Gainsight

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Bookmark this collection of resources all about customer retention and stop churn in its tracks. Customer retention is one of the biggest metrics in SaaS and a key component in any SaaS company’s strategy. Cultivating a high retention rate will set you up for long-term success. What is Customer Retention?

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Customer Retention Webinar Chief Customer Officer Metrics 52

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. Go big on customer retention.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer ROI Social Media 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2020

While our 2020 Customer Success leaders watchlist below includes long-time Customer Success champions, we’re excited to see several prominent SaaS companies welcome their first-ever Chief Customer Officer to their C-suite roster—a promising sign for the unlimited potential of a career in Customer Success. .

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2020 Chief Customer Officer Customer Success Leadership 52

ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

Early-stage SaaS businesses tend to put most of their focus on acquiring net new customers. 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.

Customer Engagement 52

Customer Engagement Engagement Net Promoter Score Chief Customer Officer 52

Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

More so, even, as businesses take on new challenges and refocus efforts on customer satisfaction and retention. As Customer Success enthusiasts, we think the evolution of CS is intertwined with the future of business. 55% of our respondents said that Customer Success owns the renewal, a 5-point increase from last year.

2021 52

2021 Leadership Customer Success Chief Customer Officer 52

Amity

JANUARY 25, 2017

This is, after all, why so many Customer Success Professionals fall in love with the industry. The social nature of Customer Success work brings CSMs to chat with everyone they know: sales, marketing, product, and of course, customers. Sometimes, it’s nice to talk with other Customer Success Professionals.

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Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Customer Retention 2017 56

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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2020 Blog 2021 Chief Customer Officer 98

SurveySparrow

JULY 3, 2021

Customer experience wasn’t always the trendy topic it is today. Brands typically prioritized competitive pricing and product development over the actual experience of their customers. So why is customer experience significant all of a sudden? 82% of US customers want and seek out brands offering a human touch (PwC).

Brands 59

Brands Customer Experience Travel Social Media 59

Think Customers

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

auto sales are expected to be about 16.9 percent decline in global auto sales in 2019 and the Center of Automotive Management in Germany noted in a report that “the ‘fat years’ in the automotive industry are over for now…technological, economic, and political changes are now announcing difficult times for the industry.”

Automotive 40

Automotive Chief Customer Officer Transportation 2001 40

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The first deals with dividing responsibilities and defining customer experience ownership, that is, identifying real people behind the very vague term of ‘CX practitioners’ as well as searching for the place that technology has come to occupy in the CXM governance models. Challenge 1: Who should govern customer experience management?

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience Government Chief Customer Officer 2016 40

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Bhumika sheds light on the common amalgamation of Customer Support with Customer Success, often resulting in a unified Customer Experience function. She warns against misinterpreting roles, as customer support tends to be more reactive, while customer success requires a proactive approach.

Leadership 10

Leadership Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Customer Retention 10

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In the past decade, we’ve seen the number of companies with an individual in the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) – nicely defined by Wikipedia as “the executive responsible for the total relationship with an organization’s customers” – grow from under 100 to thousands today. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Consulting Loyalty 100

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 7, 2020

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. A Director of Customer Success is responsible for building and leading the customer success team.

Customer Success 18

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Metrics Customer Satisfaction 18

Amity

MAY 22, 2016

According to an Aberdeen Report* on Customer Experience Management, the top three drivers for investing in customer experience management are: Improve customer retention – (42%). Improve customer satisfaction – (33%). A number of CEOs have walked in the shoes of their customers.

Customer Success 57

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Customer Journey Mapping Metrics 57

CCO Council

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A major airline found their internal customer satisfaction ratings dropping. Unless you work for the DMV, employees typically WANT to do what is right for the customer. Countless Chief Customer Officers have failed because they cannot communicate their vision and convince employees to come with them on their change journey.

Chief Customer Officer 52

Chief Customer Officer Engagement Airlines Employee Experience 52

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. This allowed us to intensify our customer retention efforts.

NPS 52

NPS Roadmap Chief Customer Officer Customer Success 52

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 7, 2020

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. A Director of Customer Success is responsible for building and leading the customer success team.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Metrics Customer Satisfaction 10

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Accountable for driving healthy Customer Adoption, Customer Value and supporting strong customer retention metrics. Design and drive strategic improvements to scale processes, services, and systems to enable the team to exceed adoption, retention, and growth objectives.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Customer Retention Culture 10

Amity

JULY 28, 2014

According to an Aberdeen Report* on Customer Experience Management, the top three drivers for investing in customer experience management (customer success management and customer experience management are often used interchangeably) are: Improve customer retention – (42%). How do you get the CEO to buy in?

Customer Success 48

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Metrics Customer Journey Mapping 48

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

A star in the world of Customer Success, Amarachi Ogueji is known for her exceptional skills in retaining B2B and B2C SaaS clients. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales. Gemma Cipriance-Espineira is the Chief Customer Officer at Chili Pepper. Anika Zubair.

2022 21

2022 Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity 21

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Irit is an immaculate Customer Success Strategist who balances strategic thought-leadership with hands-on tactical management to create rapid results. She’s been a key figure in the CS industry, by shaping Customer Success methodologies and best practices used today. Irit is also the Chief Customer Officer & CEO at CSM Practice.

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Customer Success 2022 Chief Customer Officer B2B 23

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Barry Dalton is a Customer Experience strategy and CX technology leader with accomplishments in designing and implementing strategy and technology architecture across Marketing, Sales & Service with a particular industry focus on Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, and Technology. Lynn Hunsaker.

Customer Service 59

Customer Service Customer Experience Magazine Books 59

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Barry Dalton is a Customer Experience strategy and CX technology leader with accomplishments in designing and implementing strategy and technology architecture across Marketing, Sales & Service with a particular industry focus on Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, and Technology. Lynn Hunsaker.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Customer Experience Magazine Books 52

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 7, 2022

They just don’t feel, you know, maybe their expectations weren’t met between the sales process and then the reality of being a customer. I really believe that if employees are really miserable and you have high employee turnover is going to lead to unhappy customers. Absolutely.

Management 52

Management NPS Definition Metrics 52

Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What Roles Are on a Customer Success Team? The tiers of a SaaS company’s customer success team structure may have a variety of roles. When you have a dedicated customer success team, you are empowered to focus on building one-on-one relationships with customers. Cultivate a Customer-centric Brand Image.

Customer Success 94

Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Sales 94

ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

Over the last year even more, because it is known that onboarding sets the tone for a customer’s entire lifecycle. Customer retention, churn prevention, all of those efforts start at the very beginning. As soon as a customer signs a contract and onboarding kicks off, retention should be underway.

Metrics 98

Metrics Definition Engagement Measurement 98

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Jay Nathan – Founder of Customer Imperative and Gain Grow Retain. With over a decade of experience in customer success and customer service, Jay Nathan has developed customer retention and growth methodology for building, managing, and scaling tech companies serving businesses of all sizes. Website : [link].

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2020 Customer Experience Magazine Consulting 132

ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

Over the last year even more, because it is known that onboarding sets the tone for a customer’s entire lifecycle. Customer retention, churn prevention, all of those efforts start at the very beginning. As soon as a customer signs a contract and onboarding kicks off, retention should be underway.

Metrics 52

Metrics Definition Engagement Measurement 52

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Customer Success as an Add-On to a Value Driver Anindra highlighted how the traditional approach of assigning customer success as an add-on after sales has evolved. Darshan emphasized the impact of revenue leaders joining the customer success domain.

2023 8

2023 Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score 8

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Customer Success as an Add-On to a Value Driver Anindra highlighted how the traditional approach of assigning customer success as an add-on after sales has evolved. Darshan emphasized the impact of revenue leaders joining the customer success domain.

2023 8

2023 Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score 8

SmartKarrot

APRIL 21, 2022

The entire C-suite is responsible for the customer. The C-suite needs to exude customer centricity with the CEO at the helm of affairs. CCO (Chief Customer Officer) – Leading the customer grievances to the top management. The leader adapts the company with the customer in mind. contact-form-7].

Customer Centricity 10

Customer Centricity Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score 2027 10

SmartKarrot

APRIL 21, 2022

The entire C-suite is responsible for the customer. The C-suite needs to exude customer centricity with the CEO at the helm of affairs. CCO (Chief Customer Officer) – Leading the customer grievances to the top management. The leader adapts the company with the customer in mind. contact-form-7].

Customer Centricity 10

Customer Centricity Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score 2027 10

SmartKarrot

JULY 27, 2020

The 10 Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences – Penned by Matt Watkinson, this book bagged the CMI Management Book of 2014 award as well as the Innovative & Entrepreneurship Category at CMI Awards 2014. Chief Customer Officer 2.0: The topic ‘Customer Success’ has over 2000+ followers.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success 2014 Books Chief Customer Officer 10

SmartKarrot

JUNE 5, 2020

With an evolving need of mutually beneficial relationships with their customers, companies are investing more on building a customer success team. These teams are dedicated towards customers achieving their goals. They help customers realize the value of the product which in turn results in achieving customer retention.

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Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Metrics Measurement 10