[Un]Churned – The No. 1 Podcast for Customer Retention

Identifying Overwhelm in the Catch-All Role of CSMs ft. Carie Buchanan (Popmenu)


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Unchurned is presented by UpdateAI

Carie Buchanan, the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at Popmenu, participates in CS & BS conversations with the hosts Kristi Faltorusso and Josh Schachter. They discussed the technology landscape in Atlanta and Carie's experiences while working at big companies like Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and ERPs. The conversation covered various topics, including the evolution of customer success roles at Salesforce, how Carie's consulting background led her to leadership in the tech industry and much more.

Timestamps

0:00 - Preview

1:17 - Weekend Highlights & Intros

4:46 - Tech landscape in Atlanta

7:03 - Popmenu

9:45 - Listening Strategy & Customer Feedback

11:55 - Kristi's obsession with consultants

13:10 - Consulting mindset for problem-solving and success

17:00 - 3 skills Carie picked up from her time in consulting

19:05 - Feedback on customer requests vs. software innovation

21:50 - Balancing leadership and contact with individual contributors & customers

24:55 - Setting up governance models

26:50 - Gaining insights from skip-level meetings

28:22 - Dealing with the conflicting perspectives of employees and customers

29:50 - Why Salesforce did not choose to dominate the CS industry - Running Customer Success from Salesforce

34:50 - Kristi's She's So Suite Podcast

39:20 - Forming a CS team to manage your customer base

43:35 - Customer Success Roles and Responsibilities

45:00 - The interplay between Account Managers and Customer Success Managers

47:00 - Closing

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👉 Check out the most loved episodes

  • ⁠⁠Who Wins the Tug-of-War, Team Customer Success or Team Sales? ft. Hamish Stephenson ( Selr.io)⁠⁠
  • ⁠⁠How to Keep Customers from Churning When Renewal Budgets Are Tight ft. Gillian Heltai, CCO (Lattice)⁠⁠
  • ⁠⁠CS [Un]churned: Do We Really Need QBRs With Every Customer?⁠⁠
  • ⁠⁠Transitioning Into a Customer Success Role: The Before and After ft. Julie Raeder (CSM, Dooly)⁠⁠

  • 👉 Past guests on The Unchurned Podcast include ⁠⁠Nick Mehta (GainSight)⁠⁠⁠⁠Mike Molinet (Branch)⁠⁠⁠⁠Edward Chiu (Catalyst)⁠⁠,⁠⁠ Kristi Faltorusso (Client Success)⁠⁠, and customer success leaders and CCOs from top companies like  ⁠⁠Cloudflare⁠⁠⁠⁠Google⁠⁠⁠⁠ Totango⁠⁠,⁠⁠  Zoura⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Workday⁠⁠⁠⁠Zendesk⁠⁠⁠⁠Braze⁠⁠⁠⁠BMC Software⁠⁠⁠⁠Monday.com⁠⁠, and best-selling authors like ⁠⁠Geoffrey Moore⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Kelly Leonard⁠⁠.

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