Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

I’m talking about the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study (much more exciting, IMHO). For the third year in a row, we’re tracking all the twists and turns unfolding in the Customer Success industry. Customer Success is growing, which is no surprise. A growing industry full of fresh talent.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2022

Your company has surpassed its annual goals for customer retention, referrals, and satisfaction. C-level leadership is thrilled, and the customer experience program you helped develop was instrumental to this success. Article] Improving your Voice of the Customer listening posts? How did this happen?

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 4, 2016

So when she took on the role of the Chief Customer Success officer at Reval, she knew she needed to create a very deliberate path to gaining understanding, acceptance and traction in her role. This is why I often talk about “one-company leadership.” You want to make sure that you: Speak to/listen for customers.

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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.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Earlier this month, Thomasz Tungaz, a venture capitalist at RedPoint, published a blog titled “Why your SaaS Startup Needs a VP of Customer Success Sooner than you Might Think”. 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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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Customer Success is gaining ground, influence, and budget within organizations. Based on a detailed survey of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, this is the most comprehensive study of the evolving CS landscape to date. Download your full copy of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study here.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. Choose Metrics that Emphasize Your Value. Not so much.

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eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

When employees are connected to the broader vision, they are more likely to invest emotionally in both the company’s success and the customer experience. Actionable Items: Host Vision Workshops: Regular sessions can help employees understand how their roles contribute to the company’s long-term vision and customer success.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Customer success is more than just a buzzword, and Guy Nirpaz , the CEO and founder of Totango , and author of Farm Don’t Hunt: The Definitive Guide to Customer Success , talks to us about how to realistically integrate customer success into customer experience. Remove the Hero Mentality.

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As your company begins to scale customer experience operations, it is possible for silos that cause different departments to use separate technologies and focus on different metrics, which fragments your understanding of the customer experience. What Background Should a CX Manager Have?

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CSM Practice

MAY 28, 2020

What is the average Customer Success Manager Salary? More and more SaaS businesses are realizing the value of having a customer success team to ensure the continued success of their customers. Popular Customer Success Manager Salary Plans.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In fact, in a three-year study, companies that implemented a well-designed customer success program saw a 91% return on investment and more productive CX teams. What does a “well-designed customer success program” even look like? We’ll get into the specifics of customer success platforms later in this guide.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 17, 2021

Cross-functional leadership is a key factor in leading any customer experience program. But whatever you call yourselves, running effective meetings that keep the team engaged, excited, and working together is key to your success. What metric went up? This is a good time to address processes around customer feedback, too.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 15, 2023

That’s why the foundational work of defining CX at your organization — through a CX Mission Statement and CX Success Statement — is so critically important to accomplishing real change and delivering on real outcomes through customer experience. Customer experience will happen whether or not you talk about.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Customer churn is the opposite of retention. Customer churn is a critical metric because it is much less expensive to retain existing customers than it is to acquire new customers. Involve all the employees in the transformation: motivate the employees of the company to deliver a great customer experience.

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Vonage

JULY 3, 2018

There’s no question that customer success impacts today’s businesses. We know that unhappy customers will not only take their business elsewhere, they will share bad experiences with friends, family, and colleagues, on social media and with anyone else who will listen. I want to understand customer spend over time.

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Wootric CX Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

In order to ensure shared accountability for product-led growth metrics, start by defining the metrics that matter most within the 5 growth pillars: Acquisition, Activation, Revenue, Retention & Referral. Utilizing Interact’s SaaS Actionable Metrics Framework can help you do this. Tracking Shared Team Accountability.

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Totango

JULY 23, 2021

When it comes to the structure of a Customer Success (CS) team, there are many factors that need to be considered, from the makeup of the team to the technology that will be used. Let’s break down these factors and take a look at what components are needed to structure an efficient and successful CS team. .

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 28, 2019

One of the things I like most when talking to people about their career journeys is understanding how the skills they’ve learned along the way help them succeed in their current leadership role. Build Customer Success Internally and Externally. Unite Leaders Under A Shared Vision and Performance Metrics.

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Lumoa

JUNE 30, 2022

The more your company invests in CX systems and teams, the more you’ll feel the positive impact on your customers (and your business metrics). How to sell customer experience across your organisation. It’s okay to start selling CX with generic stats about how valuable customer experience can be across industries.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we embark on the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on Gainsight’s Customer Success resources from 2020. We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Launching Customer Success. Customer Success Team Management.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 31, 2020

Now, the day is finally here – your team is finally implementing your new customer success platform. Making the decision to invest in a customer success platform shows that your organization is 100% dedicated to the long-term success and growth of your customer base. . First of all, congratulations!

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Amity

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Why not start with some Customer Success videos? 6 TED Talks That Are Surprisingly Relevant to Customer Success. 5 Powerful Videos That Spotlight Customer Advocacy. 2017 Rewind: Your Customer Success Playlist. Here are some pieces around aligning Customer Success and other teams.

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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?

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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. Episode Overview.

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SuiteCX

JULY 9, 2018

In the recent research report by MyCustomer in association with Quadient, Customer Journey Mapping Research Report 2018, results validate what we practitioners have known for years: leadership buy-in absolutely matters and it should never be a one-and-done effort. Frequency also matters.

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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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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. Set a common customer experience metric and target for the organization.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Qlik’s Vice President of Customer Success Operations and Chief of Staff Chris Wood and his team were on the hunt for a customer success tool that could help them do three things: Streamline processes. Scale customers quickly and efficiently. Use Metrics to Measure Adoption. 4 Key Takeaways . .

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ChurnZero

MARCH 17, 2022

As a follow-up to our well-attended webinar on “ The startup’s guide to Customer Success ” with Jennifer Chiang (the author of the book by the same name), we wanted to get more of our audience’s questions answered. Speaker: Jennifer Chiang , Head of Customer Success, Seso.

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Alida

MARCH 10, 2017

The call to “improve the customer experience” is a nebulous one. CX programs often fall back on metrics such as Net Promoter Score to track success, without ever linking back to critical metrics such as churn, lifetime value (LTV) and revenue. CX programs require strategy and leadership from the top.

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Totango

AUGUST 13, 2024

At Totango + Catalyst, we made a strategic decision to challenge the script on revenue priorities, empowering customer success managers (CSMs)—those mostly intimately aware of customer needs and goals—to own core renewals, expansions, and upsells. The results? They’re critical for execution.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For clients with complex care scenarios – whether that is enterprise customer success management or providing critical support direct to consumers – change is never taken lightly. Sometimes the leadership team shifts, with people moving on to other opportunities or new leaders entering the mix and shaking things up.

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ChurnZero

MAY 3, 2022

Whether you’re building your expertise in cooking, crocheting, coding, or Customer Success, YouTube is now the place to level up. Let’s explore five of the best Customer Success YouTube channels for learning how to fight churn, understand industry trends, and position yourself for professional success in CS.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Where is Customer Success Headed in 2022? Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, came to exist. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, became essential to SaaS companies. Customer Success gradually, then suddenly, joined the C-suite. Customer Success flexes its authority.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 7, 2022

Those of us who work in Customer Success know just how vital high-powered Customer Success teams are for organizations. Customer Success teams are essential for retaining customers, improving the customer experience, reducing churn, and boosting other crucial metrics.

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