Customer Advocacy Archives

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Defining the Stages of the Customer Journey Map: Awareness

A customer journey map is one of the first things you think of when you’re trying to improve the customer experience. It’s a roadmap of every interaction you have with your customer from the first moment they learn about your business to the moment they decide to renew (or not renew). It’s an important tool […]

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Building a Beautiful Sales to Customer Success Handoff (+ a FREE Checklist!)

I’ve talked before about how important it is to get everyone on board with the mission of Customer Success. When we’re not all on the same page, silos persist, and they, in turn, impact customer satisfaction. Silos prevent Customer Success from establishing a robust and consistent customer experience across the entire customer journey. They hurt […]

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Noteworthy Findings Being Reported in Customer Success Today

In Customer Success, we use data for all sorts of things like analyzing customer health scores, looking for trends in Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs, and capacity planning for short and long-term strategic decision making. If you know anything about us here at ESG, you know that we love data! Big data, small data, […]

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How to Close the Loop in Voice of the Customer (VoC) Programs (For Real)

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs are extremely valuable for collecting customer feedback and deeper insights into the health of your customer relationships. A good VoC program is comprehensive and involves gathering feedback from many different channels. The best VoC programs not only collect and analyze customer data and feedback from a variety of sources, […]

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The 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 […]

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Webinar Q&A Recap: The Path to Advocacy at Scale

Speakers: Sara Bochino, Vice President of Customer Success at talech, Ari Hoffman, Global Director of Customer Advocacy at Crowdvocate and Megan Macaluso, Sr. Director of Customer Success Strategy at Convercent Peter Armaly joined Marley Wagner to co-host this month’s Customer Success Unlocked webinar. We welcomed a panel of Customer Success experts to discuss the Path […]