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Get Started With Customer Advocacy

Develop a customer advocacy program to transform customer satisfaction into revenue growth.

Client Challenge

Getting started with customer advocacy (CA) is no easy task. Many customer success professionals carry out ad hoc customer advocacy activities to address immediate needs but lack a more strategic approach.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • Customer success leaders must reposition their CA program around growth; the recognition that customer advocacy is a strategic growth initiative is necessary to succeed in today’s competitive market.
  • Get key stakeholders on board early – especially Sales!
  • Always link your CA efforts back to retention and growth.
  • Make building genuine relationships with your advocates the cornerstone of your CA program.

Impact and Result

  • Enable the organization to identify and develop meaningful relationships with top customers and advocates.
  • Understand the concepts and benefits of CA and how CA can be used to improve marketing and sales and fuel growth and competitiveness.
  • Follow SoftwareReviews’ methodology to identify where to start to apply CA within the organization.
  • Develop a customer advocacy proof of concept/pilot program to gain stakeholder approval and funding to get started with or expand efforts around customer advocacy.

Research & Tools

Get Started With Customer Advocacy Executive Brief – An overview of why customer advocacy is critical to your organization and the recommended approach for getting started with a pilot program.

Understand the strategic benefits and process for building a formal customer advocacy program. To be successful, you must reposition CA as a strategic growth initiative and continually link any CA efforts back to growth.

This executive brief will help you build the business case for launching a formal CA program as well as provide you with the overall steps for how to get started.

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Get Started With Customer Advocacy – Executive Brief