CSM Practice

AUGUST 3, 2020

That said, many experts in this field are taking time to brainstorm to come up with a specific answer to the question, “is it sales or customer success’ responsibility?”. The land and expand process, like a sales process, should have defined stages, activities, and objectives. Duration of Sales Cycle. Type of Upsell.

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Retently

JULY 28, 2023

Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too? CXO stands for Chief Experience Officer.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Do you put the needs of your customers first and focus on the value you provide them? Today, we’re replaying an episode that many of you enjoyed, featuring Francis Cordon , the first Chief Customer Officer at Rigor , a SaaS company. When I asked Francis, “What do you know now, that you wish you knew then?”

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Gainsight

JANUARY 10, 2022

I felt different and weird and definitely did not feel like I belonged. Gartner reported that inquiry requests from clients to talk about B2B Customer Communities grew 233% from 2019 to 2020. Customer Success teams are often at the tip of the spear for this initiative.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

Follow on LinkedIn Jeanne Bliss , Founder & CEO at Customer Bliss Jeanne Bliss is the Founder and President of CustomerBliss and Co-Founder of The Customer Experience Professionals Association. Jeanne has 35 years of experience helping companies elevate their position with customers and the marketplace.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A well structured customer success organization is necessary for any SaaS company to achieve massive growth. Most SaaS businesses have well defined product, engineering, marketing and sales teams. So, a proper customer success organization is required to provide consistent growth. Should Customer Success report to Sales?

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 24, 2018

This is the 100th episode of the Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show , and I have YOU to thank for it! If you’re leading CX work for a global corporation, you should definitely listen to this full episode to hear Amanda’s tactics for scaling culture change and work.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 18, 2018

When you gather feedback from customers and frontline staff, you have to identify what the challenges are and get to the root of the problem. Know Your Customer Growth, Loss, and Retention. Kathy mentioned that a major takeaway she got from my book, Chief Customer Officer 2.0 , is the importance of understanding your customer growth.

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ClearAction

MAY 25, 2023

Your enterprise goals are to continually increase value to investors, so by definition, you must continually increase value to customers. Customers need you to permanently resolve pervasive pebbles in their shoes. That’s a recipe toward many unexpected costs. Whenever you think about savings, think about value expansion.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. In today’s video, I want to talk about telling customer stories by introducing applied anthropology and ethnography into your listening strategy, and most importantly, into your storytelling.

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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. Sales Enablement.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In today’s episode, I chat with Curt Balara , Chief Customer Officer at Bel Brands about his role as a leader for a B2B2C company. As CCO, Curt has a holistic leadership position over the sales and customer department, focusing on earning the right to organic, sustainable growth. Internal Team Performance.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 20, 2020

Customer experience (CX) is something that has always existed, from the first people on earth who bartered: does the recipient (customer) view their realities as matching/exceeding their expectations? CX is cumulative, encompassing pre-sale and post-sale. 2) Update Your Customer Experience Management Definition.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Amanda shares that even though Microsoft still holds on to its entrepreneurial spirit, which it has to, in order to come up with new and innovative ideas, the company has definitely had to adapt and compete for customers due to competitive pressures.

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ChurnZero

JULY 17, 2020

This is a guest blog post by Irit Eizips , Chief Customer Officer and CEO of CSM Practice. . Keeping a renewing client allows you to increase your Customer Success team’s efficiency and grow your SaaS business. In some cases, the renewal process is owned by the Sales team (not the Customer Success team).

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Software Equity Group wrote an insightful blog post about the correlation between NDR and price to sales multiple. Alex Clayton from Meritech published a useful list of definitions for some of the top cloud stocks. Sales closes bookings. They have sales processes, marketing processes, billing processes.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

As such, leaders must engage more of their customers at scale through digital programs that support low-touch segments with a more focused approach than ever before. The post-sales customer journey will also become more intelligent as organizations accelerate their use of cutting-edge data and technologies.

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Oracle

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The sales experience of insurance can be approached similarly down two convergent paths. One path delivers an efficient sale; the other engages and delivers a memorable experience embedded with empathy and care, initiating momentum for future purchases where relevant and word-of-mouth, organic growth.

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Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Everyone in the business, including those beyond the customer-facing teams, has an accurate understanding of who the customers are and what matters to them. Customer service is a part of the business’s strategic vision. The business agrees on a clear definition of “good customer service.”.

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Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

Being social drives engagement; engagement drives loyalty and advocacy; and both correlate directly to increased sales." Jim Tincher Journey Mapper-In-Chief, Heart of the Customer. Andrew McFarland Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Officer at Black Box. blog linkedin twitter Why?

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ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2021

SaaS companies must be cognizant of and weigh the implications brought about by a sole focus on these metrics when assessing the performance of and building strategies for Customer Success. In this article, you’ll learn: Differences between Net Revenue Retention, Gross Revenue Retention, and Customer Retention with definitions and examples.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 8, 2018

Looked at how to bring sales and customer service together. Walk the C-Suite and Departments Through the Customer Lifecycle. During Charlotte’s “day in the life” process, she deliberately walked the C-Suite through the lifecycle of the customer. ” “You do have hard days, but be confident.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Agents might also let emotionality or a bad day get in the way of what they can do for a customer – Chatbots, on the other hand, don’t have that problem. As Joe Gagnon, Chief Customer Officer of Aspect Software writes , “There is a predictable and reliable component of Chatbots. Drive Revenue.

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CX Journey

JANUARY 26, 2016

That aligns well with Google's definition of DNA: the fundamental and distinctive characteristics or qualities of someone or something, especially when regarded as unchangeable. That's how I think about customer experience when I talk about the customer and the customer experience being ingrained in the company DNA.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 20, 2020

Customer experience (CX) is something that has always existed, from the first people on earth who bartered: does the recipient (customer) view their realities as matching/exceeding their expectations? CX is cumulative, encompassing pre-sale and post-sale. 2) Update Your Customer Experience Management Definition.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2022

The stages of value realization The stages of value realization are definition, delivery, realization, validation, and optimization. Understanding each of these will help you build an overall strategy that will ultimately help solidify your customer base. These can vary from product to product or from customer to customer.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2022

The stages of value realization are definition, delivery, realization, validation, and optimization. Understanding each of these will help you build an overall strategy that will ultimately help solidify your customer base. Definition. It’s important that you create a definition of value and communicate that to your customer. .

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Mead begins his position by defining Customer Experience. Through the lens of the contact center space, his definition focuses on the Customer Service part of Customer Experience. Customers, Mead says, want information, and the organization they contact to own their issue and help them get the information.

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ClearAction

JULY 8, 2024

Chief Marketing Officers measure the purple metrics shown below about what happened in the market : customer acquisition cost, margin expansion, sales velocity, customer retention, recurring revenue, expanded purchases, and referral revenue. These metrics are about what customers will soon experience.

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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. If you’ve ever worked in sales, you may be familiar with the idea of a ride-along.

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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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ClearAction

MARCH 22, 2024

Camaraderie within the Customer Service (or Success) department is another way CX is a Team Sport. While these popular definitions are important, they’re vastly incomplete. Recognize every functional area for both external and internal customer experience improvements they make. Controlling Touchpoints Model.

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Gainsight

MARCH 15, 2022

How does the sales comp plan align to CS? Are CSMs invited to the sales kickoff? It’s helpful to know if leadership cares only about sales and wants CS to make do with sales SaaS.”. I’d ask if their health measurement model is based on customer outcomes or only business outcomes? Get the Real Story.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Shane Goldberg has 20 of experience across customer experience, business improvement, sales operations, and product management. She is now Chief Customer Officer at ClearAction Continuum. Irit (Golan) Eizips – Customer Success Strategist, Chief Customer Officer & CEO at CSM Practice.

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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?

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Kitewheel

JANUARY 7, 2020

The head of each customer-facing department often owns a piece of the experience. The head of marketing may be responsible for how customers interact with content online or in digital ads, while the sales leader may ensure salespeople are adequately coached in a customer-focused sales approach.

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ClearAction

APRIL 29, 2020

If “customer experience” has innumerable interpretations, the same can likely be said about the ideal role of the Head of Customer Experience. This position may also be known as Chief Customer Officer or VP of Customer [fill-in-the-blank] (e.g. Customer experience leadership takes a village.

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