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The Real Difference Between Customer Support and Customer Success

Retently

But there’s still one area that’s neglected all too often – Customer Success. As SaaS companies spring up, the essential Customer Success role is being rolled into Customer Service. What is the role of Customer Success? The Customer Success Manager (CSM) is thus not a passive role.

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Getting Started with a Customer Success Program at Lucid

Totango

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Stephanie Comardelle, Vice President of Customer Experience, Success, and Solutions at Lucid to discuss what it takes to implement a stakeholder engagement plan at a time when there is so much going on as well as how they are managing their new customer success program. .

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Happy CX Day 2021! How to be a Change Agent at Your Organization

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

There are CX leaders who focus primarily on customer insights, like Voice of the Customer programs. And there are CX teams dedicated to customer journey design and improvements. There are CX leaders who have titles like Customer Success Manager and Contact Center Supervisor. Ask leaders to present their ideas.

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3 Steps to Communicate Your CX Plan with Leaders, Stakeholders, and Outliers

Customer Bliss

“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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3 Tips to Bridge the Gap Between Your CX Team & C-Suite

InMoment XI

Oftentimes, the c-suite and the customer experience (CX) or customer success team live on the same planet, but almost in separate countries—they simply speak different languages. The challenge is how do you present those metrics in a way that makes executives regard them as crucial data points? Tip #1: Break Down Metrics.

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Customer Success Plans That Rock!

Education Services Group

Let’s talk Customer Success Plans. What’s a Customer Success Plan, you ask? Well, let’s just say it’s the wind beneath your customer’s wings. It’s the recipe for their success. My amazing metaphors aside, Customer Success Plans are essentially the “what” and “how” of delivering on your CS strategy.

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Customer Success vs. Customer Support: What Are the Differences?

Totango

Customer success vs. customer support: although these two terms appear similar, they actually refer to two different, yet complementary, functions within a company. Fulfilling a proactive role, customer success focuses on problem prevention and creates value by enabling clients to achieve business goals.