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How to Implement a Successful Cross-Selling/Upselling Program in Your Contact Center

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If your contact center isn’t currently focusing on cross-selling and upselling, you’re missing a great opportunity to strengthen customer relationships and increase revenue. Our original contact center research revealed that 28 percent of contact centers generate 11 to 20 percent of their revenue from cross-selling and upselling.

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3 Important Differences Between a Customer Success Manager (CSM) and an Account Executive (AE)

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This is especially true for Account Executives and Customer Success Managers – two roles that work extremely close with customers (and each other) and tend to be rolled into one when thinking about customer account management . eBook: Customer Success as a Culture: Sales Leaders Edition.

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Tips for Configuring Compensation Plans for Customer Success Managers (CSMs)

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When making a switch from one compensation plan to another for your Customer Success Managers (CSMs), it’s important to make the transition as smooth and considerate as possible. The introduction of a Base + Bonus plan is an excellent way to incentivize Customer Success Managers and encourage better performance. Base + Bonus.

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Compensation Plans for Customer Success Managers

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In this post, I’ll address the most frequent question I’m asked by customer success leaders—what is the best compensation plan for Customer Success Managers (CSMs)? Compensation Plans for Customer Success Managers (CSMs). There’s wide debate in the customer success discipline regarding the best structure for a CSM compensation plan.

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Be Sure Your CSM Team Has These 5 Playbooks

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Upselling & Cross-Selling Playbook: CSMs are responsible for ensuring that customer relationships remain strong and can be leveraged for additional sales opportunities. An upselling & cross-selling playbook can help CSMs identify the right timing, products, and messaging that can help them successfully close additional deals.

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Differentiating Customer Success and Support

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Customer success managers work with customers to identify and help them achieve their goals. The success of customer success is typically measured by metrics such as customer retention rate, upsell/cross-sell revenue, and customer satisfaction scores. Unlike customer support, which is reactive, customer success is proactive.

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Exploring the Differences Between a Customer Success Manager and Account Manager

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We often hear the roles of Customer Success Manager (CSM) and Account Manager (AM) used interchangeably. The ultimate difference between a Customer Services Manager and an Account Manager is both in their area of concentration and how each target their customers. . Let’s talk about Account Managers first.