Totango

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a leader in customer success, who’s your friend in the C-suite? Is the customer journey mapping exercise a worthwhile effort? Who owns the customer community for your organization? 2023, Chris Dishman , Totango’s SVP of Global Customer Success, hosted the lively Hot Takes! We hope so!

Customer Journeys 101

Customer Journeys Customer Success Exercises B2B 101

ChurnZero

JULY 31, 2024

And I completely understand that when you’re just starting to build a digital customer success strategy and program, email is often the simplest, fastest low-hanging fruit. But digital customer success is more than just sending automated emails. By using channels outside of email, of course!

Customer Success 105

Customer Success Engagement Video Chatbots 105

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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Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Leadership Healthcare 98

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.

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Consulting Customers Leadership 97

Education Services Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Customer Success leaders have a lot in common with rockstars. customers). It involves informing and educating people across your organization about your vision for Customer Success and what it can do for the business. Putting on a CS roadshow is particularly critical in the early stages of Customer Success.

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Customer Success Leadership Exercises Meeting 97

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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Consulting Customer Success Strategy Chief Customer Officer 98

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Any customer success leader worth his or her salt isn’t making strategic, department-wide decisions based on gut feelings. Instead, customer success leaders lean on hard numbers, insights, and data to help steer their team’s decision-making. Did they achieve these outcomes?

Metrics 100

Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score 100

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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Study Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Leadership 87

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Customer Success Capacity Planning and Budget Guide. As a Customer Success leader, do you get anxious at the thought of asking your CFO or CEO for additional headcount? Even though it’s evident that your understaffing is causing the customer experience to suffer. Your team is stressed and ready to walk away.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Touchpoint Analysis Customer Journeys 98

ChurnZero

MARCH 22, 2023

Lately, many customer success (CS) teams have been downsized or eliminated because of global economic uncertainty. Breaking your customer base into segments does two things: It aligns your customer journey with the needs of each customer group, and it keeps your CS costs aligned with the revenue that each group generates.

Customer Journeys 97

Customer Journeys Customer Success Touchpoint Financial 97

ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

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. Customer success continues to evolve as a practice within companies that enjoy recurring revenue models.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Tools Management Chief Customer Officer 98

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. Up to two additional hours of Digital Customer Success consulting.

Consulting 89

Consulting Customer Success Strategy Chief Customer Officer 89

Customer Bliss

JUNE 8, 2020

. “The great news is that HubSpot was already aligned in unifying all customer facing functions—creating a Flywheel team and hiring a CCO was part of the transition we’re undergoing, so our leadership is already aligned there. To operationalize this vision, we’ve created the ‘Flywheel Staff’ group.

Chief Customer Officer 210

Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Financial Culture 210

Lumoa

JUNE 30, 2022

Support interactions are an important part of the customer experience you’re creating, but making them the main thing can hurt you. It creates one main challenge: Are the insights you gain from tickets representative of your customer base? Pick one area and make a change to the customer experience.

Customer Experience 259

Customer Experience How To Metrics Feedback 259

ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2022

In our webinar, The CSM journey: How to carve your Customer Success career path , Peter Armaly, vice president of Customer Success at ESG , explores specialized career paths in CS, the skills expected of CS professionals, and why you should be more serious than ever about taking charge of your own career.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success How To Banking Leadership 98

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. They care that you’re staffed appropriately to serve the needs of your customers, because ultimately that results in revenue. A huge part of how customer success collects intel and feedback from customers is by talking with them.

Metrics 98

Metrics Customer Success Engagement Effort Score 98

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.

Customer Experience 305

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score Feedback 305

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As a Customer Success leader, do you find yourself watering down your budgetary requests? According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. How Customer Success can win more resources, budget, and credibility with Jeff Heckler.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Leadership Customers Sales 98

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 22, 2019

Customer segmentation has become vital to provide a holistic customer experience. When a company is small (< 100 customers) and is setting up the customer success practice, customer segmentation may not seem that important. All customers are not equal. What is customer segmentation?

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Customer Success CRM Customers Groups 75

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.

B2B 171

B2B Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score Culture 171

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. Build Phase.

Customer Success 90

Customer Success Customer Journeys Touchpoint Resources 90

eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This approach reduced friction and improved overall customer satisfaction, enhancing decision-maker and end-user satisfaction and boosting retention. Agrochemical Company: Syngenta Case Syngenta, a global leader in agrochemicals, developed the “Soil Health Analyzer” app to engage their fragmented customer base.

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B2B Strategy Customer Experience Customer Journeys 297

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software.

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Software Customer Success NPS Net Promoter Score 87

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. . Scenario #1 – Strengthen f eature adoption based on behavior .

Customer Success 87

Customer Success Engagement e-support Tips 87

One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Business growth either leverages profitable leadership communication. I recently became “that” disgruntled customer based on lack of leadership communication across the organization. Yes, I used to be a loyal customer of a particular service platform, which shall remain nameless. Or it showcases collaboration gaps.

Leadership 61

Leadership Communication Customer Retention Sales 61

Amity

APRIL 7, 2016

Recognition of Customer Success is growing rapidly, yet it requires more than just a new department, new hires, and new titles. The shift to a Subscription Economy and the corresponding shift in Power to Customers means that businesses need to embrace Customer Success just to keep pace, let alone thrive.

Customer Success 69

Customer Success Leadership Sales Report 69

Amity

OCTOBER 23, 2018

There is a long list of metrics for each pillar of Customer Success but for the purposes of this post I’ll focus on the key metrics for Customer Success Management and the metrics commonly used for CS as a whole (I’ll save customer support and customer education metrics for another post).

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Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score 76

ClientSuccess

MARCH 8, 2023

A little bit of gratitude can go a long way in building a loyal customer base. In conclusion, writing an effective customer success follow-up email is about personalization, clarity, value, and gratitude.

Customer Success 79

Customer Success Tips eBook Roadmap 79

Gainsight

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Top 5 Customer Success Blog Posts of 2018. You can’t have a business without a product and you can’t maintain a customer base without Customer Success. Gainsight Elements: The Science of Customer Success. How to Calculate 6 Key Customer Success Metrics.

Customer Success 71

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer Metrics 71

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

Amity

JUNE 27, 2018

For our Customer Success meetup in Toronto, we had the privilege of hearing from James Scott , General Partner at SuccessHacker , who helps other companies achieve growth and success through their Customer Success (CS) teams. Customer Success hasn’t been around for nearly as long as we tend to think.

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Industry Customer Success Tips Customer Centricity 82

Amity

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I wrote an article a few weeks ago about how to approach a Tech-Touch or One-to-Many customer success program. It seems like most companies are pretty reliant on email, but customers are getting tired of full inboxes (I don’t blame them!) Here are some alternatives to email for your One-to-Many customer success program.

Customer Success 63

Customer Success Case Study Social Media Conference 63

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This guest post is by Kristen Hayer, CEO and founder of The Success League. As a discipline that’s shifting from new to established, customer success is facing some interesting headwinds right now. Another important point: this ratio will also vary from segment to segment in your customer base.

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Customer Success Leadership Study Metrics 52

ClientSuccess

MAY 8, 2020

Dear SaaS CEO’s, Now, more than ever, is the time to double-down on your customers AND customer success within your company. . Now, more than ever, is the time to double-down on your *existing* customers and customer success within your company. I’m writing this letter as one of you, and one of them. .

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Customer Success Customers Sales Course 83

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are an overwhelming amount of metrics that you can measure to track customer success. So, to break through the fray and give you a place to start, Client Success has created THE list of the most valuable customer success metrics. Did they achieve these outcomes?

Metrics 75

Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score 75

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With the advent of omnichannel customer experience programs and increasing customer demands, effective call center management has become more challenging and pivotal than ever before. It requires a harmonious blend of leadership, technology, and a customer-centric mindset to succeed in this dynamic landscape.

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Call Center Strategy Management First Call Resolution 195

Amity

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I wrote an article a few weeks ago about how to approach a Tech-Touch or One-to-Many customer success program. It seems like most companies are pretty reliant on email, but customers are getting tired of full inboxes (I don’t blame them!) Here are some alternatives to email for your One-to-Many customer success program.

Customer Success 61

Customer Success Case Study Social Media Conference 61