Hello Customer

JANUARY 16, 2020

January typically is a month to forecast trends, and we believe customer retention will be an important one. Of course, this isn't a new strategy. But we see increasingly more organisations move their focus from aggressive acquisition investments to retention management. Customer retention or acquisition?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. Sales and marketing professionals that geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. There is often more than one way to calculate a given Customer Success metric; Gaming.

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Help Scout

MAY 12, 2021

In this article, we discuss the role of support teams in retaining customers and show how to combine high-quality, empathetic customer service with a deliberate focus on business growth. What is customer retention and how is it measured? For a subscription business, this is a clear and simple metric.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 15, 2021

In order to really improve where customer experience is concerned, businesses need to fully understand the experience that they currently offer, and know what needs to be done to make it better. Take a look at our brief guide on how to monitor customer experience to learn how to make changes that’ll benefit your customers, and your business.

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aircall

JUNE 30, 2021

Many look to the company for ways to improve customer retention. Email: Ring’s Secret to Improve Customer Retention. For one thing, it sends new customers emails to share tips on properly setting up the product. However, Ring is not the only company to reap the rewards of its stellar customer retention strategies.

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Amity

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Ask anyone in sales or customer support regarding important customer success metrics, and almost always, churn is mentioned. Churn is short for ‘churn rate’ and refers to the percentage rate of customer loss or customer defection. Customer Success Metrics: Customer Health Score.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. SaaS professionals who geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. There is often more than one way to calculate a given Customer Success metric; Gaming.

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Totango

APRIL 9, 2019

Customer retention is the lifeblood of any savvy enterprise. It’s the only way to be successful in this customer-centered economy and ensure scalable long-term revenue. To retain customers, companies must make the customer experience better and ensure customers never stop seeing value from their product or service.

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JivoChat

JULY 20, 2021

People have a lot of options these days, so if you don’t have good customer retention strategies , your business won’t be as stable or profitable. It costs five times as much to win a new customer as it does to retain an existing one. In this post, we’ll reveal why you should start focusing on customer retention and when.

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JustCall

MARCH 13, 2020

If you want your brand, product or service to outshine your competitors in the market, make sure you track the right set of customer service metrics. A customer service that produces maximum customer satisfaction is a service that walks and talks. Tracking performance With Customer Service Metrics.

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TLC Associates

JULY 24, 2019

Studies by Bain & Company show the effort to increase customer retention by 5% produces 25% additional profits through upsells, cross-sells, and customer referrals. It’s not a stretch to say your ability to retain customers reflects your ability to grow your bottom line. The Importance of Measuring Customer Retention.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 8, 2019

And to get good data, you have to have good metrics in place. In the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space, it’s important to follow the right data points in order to make smart, customer focused decisions. Here’s our take on a short list of top SaaS metrics your CSM team needs to monitor: . #1: 1: Customer Retention Rate.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Our customer service research sponsored by RingCentral (brand new 2024 report is now out) includes a humorous stat/finding: 79% of US consumers have called customer support and been caught in the automated menu system and repeatedly screamed, “Agent” or “Representative,” and eventually hung up out of frustration.

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aircall

JANUARY 30, 2017

Customer retention refers to how successfully a business manages to keep its paying customers. Customer retention means earning customers’ trust and repeated patronage. Why is customer retention so important? Customer retention and growth. Customer retention and churn.

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Babelforce

AUGUST 27, 2020

You already understand the importance of knowing how customers feel about your brand. . But do you know *which* metrics are up to the task? Today we’re going to look at three of the most important measurements of customer service. Here’s how you can get inside customers’ heads…. Customer Satisfaction (CSat).

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2020

To be successful, businesses need a high-quality call center service that is reliable, easy to navigate and able to keep up with ever-changing customer experience expectations. Agent Metrics. One way to do this is to use metrics to evaluate individual agent performance as well as key attributes of the entire customer service process.

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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). But I see a place for Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT), based on organizational goals, resources, and structure. CX shouldn’t ever be measured by one metric alone. Of course not.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As leaders and managers, you need to get down and dirty with metrics, KPIs, and agent performance to run a successful contact center. This might look like taking an online course and learning to adapt your leadership style , researching new business models and processes, and honing communication skills with different stakeholders. .

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SharpenCX

JANUARY 21, 2020

How do you know what metrics to measure to see if your customers are satisfied and loyal? Let’s take a look at what metrics to measure in your contact center to become a more customer (and employee) centric company. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). Measure it company-wide across a variety of customer touchpoints.

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Solvvy

AUGUST 17, 2022

Key performance indicators (KPIs) give businesses a way to measure and monitor progress toward business goals and ensure leaders are steering their companies toward a great track record with customer satisfaction and business growth. What are the Most Important Customer Service KPIs? Customer Retention Rate.

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Comm100

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Your customer retention is super important to your bottom line—after all, customer loyalty is well-known for being more valuable than customer acquisition. With stakes this high, it’s essential that you build a solid customer retention plan that can lead to long-term customer loyalty.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

There is a 13 percentage point increase in median YoY product subscription growth rate when training is included in a Customer Success package. 65% of respondents said it’s common practice to share customer training data with the Customer Success organization. How CSMs play a role in customer education. Customer churn .

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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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Education Services Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

It’s about gaining insight into customer engagement to understand how they’re interacting with your company. Marketers regularly rely on email metrics because that data tells them who is ready to move down the funnel, and maybe even talk to a salesperson. Each of these metrics is essentially the inverse of the other.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Finding Bilingual Support That Suits Your Customers Best We’re an onshore Canadian contact center outsourcer and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated (bilingual) customer care through strategic partnership. So, of course, we’re biased. The value of that improved metric plays a big role in the client’s bottom line.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Get You Mon’s insights on what subscription businesses should do now to navigate a downturn, and learn the factors that put customers at risk of churn, what most people get wrong about customer satisfaction, and why “agility” is about more than process. Double down on customer retention during a downturn. “In

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Further, additional sales with existing customers have a lower customer acquisition cost (CAC). That’s why ChurnZero believes customer retention and loyalty are the most important stages of customer lifecycle management. The key to effectively managing a customer lifecycle is metrics.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Further, additional sales with existing customers have a lower customer acquisition cost (CAC). That’s why ChurnZero believes customer retention and loyalty are the most important stages of customer lifecycle management. The key to effectively managing a customer lifecycle is metrics.

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delighted

JULY 13, 2022

And likely, if something in your customer experience with the brand has gone awry in the past, e.g., your order didn’t ship when they said it would or the item that arrived did not look like the item you ordered, the brand was eager to make it right – and in turn, that earned your loyalty even more. Customer retention rate.

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Kayako

MAY 16, 2018

Here are 7 ways that you can use phone calls and live chat to give your customers more immediate gratification and increase your company’s revenue. Calls and live chat increase customer retention and upsell opportunities. Improving customer retention by 5% can increase profits by 95%, according to Bain & Company.

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Amity

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Aside from new delivery methods and pricing structures, SaaS companies are also expecting their technology investments to provide metrics that help them manage the customer lifecycle – from conversion through to retention, renewals and growth. CB: Yes of course! Another important metric to track is Churn.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2019

When a business strives to improve help desk performance by incorporating various help desk tips and tricks, it creates scope for increased sales, high customer satisfaction , and enhanced customer retention. Gather the Right Metrics. And of course, use the right combination of help desk tips and tricks.

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Paul is a Transformational, hands-on, customer service department leader with extensive experience using performance metrics, lean process improvements, and positive leadership in building effective, efficient, and happy customer service departments. Brad Cleveland is a global expert in customer strategy and managemen t.

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Totango

JUNE 30, 2020

Communication during a crisis is about protecting your core asset, your customers. The digital transformation of business has shifted enterprise focus toward customer retention and the pursuit of long-term value. Challenges such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic only reinforce the importance of keeping the customers you have.

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Education Services Group

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We need the support of our fellows in Finance to accomplish critical goals, provide vital input on key metrics, and offer guidance for larger-scale planning and initiatives. Finance benefits too, of course. After all, Customer Success is the delicious chocolate coating tying all that gooey customer experience goodness together.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

More effectively identifying and managing customer vulnerability isn’t just a benefit for consumers, companies that can successfully support vulnerable customers deliver better customer service and improve customer retention and loyalty. JourneyPure. Kevin Lee is the CEO of JourneyPure. Adrian Travis.

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Education Services Group

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Written by Colby Bock There are many posts and articles published by leaders in Customer Success that articulate an attempt to guide current and aspiring Customer Success Managers on their role. Of course, this is natural and something we should expect from leaders. I crave to immerse myself in my customers’ stories.

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