Webinar Q&A Recap: Demystifying Customer Success from the Board’s Eye View
Speaker: Joanel Bernardo, VP of Customer Success at Sunstone Partners In this month’s Customer Success Unlocked webinar, Joanel Bernardo joined Marley Wagner and Peter Armaly to share her insights and advice for leaders who sit at the apex of Customer Success and Private Equity. Check out the thoughtful questions from our audience below, along with […]
read moreHow Employee Success Leads to Customer Success: An Interview with ESG CEO Michael Harnum
I’ve talked before about how internal engagement can help promote strong Customer Success. Here at ESG, we believe that employee success is not only helpful to a healthy and thriving Customer Success organization, it’s fundamental. Since the pandemic, employee satisfaction and retention are major focal points for businesses across the board. We expect to see […]
read moreRants of a Customer Success Analyst: Data-Driven Decisions & Decisions to Drive Data
The Reason Confession time—I like collecting hardcover books…but not just for the obvious reason of reading them. Don’t misunderstand me, I have read a good number of the books on my bookshelves, and of course I have favorites that I’ll read once or twice a year. But I also have books in my home that […]
read moreRants of a Customer Success Analyst: Impossible Shot – Forecasting in Customer Success
The Reason Recently, I was in a very intense game of Topgolf with two of my friends and colleagues, Sheik Ayube and Peter Armaly (VPs of Business Development and Customer Success, respectively, here at ESG). I want to be completely honest here at the beginning; no extended metaphors or analogies to get this point across. […]
read moreThe Dual Meaning of Customer Advocacy
In Toy Story 4, they introduce a new character to the toys named Forky. Bonnie, the little girl who owns the toys now, made Forky out of garbage. He’s basically a spork that totters around on two feet made from a broken popsicle stick. The little girl, Bonnie, loves Forky and views him as a […]
read moreRants of a Customer Success Analyst: Crocheting Chains – Customer Health Scores
The Reason Well… we’ve officially entered June—the final month of our second quarter here at ESG, and the final month of this series. For those of you who are still with me and are continuing to read and find value in these rants, thank you. For those of you who I lost as soon as […]
read more10 Things to Remember When Making the Move from AMs to CSMs
The role of a Customer Success Manager (CSM) is consistently ranked as one of the fastest-growing jobs in the world. LinkedIn’s 2020 Emerging Jobs Report put Customer Success Specialist at number six in the U.S. with a 34% annual growth rate. At the same time, spending on XaaS continues to skyrocket. Gartner’s latest cloud forecast […]
read moreWebinar Q&A Recap: You Already Have a Customer Community – Are You Cultivating It?
Speaker: Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer of Higher Logic & Co-Founder of Gain Grow Retain Having co-founded the massively popular CS community, Gain Grow Retain, and as Higher Logic’s Chief Customer Officer, Jay Nathan has a wealth of knowledge about Customer Communities and how to successfully launch (or revamp) them. We asked him to join […]
read moreTSIA World Interact 2022: Key Takeaways
A collaboration piece with Peter Armaly, Nick Mitchell, and Sheik Ayube Justin Garlock Customer Success Analyst Peter Armaly VP of Customer Success Nick Mitchell Program Manager, Partner Success Sheik Ayube VP of Business Development It’s easy to forget how many different types of shoes there are in the world: heels, wingtips, wedges, loafers, even […]
read moreWebinar Q&A Recap: How Healthy is Your Health Score?
Speakers: David Sakamoto, Vice President of Customer Success at GitLab and Neal McCoy, Vice President of Professional Services at BigCommerce Peter Armaly joined Marley Wagner to co-host this month’s Customer Success Unlocked webinar. GitLab’s David Sakamoto and BigCommerce’s Neal McCoy joined us to share their respective journeys toward developing accurate, predictive customer health scores and […]
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