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Dickey Singh, Founder and CEO of Cast.app the leading automation platform for companies to drive growth, sales, and referrals from their existing customers.
Job hunting isn’t easy.
What adds to the frustration are the assignments, presentations, and exercises in these interview rounds.
CSMs are responsible for a wide range of tasks, including:
Onboarding new customers
Providing technical support
Managing customer accounts, developing and implementing customer success strategies, identifying and resolving customer churn …
Organizational leaders often sign up for a CS Platform to solve their biggest customer success challenges. However, software implementation and adoption can be difficult, and many platforms don’t meet all the needs of their customers.
When revenue growth is a company’s top priority, the value of post-sales teams is often overlooked.
Customer Success, in hindsight, is a long-term renewal strategy.
Watch the uncut BTS & BS on our YouTube channel – https://youtu.be/Hyk_jL3i0u0
Join Josh Schachter, Kristi Faltorusso, Jon Johnson & Mickey Powell as they chat with Jeff Kushmerek, Founder of Infinite Renewals. Jeff helps startups improve their customer success strategy.
Customer experience is more than just using the product. Every interaction with a customer is a touchpoint that can influence your relationship with them.
Don’t let your customers fall through the cracks.
Ahmed Quadri, CCO at Heap, joins Josh Schachter, CEO of UpdateAI, to discuss how they navigate the value journey at Heap to maximize the value and relationship customers get.
Josh and Ahmed also discuss
Every customer-facing team has a hypothesis about what drives customer success.
How accurate is this hypothesis?
Finding problems and fixing them in silos isn’t going to give the full picture of what a successful customer journey needs to look and feel like from onboarding to renewal
There has been a long-standing cold war between Sales and CS.
This episode addresses the tiff.
The disconnect between the teams’ expectations makes it challenging for organizations to prioritize the long-term health of the customer.
Hamish Stephenson, Founder & CEO of, Selr.io joins our hosts, Josh Schachter, Kristi Faltorusso, Jon Johnson & Mickey Powell to defuse the tension between the two teams.
The terrifying truth is that the prosperity or downfall of a SaaS organization depends on the value the product delivers to its customers.
Despite the fact that the feedback loop between product and customer could be challenging, the efforts made by the CS & the product team to understand and prioritize customer input hugely decide the fate of our company.
Do you want to make a career switch and break into CS?
Join Josh Schachter, Kristi Faltorusso, and Jon Johnson as they uncover the truth behind the preconceived notions of the customer success industry with Julie Raeder, CSM Dooly, who transitioned from education to customer success.
unting for your next role is no easier than working a full-time job.
You know it’s tough out there.
Celia Gouveia had been there too. She had been on a job hunt for more than 3 months before she finally landed the dream job as Director, Customer Success at Smart Recruiters. She unveils all the frustration that she had to go through while job hunting and also explains how you can find your next gig by leveraging your network.
In this unchurned conversation, Nikola Mijic, the Founder of Matik joins Josh Schachter. Both of them dive into how Nikola got into the world of CS, and his experience working at Linkedin
Have you been frustrated with checking boxes without truly understanding why you are doing it? So are Jon and Mickey.
Kristi knows for sure that the leadership is at fault.
🥁🥁🥁This week, we finally have a name for the CS Insider <> [Un]churned collab series!🥁🥁🥁
Unpack the BS with hosts Josh Schachter, Kristi Faltorusso, Jon Johnson & Mickey Powell, and dig into why you need to
– Focus on impact rather than urgency
– Say goodbye to the mundane QBR meetings
– Standout from the digital filth of AI content on Linkedin
Tensions are neither good nor bad. It’s how we deal with them.
Building trusting relationships lies at the heart of customer success, and Dr. Wendy Smith, Author of Both/And Thinking reveals how you can navigate through the tension between building strong relationships with customers and selling/renewing their business.
The early days of a startup are like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. You’re constantly putting out fires, and you never know when the next one is going to pop up. Embracing chaos, and juggling multiple hats comes with a lot of fun too.
This is one of the few episodes you absolutely can’t miss!
Through more than 50 captivating conversations, we’ve had the privilege of engaging with distinguished guests, including Customer Success leaders, founders, and a few amazingly talented authors who wrote books not about Customer Success, not about customer-facing teams necessarily, but whose thought leadership can be easily applied.
In the world of business, the concept of customer happiness has long been regarded as the holy grail. Damien, CCO at Nimbello, argues that customer happiness should not be the primary objective in business. Instead, it should be viewed as a lagging indicator, a result of delivering value and meeting customers’ objectives.
Every decision goes through emotional processing.
How we feel about something at heart is way more important and impactful than what we think about something.
So we need to lead with the heart and rationalize with logic.
Ed Powers, a principal consultant at Service Excellence, joins Josh Schachter for an unchurned conversation about how customer success teams can use psychology to manage expectations, build trust, and drive customer success.
