Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

Providing tutorial tips to answer customer questions and encourage greater product adoption. Delivering customer support. Resolving customer escalations or problems. Administering customer satisfaction surveys. Reminding customers to renew subscriptions. Making upsell offers. Customer support events.

B2B 116

B2B Journey mapping SaaS Engineering 116

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 2, 2023

In this write-up, we are sharing a few valuable insights as to how a Customer Success leader should enable and empower their team. In addition to this, we will also highlight some great CS benchmarks that every Customer Success team should aim to achieve. CSAT Benchmark: Aim for a CSAT score of 90% or higher.

Benchmark 10

Benchmark Customer retention SaaS Customer centricity 10

Global Response

MAY 22, 2023

Inbound Call Centers Inbound call centers handle inbound customer calls and customer support. For outbound call centers, automated dialers are the more necessary technology, so agents can focus on connecting with customers and not manually calling through lists only to reach answering machines or inactive numbers.

Call Center 62

Call Center outsourcing Benchmark Metrics 62

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

Use these data fields to create segments, trigger alerts, run automated playbooks, send NPS campaigns, manage customer journeys, and calculate ChurnScores. Customer Support/Service Software and Ticketing Systems. What is customer support software? Customer Support/Service or IT Operations.

CRM 87

CRM Finance Upselling Accountability 87

Totango

AUGUST 18, 2022

Guiding customers through how to use basic features. Describing where to access self-service and customer support tools. Educating the customer on how your platform can support their business goals. Ensuring a smooth handoff between the Onboarding Team to the Customer Success Team.

Journey mapping 93

Journey mapping SaaS Upselling Enterprise 93

Netomi

APRIL 19, 2022

Thousands of commenters chimed in , and many posted harsh comments related to the gaming company’s customer service. Customers today desire self-service options, many preferring to resolve their own issues without involving customer support agents – and gamers are no exception to this trend.

Customer Experience 64

Customer Experience Chatbots Self service Construction 64

Totango

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This will guide your employees to take steps that promote customer success, generating results that yield higher customer retention. Set Success Goals for Each Stage of Your Customer Journey Map. To put your goals of promoting customer success into action, you can define benchmarks that measure success in quantifiable terms.

Customer retention 85

Customer retention Journey mapping Benchmark SaaS 85

Totango

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Because the customer journey is not linear, your customers may be split between your sales and customer success team. For example, your customer needs to onboard two new employees while simultaneously working through an upsell with your sales team. Goals to Consider: Product usage compared to benchmarks. .

Enterprise 81

Enterprise Metrics Benchmark Upselling 81

CSM Practice

APRIL 13, 2021

As a customer success manager, you have to connect with your customer over their triumphs and frustrations to develop a long-term relationship. Customer success managers often encounter obstacles and pressure in retaining and keeping numerous accounts. How to ensure that customers receive proper guidance? Challenges.

Management 52

Management Customer retention Upselling Accountability 52

Lumoa

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The people driving customer experience improvements are not always able to quantify the improvements in monetary terms (determining the ROI of customer experience). Our customer satisfaction increases – so what? If you improve the availability of customer support agents, you certainly know how much it is going to cost.

Customer Experience 103

Customer Experience Metrics Feedback Banking 103

Totango

JUNE 23, 2020

Such a customer is worth directing time and effort toward despite their reduced short-term value because they are likely to positively influence others and reinvest with you when dangers pass. A low score means you must reengage your customer success planning and work to provide additional value to your customer.

Best practices 62

Best practices Brand ambassadors Surveys Enterprise 62

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Additionally, by using CRM to analyze customer data, contact centers can identify new sales opportunities and cross-selling and upselling opportunities. It is also necessary to establish clear, measurable targets for each KPI to provide a benchmark for performance and track progress. All backed by 24/7 customer support.

CRM 52

CRM Contact Center Metrics Benchmark 52

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Leverage data, metrics and insights to build and strengthen the overall CS strategy, specifically working on delivering new CRM Analytics and Service Cloud platforms – ultimately working on customer health benchmarks and driving improvements. Preparation and presentation of business proposals.

Coaching 19

Coaching Customer advocacy SaaS Strategic Value 19

Kayako

MAY 23, 2018

Being proactive about customer service can help ease the burden on small support teams, too, reducing phone calls by 20-30% over one year. No matter how big or small your customer service team, providing proactive customer support on live chat can help you reap big rewards. How to use live chat proactively.

Customer Service 60

Customer Service Benchmark Upselling Feedback 60

Talkdesk

AUGUST 25, 2015

From onboarding through renewal and upselling, Gotlieb said there are many stages where customers are at risk of being lost. The goal is to have happy customers who want to stay with your company and purchase more and more. Although every journey is different, there are distinct benchmarks that each customer should meet.

Chief Customer Officer 72

Chief Customer Officer call center software Benchmark Upselling 72

JivoChat

MARCH 25, 2021

This is not only true for customer service teams, but marketing, sales development, and post-sales customer support as well. To integrate live chat into your sales processes and use it to guide customers through your sales funnel, consider each customer’s needs and pains to offer the very best solution.

Wait times 52

Wait times Sales Scripts B2B 52

JivoChat

MARCH 25, 2021

This is not only true for customer service teams, but marketing, sales development, and post-sales customer support as well. To integrate live chat into your sales processes and use it to guide customers through your sales funnel, consider each customer’s needs and pains to offer the very best solution.

Wait times 52

Wait times Sales Scripts B2B 52

Pointillist

MARCH 22, 2018

JetBlue has in the past made as much as an additional $140million in revenue through its upsell program called ‘Even More Space.’. There are many such examples of B2C and B2B companies that are using upsell and cross-sell opportunities to generate profits. In this post, I take a detailed look at: What is upsell and cross-sell?

Upselling 71

Upselling Analytics B2B B2C 71

ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This goes on to show that customer service is increasingly becoming one of the deciding factors for people to invest in a business. In short, customer service cannot be neglected anymore. It has also become a benchmark that can impact your brand image and, if not done right, can easily hamper your marketing efforts at the same time.

Marketing 147

Marketing Customer Service Upselling Customer Support 147

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Since customer success is a new field, relatively, there are lesser chances of finding top talent specific to the CS domain. However, one can find top executives in sales, marketing, finance, product, or customer support who are ready to carry out the role of a CS professional. Talk about the market expense benchmark card.

Chief Customer Officer 10

Chief Customer Officer Upselling Benchmark Metrics 10

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 11, 2021

Apply here: [link] Role: Senior Customer Success Manager Location: Toronto, ON, Canada Organization: Sinch As a Customer Success Manager, you will develop a strategic business plan for identifying new business opportunities with existing clients – seeking upsell opportunities.

Upselling 10

Upselling Benchmark Customer centricity Education 10

Lumoa

JULY 10, 2018

The people driving customer experience improvements are not always able to quantify the improvements in monetary terms. Our customer satisfaction increases – so what? If you improve the availability of customer support agents, you certainly know how much it is going to cost. Does it increase our revenue or profit?

Customer Experience 121

Customer Experience Metrics Banking Feedback 121

SmartKarrot

JUNE 1, 2021

Ensure that all customer requirements are taken in account from Open to Close and provide all means to secure them during projects. Drive the roadmap, selection and development of Customer Support tools and systems. Act as the internal advocate for customer success and business requirement fulfilment.

Best practices 10

Best practices Finance Benchmark Upselling 10

Totango

MAY 7, 2024

If Sales over-promises what the customer can achieve with your product, then CS has been set up to fail when it comes to onboarding. If CS doesn’t have commercial conversations with healthy customers, they’re not setting Sales up to re-enter the conversation and potentially upsell. Use your words Talk to each other!

Sales 87

Sales Upselling Metrics Accountability 87

delighted

MARCH 4, 2020

Consumers experience your brand in many different ways, whether by using your product and interacting with customer support, or through word-of-mouth on channels outside of your control. And with each new interaction, their perception of your brand can change, potentially leading to a new customer or a lost one.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Management Journey mapping Surveys 52

delighted

MARCH 4, 2020

Consumers experience your brand in many different ways, whether by using your product and interacting with customer support, or through word-of-mouth on channels outside of your control. And with each new interaction, their perception of your brand can change, potentially leading to a new customer or a lost one.

Customer Experience 44

Customer Experience Management Journey mapping Surveys 44

SmartKarrot

MAY 28, 2020

Create a Customer Communication Protocol . Communication is a vital part of your customer retention strategy. Remind your customers that your company and the customer support team is available to help them. Your customers must be capable of scaling their service up or down. Focus on Upselling.

Customer retention 10

Customer retention SaaS Upselling Analytics 10

SmartKarrot

APRIL 23, 2020

There are various other names for customer success manager being used in the industry like Customer Success Engineer, Sales Manager, Customer Success Specialist, others. We notice there is decent overlap with account management, sales and customer support. This did not seem to match.

Management 10

Management Complaint resolution Customer retention Engineering 10

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 12, 2021

Below are costs included in COGS of a SaaS product: Web hosting cost Cost of using third-party services embedded in the product Website development cost Manpower used for production and delivery of the product Customer support and account management cost Professional services cost. What is COGS used for? What is relevant in SaaS?

SaaS 10

SaaS Customer retention Accountability Benchmark 10

JustCall

MAY 8, 2022

In recent times, smart customer support teams have steered their approach in how they engage customers. Why is customer sentiment analysis important? (7 Upsell and drive more value from each customer. With the changing times, consumer needs and expectations have changed as well. 7 benefits).

Analytics 52

Analytics Feedback CRM Upselling 52

Fonolo

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Or how many opportunities to upsell a customer were missed because the customer support agent didn’t have the time to build a relationship with the customer? 3. What is the impact of an increased abandonment rate on our customers’ satisfaction (compare higher abandonment groups to a control group)?

Service level 142

Service level Call Center Abandon rate Metrics 142

JustCall

APRIL 28, 2022

Call intelligence is the process of recording, analyzing and reporting inbound or outbound customer calls with the primary objective of driving valuable insights that can be used in optimizing sales and customer support processes. This can help them make more informed sales decisions and improve the overall customer experience.

Sales 52

Sales Coaching CRM Metrics 52

ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A lot of business owners want to reduce customer churn and retain as many as possible. Stable customer base results in higher referrals, improved upsell revenue and increased lifetime value (LTV) which further results in improved customer acquisition in future. Lack of a Great Customer Support.

Surveys 148

Surveys Benchmark Feedback Sales 148

JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Conversation intelligence technology uses artificial intelligence to analyze and optimize conversations in sales calls, demos, and customer support interactions. The system then analyzes the text to extract important information about your customers’ needs, wants, and concerns. Who Should Use Conversation Intelligence Software?

Coaching 52

Coaching Sales Chatbots Analytics 52

ChurnZero

MARCH 22, 2019

This was just one of the takeaways from our well-attended webinar this week on- Understanding the Real Impact of Improving Retention and Customer Success Best Practices. To better understand the impact, we had Rob Belcher, Managing Director at SaaS Capital share benchmarking data from their eighth annual survey of private B2B SaaS companies.

Customer retention 61

Customer retention Upselling SaaS Customer centricity 61

Babelforce

AUGUST 13, 2020

CRM strategy extracts incredible value from data you already have The contact center isn’t always where CRM strategy is born – even though they do manage most customer relationships! Strong areas of focus include upselling, reduced acquisition costs and customer loyalty. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management.

CRM 52

CRM Contact Center Upselling Customer retention 52

delighted

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The success of a CX program often depends on a company’s ability to effectively capture customer data, so choosing your method of capture is the first and most important step. NPS provides a convenient benchmark for your product’s success. Because NPS is easy to report, it becomes a powerful benchmark. Why does it matter?

Surveys 57

Surveys Customer effort Feedback Benchmark 57