Global Response

JANUARY 27, 2023

Far too many companies blindly track dozens of customer service metrics or KPIs without having a clear pathway to actioning them or understanding which metrics can truly move the needle for their customer satisfaction and bottom line. This leads us to the second point: KPIs must focus on both internal and external metrics.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Out of the myriads of customer data that can be measured, in this blog, I will emphasize the most important customer success metrics you need to focus on based on best practices.

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aircall

JANUARY 6, 2022

Consultative selling, also known as needs-based selling, is a sales tactic in which the seller acts primarily as an advisor, focused on helping a prospect solve one or more critical business issues. Step Five: Consult to the Finish Line! But remember, as a consultant, you don’t want to give bad advice.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This can be done by tracking actionable customer usage metrics and using adoption analytics to shape the customer experience at different points in their life-cycle journey. Most customer success metric fall into one of these four categories: Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Heath Metrics.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 18, 2022

Searching for blogs in the arena is getting accessible slowly and it’s time you leverage the essential knowledge these blogs have to offer, to flourish! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022! Suggested blog : Account Expansion: If You Want To Grow Fast, Do This….

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The answer varies for different companies, but the customer success team performance metrics below are an excellent place to start. As a customer success team leader , these metrics provide a solution to demonstrate the value of your customer success team to top executives and other teams. Customer Financial Metrics.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2022

Did you catch our Customer Success and SaaS metrics crash-course webinar with leading SaaS expert Dave Kellogg, of Dave Kellogg Consulting ? We’d like to extend a huge thanks to Dave for his expert insights below, which will help you choose and use Customer Success and SaaS metrics in a more nuanced and purposeful way.

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GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

NPS, CES, and CSAT are customer loyalty metrics. Today, we’ll discuss the three most popular customer loyalty metrics that fall under the structured category—NPS, CES, and CSAT—and the role that each should play in your CX strategy. Before diving into the value of each metric, it’s important to go over the basics. .

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Out of the myriads of customer data that can be measured, in this blog, I will emphasize the most important customer success metrics you need to focus on based on best practices.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Now more than ever, customer success leaders must use relevant and actionable customer success metrics to make guided decisions and strategies to deliver success. Out of the myriads of customer data that can be measured, in this blog, I will emphasize the most important customer success metrics you need to focus on based on best practices.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This can be done by tracking actionable customer usage metrics and using adoption analytics to shape the customer experience at different points in their life-cycle journey. Most customer success metric fall into one of these four categories: Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Heath Metrics.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This can be done by tracking actionable customer usage metrics and using adoption analytics to shape the customer experience at different points in their life-cycle journey. Most customer success metric fall into one of these four categories: Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Heath Metrics.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Every customer success metric you can measure falls into one of these four categories: Customer Health Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Success Team Performance Metrics. In this blog series, we’ll examine each customer success metric category in separate blogs.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Every customer success metric you can measure falls into one of these four categories: Customer Health Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Success Team Performance Metrics. In this blog series, we’ll examine each customer success metric category in separate blogs.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Top 10 Blog Posts from 2020. Top 4 Metrics Chief Customer Officers (CCOs) Must Know. With a dizzying number of SaaS metrics—from acquisition costs and account expansion to customer churn and satisfaction—all vying for headspace, CCOs must focus on the measurements that really matter. To find out who wins, check out the recap.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For example, North Star Metrics should matter the most, and others would fall under that. Then, each unit can measure metrics from their efforts at those inputs. An organization would be remiss in presenting the latest insights without consulting previous findings alongside them. . You have accumulated knowledge from before.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The answer varies for different companies, but the customer success team performance metrics below are an excellent place to start. As a customer success team leader , these metrics provide a solution to demonstrate the value of your customer success team to top executives and other teams. Customer Financial Metrics.

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The answer varies for different companies, but the customer success team performance metrics below are an excellent place to start. As a customer success team leader , these metrics provide a solution to demonstrate the value of your customer success team to top executives and other teams. Customer Financial Metrics.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 15, 2019

The Types of Data for Your Metrics. Peppers says there are two different types of data that feed your metrics: Voice of Customer (VOC) Data: Peppers calls these metrics interactive data, meaning your customer interacts with you through a poll. Observational data is useful to your Customer Experience Metrics.

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 14, 2019

Measuring just a piece of this journey can seem short-sighted or not as powerful as other CX metrics, like Net Promoter Score (NPS). CX shouldn’t ever be measured by one metric alone. Customers and their experiences are complex and nuanced, so there’s no perfect metric. Her mission is: To Create Fewer Ruined Days for Customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In our Global Customer Experience Consultancy, we were doing some work with an airline. Signals from management and fellow employees will do more to improve your Customer Experience than a set of rigorous metrics reviewed at the weekly meeting. How do people talk about customers at the organization?

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CSM Practice

JUNE 6, 2020

The renewal rate metric also provides a quick overview of customer success team performance before in-depth analysis. Each metric compares the amount of the variable that was renewed against the maximum amount that could have been renewed. The post A Simple Guide to Renewal Rate Metric appeared first on CSM Practice.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 23, 2017

However, these metrics don’t work for measuring CX growth, at least not directly. To avoid this common metric pitfall, you should choose one that is not only accurate and linked to CX improvement efforts but also on that is actionable and defines the day-to-day work in no uncertain terms. Invest in real-time feedback on your results.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the world of contact center metrics, service level has always held a special place. This metric is universally understood across the industry, and clearly conveys how quickly customer calls are answered by support agents. Its origins go back over five decades, to the earliest days of call centers.

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Lumoa

APRIL 28, 2024

If you’re reading this blog post, you are probably one of them. Despite efforts to collect and analyze feedback, employees frequently struggle to pinpoint what affects these metrics. You will need to reach out for a consultation first. The pressure is rising for businesses to step up their CX game.

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Vistio

JUNE 10, 2022

I’ve been in the contact center consulting space for almost my entire career, which is now, I hate to say it, about 30 years. I started actually by starting up a couple of consulting practices for two major BPOs, which would be Sitel and Convergys. There are really two resources, which have to do with blogs and podcasts.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 31, 2017

Branding agencies and consultants are embracing the notion that storytelling creates an authentic connection with your customers. As a customer experience consultant, I think this is good. I tell them in blogs, in the books I write, and in the webinars we offer. Stories help people connect a concept to a real-life experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Soon after that, I founded my global Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy. Unfortunately, Reichheld says too many organizations use NPS as a stick or a metric for earning bonuses. He says that the financial metrics most companies use for valuations point you toward the wrong investments.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Years ago, my global Customer Experience consultancy did work with a ferry company in the UK. Consider how much money you would have to pay a consultant to discover the various missteps your customers experience with you. Eliminate metrics for your call center, like average call handling time. Subscribe today right here.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 27, 2016

More often these days we get calls at our headquarters with Customer Experience champions wondering what happened to the huge gains in their Customer Experience metrics they used to get. Because of the fact we improved Customer Experience, our Customer Experience metrics have now levelled off. See the difference there?

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 30, 2019

I’m excited to continue on with our blog series on customer success metrics. In our last post on this topic, we covered the top four categories of customer success metrics. The topic I will cover in this blog is on the top five customer success financial metrics. Customer Success Financial Metrics.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 2, 2019

As a global Customer Experience consultant since 1998, before Customer Experience was a glint in its father’s eye, here’s what I say you need to do. Also, consider hiring outside consultants to talk to them about Customer Experience. Hire consultants to run a workshop. Send around blogs and share podcasts on Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 16, 2018

In that role, I had many bright consultants come in to share fabulous theories. The clever consultants did not have a satisfactory response! When I left British Telecom to start my global Customer Experience consultancy, I remembered my dissatisfaction with the all-theory-no-practicality approach to business.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. From : Gregg Frohman , Director of Consulting. What are one to three books, blogs, or thought leaders that have greatly influenced your career, and why?

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

However, the silver lining in the gloomy cloud, as Thompson puts it, is that these companies do see improvement in metrics like customer satisfaction ratings, increased revenue, lower costs, and more employee engagement than in the past. As Customer Experience consultants, we see this all the time.

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Outsource Consultants

JUNE 19, 2018

5 Valuable Metrics Contact Centers Can Provide Companies. Whatever the situation is for your company, your contact center partner should be able to provide you with this metric. These five metrics are crucial to demonstrating success in the contact center. This blog post is based on an article from CustomerThink.

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8x8

JANUARY 3, 2018

Business Metrics Transparency for Better Customer Experience. Once an organization has improved the contact center knowledge and capabilities of its agents to improve customer experience, the next step is to work on Transparency of Business and Technical Metrics. Increasingly, gain visibility to remote worker activities and metrics.

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