CloudCherry

DECEMBER 23, 2019

And, this week on ‘The Sweets of CX ’, I dove in to my first episode as a solo host, and was honored to interview a friend and colleague who’s ALL about his customers, Mike Miller – Director of Customer Success at CloudCherry (now Cisco). So, what Brand has wowed our Customer Success Expert? Fancy that!

CEM 195

CEM Customer Success How To Return on Investment 195

AskNicely

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Some businesses are convinced that NPS surveys and customer experiences fall squarely on the shoulders of the customer success team. NPS For Marketing, Sales, Customer Success. Marketing uses customer feedback to determine the ROI on campaigns and initiatives. Departments Using NPS.

NPS 150

NPS Net Promoter Score Survey Customer Success 150

Kayako

JULY 31, 2019

The past few years have seen live chat completely change the way online businesses carry out marketing and sales. Gone are the days prospects would email and wait several hours to receive a response to a sales-related query, or call an 800 number and be stuck in a cyclical loop of annoying prompts and call trees.

Sales 161

Sales Marketing Net Promoter Score Consumers 161

ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2025

Whats the one thing that wont change in customer success this year? So how should you position yourself for 2025s incoming customer success trendsand should you be nervous, optimistic, or a cautious blend of both? ” So what 2025 customer success trends can we anticipate? The pace of change itself.

Trends 52

Trends Customer Success Measurement Leadership 52

AskNicely

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Growth-savvy customer success experts agree that creating a customer-first culture begins and ends with executive buy-in. They might think it’s enough to hire a customer success manager and let that department, or marketing, lead the charge. Lower customer churn and higher revenue growth.

Net Promoter Score 150

Net Promoter Score Customer Success NPS Culture 150

ECXO

DECEMBER 25, 2024

When businesses focus on giving their customers a fantastic experience, those customers tend to stick around longer, spread the word to their friends, and become loyal advocates. Example Action: Use analytics tools to link CSAT improvements to revenue growth, demonstrating CXs ROI.

Customer Experience 156

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Social Media e-support 156

InMoment XI

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

When to Use: This journey map is used when developing marketing and sales strategies that aim to guide prospective customers through their decision-making process. It is particularly useful for aligning teams across multiple departments, such as marketing, sales, and customer success.

Customer Journeys 195

Customer Journeys Customer Experience Strategy Touchpoint 195

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 138

Customer Success How To Return on Investment Customer Centricity 138

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Theyquestion the status quo, and relentlessly pursue their customers’ success, using ChurnZero software to power their initiatives and achieve breakthrough results. We’re delighted to introduce the winners of the 2024 ChurnHero Awards for customer success! Here’s who they are, and how they did it.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Meeting Self Service ROI 52

Totango

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Every business needs a customer-led growth motion to stay in business for the long term. Go-to-market teams need to prioritize customer ROI as the driver of decision-making, metrics tracking, and relationship management. And that’s if sales reps are even still able to do it—over 60% of account executives are not hitting quota.

ROI 71

ROI Marketing How To Effort Score 71

Totango

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We believe in data-driven, proactive customer success that lets you take control of your churn risk and strengthen your customer relationships. Reducing churn in this customer-centered subscription economy means placing the customer at the center of everything you do. Maintaining customer success efforts.

ROI 76

ROI Customer Success Strategy Effort Score 76

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

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.

Customer Success 117

Customer Success Innovation NPS Touchpoint 117

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

Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While investing in sales training can produce a range of benefits, all of us in sales know it all boils down to the bottom line. Here are the sales training metrics you should be using to measure your success. How to Determine Sales Training Metrics. How to Determine Sales Training Metrics.

Training 86

Training Metrics Sales ROI 86

Gainsight

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Customer success plays an integral role in the success of any organization. CS efforts impact customer acquisition, upsells, expansions, renewals, and customer advocacy. Almost every business goal outlined by your company can be improved by someone in a customer success role. Customer Success Roles.

Customer Success 97

Customer Success Training Customers ROI 97

Totango

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Talk of customer success (CS) abounds in today’s customer-centered economy. It’s vital, as it is the CS team that works with customers after that critical first sale and keeps them coming back for more. The Intersection of Customer Success and Marketing. Attracting new leads is their main forte.

Customer Success 99

Customer Success Marketing Case Study Study 99

Lumoa

JUNE 30, 2022

There are a few common challenges when trying to make customer experience value visible across your company: Lack of good data Contact rate Competing priorities. Each of these challenges makes it harder for you to prove the ROI of customer experience and to sell other leaders on the importance of investing in CX.

Customer Experience 259

Customer Experience How To Metrics Feedback 259

Calabrio

MARCH 4, 2025

They also apply AI models to analyze customer intent to surface desires, needs, opinions, and expectations of customers. Its worth taking a moment, though, to explore the third function above in particular, around how AI analyzes customer intentor whats behind a customers feedback or expression of an unmet need.

Contact Center 100

Contact Center Effort Score Analysis Multi-Channel 100

Amity

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Amity sat down with Maranda Dziekonski , HelloSign's VP of Customer Operations, to chat about all things Customer Success: data, churn, team management, and much more. I’m the Vice President of Customer Operations at HelloSign. What does the culture of Customer Success look like at HelloSign?

Customer Success 0

Customer Success B2C NPS e-support 0

Totango

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

For enterprises, a well-constructed customer health score isnt just a nice-to-have; its a strategic asset that empowers teams to manage complexity, sustain customer satisfaction, and scale their customer success efforts. This article illustrates how large enterprises can modernize customer health scores for growth.

Effort Score 62

Effort Score ROI Metrics Customer relationships 62

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.

Customer Success 94

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Return on Investment Metrics 94

Customer Bliss

APRIL 25, 2019

Delivering value is ultimately the key point of B2B customer success and delight. 2 Tactics to Further Customer Success. Jon says, “in pre-sales, your sales team knows why the customer is buying the product because they’re the ones who convinced the customer to do so.”

Chief Customer Officer 170

Chief Customer Officer Customer Success B2B Consulting 170

Amity

JANUARY 8, 2018

Well, this year is a good year to start, and what a better place to start than your Customer Success Program. Don’t sign bad fit customers. It’s not always going to be immediately obvious when a customer falls into the category of a “bad fit” customer. Focus heavily on time to first value.

Customer Success 100

Customer Success ROI Customers Study 100

Totango

MARCH 21, 2019

Realizing lifetime value from your customers is about generating lifetime value for your customers. That’s the central tenant of the customer success approach to business. It reflects the current customer-centered economy that has encouraged customer fluidity and placed greater emphasis on the customer experience.

Customer Success 89

Customer Success ROI Lifetime Customer Customers 89

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.

Customer Success 0

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer Leadership 0

Amity

APRIL 24, 2017

From the day the three co-founders started the company, its business plan, and its culture, Customer Success has been at the forefront of all things Loopio. We sat down with Loopio's Co-founder and CEO, Zakir Hemraj , to discuss the genesis of Customer Success at Loopio and the effect it’s had on the company as a whole.

Customer Success 93

Customer Success Culture Metrics Customers 93

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

What’s Next For Customer Success? No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. In-product onboarding also affords CSMs more time to focus on the work that makes the greatest customer impact and return on effort.

Customer Success 93

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score NPS 93

CSM Practice

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This saying applies to your Customer Success Technology stack more than anything else. The tools in your stack must work together to provide an exceptional customer experience. . Customer Success is a rapidly evolving function. Yet, Customer Success is often undervalued and underfunded.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success How To CRM Software 98

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Net Promoter Score Metrics NPS 98

Gainsight

DECEMBER 17, 2019

And I think the same is true with planning out your customer success strategy for 2020 and beyond. Extrapolating the future of your customer success organization. It’s one thing to look ahead to the future of the broader customer success movement. How do you segment your customer base?

Customer Success 21

Customer Success Strategy Training Customers 21

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The winners of 2022’s ChurnHero Awards, recognizing and celebrating ChurnZero customers who champion Customer Success with remarkable results, have been announced! Today, we’re proud and delighted to recognize the following Customer Success teams as 2022 ChurnHeroes. Today, this customer segment’s NRR is at 124%.”

Meeting 98

Meeting Customer Success NPS Customer Satisfaction 98

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

9 tips to get your CSMs to adopt Customer Success software. Have you ever worked at a company where the Customer Success team had to beg for its own tools? The CSM perspective: how to encourage the adoption of Customer Success software. As CSMs, we spend our days convincing our customers to adopt our tools.

Software 98

Software Customer Success How To CRM 98

Kapta Customer Success

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Effective customer onboarding is essential for long-term customer success and starts with a smooth handoff from sales to the customer success manager (CSM). It sets the tone for the relationship, influences time to ROI, and impacts trust.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales ROI Customers 52

Amity

MARCH 26, 2018

The history of Customer Success dates all the way back to 1995 when Concur became the first SaaS company by putting their product into what is today known as the cloud. In 2004, Salesforce came up with the Customer for Life program, and set the foundation for all of the reasons we are so focused on Customer Success today.

Customer Success 83

Customer Success Effort Score Customers Course 83

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.

Leadership 79

Leadership Customer Success Roadmap Conference 79

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

CX Annuities Solve CX ROI & Tenure Dilemmas Lynn Hunsaker. CX annuities is a phrase I coined to represent massive savings and impressive gains available through a different approach to management of customer, partner, and employee experience. Even so, experience managers grapple with demonstrating ROI.

ROI 62

ROI Sports Loyalty Programs Touchpoint 62