ECXO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Harmonizing Success: How Sales Teams Can Collaborate with Internal Teams to Enhance Customer Experience The ongoing conflict between sales teams and internal departments can really mess up the customer experience, leading to mixed-up interactions and disappointed expectations.

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Sales Customer Experience Innovation Culture 156

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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Study Leadership Trends Customer Success 98

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2021

By creating healthy boundaries, Customer Success and Sales don’t have to spend their days assessing and arguing over every expansion situation. Your rules of engagement should be based on which team is genuinely the best fit in each scenario and has the greatest likelihood of gaining sales traction. Circle of influence.

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Examples Sales Customer Success Engagement 98

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.

Customer Success 144

Customer Success How To Return on Investment Customer Centricity 144

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.

Customer Success 126

Customer Success Management Metrics Effort Score 126

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. You also included less structured measurements, like what customers were telling you in user reviews.

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Resources Customer Journeys Video Customer Experience 369

Totango

JULY 31, 2024

In] the enterprise sale, you start by signing on the dotted line, so different expectations and skills are needed.” – Karen Budell , Chief Marketing Officer, Totango + Catalyst Shifting from a product-led growth (PLG) model to an enterprise sales motion is a significant move for any SaaS company.

Sales 98

Sales Leadership Industry Tips 98

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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Resources Customer Success eBook Multi-Channel 111

eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Introduction A well-executed B2B customer experience (CX) strategy can be the cornerstone of long-term success in today’s competitive landscape. Unlike B2C interactions, B2B transactions are more complex, involving multiple decision-makers, longer sales cycles, and intricate touchpoints.

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B2B Strategy Customer Experience Customer Journeys 297

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).

Customer Experience 136

Customer Experience Customer Success Culture Customers 136

Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“If you have a customer success job in an organization that isn’t interested in customer retention, you need to consider doing something else,” says Lucy Norris , Executive VP, Global Leader of Customer Success at Genesys , a technology company that provides solutions for customer experience, marketing, and sales.

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Communication Chief Customer Officer Customer Care Leadership 222

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.

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Effort Score Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer 97

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. And usually, the personal interactions start exactly with sales.

Customer Experience 305

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score Feedback 305

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.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Management Customers Leadership 98

Gainsight

JANUARY 26, 2022

In the era of Customer Success 2.0, the solid force of customer-centricity ensures that no department is isolated within your company, certainly not the Customer Success team. CS adds value to all parts of your business, whether Product, Sales, or Marketing. Creating Alignment Between Sales and CS.

Sales 111

Sales ROI Customer Success Customer Centricity 111

CloudCherry

MARCH 8, 2019

In-depth neuroscience researches tell us that there are biological differences in the way a woman and a man would think but that does not prove men and can soar higher than women in leadership capabilities. Jeanne is the author of the famous book, “Chief Customer Officer” (Jossey-Bass, 2006). Jeannie Walters. Rashiruleneey Rashid.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Consulting Employee Experience 285

ClientSuccess

AUGUST 31, 2020

You’ve done your research, gone through the sales cycle, and made your decision. Now, the day is finally here – your team is finally implementing your new customer success platform. Getting started with a new customer success platform is your team’s chance to experience an onboarding process from your customer’s point of view.

Customer Success 105

Customer Success How To eBook Leadership 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.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Leadership Healthcare 98

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 Success Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer Leadership 0

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. Define Roles and Expectations.

Customer Success 131

Customer Success Management Exercises Metrics 131

Totango

MAY 7, 2024

Both CS and Sales leaders agree: Retention is the #1 priority. Achieving higher retention requires close alignment between CS and Sales teams, yet 87% of CS and Sales leaders told us there’s significant room for improvement in their collaboration. But there’s a problem. Use your words Talk to each other!

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Sports Sales Strategy Net Promoter Score 100

Totango

JUNE 10, 2022

As we saw in our 2021 State of the Customer Success Industry and Salary Report , the role of Customer Success Manager (CSM) is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the industry. In a recent webinar titled “Navigating Your Customer Success Career Path”, Totango’s Sr. Customer success is still new.

Customer Success 105

Customer Success Tips Chief Customer Officer Leadership 105

Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Totango’s customer success software drives cross-functional enterprise teams toward enhanced productivity, retention, and growth. The best of customer success At Totango, we know just how important it is for customers to receive not only a high-quality product but one that has been thoroughly vetted by their peers.

Customer Success 116

Customer Success Software Customer Satisfaction Feedback 116

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Leadership Case Study Sales 98

Totango

MAY 15, 2024

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. Starting earlier in their careers will build tactical business and leadership skills more quickly.

Interaction 107

Interaction Customer Success Conference Industry 107

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.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Conference Leadership Omni-Channel 98

TechSee

MAY 10, 2021

This cutting-edge approach enables consumers to DIY for technical issues and helps contact center agents and field technicians provide remote guidance while seeing exactly what the customer sees. Our global sales team currently stands at 30, predominantly based in North America, the UK and throughout Europe. Our leadership approach.

Sales 109

Sales ROI Contact Center Culture 109

ClientSuccess

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In this post, I’ll address the most frequent question I’m asked by customer success leaders—what is the best compensation plan for Customer Success Managers (CSMs)? Compensation Plans for Customer Success Managers (CSMs). Download Customer Success Compensation Models Image. And he was right.

Customer Success 111

Customer Success Management NPS Sales 111

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the demand for Customer Success surges within SaaS, so too does the need for effective leaders to spearhead this expanding function and steer its strategy and success. Over the course of the pandemic, Customer Success has cemented itself as a central business driver of growth and profit. Follow Adi on LinkedIn.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Leadership Consulting 98

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.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Leadership Training Customers 98

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2021

12 Key Takeaways from ChurnZero’s BIG RYG Virtual Customer Success Conference. It’s a wrap on ChurnZero’s 2021 BIG RYG Virtual – our online Customer Success conference. An acronym for Red, Yellow and Green, RYG represents the common indicators of customer health. Then, back into the tech stack from there.”

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Conference Customer Success Leadership Sales 98

Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

From her LinkedIn: Having spent my entire career in service I have naturally and happily found a home in the Customer Success space. Assisting organizations and professionals not only to learn but execute business strategies that will refocus company efforts to Customer Success. sales) and stakeholders (i.e.

Chief Customer Officer 0

Chief Customer Officer Customer Journeys How To Leadership 0

Totango

MAY 17, 2023

When it comes to understanding customer needs, marketing, sales, and CS teams are the experts, so it’s on us to work together to define today’s most valuable growth opportunities. VP of Customer Success at Veriforce, Andy Kearney. The idea that CS can own the entire customer journey is both unrealistic and outdated.

Sales 110

Sales Marketing Sports Customer Journeys 110

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

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.

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Metrics Customers Trends 97

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Customer success teams are critical to the health of SaaS organizations. Three of the 2024 Customer Success Leadership Study’s key findings suggest not. Three of the 2024 Customer Success Leadership Study’s key findings suggest not. Is it time for customer success team charters to evolve?

Leadership 59

Leadership Study Customer Success Metrics 59

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