CX Nexus Podcast

In today's competitive market, fostering strong customer relationships is crucial for a company's success. One approach to achieving this is by building a community that collaborates with product teams to drive growth and innovation. Lauren Clevenger, Global Head of Seller Community at Square, and Chris Detzel, Director of Customer Community and Engagement, shared their insights in a Peers Over Be...

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In this episode, Chris Detzel, Director of Customer Community and Engagement at Reltio talks to David, the original Historian, DeWald, Community Manager at Ciena about how he use to build online communities from ground up. He describes in detail why he wanted to go into an existing community, already built, and get experience in taking over an existing community. Human interaction has always revol...

" Community Operations: The Behind-the-Scenes Powerhouse ," " The Value and Impact of Community Operations Management," and "Operational Excellence in Community Building." This PoB highlights the significance of community operations in managing digital and social platforms, community building, and achieving business objectives. Community operations encompass various tasks such as establishing proc...

Nicole Saunders, Director of Community at Zendesk and Chris Detzel, Director of Customer Community and Engagement at Reltio talk about how taking vacations is SO important. We also talk about going beyond a support community. We believe that support communities are core and super important. We also think that building communities for practitioners could be important too. Nicole also tells a story...

In this episode of Peers Over Beers, CEO and Founder John Thomas Connor at Faktura walks us through what NFT's are, how it fits into Web 3.0 and what communities look like for NFT's. Check out Faktura here: https://faktura.art/

In this episode, Chris Detzel and Elizabeth Kinsey, Director of Slack Communities, talk about how you should think about building out your Community Team. So many times this question has been asked and we hear it all the time. Elizabeth has had some success in this area and we talk in detail about how to think about it.

Nicole Sunders, Director of Community at Zendesk and Chris Detzel, Director of Customer Community and Engagement at Reltio talk a lot on this episode about how to build your own brand. We believe that doing the work is just half the battle. You must go out and build your own brand. There are tons of ways to do this without “bragging” about how awesome you are, and we talk about many ways of how we...

Authors and Community advocates Jephtah Abu, Ronald Williams and Jay Elango talk about their new book coming out. It's actually version 2. They focus on communities outside of the US. Jephtah mentions there are over 4000 community managers in Nigeria alone. It is also for people that want to become community managers. They also highlight pressing issues around the time of the layoff and a guide th...

Scott Wilder, VP of Customer Engagement, Community and Partnerships at Base (Base.ai) talks about how you should copilot or partner with your community members to help you get stuff done with your community. If you are a one man show, you need to identify the champions and consider them as your external team. Figure our how to get the members to be all stars. Community has always wrestled with res...

In this episode, Chris and Eni dive deep into a current event that Mind Valley held for their customers including the community. We talk about user groups, a technology called Bevy and how they might use that for Community-Led Growth and more.

We have to level up our business knowledge and tie community to how it ties into helping these business problems. Chris and Nicole talk about how it is so important to drive business outcomes from the community. If you want to be a leader in community, get close to the CMO, CCO, CRO, etc. Talk about how the community is solving problems for their point of view. We give some examples of how to do t...

Director of Slack Communities, Elizabeth Kinsey talks about the role that community plays in big events, user conferences and more. She gives us some examples of how slack and previous community roles played these events. Some of these smaller events gets you thinking about a speaker bench, relationships and intimacy.

Chris and Dani had a discussion around Community-Led Growth. Is it just a buzzword? We think it is a buzzword, because companies have been doing "Community-Led Growth" for a long time. With that said, we do think it's important that organizations focus on this for the future. Chris goes over some of his ideas and shares it with Dani. Checkout the YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/eBzm4gtSRpg

At Calix, Customer Success Managers owns peer to peer networking in the Community called Circles. Circles is a small group, of about 10 of their customers, meeting together and helping each other solve problems. Allison Boudreau, Director, Digital Programs, Education, and Community talks about combining the digital networking and Academy into "one". There is always a learning path within the digit...

In this episode, Nicole Saunders, Director of Community at Zendesk, talk about the connections and the cross-functional teams need to run events. Nicole is a genius when it comes to inserting her and the community team into brilliant situations. The Community team volunteers to help with events and created a great place for their users to engage

In this episode Fran Murphy, VP of Community at Upwork talks a little bit about his background. He goes deep around what he is doing at Upwork. He also talks about Talent builder at Anaplan. At Upwork, they literally have millions of users. They use community platform, Khoros. They use groups, forums and want to let people be part of smaller groups. He goes deep into these areas and more!

Creating connections and being trusted advisors are the key to a successful. This leads to Community Led-Growth. Sammy talks about some ways on how he thinks we should do this. Here is how to start. Name the podcast / video on the core (industry) topic, not the company. Invite core customers on your show and talk about what these customers are smart about. It's not a company podcast, but more arou...

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In this episode Erica Moss, Principal Marketing Manager, Community, at HubSpot joins Peers Over Beers and talks about her new role at HubSpot. We also dive in and talk about events, industry communities and more. Check out Erica's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericamoss/ Erica Moss Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericajmoss

In this episode, Dani Weinstein talk about his experience at the CLIX event that had a ton of great Communality Leaders and speakers there. It was one of the first onsite meetings that was in person and he said he was a blast. Chris and Dani also get into a discussion around how Chris is thinking about thought leadership in his community and thinking big picture. Listen in!

Special guest, Jephtah Abu mentions that there are over 4000 Community Managers in Nigeria. Did you know this? I didn't. Jephtah talks a lot about Inclusive, Diversity, and Equity within Community and opens up Chris' eyes. What makes you diverse? Let's talk about some of the real opportunities within community. Enjoy!

Events through Personal Transformation space and costume parties! In this episode Eni talks about how many languages she can speak, which is super impressive, and how events can bring amazing memories. Eni talks about during the event to create ROI they create content, great speakers, social media. They way they track is through retention, active users and more.

In this episode, Chris Detzel asks for some advice from Scott Wilder around what it means to have a Community-Led Event strategy. Chris has been tasked with, at Reltio, to think big when it comes to being a Marketing Machine and having 100's of Community-Led events with thousands of users per year not including employees.

Maria Ogneva, Director of Community and Customer Marketing  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaria/