CSM Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Customer service managers are responsible for overseeing customer service in an organization. Customer service manager jobs are typically available in large organizations that have a customer service department. Some customer service manager positions may also be available in small businesses.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Most companies today know that putting the customer at the heart of everything they do is vital. The fact is, improving your Customer Experience means you must also become more customer-centric. But what is customer-centricity and how do you do it? The first one was, “We put customers first.”. We had six values.

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COPC

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This first installment, “ Call Center Attrition: Avoid the Dilemma of First-day Ghosting ,” will cover how to create the job description and implement a successful preboarding program. The guide will focus on aligning expectations, skills, and engagement for successful call center operations. It is a problem, but not the problem.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Lessons from Disney to Improve Your Customer and Employee Experiences. They discuss her experience as a Disney employee, their hiring process, and the customer service takeaways that can be applied to any organization in any industry. Be upfront about the requirements of the position and the expectations for success.

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As CSMs, we all want to establish a baseline of trust and security with our customers. Customers should feel comfortable and open to sharing any issues or concerns they may have. Understanding what customer trust entails has been one of the great mysteries of customer success – until now.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

I have led hundreds of successful Customer Experience (CX) program successes. What’s the difference between the successes and the failures? Organizations fail to improve their CX when they lack customer-centricity. Customer-centricity requires you to put the Customer at the center of everything you do.

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Bill Quiseng

JANUARY 25, 2023

In retail customer service, your people are NOT your most important assets. Stephen Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, claims that success in any job is 20% knowledge and 80% interpersonal skills. Ultimately, success in retail customer service is all about interpersonal skills.

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Team Support

MARCH 23, 2021

A customer can be very satisfied with the products and services of a company, but that doesn't mean they’ll remain loyal. Competitors can attract them by offering better customer benefits, including proactive customer support. Customer experience is decisive for both satisfaction and loyalty. Know your customers.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 22, 2020

These experts have all spent time enacting behaviors, either within their own companies or the companies of others, that consider the well-being of their employees, customers, and partners. And we soon discovered it wasn’t just about the customers, employees have to love these companies, too. Let us do that in business right now.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you consider Pine and Gilmore’s book The Experience Economy , the experience plunges customers into a different reality is quite a leap for the Customer Experience movement. The app interacts through customers’ wearables. It was an excellent success for Coca-Cola in the US. .

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Totango

AUGUST 25, 2022

Six Customer Engagement SaaS Strategies That Work. For software service providers, customer engagement SaaS strategies play a central role in a successful business model. Proactive interactions with your customers can increase satisfaction and retention, driving repeat business and referral revenue.

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One Millimeter Mindset

APRIL 27, 2022

Often, the disparity I see perpetuated across legacy departmental value silos creates the greatest barriers to achieving success together. I remain purposely focused on catalyzing your professional innovation, one millimeter at a time. It is time to move one millimeter forward from what is holding you back, together, with me.

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Bill Quiseng

DECEMBER 15, 2014

This week’s guest post is offered by customer service expert Nicholas Goss. We both share a commitment to help small business owners Deliver the World’s Best Customer Experience. I connected with Nicholas first on Twitter and quickly began a fan of his customer service blog. Or the Customers? INTENTIONS ARE!

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We’ve entered an era of customer success (CS) where company executives and investors have agreed now is the time to double down on CS efforts. Along with the renewed emphasis on customer success comes massive expectations for CS teams to produce results. EBITDA is a focus instead of hyper-growth.

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Steve DiGioia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Recently, I was asked, “what makes one business successful when another similar business fails”. Well, there are many reasons but here is the foundation of success for any business. I like to call it “ a recipe for success that always works ”. Here is My Recipe for Success. And isn’t that what we always wanted?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To help you amp up your Customer Success management skills here’s a breakdown of our top recommendations for courses to consider taking. Customer Success Management Fundamentals. Course Description: New to customer success management (CSM)? Value Realization Best Practices for Customer Success Management.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

Understanding customer expectations is paramount in the landscape of financial services, where consumer trust and satisfaction are key to retaining clientele and maintaining a competitive edge. In this sector, customer experience ties directly to the perception of the institution’s reliability and expertise.

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Bill Quiseng

JANUARY 26, 2023

Stephen Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, claims that success in any job is 20% knowledge and 80% interpersonal skills. Ultimately, success in hospitality is all about interpersonal skills. Interpersonal skills training cannot simply end after the first-week orientation. The right people are.”

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ChurnZero

APRIL 10, 2020

How to Nail Implementation and Customer Success Handoffs. As a deadline-driven team, Implementation fiercely adheres to project start and completion dates (for their sake and the customer’s). But issues arise when project handoffs occur at a less-than-ideal time for the next in the line of customer succession.

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COPC

OCTOBER 16, 2023

During the Execs in the Know Customer Response Summit in Nashville, we reviewed the generational differences in the current frontline workforce, supported by current research conducted by COPC Inc. What you can see from Figure Four is that no matter what the criteria are, they become more important with each successive generation.

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One Millimeter Mindset

MARCH 9, 2021

An enlightened cross-functional customer retention strategy is key to strategic business success. After all, retaining customers is central to business longevity. Because professional proactivity is central to a cross-functional customer retention strategy. You know this. I know this. We all know this.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

An organization’s process tells me a great deal about how Customer-centric they are. Is the process designed for the good of the Customer or was it designed for the good of the company? In my experience, the latter is more likely than the former, leaving most organizations with a process lacking a customer focus.

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One Millimeter Mindset

MAY 3, 2023

Quality time is mission critical to project success. Click on this link and let me know about your areas of success and those areas in which you could improve. Is the time you spend with colleagues and clients really high quality time? Or do you (and they) feel short-changed at the end of meetings? Meet people where they are.

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Gainsight

APRIL 14, 2022

One of the biggest paradigm shifts is an increased appreciation for the customer base. We can’t take our customers for granted — ever. Investing in customer success (CS) isn’t a nice-to-have anymore — or even merely a high priority — it’s existential. Quick Level Set: What Customer Success Is, and Isn’t.

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CX University

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Customer Experience has been a buzz word amongst C-Level executives for some time now and for good reason too. Customer-facing teams in sales and service-orientated environments embrace the concept. Customer-facing teams in sales and service-orientated environments embrace the concept. This list goes on.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JUNE 1, 2022

Babette is a business-oriented STEM professional, qualitative Voice of the Customer facilitator, PMI-certified Wicked Problem Solver, Duke Corporate Education licensed Strategic Agility practitioner, and Six Sigma Green Belt (Quality).

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. .

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Kustomer

JANUARY 9, 2023

Quick service is one of the top three most valued customer service attributes. When it comes to building customer loyalty, every interaction matters. A CX strategy must be both efficient and effective in order to set up an organization for success — here’s how to achieve personalized service with limited resources.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JUNE 15, 2022

Babette is a business-oriented STEM professional, qualitative Voice of the Customer facilitator, PMI-certified Wicked (Complex) Problem Solver, Duke Corporate Education licensed Strategic Agility practitioner, and Six Sigma Green Belt (Quality).

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Totango

APRIL 7, 2021

The Totango API provides a full customer 360 view and helps improve your team’s efficiency so you can take your customer success to the next level. . Workflow Automation and Customer Success. Automating workflows is especially useful when it comes to your customer success goals.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In customer service, employees are the face of the company and the effectiveness of the onboarding process cannot be overstated. This article outlines techniques and best practices for human resource (HR) managers to use to effectively onboard customer service employees.

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ChurnZero

MAY 19, 2020

It’s time for another installment of our blog series where we spotlight a Customer Success professional and get their take on the industry as well as get to hear some of their top tips they’d like to share. Brian is the Senior Director of Customer Success at RFP360, where he leads the customer experience team.

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One Millimeter Mindset

MAY 13, 2021

As a result of learning to process information analytically, skeptically, and creatively, my Dad paved the way for my path as a business-oriented STEM professional. Think about what is new, next, and possible as you vitalize your team into your organization’s go-to resource for successful collaboration.

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SurveySensum

APRIL 16, 2024

From product managers and designers to developers and quality assurance testers, it involves cross-functional collaboration and clear communication to create great products that customers love. With such a clear correlation between collaboration and organizational success, proactive efforts to improve teamwork are mission-critical.

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Up Your Service

AUGUST 25, 2015

Are you happy with your current new employee orientation program? I am going to take you on a bus tour called ‘Service Orientation for New Hires’. Meanwhile, Service Orientation is about connecting new employees to the company, to the culture, and to their new customers and colleagues.

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One Millimeter Mindset

APRIL 12, 2023

Babette is a business-oriented STEM professional, qualitative Voice of the Customer facilitator, PMI-certified Wicked (Complex) Problem Solver, Duke Corporate Education licensed Strategic Agility practitioner, and Six Sigma Green Belt (Quality). So, let’s try this question once again.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 24, 2022

If you could ask a question to your customers, what would that be? Tip: ask a question that drives your customer’s health! Yes, driving customer health is not an easy task. As a Customer Success Manager(CSM) or a Customer Success leader, you need first to create a success plan that has every detail about your customers.

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