirdEye

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’re excited to announce that we have a new Chief Customer Officer: Walt Weisner. Walt has spent more than 20 years working to delight customers at Silicon Valley’s most successful companies. Walt has previously led Customer Operations at companies like RingCentral and WebEx.

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Retently

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Overall, it seems like the easiest way to solve that is to have someone specialized in customer experience in charge of the whole process – both to make sure everything is going as it should and that the majority of the C level can focus on other matters. Well, that’s where the Chief Customer Officer comes into play.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 10, 2022

Past: Customer Success Started as a Community. The word “community” captures how the Customer Success movement got started. Customer Success Managers” were cropping up in dozens of SaaS companies, but they often felt isolated. Well, community has a special meaning here at Gainsight.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Are you thinking about how to implement a customer experience journey at your startup? On this episode, Adriana Zeman , VP of Customer Success at Zaius , shares her proven path for making customer experience a part of the business in a startup operation. Adriana Zeman, A Strategic and Experienced Customer Success Leader.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 25, 2019

“Customer delight is incredibly important, but it’s also insufficient,” says Jon Herstein , Chief Customer Officer at Box , a cloud content management company that serves about 90,000 customers. Delivering value is ultimately the key point of B2B customer success and delight.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“If you have a customer success job in an organization that isn’t interested in customer retention, you need to consider doing something else,” says Lucy Norris , Executive VP, Global Leader of Customer Success at Genesys , a technology company that provides solutions for customer experience, marketing, and sales.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the demand for Customer Success surges within SaaS, so too does the need for effective leaders to spearhead this expanding function and steer its strategy and success. Over the course of the pandemic, Customer Success has cemented itself as a central business driver of growth and profit.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Because of this, 100% of SaaS companies are investing in Customer Success. But the reality is that not every CEO is actually doing Customer Success well : One of the biggest questions on the minds of CEOs is “how should I structure Customer Success?” But what about your customers?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 8, 2021

Against the backdrop of wild economic uncertainty, Customer Success has been the failsafe of SaaS businesses that were blindsided by pandemic-induced churn and contraction. With Customer Success demand at an all-time high, we expect to see more of its leaders join the executive ranks in the coming months and years.

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

There is no shortage of opinion in the market place about Customer Success; what it is, how to execute and whether growth should be a success metric are all hot topics. Involve Customer Marketing. Creatively Segment your Customers. Believe it or not, customers are not created equal.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. If a customer churns before the payback period is met, it’s a financial net loss.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 13, 2021

With Customer Success being one of the top emerging departments in software companies around the globe, you might be considering a career in this industry, but you also might be wondering which role is right for you. . Chief Customer Officer. Customer Success Vice President/Director .

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ChurnZero

MAY 29, 2020

Do you know what Customer Success metrics race through a Chief Customer Officer’s (CCO’s) mind all day long? With a dizzying number of SaaS metrics—from acquisition costs and account expansion to customer churn and satisfaction—all vying for headspace, CCOs must focus on the measurements that really matter.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A chief customer officer (CCO) is an operational role responsible for all customer-facing activity post-sale. This often includes leading implementation, customer success and customer support teams. A chief customer officer is usually responsible for everything that happens post-sale.

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Gainsight

APRIL 14, 2022

We can’t take our customers for granted — ever. Investing in customer success (CS) isn’t a nice-to-have anymore — or even merely a high priority — it’s existential. In fact, customer success is the critical growth engine driving net revenue retention (NRR) for subscription-based businesses. Why NRR Matters.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 25, 2023

The Chief Customer Officer (CCO) role is crucial for virtually every SaaS company. Hiring one moves Customer Success (CS) from a function to a company-wide strategy, offering a customer voice in the boardroom and a peer to your Sales and Product leaders. Bob Stoneking, and Vineet Puri.

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Totango

JUNE 10, 2022

As we saw in our 2021 State of the Customer Success Industry and Salary Report , the role of Customer Success Manager (CSM) is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the industry. In a recent webinar titled “Navigating Your Customer Success Career Path”, Totango’s Sr. Customer success is still new.

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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. Brainshark B2B Chief Customer Officer Diane Gordon.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 9, 2018

In today’s episode, I chat with Daniel Coullet , Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Experience, and Elizabeth Curtin , Customer Experience Practice Manager at PTC , about defining customer success, and the value of designing customer room for enhancing employee and customer experience.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 13, 2020

ChurnZero Partners with ESG to Offer Digital Customer Success Strategy Consulting Services. ESG is now offering a Digital Customer Success Starter Pack to augment ChurnZero customers’ bandwidth. The ESG Digital Customer Success Starter Pack includes: One-hour digital Customer Success maturity assessment.

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ClearAction

MAY 29, 2016

Customer Experience + Marketing: Pro’s & Con’s Lynn Hunsaker. What happens when the Chief Marketing Officer doubles as Chief Customer Experience Officer? How Marketers Think of Customer Experience. How Customers Think of Customer Experience.

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Education Services Group

APRIL 13, 2020

Customer Success as a Service ® provider ESG announces a partnership with ChurnZero , a real-time Customer Success platform, to offer a Digital Customer Success Starter Pack to their customer base. ESG is now offering a Digital Customer Success Starter Pack to augment ChurnZero customers’ bandwidth.

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Gainsight

APRIL 15, 2022

But you know all this—you’re the hero who has decided to save your company with the superpowers of customer success! The only way you can save the day is to get customer success up and running quickly, with the organization’s support. Customer success is a team effort, more Avengers than Batman.

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Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Your customer success team structure forms the organizational backbone supporting your CS strategy. A well-designed structure can help you streamline your operations for greater efficiency to deliver your customers better results. We’ll share four essential keys to structuring a customer success team.

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Alida

MARCH 10, 2017

Jeanne Bliss, co-founder of the Customer Experience Professionals Association, says a chief customer officer (CCO) needs to lead the charge. Lack of ownership. CX programs require strategy and leadership from the top. Without a CCO or equivalent driver of a CX program, there can be no unity.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Amy Downs is the Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer at Lifesize, a company enabling communication and collaboration among many mediums (their slogan is “connecting people to make their workplace great” ), was quite interesting. At Lifesize, she was initially VP of Customer Care.

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Amity

MARCH 24, 2016

Vend helps over 15,000 customers worldwide easily manage and grow their business in the cloud. We sat down with Monique Steele, Director of Customer Success, to discuss how Customer Success has evolved at Vend over the last 3 years. How is Customer Success structured at Vend?

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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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