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May 1, 2024

Welcome to The Daily Standup | TDSU Ep. 1

WELCOME to The Daily Standup! We're talking to Customer Success and Post-Sales practitioners and bringing you one bite-sized topic *every day*. In this inaugural episode, Rob, JP, and Dillon discuss what they hope to get out of, and deliver on, …

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April 17, 2024

Retention: Show Continued Value...or Get Fired by Your Customers

Don't get fired by your customers! Reduce churn and maximize your customer's satisfaction with tips from Greg Daines, CEO of ChurnRX, as he shares what the data tells him about how best to serve your customers.

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March 26, 2024

Episode 26: Common Misconceptions about Customer Success

Customer Success can mean a lot of different things to different people. But, what is CS *not*? The guests cover their favorites.

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March 8, 2024

S2E02: A Day in the Life of a Customer Success Manager

What does a CSM do each day? The guests debate.

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Dec. 7, 2023

S2E01: What's a CS?

Welcome to Season 2 of the Lifetime Value show, your destination for Customer Success content. In this first episode, Dillon starts with a history lesson - what, exactly, *is* Customer Success? Where did it begin? And what has it become?

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May 22, 2023

Putting the Pieces Together - The Week That Was w/ Tim Conder

Tim Conder is the founder and CEO of consulting and training firm CXology. Tim joins the show to discuss the long-term exponential impact increasing your retention rate has on revenue, how CS departments can properly measure their value and effect, …

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May 15, 2023

We Don't Have to be Buddies - The Week That Was w/ Brian Hall

Brian Hall is the founder of Carema Consulting and has been doing Customer Success since before it had a name. Brian joins the podcast to explain why seasoned CS leadership is key, why he believes CS is at the center …

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May 8, 2023

Renewals the Right Way - The Week That Was w/ Bhavika Kochhar

Bhavika Kochhar is the founder CS Ladies, is a regular in the CS meetup scene, and an all-around ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. Bhavika joins the show to chat customer renewals, how she views the renewal conversation, and …

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May 1, 2023

All Things ChatGPT - The Week That Was w/ Mickey Powell

Mickey Powell is a co-founder and the head of Go To Market for UpdateAI. Mickey is a dedicated student of the generative AI movement, and he joins the pod to help us run the bases, including how AI tools have …

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April 24, 2023

The Next Evolution of Customer Success - The Week That Was w/ Larry R…

Larry Raines is the founder and principal consultant for his brand new consultancy, Customer Success v3. Larry joins LTV to share his theories on Customer Success - where it is today and where it’s headed tomorrow. He and Dillon also …

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April 17, 2023

Keepin' it Funky, Keepin' it a Buck - The Week That Was w/ Jay Goy

Jay Goy is the Head of Customer Success at Voltaiq. He joins Lifetime Value this week to share his unique path from military service to DEA Agent to Customer Success leader, how he handles the Customer Support function with a …

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April 10, 2023

What It Takes to Be a Good-Better-Best CSM - The Week That Was w/ Rob…

Rob Zambito is the founder of Customer Success consultancy Success Scaled. He joins us to debate whether Customer Success can follow a formula, what separates good from better from best when it comes to being a CSM, and why making …

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April 3, 2023

Stop! Collaborate and Listen - The Week That Was w/ Brittany Casey

Brittany Casey, Lead Customer Success Manager at Docusign, joins the show to discuss the criticality of partnering closely with your Sales org (and, really, every org at your company) and the danger of getting caught just going through the motions.

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March 27, 2023

Diversifying Champions & Scaling without Technology - The Week That W…

Jeff Breunsbach is Director of Brand at Higher Logic, co-founder of the Gain Grow Retain community and co-host of the Gain Grow Retain podcast. Jeff stops by to discuss what scaled CS means (and doesn’t mean), sacrificing a meeting or …

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March 20, 2023

Sales Skills & Bank Tanks - The Week That Was w/ Carly Agar

Carly Agar - you know her, you love her - is a CS practitioner-turned-career coach primarily focused on helping folks new to the tech scene or just Customer Success break into the field. She joins the show to cover Silicon …

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March 13, 2023

Showing Up with that Good Good Energy - The Week That Was w/ Bern Ris…

Bern Risley is a Customer Success vet through and through, having worked for outfits big and small. Now she’s heading her own firm where she focuses on coaching up CS professionals on how to show up. Bern joins LTV to …

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March 6, 2023

Playing In The Big Leagues & What It Means To Be A Consigliere - The …

Jon Johnson, Principal Customer Success Manager for Key Accounts at UserTesting, crashes the show to discuss how he manages the “biggest of the big” customers, including scheduling meetings (or not), sharing new features, and setting strategic goals. He and Dillon …

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March 3, 2023

Horror Stories & Education - Off the Clock w/ Olivier Fiaty-Amenouvor

Olivier Fiaty-Amenouvor, Senior Customer Success Manager at Camunda and Founding Member of Success in Black, brings his infectious energy to Lifetime Value to discuss how it is he discovered the profession, where he thinks it’s headed, and even shares his …

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Feb. 27, 2023

Customer Happiness Doesn't Matter and Your Business Reviews (Still) S…

Sara LaBlance is a Customer Success Manager obsessed with data. She and Dillon cover a number of scholarly and high-minded topics like the merits of The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Somewhere in between, they get to talking about NRR …

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Feb. 24, 2023

The CSM's Job Search Guide - Off the Clock w/ Jeremy Donaldson

Jeremy Donaldson - you know him, you love him - is on the job hunt. Listen in while he explains his thought process as he finds the best job for him with practical tacticals that you can use too.

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Feb. 20, 2023

Specialization and Twilio's Layoffs as a Larger Indicator - The Week …

Bob London, CEO of Radically Authentic Discovery and the father of the UBR, sits down with Dillon and they chop it up about the value of CSM's who used to be users and what Twilio's most recent layoff news might …

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Feb. 13, 2023

Revenue, Balloons, and Buoy Content - The Week That Was w/ JP Frost

Jean-Pierre “JP” Frost is a relative newcomer to the Customer Success world, but has already proven his worth as a contributor to the community with gigs as co-host of CS Insider’s CS Speed Mixer as well as the brand new …

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Feb. 10, 2023

Leveraging Science to Excel in Customer Success - Off the Clock w/ Ed…

Ed Powers, engineer by training and reformed salesman, joins the pod to discuss the science of how humans categorize experiences and make decisions, and how it is that Customer Success practitioners can use this knowledge to their advantage.

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Feb. 6, 2023

The Week That Was: January 28-February 3 '23 w/ Markus Rentsch

Markus Rentsch, the CS meme king, spends some time with us to wrap up the week that was, including why the QBR is so misused and misunderstood, the fate of ROI as a metric, and how CS has lost its …

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