Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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CloudCherry

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Disruptive Customer Experience Management platform CloudCherry has appointed Deborah Eastman, a thought leader in the Customer Experience space, as part of its board of directors. Previously, she was with Satmetrix as the Chief Customer Officer, consulting with top organizations to adopt NPS and build a customer-centric business.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In my conversation with Isabella Lau , who has held the hybrid role of both CMO & CCO at Manulife Hong Kong for over 7 years, we discuss this emerging expanded role, how Isabella is driving both brand, operational, and cultural leadership – and why her unique background in both operations and marketing prepared her for success.

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CCO Council

MAY 6, 2014

A common challenge of chief customer officers and other customer executives is the need to prove the ROI of customer centricity. To effectively demonstrate value, customer executives need to show how their customer initiatives impact one or more of these key factors.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Last year, Walmart added a chief customer officer role to better align its digital and brick-and-mortar business, especially as competition from Amazon continues to increase. Their goal is to keep the customer at the center of its operations. Ask yourself, how are you meeting the customers’ goals?

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As I continue to develop my Customer Experience Specialism around the globe, a number of questions are continually raised by the people I meet. These questions include the following examples: Should I measure NPS or CSat? How many customer segments should we have? Should we have a Chief Customer Officer.

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CCO Council

MAY 13, 2014

A number of years ago, JetBlue analyzed NPS results correlated with passenger behavior and found that each detractor converted to promoter is worth $40 additional profit and each 1-point overall NPS gain yields a $5-8M increase in annual revenue. What are the most common customer dissatisfiers and what does it cost to address them?

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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. Puhm’s leadership experience includes stints at Oracle, Eloqua and Adobe. She is now the principal of K!A

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Gainsight

MARCH 15, 2022

“It’s helpful to know if leadership cares only about sales and wants CS to make do with sales SaaS.”. Sometimes finding out if they’re walking the talk is as easy as asking a leader what their definition of a customer-centric company is and getting them to provide real-world examples of what they’ve done that makes them customer-centric.

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Peter Lavers

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It should be more about uncovering the things that the leadership will say “I wish I’d known about that sooner”! The most important thing to consider about the timing of any CX improvement programme, be it outside-in or inside-out, is actually leadership commitment to do something with the findings / results.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

This is true both in terms of Customer Experience – e.g., are there strategic goals around CSat or NPS ? -, and in terms of broader business objective – e.g., increasing market share, reducing churn, cutting costs, etc. And it will make it easier to build strong relationships and a strong culture of customer centricity.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Chad is an experienced and accomplished technology leader specializing in product management and strategy, product innovation, product marketing, sales engineering, usability, and customer experience management. Become an NPS Expert. CEO - C hief Customer Office Council. Chief Customer Officer - Gainsight.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 6, 2021

He is a world-renowned Customer Success growth expert, consultant, and thought leader, Lincoln is one of those celebrated earliest evangelists for Customer Success. He is a complete customer-centric growth mastermind. Aaron has also served as the Head of Customer Success at various B2B SaaS businesses. Alex Farmer.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Totango’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Karen Budell recently joined an episode of the MarTech podcast to discuss the importance of the partnership between marketing and customer success and explain why Chief Customer Officers (CCOs) should have a seat next to CMOs at the C-suite table.

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Chattermill

MAY 12, 2019

Zappos founder Tony Hsieh’s book is essential reading for all customer experience professionals. Under his leadership, Zappos has grown gross merchandise sales from $1.6M in 2000 to over $1 billion in 2008 by focusing relentlessly on customer success. Chief Customer Officer 2.0 by Jeanne Bliss.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Customer success careers have become the buzzwords in the business environment. The hot topic that is running around in the SaaS industry is the need for customer success to have a seat and a voice at the leadership table. As we write, customer success is considered part of executive discussions all too rarely.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Vanessa Hannay , Director of Customer Success, Muck Rack . C S starts with investing in leadership defined as such to embed the success mentality into the cultural fabric of the company. As a result, companies are investing more time and money in training their C S teams to have more customer-centric conversations. .

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Wootric

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

She counsels leaders and teams responsible for customer outcomes by designing stronger organizations and guide cross-functional teams to leverage mutually beneficial opportunities with an advanced understanding of the customer journey, sales, product marketing, and operations. It’s in that moment that you win a customer for life.”

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Qualtrics

AUGUST 20, 2021

When I’m talking to internal clients and they say, for example, ‘Our NPS went down 20 points!’ As far as what we see across our clients for relationship programs, an annual CSAT NPS-type survey, 20-30% B2B response is average. We always send our surveys from our CEO or CCO (Chief Customer Officer),” she says.

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Horizon CX

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Case in point—How many more articles are necessary to explain NPS? NPS is still a viable and valuable tool in the CX toolkit and it can certainly provide insights based on reasonable expectations. Customer Journey Mapping is another case in point. We just need to become more reasonable.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

James Dodkins – Customer Experience Influencer, Keynote Speaker, Author, CX Trainer. International Keynote Speaker, Trainer, and Content Creator, James Dodkins is named as the UK’s #1 CX Influencer by Customer Experience Magazine. She is now Chief Customer Officer at ClearAction Continuum.

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Gainsight

APRIL 21, 2022

As we enter the post-pandemic era, we have learned that customer success was one of the leading reasons companies who invested in CS fared better than those who did not. In a recent MIT Review article and Business Lab podcast, it was proudly announced that “A customer-centric approach is key in a post-pandemic world.”

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 27, 2020

What type of engagement model would you want to maintain with the customers – high-touch or low-touch or tech-touch. After arriving at all this information, you must hire the right candidates for the roles of customer success manager, director of customer success, or even a Chief customer officer.

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Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

Sonia Bhatia Salmin, Ex-Head of Customer Experience at Piramal Pharma Solutions, shares her thoughts on the importance of CX, and how she led Piramal Pharma Solutions into becoming one of the most customer-centric pharmaceutical companies in India. It was here that I exactly understood what customer experience really is.

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Kustomer

AUGUST 19, 2021

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by CEO and longtime customer advocate, Wendi Sturgis. Wendi has years of experience in CX and in leadership positions and she shares some of the secrets for how to make your company stand out. Every single time.”

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Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

The Net Promoter System® (or NPS) has been a popular customer experience metric since its creation in 2003. NPS is used by the biggest companies and leaders in its industries: from Apple to Airbnb, from Amazon to Tesla. At the same time, NPS is often a subject of critics and misunderstanding. That makes the NPS of NPS 32.

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Customer Guru

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The biggest challenge is aligning the organization towards the goal of customer centricity. While companies are making their biggest investments in technology to improve customer experience, they should be prioritizing organizational re-alignment over everything else. Coaching mid-management on customer experience.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

How do you break down your programs to achieve maximum benefit for both your customers and your company? Speaker Bio: Emilia D’Anzica is a Customer Success and Account Management Growth Consultant and Partner at Winning by Design. She has also held numerous Interim ‘Head of Customer Success’ roles.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Use post-onboarding surveys (NPS, CES, CSAT) to confirm. Recognize and follow up on any individual customer’s concerns.

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SurveySensum

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Irit Eizips is the Chief Customer Officer & CEO at CSM Practice. 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.

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Kustomer

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Jeanne Bliss to discover what it means to be a customer-centric company and to discuss how companies succeed when their employees are trusted and given room to grow. This is what I call leadership bravery.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 20, 2020

Every senior leadership team member co-owns CX management. A decision out-of-sync with intentional CX by one or a few employees can rapidly and severely erode customer trust, word-of-mouth, goodwill, and stock value. CLV is the whole point of NPS® and all CX work! 15) Make it Easy for Customers to Give Feedback.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

These platforms focus on engagement and are driven by the customer data you r team collect s every day. C ommon examples include your product’s usage data or other third-party applications ( NPS, Email, etc. ) Customer Success Platforms diverge from CRMs in what they do with this data.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Use post-onboarding surveys (NPS, CES, CSAT) to confirm. Recognize and follow up on any individual customer’s concerns.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 20, 2020

Every senior leadership team member co-owns CX management. A decision out-of-sync with intentional CX by one or a few employees can rapidly and severely erode customer trust, word-of-mouth, goodwill, and stock value. CLV is the whole point of NPS® and all CX work! 15) Make it Easy for Customers to Give Feedback.

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Qualtrics

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

There’s lots of thought leadership on the value of frictionless experiences. The new set of senior job titles – Chief Customer Officer, Chief Experience Officer – is a confusing mix. Job descriptions on these roles range everywhere from NPS program runners to sales roles to marketing roles.

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Lumoa

JUNE 22, 2021

We talk about democratizing customer experience in organizations and the importance of being able to offer diverse experiences. Our Guest Merete Medle is an experienced CX practitioner with strong leadership and strategy skills. And it’s very, like, customer-centric, or you notice that it’s, it’s a big part of it all.

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