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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

SaaS enables customers to trade the large capital expenditures associated with traditional enterprise software for smaller operating expenses: a lower cost of entry, and minimal IT infrastructure to manage. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

Here are a few quick takeaways: Focus on your customers. Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. Fixing customer support.

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Customer Success: The Definitive Guide to Customer-centric Growth 2020

Sixteen Ventures

In fact, it was in 2016 I started referring to it not as Customer Success, but as Customer Success-driven Growth, to bring to the forefront the fact that Customer Success is a growth driver; a growth engine. Customer Success is not just about retaining customers. … The Customer Success Book.