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The Ugly Truth: Surveys Alone Aren’t Enough

Alida

But the ugly truth is, sometimes traditional surveys can be long—and let's be honest—boring. The great thing is that there really is no ugly truth. The great thing is that there really is no ugly truth. Truth helps us learn how to change, when to pivot, and what we can do to improve the road ahead.

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Speaking ‘Truth to Power’

Beyond Philosophy

So the emperor paraded through the streets stark naked until a young child finally told the truth: “But he hasn’t got anything on!”. People don’t want to do what is right, stand up for what they believe, or tell their superiors the truth about the company. I like to tell customers that they pay us to tell them their baby is ugly.

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5 Critical Moments in Customer Relationships to Document in Customer Journey Maps

Education Services Group

Moments of truth: When the chips are down, show them what you’re made of. By their very nature, moments of truth might be difficult to predict and, therefore, difficult to include in a customer journey map. No matter how well-organized and prepared you are, life always finds a way to throw you curveballs.

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You don’t stop churn, you prevent it

InnerTrends

The ugly truth is that plenty of users go away soon after they start using our app. Here’s a quick preview of what I’ve been cooking up for you. So catch them while they are still active on your site! Stats clearly show that these users don’t last more than 2 months, at best, on your site unless you intervene and onboard them.

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Is Your COVID-19 Survey Giving you Actionable Facts?

InteractionMetrics

One company told me they had just done their COVID-19 survey, and while they knew it was ugly and slapdash, they figured something was better than nothing. The goal is to find the truth regardless of what that information means for your company. Where do they see things headed? No sugar coating. Make it Impartial.

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5 Pieces of Career Advice for Starting in Customer Success

ChurnZero

The truth is building a personal brand takes time and hard work. It’s something we know we should do but don’t because we feel like it’s not worth the effort, we feel like we don’t have anything worth saying, or perhaps, digging a bit deeper, we feel like a fraud (those moments when your imposter syndrome loves to rear its ugly head).

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Champagne Results on Juice Box Budgets: Winning Customer Success Through vCSM Engagement

Education Services Group

The sad truth is most companies we come across run into hurdle after hurdle when trying to extend their internal CS teams. The ugly consequences of underinvesting in CS functions: Over-extending CSMs. Unfortunately, that scenario tends to better describe a CSM’s fever dream than reality. Bring in the vCSM cavalry.