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Differentiating Customer Success and Support

ClientSuccess

Have you ever wondered about the difference between customer success and customer support? While both are important for ensuring customer satisfaction and retention, they have different objectives and approaches. Unlike customer support, which is reactive, customer success is proactive.

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The Power of Empathy: How it Impacts Customer Success

ClientSuccess

Understanding Vectors by Vecteezy As an industry and a discipline, customer success managers are getting better at delivering a higher percentage of positive customer experiences. Making an apology to customers after things go wrong is positively related to satisfaction with restoring the customer relationship.

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Resolve Escalations and Deepen Customer Relationships with Totango’s New SuccessBLOC

Totango

When this happens, it’s critical to figure out a resolution that not only addresses the overall problem, but deepens your customer relationship in the long term. Customers want to feel valued, and if an organization is not meeting their needs promptly and satisfactorily, it can lead to frustration, and eventually, to churn.

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How to tie Customer Success into your CEM program

CloudCherry

And, this week on ‘The Sweets of CX ’, I dove in to my first episode as a solo host, and was honored to interview a friend and colleague who’s ALL about his customers, Mike Miller – Director of Customer Success at CloudCherry (now Cisco). So, what Brand has wowed our Customer Success Expert? Request a demo.

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Why Applying the Golden Rule to Customer Success Efforts Works

ClientSuccess

The concept of customer success continues to rapidly gain traction as businesses strive to improve their customer experience. Here’s an overview of what we call the Golden Rule of Customer Success – 8 Guiding Principles: Understand customer needs, goals and motivations. Read on to learn more. In fact, a lot.

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Why You Should Focus on Nurturing the Customer Relationship

Totango

Instead of capturing the bulk of customer value at the initial sale, digital companies now rely on an ongoing process of renewal and upsell that can potentially continue for years. The challenge is to focus on nurturing customer relationships and prioritizing existing customers rather than hunting down new ones.

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Grow Customer Relationships: Strategies for Long-Term Success

Totango

The new customer-centered economy marks a fundamental change in the business/customer relationship. It’s no longer wise for businesses to focus the majority of their efforts on seeking new customers. But they aren’t a guarantee of revenue; customers can cancel at any time. Nurture Every Customer Equally.