ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2020

As SaaS gets more serious about Customer Success, their representation on the executive and C-suite level will follow (as envisioned in our 2020 Customer Success predictions ; see #2). Based on LinkedIn research, Customer Success r oles saw 34% annual growth —qualifying them as one of the top emerging jobs in 2020.

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Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study is out! Especially when they are telling a story about how Customer Success is booming. Without further ado – here’s a quick recap of the 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study! I don’t know about you, but I love data. Numbers are the best.

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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

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.

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Alida

JULY 6, 2017

For concrete ideas on how companies can scale their CX programs, we recently sat down with Kia Puhm , a Toronto-based executive with over 22 years of experience in customer success, marketing and software engineering. What does success look like in CX and how is it measured? She is now the principal of K!A A CX Consulting.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 28, 2018

Be wary of generalized average customer satisfaction scores or generalized average Net Promoter Scores. Invest deeply in listening to your customers, both programmatically and personally, and design your solution with a target in mind. Implementing a Customer Success Strategy is a Cultural Transformation.

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B2B Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score Culture 171

Alida

MARCH 10, 2017

The first step to linking CX programs to meaningful business KPIs is to have a detailed understanding of the historical relationship between customer satisfaction and profitability in your company. Lack of ownership. CX programs require strategy and leadership from the top.

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Amity

JANUARY 25, 2017

SaaS Tattler Issue 99 - The Best Online (and Offline) Customer Success Communities. One of the main attributes of Customer Success Managers is that they are sociable people - they like to network, connect, discuss, share, and help one another. Sometimes, it’s nice to talk with other Customer Success Professionals.

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West Monroe

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

These trends put added pressure on chief customer officers and the services leaders—including professional services/implementation, managed services, customer support, and customer success—whose functions are responsible for customer experience and ultimately growing net dollar retention (NDR).

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Dan Darcy, Chief Customer Officer at Qualified , explains how business leaders can double down on amazing customer experiences to not only cut costs but grow despite a tough economy. We all know it’s more expensive to bring on a new customer than it is to retain an existing one.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2022

As a vendor, value realization affects customer loyalty and retention, customer satisfaction, referrals and recommendations, and opportunities to upsell. Understanding each of these will help you build an overall strategy that will ultimately help solidify your customer base. Gathering customer feedback.

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Gainsight

JUNE 21, 2022

Gainsight and RevOps Squared had an incredible response to our Customer Sucess Index 2022. Investment in customer success (CS) is causing a significant impact on companies’ revenue and growth. According to the Index, companies spend anywhere from 3% to 20% of revenue on customer success.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

For a little while, customer retention is a manageable task with existing staff. When you have only a handful of customers, your sales team, product team, customer support team—and even executives—can join forces to keep them happy. As you grow your customer base, you must also dedicate resources to Customer Success.

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West Monroe

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

These trends put added pressure on chief customer officers and the services leaders—including professional services/implementation, managed services, customer support, and customer success—whose functions are responsible for customer experience and ultimately growing net dollar retention (NDR).

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Amity

MAY 22, 2016

Customer success is an exciting and game-changing opportunity, and a prerequisite for the majority of B2B SaaS companies, but are you ready for it? According to an Aberdeen Report* on Customer Experience Management, the top three drivers for investing in customer experience management are: Improve customer retention – (42%).

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Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Customer Journey Mapping Metrics 57

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Thanks to the untiring zeal of its passionate community, Customer Success has grown to become the phenomenal force that it is today. Here’s our Top 50 Customer Success Influencers list for 2022 celebrating the inspiring visionaries and trailblazers who are helping shape the field and its future evolution. Lincoln Murphy.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Check out this post to see if you’re inadvertently sending subliminal negativity to your customers. Customer Success Operations 101: Drive Productivity with Purpose, People, and Process. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity sales, marketing, or product team without a designated operations function.

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ProProfs Chat

JUNE 30, 2020

Create a positive customer-centric culture amidst the support team. Create better customer loyalty programs. Improve your existing customer success strategies. Identify loop-holes that may hamper customer experience. Increase customer satisfaction score. Customer Service Books on Leadership.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the tech industry, the role of Customer Success (CS) has gained significant prominence. Navigating the Landscape of Customer Success Rohan initiates the conversation by exploring who should consider a career in Customer Success.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 7, 2020

Customer success departments have different structures in different companies. The Director of Customer Success comes somewhere in the middle of the corporate ladder. Mostly they report to the Vice President of Customer Success or the Chief Customer Officer. Let’s dig in and see.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 7, 2024

David’s the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) for an AI startup and constantly juggles meetings with customers across the globe. Eric, a Customer Success Manager (CSM), has a schedule that changes often to align with his customers’ evolving needs for onboarding, support, and strategy.

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Amity

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Amity had the good fortune of sitting down with a pioneer in Customer Success, Paul Teshima the original SVP of Customer Success (circa 2005) at Eloqua – now the Founder and CEO of Nudge Software , to talk about demonstrating the need for Customer Success. Here are the “aha!” We don’t think so.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are honored to present our Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success to Follow list for 2022, celebrating 50 influential women leaders and their inspiring stories of strength and success. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales.

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Amity

JULY 28, 2014

Customer success is an exciting and game-changing opportunity, and a prerequisite for the majority of B2B SaaS companies, but are you ready for it? Improve customer satisfaction – (33%). And to add more fuel to the fire: The probability of selling to an existing customer is 60 – 70%. You don’t have a plan.

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Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Metrics Customer Journey Mapping 48

Gainsight

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The Right Financial Metric for Customer Success: Gross Retention or Net Retention? “If If you need more revenue, invest in Sales.” Webinars: Customer Retention Strategy Examples. Customer Success: The Revenue Team’s Secret Weapon. Customer success has come a long way over the past decade.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Director, Customer Success Location: New York, NY, US(or remote in the East Region) Organization: Box As a Sr. Director of Customer Success, you will lead a team of high performing, geographically dispersed CSMs. Partner with sales, renewals, and consulting leadership to drive customer business outcomes.

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Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Customer Retention Culture 10

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 7, 2020

Customer success departments have different structures in different companies. The Director of Customer Success comes somewhere in the middle of the corporate ladder. Mostly they report to the Vice President of Customer Success or the Chief Customer Officer. Let’s dig in and see.

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Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Metrics Customer Satisfaction 10

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.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

Just like in the first wave, your customers’ lives will be turned upside down once the next wave hits. As customers struggle to adjust and manage, they’ll want to know their troubles are being heard by the businesses they interact with. Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

At such times, CCO is the only leader who has to bear the brunt; after all, customer success is at an adolescence phase! Due to this very reason, it becomes extremely difficult for the CCOs to pitch budget ideas for customer success successfully. . The CCO’s guide to winning budget for customer success.

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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.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 10, 2020

Before we begin on sharing resources on this customer success portal, here is a brief background I would like you to read. If you are a budding Customer Success Manager in a SaaS organization then we understand your challenges. This is one of the most followed blogs on Customer Success. 2 The Success League.

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Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Your customer success team structure forms the organizational backbone supporting your CS strategy. A well-designed structure can help you streamline your operations for greater efficiency to deliver your customers better results. We’ll share four essential keys to structuring a customer success team.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

Recently, our Chief Customer Officer, Ashvin Vaidyanathan , met with Mike Rivisto , Senior Vice President, Customer Success, and Services at ServiceChannel along with their Senior Director of Customer Success, Jessica Countess. And the detailed type of references that Sales is demanding has increased.

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ChurnZero

MAY 29, 2020

Do you know what Customer Success metrics race through a Chief Customer Officer’s (CCO’s) mind all day long? With a dizzying number of SaaS metrics—from acquisition costs and account expansion to customer churn and satisfaction—all vying for headspace, CCOs must focus on the measurements that really matter.

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Chief Customer Officer Metrics Net Promoter Score Definition 64

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2022

We, at CustomerSuccessBox , spoke to some of the Top Customer Success Influencers to know how they manage churn! Irit Ezips is the Chief Customer Officer and CEO at CSM Practice. Irit has played a pivotal role in shaping Customer Success best practices and methodologies. Q: Please introduce yourself.

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine by Jeanne Bliss. This book will show you how to launch a proven framework through customer experience expert, Jeanne Bliss’s, five-competency model. After all, customer loyalty is what will generate long-term revenue for your company.

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