Outsource Consultants

MARCH 18, 2025

Key metrics to consider include customer retention rates, average handle time, and first call resolution rates. Any business that requires customer support, sales assistance, or back-office operations can benefit. What industries benefit most from call center outsourcing?

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CSM Magazine

JULY 3, 2025

Understanding Customer Journeys in the Digital Age Customer journeys might sound like a buzzword, but they shape how each person experiences your business. If you’ve ever noticed how an online store knows your name, or how a SaaS app guides you after you sign up, you’ve witnessed the power of a well-mapped journey.

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Cincom

JANUARY 31, 2025

For example, a unified CRM system consolidates data across sales, marketing, and customer service teams, ensuring consistent customer interactions. For example, combining your existing CRM with Cincom CPQ creates a seamless workflow where sales teams can manage customer relationships and configure quotes in a single environment.

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Totango

OCTOBER 30, 2024

To drive customer-led growth, organizations need to assign ownership for expansion, align tactics to value drivers, measure post-sales funnels precisely, streamline communication post-sale, and use automation to create more clarity for teams. For years, attainment was the sexiest word in SaaS.

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Cincom

MARCH 2, 2025

As eCommerce businesses scale, they deal with complex product configurations, dynamic pricing, and growing customer demands. However, outdated tools and manual processes slow everything down, leading to lost sales, pricing errors, and frustrated buyers. A slow or error-prone quote can cost a sale.

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ChurnZero

MAY 8, 2025

Sarah Kiley is chief sales officer at ChurnZero. This is why gross revenue retention (GRR) is a top metric for SaaS boards in 2025. Join Sarah’s GTM Forum sessions on how to hit your GRR goal as a customer leader, and how to master customer-led growth. In fact, GRR isnt just a metricits a multiplier.

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Cincom

MARCH 17, 2025

Similarly, in B2B sales, a price quotation is more than just a numberits a strategic tool that influences purchasing decisions and builds customer trust. It serves as a formal offer, outlining the costs, terms, and conditions of a potential sale. Studies show sales reps take 73% more time to quote without CPQ software.

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Cincom

APRIL 22, 2025

What Is a Sales Strategy? A sales strategy is your blueprint for consistent and scalable revenue growth. A strong strategy aligns your market focus, sales processes, tools, and team with long-term business outcomes. At its core, a sales strategy answers three questions: Who are we selling to?

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Totango

APRIL 24, 2020

In customer retention, every engagement counts. Rather, customer retention for SaaS enterprises is a result of the customer experience. Why Customer Retention Matters. The digitization of business has made customer retention the lifeblood of the Software-as-a-Service industry.

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Nicereply

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Discover great customer retention tools and empower customer satisfaction. Losing customers is something that every business fears. Considering that the SaaS industry is a competitive one, customer retention is crucial. What is Customer Retention? Customer churn is inevitable.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

You should adopt a “time invested equals benefits gained” approach with your SaaS renewal best practices. With a focus on lifetime customer success rather than on quick revenue raising, you can turn your renewal process into a celebration of an ongoing partnership. The Top 5 SaaS Renewal Best Practices.

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Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn.

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Totango

JULY 31, 2020

Customer retention is critical to success in today’s customer-centric economy. Onboarding sets the stage for customer retention by beginning a positive long-term relationship between you and your customer. How SaaS Enterprises Can Streamline New User Onboarding.

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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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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

Much of the marketing world is still focused on customer acquisition, but to improve customer retention will yield f ar better ROI and cost about 5-25X less than customer acquisition. What is Customer Retention? Why Customer Retention Matters. My Customer Retention ?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2022

SaaS customer onboarding makes or breaks your customer retention. It has a long-lasting impact on your customer and deep ties to their likelihood to churn. For this reason, unlocking the optimal SaaS customer onboarding experience is invaluable. Work Cross-Functionally During SaaS Customer Onboarding.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Lead generation, sales, and operations continue to be the top business goals, but customer service is the foundation of organizational success. Without offering a delightful service experience to customers , your business may suffer in the long-run, since dissatisfied customers can jeopardize your business.

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Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

Read on to learn what churn is, how an attrition analysis can help you pinpoint why you’re losing customers, and what steps you can take to prevent customer churn. What Is Churn Rate and How Does It Relate to Customer Retention? Poor Customer Fit. Prioritize Churn Prevention to Increase Retention and Revenue.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 26, 2021

2021 SaaS Awards Announced – APPEALIE Honors The Very Best In Software. APPEALIE has announced the winners of the 2021 SaaS Awards and ChurnZero is honored to be recognized for the fifth year in a row. 41 SaaS apps were recognized for their demonstrated excellence and customer outcomes. LiquidPlanner.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

Did you know that 60% of SaaS companies reported a negative impact on customer retention and upsell deals due to the pandemic? Customer retention, along with new customer acquisition, has been challenging for most companies when the pandemic hit. This is shocking. The second quarter of 2020 was chaotic.

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ChurnZero

JULY 29, 2022

But keeping the customers you have is better. With the rise of the SaaS model, retention has dethroned acquisition as the primary means to achieve long-term growth and high valuation. In fact, according to one source, increasing your customer retention by just 5% can increase your revenue by up to 95%.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Customer Enablement Essentials: What B2B and SaaS Brands Need to Know. Customer enablement empowers customers by giving them the resources they need to use your product successfully. Here we’ll walk you through the essentials you need to know to harness customer enablement to increase B2B and SaaS sales.

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ChurnZero

JULY 8, 2022

Oh, by the way, what’s your customer retention?” It was clear that, barring any wildly outlandish figures, customer retention wasn’t a dealbreaker in their decision to invest. Net revenue retention (NRR) is taking center stage as the qualifying metric for determining the health of a SaaS business.

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CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

CSM Practice conducted a weekly survey to observe potential improvements with how the crisis impacted SaaS companies and customer success management teams. We generated an overall analysis of the pandemic effects on Customer Success from around the globe. Sales and Retention Forecast. Sales and Customer Success.

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Totango

MAY 27, 2022

Product-led growth (PLG) has emerged as one of the best strategies for selling SaaS software. It lets your product do the talking, departing from a sales-led growth strategy that depends on a conventional sales pitch. Sales conversion: use of the freemium product motivates the customer to upgrade to a premium version.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

9 Customer Retention Strategies for SaaS. Higher retention rates can mean higher customer loyalty for your business, something that’s crucial for success, especially for SaaS. Metrics you could track include: Customer usage behaviors — when do your customers log on, and for how long?

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ChurnZero

JUNE 23, 2023

Not too long ago, SaaS companies were focused on growth at all costs. In turn, the swing has rightfully put an increased focus on customer retention. That conjures the question: how do you know if your customer retention rate is good or not? That sentiment has shifted as the economy has changed.

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Help Scout

APRIL 27, 2021

For B2B SaaS companies, user adoption is one of the most important elements to get right in order to grow sustainably. Appcues found that activation (when customers experience the core value of the product) is the most important pirate metric for SaaS growth. more than the same percentage increase in retention.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s about proactive customer success , not reactive customer service. ROI-focused SaaS strategies should be based on comprehensive data gathered from every customer engagement. That information is then turned into customer solutions that create an ongoing revenue source across the entire customer journey.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

To get a CEO’s perspective on the matter, ChurnZero’s You Mon Tsang joined ESG for a special CEO panel on “ The economy and Customer Success: The impact and what to do about it ,” with ‘nuffsaid’s Chris Hicken and Kapta’s Alex Raymond. Difficult conversations lead to deeper customer connections. Profitability wasn’t a focus or concern.

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CSM Practice

AUGUST 3, 2020

That said, many experts in this field are taking time to brainstorm to come up with a specific answer to the question, “is it sales or customer success’ responsibility?”. The land and expand process, like a sales process, should have defined stages, activities, and objectives. Duration of Sales Cycle. Type of Upsell.

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Totango

AUGUST 12, 2020

Your customer signed on in search of value, and the quicker you can deliver that value, the more likely you are to build lasting relationships with customers. 5 Tips to Maximize the Customer Onboarding Experience. Your sales and customer success teams play a role in designing, monitoring, and executing the onboarding phase.

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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. It helps articulate the health of a SaaS business. Learn from three SaaS CEOs.

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ProProfs Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The importance of SaaS Customer Service is visible in these two data-proven statistics: AmericanExpress reports that 70% of consumers will go with the company that offers excellent customer support. As you can see, delivering the perfect saas customer support experiences is directly correlated with your churn and retention.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

But customer satisfaction is another side to the CSM role that has become increasingly important over the last few years. SaaS organizations are focusing more on maintaining and cultivating long-term customer relationships than ever before, and CSMs are at the forefront of these efforts. Toolkit: Churn Management Toolkit.

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CSM Practice

JULY 29, 2020

Customer retention is the process of engaging with existing customers to continue buying your products or services. If customer retention is poor, there is a high probability that your business is in jeopardy. Customer Retention Strategies. Factors to Consider in Prioritizing the Customer Accounts.

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CSM Practice

JULY 6, 2020

To many, SaaS has always been tricky, and the current global economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated it. At the moment, SaaS companies appear to be under immense financial pressure, resulting in a dramatic increase in vendors seeking guidance on how to adapt, survive, and even thrive during this downturn.

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