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From Startup to $500M CARR: How Braze Scaled a Growth and CS Team

SaaStr

Think about what you want a CSM to be: technical, customer-facing, or have industry experience. Determine the skills you want and how you’ll discover them in an interview. Customer success at Braze was a big umbrella, with onboarding, CSM, tech support, sales engineering, and more under it.

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How to Build a CSM Team That Generates 130% Net Retention with Talkdesk (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Gillian oversees Talkdesk’s Customer Success and Technical Support teams, partnering closely with customers to achieve their CX vision. And then there was technical support. The other things that we’ve done is stand up a proactive support team. Our technical support team is amazing.

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Strategies to take your customer support global

Intercom, Inc.

You could keep your team members in a single location – but that means team members working odd hours to provide technical support in different time zones. That’s why many support teams opt for locating team members in the same time zones that their customers are in, also known as a “follow the sun” approach.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

This mission of increasing the personalness of FastSpring’s relationship with businesses (and of course, the people who found or work for them) is also part of why we do things like interview our members. We have a diverse group of FastSpring experts in the community, not just end-user technical support specialists.

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Your guide to a successful live chat support implementation

Intercom, Inc.

.” As a result of implementing Intercom, Expensify’s first time to response is less than 30 minutes on average, even though they support three million users worldwide (and growing). NomNom is research software that uses integrations to bring customer feedback, research data and interview results into a single dashboard.

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13 Ways to Satisfy Customer Needs and Exceed Customer Expectations

User Pilot

Common needs are related to functionality, reliability, usability , integration , support, customization, and cost-effectiveness. You can identify needs through surveys , interviews, social listening, competitor analysis, user behavior analysis , and customer journey mapping. Userpilot survey templates.

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CX expert Bill Price on creating frictionless customer experiences

Intercom, Inc.

Then, I found myself interviewing here in Seattle with Jeff Bezos, 23 and a half years ago, to become Amazon’s first Worldwide VP of Customer Service, which I did for about three years. We then interviewed the company to find out more details. We got acquired by the large U.S. That’s really expensive.