Totango

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The C hief Customer Officer Fall, 2018 (CCO), held September 12th-13th in San Diego, is an interactive peer-lead conference attracting senior-level customer focused professionals. One of the hottest topics at this year’s CCO is what a Customer Success program really means and how to get started.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Best practices Customer retention 55

JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Do you know that many sales reps don’t like to follow imposed instructions, and 2/3rds of all salespeople don’t follow a s ales process ? Salespeople must be creative, often adapting their selling techniques to a potential customer’s needs and sometimes whims. What is a Sales Process ? Sales is a numbers game.

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Sales B2B Surveys CRM 52

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Too many organizations are still not rewarding Customer Experience improvement because they don’t measure it. Despite understanding, many organizations still reward on operationally focused Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) like sales and productivity. Focusing on rewarding these, however, is not conducive to Customer Centricity.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Customer emotions Employee engagement 295

Nicereply

MAY 14, 2019

Strong communities form an important part of customer retention strategy, because they keep customers coming back for more. Let’s contrast a community strategy against traditional sales tactics. A big reason why customers can feel hostile to sales tactics is because they don’t think they are getting enough in return.

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Sales B2C B2B Customer retention 76

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

In addition, higher levels of customer satisfaction are tied to high levels of positive cash flows with low volatility, and positive earnings surprises. Keeping Customers results in a high increase in value. Focusing on customer retention with a better Customer Experience will benefit your bottom-line expenses.

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Customer Experience Customer retention Upselling Banking 411

CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That means the customer needs to renew their contract more than once. Without a high customer retention rate, a SaaS company will shut down, no matter how great the other metrics are. You may believe that if the customer does not have any problem, the customer will renew the contract.

Best practices 40

Best practices Customer retention SaaS Metrics 40

JivoChat

APRIL 8, 2021

There are many benefits of customer engagement tools, as they can help your company do the following: Boost Sales and Revenue. Do you know that 86% of customers will pay more to get a great customer experience? So, striving to deliver excellent customer service is a surefire way to increase your sales.

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Sales Chatbots Brand ambassadors Surveys 52

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

You wait because you are “service” call, and all the agents are busy with “sales” calls. Naïve and Transactions companies like to transfer a call, or tell you how important you are while you wait to be answered…sometimes for a long time. Colin is an international author of four best-selling books and an engaging keynote speaker.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Scripts Customer emotions 300

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Sharad is the Managing Director (Strategy and Analytics) and global leader in the Applied Intelligence practice at Accenture, with deep expertise in AI-powered customer engagement, and the enterprise-wide adoption of AI across industries, including insurance, communications, travel, and health care. Follow on LinkedIn.

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Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Consulting 251

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The Relationship Between Customer Experience Management and Sales. Colin Shaw is the founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy , one of the world’s first organizations devoted to customer experience. If you enjoyed this post, you might be interested in the following blogs: Tricks or Treasure?

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Customer centricity Customer retention Consulting Consulting 306

CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

We encourage you to explore the consolidated results of the survey to improve your understanding of business trends, to implement new customer retention strategies. The key findings arising from our survey results are as follows: Customer Engagement. Sales and Retention Forecast. Sales and Customer Success.

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SaaS Surveys Upselling Customer retention 83

Education Services Group

OCTOBER 15, 2020

We were thrilled to sponsor the first annual BIG RYG Customer Success Conference, and have our own Vice President of Customer Success & Operations, Megan Macaluso , included in the list of impressive speakers! (If Due to CSMs’ responsibility for retaining the customer, their role is hyper critical to any business.

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Best practices industry standards Customer centricity Sales 105

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Last week we had the much anticipated opportunity to sponsor, attend, and speak at the in-person 2021 SaaStr Annual conference. Customer Success begins in Sales and needs to be part of your funnel. You should have a customer success funnel just like you have a sales funnel” @nrmehta dropping CS at @SaaStrAnnual.

SaaS 95

SaaS B2B Customer retention Sales 95

Education Services Group

MAY 23, 2022

In today’s world, in-person conferences resonate differently than they did pre-pandemic, and TSIA World Interact in Orlando, Florida was no exception. There is no statistical difference in renewal rate when Sales Executives are responsible for renewals versus when the Customer Success team oversees renewals.”.

Upselling 52

Upselling Sales Marketing Management 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 16, 2020

SaaStock has been helping SaaS businesses gain traction, grow and scale for the last five years with their in-person conferences. Don’t Forget About the Human Touch in Your Customer Communications. Great talk by @triciagellman on re-thinking the sales funnel! Customer Success Around the Web. Key takeaways: 1.

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SaaS Customer retention Customer centricity B2B 92

ChurnZero

MARCH 28, 2023

Early-stage SaaS businesses tend to put most of their focus on acquiring net new customers. For a little while, customer retention is a manageable task with existing staff. When you have only a handful of customers, your sales team, product team, customer support team—and even executives—can join forces to keep them happy.

SaaS 52

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Surveys Feedback 52

Call Center Weekly

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

a Canadian training company that helps contact centers improve their sales and customer retention results. A call center expert, Mike serves on the Advisory Council of the Greater Toronto Area Contact Center association, and was Master of Ceremonies for their 2012-2014 and 2016 Annual Conferences.

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Contact Center contact center associations Banking Education 149

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Check out this post to see if you’re inadvertently sending subliminal negativity to your customers. Customer Success Operations 101: Drive Productivity with Purpose, People, and Process. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity sales, marketing, or product team without a designated operations function.

SaaS 98

SaaS Chief Customer Officer Upselling Metrics 98

Call Center Weekly

APRIL 25, 2018

What do you think is overlooked by contact center leadership, that hinders their customer retention efforts? Customer retention is a relationship rather than an event! Too much emphasis is placed on "saving" customers. That is like waiting until the end of a romantic relationship to tell someone you love them.

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contact center associations Customer retention Contact Center Sales 43

360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

We were constantly walking into meetings in conference rooms with LONG agendas that could get pretty boring and stuffy. Instead of focusing solely on the revenue generated by increasing customer retention, improving customer engagement and creating more customer loyalty… What happens when we do not engage customers?

Sales 91

Sales Customer retention Consulting Consulting 91

Totango

JULY 6, 2021

These components, which correlate closely with customer engagement and satisfaction , can be quantified by assigning key performance indicators to them. This makes customer loyalty a metric as well as a concept. Why Is Measuring Customer Loyalty Important? How Do You Measure Customer Loyalty? Current Customer Referrals.

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Best practices Metrics Surveys Customer retention 110

Joe Rawlinson

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Lead generation : Marketers who customize content can expect to generate more leads than their less agile counterparts. Higher conversion rate: The same goes for sales results – personalized offers drive more conversions. He regularly takes part in different career growth conferences and contributes his posts to different websites.

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Personalization Marketing Education Sales 111

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

For the first time in nine years, HubSpot’s INBOUND conference was not able to hosted as an in-person experience for obvious reasons. Then be sure to register for BIG RYG , ChurnZero’s upcoming virtual conference built for current and future leaders in Customer Success. . . Customer Success Around the Web.

SaaS 59

SaaS Metrics Best practices Customer retention 59

Amity

JUNE 11, 2018

Experience shows that we often overestimate the time customers can afford to spend on a platform and underestimate the complexity of deployment and operations in the customer’s environment. First, start by examining how sales has prioritized and segmented customers. You might be able align with their strategy.

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Strategic Value Customer retention SaaS Sales 91

Nicereply

JUNE 18, 2020

Customer retention is the act of keeping customers engaged, creating customer advocates, and reducing churn before it happens. Imagine you never acquired another customer. Your sales team went home, and all you had left was your current group of customers. What is customer retention?

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Customer retention Feedback Surveys Metrics 125

Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 25, 2018

At Taylor Reach Group, we have compiled a list with hundreds of expos, conferences and summits focused on the Call Center, Contact Center and/or Customer Experience. And learn more about exciting new technology that’s revolutionizing customer experience. ODSC East - Open Data Science Conference – May 1-4, Boston, MA.

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Contact Center Call Center Customer Experience outsourcing 62

JustCall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Sales calls are recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using conversation intelligence (CI) software. CI software can scan sales conversations to find keywords and conversational topics, allowing users to instantly jump to particular spots in the recordings of sales calls and further examine insightful data. G2 Reviews: 4.5

Real estate 52

Real estate CRM Coaching Contact Center 52

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 12, 2016

Here’s a summary which encapsulates the difference between satisfaction and loyalty as metrics, expressed by Susan Wyse of Snap Surveys in a June, 2012 post: “Customer Satisfaction is a measurement of customer attitudes regarding products, services, and brands. Customer Loyalty on the other hand has two definitions.

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Employee engagement Consulting Consulting Metrics 170

Amity

MARCH 27, 2017

SaaS Tattler Issues 102: Empowering One Another - Marketing and Customer Success. We often talk about Sales and Customer Success alignment, but there are endless opportunities for Marketing to work with Customer Success at different customer lifecycle stages. NPS is all about actionable data.

Marketing 52

Marketing SaaS Education Customer retention 52

ClearAction

OCTOBER 16, 2019

conference and in his article, Welcome to Churn Nation, The 9th Biggest Country in the World You’ve Never Heard of — But Are Living In. He said: “Warning: Losing customers can damage your wealth. It’s been proven that it costs 5X to 25X more to acquire customers compared to the cost of retaining customers.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Marketing Customer retention 59

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Last week we had the opportunity to travel to London to sponsor and exhibit at the Pulse Europe 2018 Conference as a Silver sponsor. For those of you that might not know – this is the premier Customer Success conference in Europe. Customer Success is one of the fastest growing professions in the modern economy.

SaaS 49

SaaS Customer retention Customer Support Enterprise 49

CallSource Insights

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Your company’s reputation isn’t just important from a customer acquisition perspective; it also affects your bottom line in terms of sales as well. A good reputation often leads to higher customer retention rates and more repeat purchases, which translates into more revenue for your business over time.

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Benchmark Automotive Feedback Sales 97

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Last week wrapped up the 7th annual INBOUND conference hosted by HubSpot. INBOUND is an industry event designed to gather Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success professionals all in one place to learn and get inspired together. Make your customers feel special. Satisfaction: ensure customer SUCCESS!

Education 66

Education Customer retention B2B SaaS 66

360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

We were constantly walking into meetings in conference rooms with LONG agendas that could get pretty boring and stuffy. Instead of focusing solely on the revenue generated by increasing customer retention, improving customer engagement and creating more customer loyalty… What happens when we do not engage customers?

Sales 56

Sales Customer retention Customer Experience Personalization 56

Education Services Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TSIA’s conferences are always jam-packed with best-practices, real-life examples, success stories, and lessons learned from some of technology’s biggest names. This year’s TSIA Interact was my first time experiencing the conference. There must be constant CS education across the board – this includes support and sales!

Education 52

Education Best practices Journey mapping Analytics 52

ClearAction

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Customer-Centric Primary Motives: Making it easier and nicer for the customer to get and use solutions. There’s a myth that talking often to your customers (sales, service, surveys, etc.) means you’re customer-focused. Gap in Desired Versus Actual Customer-Centricity. Internal newsletters. Staff meetings. (3)

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Customer centricity Finance Engineering Customer retention 63

Education Services Group

JANUARY 25, 2023

Q: Are both Customer Success and Sales paying attention to the AI input? I mean to a certain extent, Chorus and Gong bring this to life, but I think Sales is ahead of post-Sales in terms of technical sophistication, resource allocation, operation, and budget.

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Finance Sales Morale SaaS 52