Kristina Evey

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Shownotes… I am going to be delivering a webinar later this week for a partner and our initial conversations were around moving from Customer Success to Customer experience. It seems that Customer Success has a wide range of definitions, as does Customer Experience. Customer Success (CS).

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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform.

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Customer Success Innovation NPS Touchpoint 117

Education Services Group

MAY 28, 2021

Let’s talk Customer Success Plans. What’s a Customer Success Plan, you ask? Well, let’s just say it’s the wind beneath your customer’s wings. It’s the recipe for their success. My amazing metaphors aside, Customer Success Plans are essentially the “what” and “how” of delivering on your CS strategy.

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Totango

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But many organizations focus too inward—on internal operational tactics, rather than prioritizing the customer outcomes that drive customer-led growth. According to GTM Partners, 72% of companies experienced longer sales cycles in 2023. The answer is customer-led growth. For years, attainment was the sexiest word in SaaS.

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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. I felt different and weird and definitely did not feel like I belonged.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Saying were customer-centric is not a strategy. You need to define YOUR customer experience promise and YOUR definition of success. There are a few foundational elements you need in place to get started: Customer Experience Mission Strategy , which will explain what experience customers should receive, every time.

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ROI Customer Experience Customer Journeys Effort Score 143

Totango

MAY 15, 2024

“AI may not replace me, but AI will definitely change the way I work.” Establishing clear metrics, out-of-the-box templates, and KPIs to demonstrate the value of AI features ensures that AI initiatives deliver tangible benefits and effectively address customer needs.

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Totango

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Customer success is the key to building strong customer relationships. When your brand helps your customers succeed at their goals, they want to continue your relationship. Customer success nurtures the positive experiences of your brand, promoting repeat business and retention.

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Customer Success How To Customer Journeys Brands 117

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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Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It checked all the boxes for me—strategic thinking, working collaboratively, creativity, working with sales, and above all a total focus on giving the customer a great experience. When I left the world of product management to become a CEO, Customer Success was barely a gleam in my colleague Dan Steinman’s eye!

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Sales Marketing Customer Success Customer Insights 95

Totango

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Merging sales and customer success (CS) is a delicate art that is often challenging but necessary for driving business results and creating a frictionless customer journey.

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Sales NPS Customer Success Customer Journeys 95

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In the business landscape today, Customer Success is a bit of an outlier. It’s newer when compared to more established departments like sales and marketing. One other thing that makes Customer Success particularly unique in an organization: formal Customer Success training, or lack thereof.

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CX Journey

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This week, I'm going to see if I can do justice to the differences between customer experience and customer success. I think there's controversy when trying to delineate customer experience with customer service, but the conversations become a bit more heated when it comes to customer experience and customer success.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 17, 2021

HR, Learning and Development, or Talent Management , who can both ensure the employee experience is representative of the customer experience and facilitate employee engagement strategies; And in some cases, it’s important to include Internal Communications to share and socialize what the team is doing throughout the organization.

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Meeting Customer Experience How To Net Promoter Score 364

BirdEye

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Investing in processes and tools that contribute to customer delight significantly impacts the bottom line. This blog details the panel discussion on Grow sales by delighting customers with George Grigoryan – Marketing Director, SEV, and Vandana Agarwal, VP of Pre and Post-Sales, Birdeye and Justin Meredith.

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Amity

JANUARY 11, 2018

Founded in 2011, with offices in Edmonton and Toronto, Jobber Software has helped thousands of home service businesses be more successful. When she joined in 2014, Justine Burns was Jobber’s first Customer Success hire. I’m the Director of Customer Success and I’m in charge of 3 teams.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 21, 2022

You may have heard of sales enablement, but Customer Success enablement might be a new term for you. Although it’s an important concept and role in the Customer Success space, it hasn’t quite gained the traction it needs to be in the spotlight. The definition of Customer Success enablement.

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Customer Success Net Promoter Score Return on Investment Metrics 94

Amity

JUNE 11, 2018

If you are a SaaS company looking to invest in Customer Success, one of the most important considerations is the customer per Customer Success Manager (CSM) ratio – the number of customers a CSM can support while still remaining effective. Customer Segmentation/Categorization Considerations.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 8, 2022

It’s the definitive Customer Success leadership summit. At other conferences, I have sometimes felt like I’m sitting through a sales pitch, and I didn’t feel like that in any of the sessions I attended at BIG RYG. It’s a sales-free safe space. Customer Success is a growing SaaS community.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As a successful, scaling customer success department, your team needs the right tools and resources to be successful. As part of transitioning to this new era of customer success management, account teams are now being tasked with finding their own vendors and running their own solution selection process.

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Software Customer Success eBook NPS 98

Gainsight

MARCH 2, 2022

One of the biggest—and most encouraging—trends we’ve seen over the past 18 months is that companies are no longer lavishing their customer success investments only on their highest-roller enterprise customers. . More and more businesses are realizing that taking care of all of their customers reaps huge dividends.

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Education Services Group

MAY 20, 2022

I see a lot of chasing in Customer Success: chasing metrics that our data doesn’t support, chasing insight, chasing answers to the reason customers churn, and chasing a haven of exemplary plays and processes to mitigate risk and drive value. Stop chasing a Customer Success platform that doesn’t do what you need it to do.

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Answer Dash

MAY 8, 2018

It seems like something from a different lifetime, but I still remember the old days when sales was all chalkboards, steak knives, and “gut feeling.” But gut feelings—those were definitely the name of the game back in the day! But that’s a well known and broadly accepted premise—at least in Sales. Fast forward to today.

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Customer Success Self Service e-support Sports 89

CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

As a response to help companies mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on Customer Success organizations around the globe. CSM Practice conducted a weekly survey to observe potential improvements with how the crisis impacted SaaS companies and customer success management teams. Sales and Retention Forecast.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

[TL;DR: We’re thrilled to announce a partnership with Vista Equity Partners, valuing Gainsight as a “unicorn,” to take the Customer Success movement to new heights. The face of every Gainster past and present who has played a role in making the Customer Success movement a reality. Is Customer Success really a thing?

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Totango

JUNE 17, 2021

For example, you might divide your customer base up into customers who have purchased a particular product and those who have not, allowing you to limit an email marketing promotion to customers who have not purchased the product. Sales funnel stages. Customer support history. Customer Success Email Campaigns.

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Tips Customer Journeys B2B Groups 71

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Does your company understand the potential of Customer Success? Unfortunately, a few CEOs still think it’s just a trendy name for customer support, or believe that CS is there to schedule meetings and keep customers happy. Your CS team’s success depends on how your organization sees your role.

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SurveySensum

AUGUST 19, 2019

There are several customers facing teams in a mid-to-large size company. It is here that companies often need to understand which team is contributing or lacking in contribution to creating customer success, be it at the post-sales service stage, technical support conversations, account renewal meet, etc. Request a Demo.

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Customer Satisfaction Net Promoter Score Survey NPS 77

Education Services Group

APRIL 25, 2021

In the third installment of our three-part series on the ESG Customer Success Maturity Model, I’ll share the characteristics it takes to Transform your CS organization into a proactive, predictive powerhouse (look at that alliteration!) of customer happiness and retention. The ESG Customer Success Maturity Model is not linear.

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Customer Success Customer Journeys Roadmap Return on Investment 91

Gainsight

APRIL 26, 2019

In the customer success movement, we’re in the middle of the same transition Star Trek made—from a Kirk-type leader to more of a Picard. Customer Success in the 2010s vs. Customer Success in 2020—and beyond. In a lot of ways, customer success is growing up. Customer Success 2010.

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Leadership Customer Success Roadmap Conference 79

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2021

The brands with the most effective brand cultures are also the ones who use their customer-focus as a factor in their decisions. And being customer-centric isn’t reserved just for the customer support or customer success teams. Creating a culture focused on customers has to start and end with focusing on employees.

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Amity

JANUARY 9, 2019

One of the most exciting aspects of developing customer success strategies is looking at how Customer Success is (or should be) integrated with other areas of the organization. It can also happen when the senior leadership team has not agreed on and adopted a cohesive customer success strategy and culture.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Why is it that the need for operations in marketing and sales is never questioned, yet Customer Success isn’t given the same allowance? Even though CSQLs have a lower customer acquisition cost, faster rate of return, and high close-rate, says Tony D’Auria, industry principal at Valuize, a customer lifecycle consultancy.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 21, 2020

So, to reprieve our collective cry for clarity, we asked industry experts to give their best predictions on the future of Customer Success. So, without further ado, here’s what our Customer Success experts had to say: You Mon Tsang , CEO, ChurnZero. Greg Saiz , VP of Customer Success, Betterworks.

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Kayako

JULY 22, 2022

In the context of customer perception, the sensory stage is how a customer feels moving through an experience with your brand as part of their customer journey. Overall, the best way to improve customer perception is to provide best-in-class customer support. Brands can also highlight customer success.

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Net Promoter Score Measurement Effort Score NPS 280

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 8, 2021

But even if you don’t have those quite yet, you want to be sure everyone in your organization is defining and discussing customer experience with the same vocabulary! Path 1: Customer Experience 101. What DOES customer experience mean and why should we care? This is where customization can be important.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Culture Customer Centricity 271

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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