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Customer Success: Do They Need to Be Product Experts?

SaaStr

This does drive me nuts as a customer of SaaS products, when I talk to the CS team and especially the CS leadership of SaaS products at $50m-$200m+ ARR … and they literally not only have no idea how to solve my problem, but often don’t even fully understand it. The post Customer Success: Do They Need to Be Product Experts?

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Big on impact; short on investment: Key trends from the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study

ChurnZero

Customer Success is gaining ground, influence, and budget within organizations. Based on a detailed survey of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, this is the most comprehensive study of the evolving CS landscape to date. Download your full copy of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study here.

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Why the Future of Customer Success, Sales and Marketing Has Changed For Good: Ask-Me-Anything Part 2 with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

ARR asks Jason how he sees the best companies steering into metrics and KPIs to drive performance at a leadership level. You want every person in your leadership team to have a dashboard they present weekly at e-staff meetings and send out weekly across all departments — Here’s how we did in lead gen, pipeline, etc.

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The Earlier, the Better: How Customer Success Compounds Your Growth with ChurnZero Chief Customer Officer Alli Tiscornia (Video)

SaaStr

Customer Success isn’t just for established leaders; it also helps growth-stage companies compound their growth through retention, upsell and expansion. ChurnZero Chief Customer Officer Alli Tiscornia explains why earlier is better, and how to build a CS team that scales for the future. When should you start customer success?

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The Employee Factor - Perfecting Your CX From Within

Speaker: Dennis Snow, President, Snow & Associates

While it's essential to creating the perfect customer journey, it's only one aspect. Not only does it take powerful leadership, but a complete shift in focus: your company must be customer-centric in every function. Build “walk-through-fire” customer AND employee loyalty. Inspire personal accountability in the workplace.

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Customer Success Hot Takes! — Setting your customer success team up to drive next-level results

Totango

As a leader in customer success, who’s your friend in the C-suite? Is the customer journey mapping exercise a worthwhile effort? Who owns the customer community for your organization? 2023, Chris Dishman , Totango’s SVP of Global Customer Success, hosted the lively Hot Takes! We hope so!

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2024 Expectations: The forefront of the next generation of customer success

Totango

AI also emerged as a topic when we asked three of our executive leaders – Chief Marketing Officer Karen Budell , SVP of Customer Success Chris Dishman , and Chief Revenue Officer Dennis Reardon – to share their industry predictions for 2024. By nature, CSMs feel inclined to assume any responsibility involving the customer.