Amity

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Editor’s note: This is a living document, and our goal is to update it regularly with the best resources around customer success. The Best Customer Success Resources of 2016. Surely, you are staying up to date on the latest customer success trends – did someone say “customer marketing”?

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Resources Customer Success Customers Customer Retention 80

ClientSuccess

MARCH 20, 2019

Over the next month, I will be writing about the customer success metrics that top organizations use to measure the performance of their customer success strategies and team execution. The metrics I will cover are applicable to customer success departments and also to your entire company. Let’s get started.

Metrics 61

Metrics Customer Success Measurement Net Promoter Score 61

ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As a marketing professional, you understand the importance of customer success in driving business growth. And with the rise of customers in control, it has never been more important for marketers to focus on strategies that create and nurture successful customer relationships. Invest in Customer Success.

Customer Success 69

Customer Success Strategy Marketing Social Media 69

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2017

Customer Success Summit is the industry-leading conference on customer success because it brings together experienced customer success professionals and industry thought-leaders, as well as research institutes for industry benchmarking. Why do organizations need to be customer-centric now?

Customer Centricity 65

Customer Centricity Customer Success e-support Conference 65

Alliance by IFS

APRIL 29, 2019

Every year, hundreds of top cross-industry service, support, and customer success leaders gather in Palm Springs for the biggest field service conference of the year hosted by Field Service USA. Here’s a quick recap of our time at Field Service Palm Springs !

Conference 86

Conference ROI Technology Software 86

CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Blake who is the CEO for Client Success. Dave asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a judge for The Customer Success Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer ROI Customers 49

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

20 Customer Success Predictions for 2020 . T hat’s why we asked some of the top Customer Success (CS) leaders to share their industry predictions for 2020. Vanessa Hannay , Director of Customer Success, Muck Rack . Making customers happy is no longer good enough. . . The year was 1909.

Customer Success 61

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer ROI Sales 61

CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake who is the CEO for ClientSuccess. As a judge, assessing the finalists included meeting with 5 forward-thinking brainiacs, who all shared fascinating new approaches to doing customer success better.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer ROI Customers 49

ClearAction

MAY 18, 2017

5 Radical Changes to VoC of the Future for ROI Maturity optimizecx. What’s the greatest challenge Voice of the Customer (VoC) managers face? and continuing VoC education (certifications, conferences, etc.). Place links and QR codes literally everywhere to make it easy for customers to give you their insights.

ROI 54

ROI Feedback Survey Financial 54

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Top 10 Customer Success Takeaways from SaaStr. . We had some great conversations in our booth about scaling in SaaS and the role that Customer Success should play in driving that growth. . In the world of SaaS there’s the underlying truth that Customer Success plays a key role in the recurring business model.

Customer Success 53

Customer Success Return on Investment Metrics Conference 53

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As a Customer Success leader , you reviewed your past year’s performance thoroughly. Well, it’s not easy to prove a case for Customer Success(CS). Head of CS, Director of Customer Success , or Senior CS leader. Investment in CS will ensure more customers and increased revenue. CS as a profit center.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Data ROI Conference 52

Kustomer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

You need your executive team to support some of the costs which… it’s a really easy ROI because you’re not paying for desk space, you’re not paying for parking … and people are happier.”. You know, there’s always been a reluctance to do massive work from home or remote contact centers,” said Burkland of Five9.

Conference 74

Conference Self Service Sports CRM 74

CSM Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2018

All About the Customer Success Performance Indicator . This summer, I received a call from one of my favorite customer success community leaders, Dave Lake (CEO for ClientSuccess ) who asked me if I might be interested in taking part as a Judge for The Innovator of the Year Award that takes place each year during CS100 Summit.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer ROI Roadmap 49

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Or we can adjust some expectations accordingly around value but let’s have a discussion right now about the expected value and ROI that you’ll get and what you’ll need for future renewals and success now, and when your situation changes, how can we get in touch to reconfigure things? You can start very small.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Customer Journeys Customers Metrics 98

Education Services Group

MAY 12, 2021

TSIA’s conferences are always jam-packed with best practices, real-life examples, success stories, and lessons learned from some of technology’s biggest names. Madeline Evans, Digital Customer Success Manager. What is it that customers truly expect? Joshua Robitaille, Customer Success Program Manager.

Interaction 98

Interaction Customer Journeys Touchpoint Customer Success 98

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 6, 2022

Processes are king in the field of customer success. Many customer success teams rely on a systematic approach to get everything done during the day. They ensure that nothing important for particular customers falls between the cracks. The solution is to drive those ‘aha’ moments with customer success.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success How To Conference Customers 52

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 24, 2021

An article published in Harvard Business Review states that “the most important interactions [with a customer] are ‘moments of truth,’ those few points of contact that hold the greatest potential to delight — or alienate — an organization’s customers.”. Reimagining the way processes work can tremendously improve customer experience.

Customer Journeys 52

Customer Journeys Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Touchpoint 52

GlowTouch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

GlowTouch to Attend Women’s Business Enterprise Strategic Conference in Tucson, AZ in September. The “Strategic Procurement Opportunity Conference” takes place September 10-12 and offers targeted networking and collaborative strategy sessions. GlowTouch has deep expertise in customer care and technical support.

Conference 40

Conference Contact Center First Call Resolution Return on Investment 40

West Monroe

JUNE 27, 2019

Attending the Gainsight Pulse 2019 conference was a clarifying moment for anyone uncertain if the customer success mandate has reached maturity. Finding the Right Organizational and Responsibility Alignment Between Sales, Customer Success, and Renewals.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success ROI Conference Customer Centricity 40

Alida

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But putting customers at the forefront of strategic decision-making isn’t always easy. Balancing budget constraints, departmental priorities and revenue growth against customer success can be a challenge, even for the most seasoned of executives. We are truly nothing without our customers.

Chief Customer Officer 50

Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Strategy Leadership 50

Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Over the years, we’ve been inspired by the unique strategies customer success professionals have presented to Pulse attendees and the way they’ve expanded CS beyond SaaS and into other industries. . To do this, Inovaccer supports a high-touch customer success motion for every customer. That is a winning system.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Customer Success Strategy Government 52

Gainsight

JUNE 9, 2021

The first day of Pulse Everywhere showed that Gainsight’s Pulse events are ever-evolving and still presenting attendees with the best content in customer success. Who knew that we’d be able to offer a hybrid-style conference with over 20,000 attendees? Launching and Growing World-Class Customer Success Organizations.

Entertainment 98

Entertainment Customer Success ROI Trends 98

Centercode

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The ROI of Testing Pre-Release Products with Centercode. Our customers were crushing it this year, and we couldn’t be more proud of the role we played in their success. Delta ’20: The Virtual Customer Validation Conference. Increasing Efficiency. How Centercode Helps You Adapt to the Unknown (Blog).

eBook 75

eBook Case Study ROI Roadmap 75

Waypoint Group

JUNE 13, 2018

When I work with Customer Success teams to embed proactive processes to strengthen customer relationships, concerns raised are typically centered on, “I don’t have time for that.” Following up on customer support requests. Helping customer contacts with training. Helping customer contacts with training.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success ROI Voice of Customer Resources 40

ClientSuccess

MARCH 20, 2017

Net Promoter Score (NPS) has been a long standing metric that many organizations rely on to determine the health of their customer base. According to OpenView , the NPS score doesn’t answer the ultimate “Why” question, and the score may also only give a partial view of how customers actually feel at a certain point in time.

NPS 40

NPS Customer Success Net Promoter Score ROI 40

ClientSuccess

APRIL 20, 2017

Paul Pizza is a veteran in the Customer Success space with his experience starting in the late 1990’s when most didn’t even know what the term meant. Back when Paul first started working with customers, “Customer Success” was considered a hybrid between account management and customer service.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Case Study Net Promoter Score ROI 40

Centercode

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The certified Customer Validation professionals convened again to further deepen their skills at a special Return on Investment (ROI) Master Class. Director of Customer Success Tony Fisher led the group through effective techniques for showcasing the value of your Beta Testing program to stakeholders and executives.

Groups 67

Groups Return on Investment Conference Industry 67

Seaton CX

DECEMBER 6, 2022

You stride confidently into the conference room. Nobody questions the ROI of Human Resources or Sales—they’re accepted as necessary parts of the business. You’re always battling ignorance and skepticism about the value of customer experience management. Scratch that. Let’s try again. You connect confidently to the Zoom call.

Leadership 75

Leadership Conference ROI Meeting 75

Amity

MAY 5, 2017

Wynne Brown is the Director of Customer Success at Seal for the West and Central regions. Prior to joining Seal, Wynne was the head of Customer Success for GitHub. Wynne’s career has spanned the entire customer lifecycle at cutting edge start-ups such as BaseCRM and Coupa.

Tips 73

Tips ROI Software Customer Centricity 73

Kustomer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

You need your executive team to support some of the costs which… it’s a really easy ROI because you’re not paying for desk space, you’re not paying for parking … and people are happier.”. You know, there’s always been a reluctance to do massive work from home or remote contact centers,” said Burkland of Five9.

Conference 52

Conference Self Service Sports CRM 52

ChurnZero

AUGUST 30, 2019

Top 10 Customer Success Takeaways from SaaStr Scale. It was a 1-day turbo-charged event in San Francisco with the best-of-the-best in Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. How to Build Effective Customer Success Plans Wednesday, September 11, 2019 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT. Customer Success Around the Web.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Net Promoter Score NPS Roadmap 40

Education Services Group

MAY 11, 2018

If this sounds familiar, you’re likely one of the many budget-strapped Customer Success (CS) leaders we talk to every day. Folks who know that to improve their bottom lines they need higher touch engagement with their customers — but don’t have the resources to make that a reality. Bring in the vCSM cavalry.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Engagement Customer Journeys Case Study 40

Gainsight

DECEMBER 16, 2021

What’s the ROI of Customer Success?”. If you want to start a fight (or at least a spirited debate) at a Customer Success conference, yell the following question and run out of the room: “Should CSMs own renewals?”. “I don’t care about that Einstein quote. – Your CFO.

Chief Customer Officer 72

Chief Customer Officer Customer Success Sales Conference 72

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 4, 2019

For SaaS customer success teams having a 360-degree view of customer health is vital to renewal and expansion success of their customers. Customer success health scoring is also one of the hottest topics on the minds of customer success leaders around the world. Customer Advocacy.

Metrics 53

Metrics ROI Net Promoter Score NPS 53

Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The themes today centered around Human-First Customer Success and Transforming Customer Centricity. Human-First Customer Success. The Key to Customer Success: Leadership with Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic and Co-founder of Gain Grow Retain at Higher Logic.

Chief Customer Officer 91

Chief Customer Officer Handbook Customer Success Knowledge Base 91

Totango

APRIL 25, 2019

Leaders of customer success convened at beautiful Carneros Resort in Napa Valley last week for Totango’s inaugural invite-only Global Executive Forum, the first event of its 2019 Customer Success Summit Conference. . He ended with a challenge and a promise to customer success leaders – The Results are In!

NPS 54

NPS Connections Customer Centricity Customer Success 54

Gainsight

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Technology & Services Industry Association (TSIA) semi-annual conference, TSW 2021, which Gainsight proudly sponsors. Held in Las Vegas, I traveled to the event with Lane Holt, Director of Customer Success, and Denise Stokowski, Group VP of Platform Products and PX.

Customer Success 59

Customer Success Leadership Conference Metrics 59