Before Meta acquired Kustomer in 2022, Chad Horenfeldt, Kustomer’s then Director of Customer Success, saw the need for a revamp of the company’s Voice of Customer program and practices. He went on to design a comprehensive VOC program focusing on three objectives: Capture, Analyze, and Act. In this episode, Chad covers the highly effective VOC survey he helped implement, how to get executive team buy-in for a VOC program, and why it’s important to use VOC data to craft workarounds that don’t...

Today on the Nuffsaid podcast we spoke with Sandy Yu, the Global Lead of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Advisory Boards, about how a Voice of Customer program can provide real value to an organization and prove its effectiveness to the executive team. If you’re unsure of whether or not your VOC program is working, this is a must-listen episode.

Having worked for the last four years in Voice of Customer at large companies (first Lyft and now Slack), it’s safe to say Kevin Vielbaum is a master of his craft. In this Nuffsaid podcast episode, Kevin digs into several interesting topics including how he measures the success of a VOC program.

With a background in Marketing & Growth at companies like Hubs, Recruitee, and Growth Tribe Academy, Ferdinand Goetzen, now CEO & Co-founder at Reveall, has a natural orientation to use Voice of Customer data to make product decisions. That’s why in this episode of the Nuffsaid podcast, he explains his philosophy on how to build the best product possible.

Beyond being the most entertaining guest we’ve had on the show, Jeanne Hopkins, CRO at OneScreen.ai & former CMO at Lola.com, convinced us that the Voice of Customer sync she designed is the most impactful meeting a leader can schedule.

Jeff Justice Williams is the Sr. Executive Director of Enterprise Customer Success at Box and has led CS teams at companies like Stack Overflow, WeWork, and Dropbox. In this conversation, Jeff highlights how a Voice of Customer program should operate at scale.

Having played critical roles on Voice of Customer teams at companies like VMware, Red Hat, and Citrix, Nick Woerner, current Director of CX at Mineral, joins the Nuffsaid podcast to share wisdom on what it actually takes to close the loop with customers within a VOC program.

Here’s VP of Customer Success at ESG, Peter Armaly, to kick off our new podcast series on Voice of the Customer (VOC) programs. Coming from a background with extensive Customer Success experience including having spent more than 5 years as a CS executive at Oracle, Peter shares how an advanced VOC program is run.

VMware’s Meenu Agarwal runs one of the largest books of business in the world. As SVP of Customer Success at a company with a revenue of over $12B, more than 2,000 Customer Success team members around the globe, and 500,000 customers, Meenu understands what digital Customer Success should look like at mega-scale. In this episode, Meenu breaks down their 2022 goal of scaling Customer Success through innovative digital programs like VMware Customer Connect, Success 360™, and training channel...

Dan Ennis, the Manager of the US Scale Customer Success team at Monday.com, came on the Nuffsaid podcast this week to share how his team uses data in a highly sophisticated way to drive an effective Digitally-Led CS program. In this episode, Dan touches on everything from how to look beyond product usage data and into more useful trending data, what to avoid when building out a scaled model, how his team uses customer patterns to detect churn risk and expansion opportunities, and the avenues...

In this episode, Marley Wagner, VP of Marketing & Digital Customer Success at ESG, shares her company’s sophisticated Digital Customer Success maturity framework. Marley walks us through each stage of Digital CS maturity and covers everything from what it takes to lay the right foundations to implementing advanced digital communication channels.

For Elisabeth Courland, Digital CSM at Agorapulse, launching a Digitally-Led Customer Success program is about starting with a solid foundation of understanding the customer, then deploying automation. In this episode, Elisabeth shares a trove of tips that anyone tasked with crafting a digital CS strategy will be able to quickly implement.

Eight years ago, Brian LaFaille stepped on as Looker’s first Customer Success hire. Since then he’s seen Looker through a $2.6B acquisition by Google and was a crucial member of a team that was tasked with servicing customers at a massive scale. In this episode, Brian walks us through the journey Looker took to learn how to effectively run a digitally-led CS motion that would benefit all segments and customers — from Enterprise to SMB.

[Audio Tour: Digitally-led Customer Success] At the beginning of 2021, Lane Holt, Director of Client Outcomes at Gainsight, was a team of 1 and tasked with building out the company’s digitally-led CS model. Fast forward 12 months and you’ll see that she’s developed a mighty team of 8 to architect a hugely successful digital program. In this episode, Lane breaks down the roles and responsibilities of her team, how to detect risk and expansion opportunities in a digital model, and most...

[Audio Tour: Digitally-led Customer Success] According to Dickey Singh (CEO & Cofounder of Cast.app), most Digital CS approaches including low- and tech-touch models today aren’t effective. That's why this week he shares how Customer Success teams can take a working high-touch model to inform their digitally-led CS practices.

GitLab’s Director of Customer Success Operations, Jeff Beaumont, breaks down how CS Ops can be key to increasing Net Retention.

Head of Customer Experience at Arrows, Shareil Nariman, knows more about customer onboarding than just about anyone we’ve ever spoken with. In this episode, Shareil explains how to implement continuous onboarding at your company, use your high-touch experience to inform your low-touch onboarding, and measure your onboarding program’s success.

On today’s show, Beth Yehaskel, a Customer Success Architect at Winning by Design, preps us for end-of-year CFO budgeting and headcount conversations by sharing the difference between a CS org that’s run as a profit center versus a cost center.

In this episode, Seth Wylie, Director of CS Ops & Admin Community at Gainsight (who has one of the most thoughtful perspectives on CS Ops in the space) offers up some paths for breaking into CS Ops and the skillsets that are most useful in the role.

During this episode, Zeina Marcotte describes how LinkedIn's CS Ops team is set up, why her team reports to the centralized global Ops function, and how this structure can actually be a benefit to the Customer Success team.

This week we break down the opportunity Customer Success has to take action to hire, retain, and promote more Black leaders.

Today on the ‘nuffsaid podcast we spoke with Dave Jackson, CEO of TheCustomer.Co about his new book, "Customer-Led Growth: A CEO’s Guide to Building a B2B SaaS Company".

The customer experience tends to decline as a company grows—but what can Customer Success teams do about it? In this episode, Natalie Fedie, VP of Customer Value at HighRadius, answers this question: she says too many teams look at customer health data too late. Natalie suggests analyzing customer health predictively with three specific steps.

“I’m not talking about fluffy quotes. You need to capture the literal voice of your customers.” Dana Alvarenga, VP of Customer Experience at SlapFive, offers two tactics to level-up your Voice of Customer Program.