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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. If a customer churns before the payback period is met, it’s a financial net loss.

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Enterprise CS 101: Establishing Customer Success Quickly

Gainsight

But you know all this—you’re the hero who has decided to save your company with the superpowers of customer success! The only way you can save the day is to get customer success up and running quickly, with the organization’s support. Customer success is a team effort, more Avengers than Batman.

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Customer Success and finance: 8 metrics to build closer alignment

ChurnZero

Good sales teams typically get the budget, headcount and tools they desire because the function is tied to revenue. However, that’s not always the case for Customer Success (CS) teams even though they are often responsible for renewals and expansions. One persuasive technique is to compare expansion CAC to new customer CAC.

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ChurnZero Represented in APPEALIE 2020 SaaS Leader Awards

ChurnZero

ChurnZero is proud to have won the APPEALIE SaaS Marketing Leader Award and see many of our customers win the SaaS Customer Success Leader Award. . APPEALIE announced the twelve winners of the 2020 SaaS Leader Awards, a software leadership award honoring the top Marketing and Customer Success executives in the industry. .

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Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer, With Amy Downs – CB32

Customer Bliss

Amy Downs is the Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer at Lifesize, a company enabling communication and collaboration among many mediums (their slogan is “connecting people to make their workplace great” ), was quite interesting. At Lifesize, she was initially VP of Customer Care.

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4 reasons why customer experience programs fail (and how to avoid them)

Alida

Ongoing customer engagement needs to be a component of your CX program. The call to “improve the customer experience” is a nebulous one. CX programs often fall back on metrics such as Net Promoter Score to track success, without ever linking back to critical metrics such as churn, lifetime value (LTV) and revenue.

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Customer Success is Changing: Top SaaS CEOs Reveal What’s Ahead

ChurnZero

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.