Comm100

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Sometimes we learn important customer service skills through training, or through years of hard-earned experience. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck.

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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. 2024’s Customer Success Leadership Study asked CS leaders to size their average CSM book of business by number of customers.

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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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ChurnZero

APRIL 23, 2021

If you are a high-touch Customer Success Manager (CSM) and simply cannot imagine a world where you actually enjoy using Customer Success software, I’m here to help. Allow me to convince you that high-touch Customer Success paired with automation is actually a match made in heaven. Let’s roll with that.

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Gainsight

MARCH 27, 2025

As International Womens History Month comes to a close, it’s a fitting moment to celebrate the powerful intersection of women in leadership and customer success. Gainsight recently launched Season 2 of our Women in Customer Success Power Up Masterclasses in partnership with Women in Customer Success.

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Amity

AUGUST 5, 2016

With hundreds of customers worldwide, Achievers delivers a powerful new way for companies to engage, align, and recognize employees to drive business success. We sat down with Vanessa Brangwyn , the VP of Customer Success, to discuss how Customer Success has evolved at Achievers over the last five years.

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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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ChurnZero

JUNE 22, 2021

Looking for a way to upskill or even reskill your Customer Success career? Their mission is to improve lives through learning and it’s the largest online destination that help students and businesses gain skills from expert instructors teaching over 155,00 online courses on topics from programming to leadership to Customer Success.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Chad Horenfeldt – Director of Customer Success at Kustomer. With over 15 years of experience in customer success, Chad Horenfeldt has a proven reputation as a driven, creative, outcome-focused leader specialized in building and developing Customer Success teams. LinkedIn: [link]. Website : [link].

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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. Building on the point above, when determining expansion ownership, you want to quantify the established relationships between a Customer Success Manager or salesperson and the customer.

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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.”

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

Following the trajectory of these more established functions, the next natural progression in Customer Success’ evolution is specialization. As Customer Success teams continue to mature, and their need to scale and automate grows , having their own operations roles will become evermore essential and prevalent.

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 15, 2022

As any customer success professional knows, learning and growing in your profession never really ends. Why let your development as a customer success professional fall behind? Stop right there if you’re thinking, “what else about customer success do I stand to learn?”. This book has the answers.

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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.

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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.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In the spirit of “Staying Thirsty” we’ve compiled this list of books, blogs, Slack communities, and podcasts for product-obsessed people that want to develop themselves in and out of the office. So treat yourself to a book every quarter. Books for Product Managers. Books for Product Managers. Blogs for Product Managers.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Q&A Recap: 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study Results Revealed. With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been in many ways just as challenging as the last. Speakers: Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer, ChurnZero.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 19, 2020

In these conversations, we talk with customer success leaders who are role models for others who want to serve customers better. Arvind Stokes , VP of Customer Success and Support at Omada Health , certainly fits the bill. Before we talk about customer success, let’s take a moment to learn something about you.

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Chattermill

MAY 12, 2019

Top 20 Books Every Customer Experience Professional Needs to Read Now. Customer Experience. Today, we’re giving you a peek inside the Chattermill Book Club. We’ve also picked up a ton of insights by making our way through lots of books written by Customer Experience Guru's. Customer Experience Books.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

Continuing with our list (in alphabetical order) of customer experience (CX) influencers (experts, consultants, and authors), we are sharing a few names of leaders leaders that every CX enthusiast must follow and take inspiration from. John is consistently helping his clients create a magical customer experience like Disney.

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Alida

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But putting customers at the forefront of strategic decision-making isn’t always easy. Balancing budget constraints, departmental priorities and revenue growth against customer success can be a challenge, even for the most seasoned of executives. We are truly nothing without our customers.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

You’re not alone,” says Sharon Winterton , vice president of Customer Success at Catalina Marketing during her session “ Battling imposter syndrome in Customer Success ” at BIG RYG, ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success conference. You’ve never done Customer Success before. There’s so much to do.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 30, 2018

Notably, Carine Clark , CEO of Banyan , presented at last year’s premier customer success leadership event in Sundance, Utah, and her message was both powerful and practical. The rest of the company includes your CEO, which, in Carine’s opinion, shouldn’t be as hard as many customer success teams expect.

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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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Gainsight

JANUARY 27, 2025

Their commitment, creativity, and leadership keep our community thriving and inspired. Whether its fostering discussions, providing support, or sharing knowledge, our CMs are the backbone of our customer engagement strategy. Thank you for everything you do, Kenneth and Revathiyou make a real difference!

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Blake Morgan is a keynote speaker, best-selling author, and futurist in the field of customer experience. She is the author of the best-selling book “More is More: How The Best Companies Work Harder And Go Farther To Create Knock Your Socks Off Customer Experiences.” Blake Morgan Follow @BlakeMichelleM.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2020

Top 10 Must Attend Conferences in 2020 for Customer Success Professionals. It’s also a great opportunity to meet and network with peers within the Customer Success community. Below you’ll find the chronologically ordered top ten conferences Customer Success professionals should attend in 2020 to help grow their careers.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Related reading: Key SaaS and Customer Success metrics you should care about – What’s a good CAC? 20 quick insights on Customer Success and SaaS metrics – The audience chat was on fire during this webinar. 5/ The startup’s guide to Customer Success.

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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. . Don’t lose the customer’s momentum and excitement with a delayed transition from Sales to Customer Success.

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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.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Customer success has taken the business world by storm, and not just in tech and SaaS. Check out this State of Customer Success report based on LinkedIn data —you’ll see it’s a good time to be in customer success. Companies are investing more in customer success. How do we know?

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 14, 2017

Because Brainshark has been around 17 years, they have a huge renewal book of business. “I had real data and anecdotal customer data that customers really liked Brainshark,” she says. “So I had to drill down into why these customers were leaving.” The First 3-5 Months. Examples Of The Above.

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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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Amity

MARCH 8, 2017

As Sysomos grew and gained momentum, Customer Success became a true pillar of its culture. Making sure every single one of their 1,200+ customers achieves the best possible outcomes using Sysomos is a true mission statement for all departments in the company. What is the most powerful part of your Customer Success process?

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SurveySensum

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Being pivotal in shaping Customer Success’ best practices, she has been nominated as a top Customer Success strategist and influencer, year after year, since 2013. This week, in the SurveySensum CX Thought Leader Series , we had an insightful discussion with her about her Customer Success Journey.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have the right structure, workload, and engagement model to hit its goals? If (nearly) missed targets are becoming the norm, it might be time for you to dust off and revamp your customer segmentation strategy. How to transition your CSMs’ book of business with Alli Tiscornia, CCO, ChurnZero.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 25, 2022

But alas, time — and customer accounts — waits for no one. Figuring out how to shift around a CSM’s book of business is a delicate balancing act, and one of the most challenging Customer Success processes to get right. Debrief internally and schedule a future leadership touchpoint. The show must go on.

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