Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

We polled our Customer Advisory Board (CAB) at the end of last year to gauge which way they saw the pendulum shifting for CS in 2024. Half of them predict that the excitement and potential for AI usage within CS teams and application in CS software will continue to build. Most expect to see CS emerging as a growth engine.

AI 96

AI Engineering Business Growth Customer Acquisition 96

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We know that sales and customer success (CS) teams must work together to drive revenue growth and expansion. How teams accomplish this challenging dance, however, is an ongoing question. Having a process and that information flow through the various teams and the overall implementation of a customer is critical,” Dishman said.

Sales 71

Sales 71

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Customer success is driving value to customers. Digital customer success is driving value more efficiently using a software or service that allows companies to grow and deliver value without using excessive resources” – Chris Dishman, SVP Customer Success, Totango.

Touchpoint 107

Touchpoint AI Gaming Innovation 107

Fonolo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

When you develop your contact center, you create opportunities for more sales, customer satisfaction, and workplace efficiency. . Managers need professional development goals to expand their effectiveness at work. That style is ideal for experienced agents, but what if you inherit a new team of recruits?

Contact Center 142

Contact Center Net Promoter Score Customer Satisfaction Sales 142

Inside Customer Service

JANUARY 27, 2022

Many contact centers record customer phone calls and this disclaimer is often required for legal reasons. They also capture emails, chat sessions, social media responses, and other customer communication. Her monotone voice sounded bored, perhaps even a little put-off by her customer's reasonable request.

Contact Center 148

Contact Center Legal Construction Start-ups 148

Execs In The Know

APRIL 7, 2024

By Lilith Shoemaker, Staff Writer As an agent, I understand the customer-facing side of the service experience better than most. WFM gives us agents the ability to bring needs together to improve the customer experience, get the resources we need to do our job well, and achieve the best work-life balance possible.

Scorecard 52

Scorecard Start-ups Education Customer Experience 52

Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Apple and IBM Peanut butter and jelly Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg Marketing and Customer Success They are all unexpected — yet incredibly successful — partnerships. On the other hand, the CCO focuses on what happens after the sale, overseeing onboarding, customer support, driving retention, and minimizing churn.

Customer Acquisition 94

Customer Acquisition Sales CRM Innovation 94

Totango

JULY 29, 2022

Did you know that 70% of revenue in a subscription-based business comes from existing customer renewals and upsells? In order to ensure renewals and maximize upsell opportunities, it’s important to consistently provide value throughout the entire customer journey. Customer Expansion at its Core . Driving Expansion .

Scorecard 114

Scorecard Start-ups Customer Experience 114

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With acquisition costs proving too high in today’s constrained environment, many businesses are finally putting greater focus on nurturing existing customer relationships to ensure retention and expansion. Offer self-service functionalities through community and knowledge centers. Analyzing extensive datasets to forecast trends.

B2B 94

B2B ML CRM Customer Relationship Management 94

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Have you ever wondered about the difference between customer success and customer support? While both are important for ensuring customer satisfaction and retention, they have different objectives and approaches. Unlike customer support, which is reactive, customer success is proactive.

Customer Satisfaction 70

Customer Satisfaction Education Customer Retention Customer Relationship 70

Totango

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Customer Success Playbook Strategies: Mapping a Path to Winning Outcomes. A customer success playbook maps out a game plan you can use to automate successful outcomes for your clients. We’ll walk you through a five-step strategy to promote customer success using playbooks. What Is a Customer Success Playbook?

Customer Retention 89

Customer Retention Construction Touchpoint Gaming 89

Helpt

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We’re going to start this blog post with a heavy dose of nerdy: place yourself back to when you played your last Japanese roleplaying game or Dungeons and Dragons. Just like in D&D, success in the world of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) goes beyond technical expertise.

Gaming 98

Gaming Innovation Start-ups Customer Satisfaction 98

Totango

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Recent years have seen an astonishing rise in the popularity of subscription-based products and services. The world of ownership is being replaced by Spotify, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and a host of other on-demand services. Naturally, short-notice or no-penalty cancellations also greatly increase the risk of customer churn.

Sales 113

Sales Customer Retention Innovation Customer Experience 113

Totango

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

we’re accelerating the motion to customer success-led growth by introducing two new partnerships and nine technology integrations into the Totango software and ecosystem. And, that growth comes from consistently and quickly delivering customer value. Announced during our flagship event, Totango Live!

Outlook 116

Outlook Innovation Omnichannel Education 116

Customer Service Life

OCTOBER 28, 2023

One such thing was requiring my team to end every call by asking customers, “Is there anything else I can help you with.” I rode that high horse for a long time — even marking team members down on their quality evaluations for failing to end calls with that simple question. Can we please end this call now?”

Contact Center 104

Contact Center Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Customer Experience 104

Fonolo

MARCH 28, 2023

Customer experience managers in the contact center have never mattered more. Because even though most businesses work hard to offer excellent service , today’s savvy customers notice so much more. Managers must ensure their agents have the skills and knowledge to provide excellent customer service.

Customer Experience Management 81

Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Contact Center Net Promoter Score 81

TeamSupport

JULY 20, 2020

1 That’s according to a recent report by ServiceXRG, a research firm that helps companies retain customers, expand revenue, and achieve cost efficiencies through service excellence. Every customer service organization wants to achieve excellence for its customers, but what does that mean exactly?

Net Promoter Score 98

Net Promoter Score B2B NPS Customer Satisfaction 98

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 28, 2021

A Voice of the Customer (VoC) program driven by thoughtful and thorough strategic planning will not only help you achieve your customer experience objectives -- it has the power to positively transform your business time and time again. Discover our award-winning Customer Experience (CX) blog: [link]. PeopleMetrics LIVE!

CX 77

CX Customer Experience CEM VOC 77

Execs In The Know

APRIL 5, 2024

Customers anticipate this level of continuity in their interactions with brands, reflecting a shift towards channel-agnostic, lifelong conversations. How Brands Are Prioritizing Channels Balancing customer preferences with operational constraints is an ongoing challenge in customer experience. The panel fell on Pi Day.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center AI Social Media CX 52

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2021

And when you work on multiple concurrent projects and across lots of teams, the risk of burnout isn’t just high, it can feel inevitable. Many individual contributors (such as researchers, visual designers, content strategists, data scientists) who work horizontally across teams can be viewed as an infinite resource.

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245

Totango

APRIL 25, 2022

Selecting the right customer success platform for your organization can be challenging. To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. Out-of-the-Box Functionality . Out-of-the-Box Functionality .

Start-ups 88

Start-ups Sales Customer Experience 88

Totango

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Customer success plans provide you with a powerful tool to help clients achieve their goals. Follow our simple three-step strategy for developing winning customer success plans: Agree on mutual goals with your customer. What Is a Customer Success Plan? How Do You Use a Customer Success Plan?

Customer Satisfaction 127

Customer Satisfaction Customer Service 127

Totango

APRIL 13, 2022

Selecting the right customer success platform for your organization can be challenging. To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. In this article, we’ll look at the mistake of not approaching customer success with a modern mindset. .

AI 95

AI Start-ups Technology Technology 95

Totango

MAY 13, 2022

Choosing the best customer engagement platform for your needs can make a massive difference in the success of your SaaS business. Knowing how your customers feel and what they’re thinking is essential for their satisfaction and your revenue growth. The best way to gain this information is through customer engagement.

Artificial Intelligence 106

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Sales Customer Service Sales 106

Totango

JULY 22, 2022

When facing a struggling economy, it’s more important than ever to keep your customers engaged and reminded of why your products and services are critical to their success. We are constantly adding innovative new apps to our Customer Journey Marketplace , including our newest Engage Customers SuccessBLOC.

Scorecard 103

Scorecard NPS Customer Retention Start-ups 103

Hodusoft

MARCH 13, 2024

Optimizing Customer Support in the Financial Sector: How BPO Contact Centers Can Add Value In the present age, financial institutions are grappling with a wide range of challenges. In today’s dynamic financial landscape, providing exceptional customer support is crucial for the success and reputation of financial institutions.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Compliance Social Media AI 52

Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

Customer success email templates form a foundation for effective CS automation. While customer success management can result in a rewarding payoff, it can also be very time-consuming if you don’t use the right strategies. Customer check-ins. Sales to Customer Success Handoff Email Template. Escalations.

Start-ups 112

Start-ups Sales Customer Satisfaction Customer Feedback 112

ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For customer success teams, playbooks are invaluable tools to help them save time and be more efficient in their customer interactions. Playbooks consist of a series of actions, next steps, and tactical items that can be used to help customers achieve their goals or objectives in a scalable manner.

Education 72

Education Customer Relationship Sales Customer Service 72

Totango

AUGUST 5, 2022

Asking the right questions is key to effectively using this powerful customer success tool. It gathers business intelligence that can be used to assess a client’s needs, establish what goals they hope to achieve, and develop an action plan to meet their desired outcomes. Set client goals. An analysis of the client’s workflow.

B2B 86

B2B Customer Journey Map Sales Start-ups 86

Intercom

JANUARY 11, 2024

A profound transformation is underway in customer service. Beyond the buzz of AI and having to manage teams through organizational restructuring and the evolving notion of support, CX leaders are also facing increasing customer expectations, dealing with the complexities of layoffs, and the ubiquitous task of doing more with less.

Customer Service 86

Customer Service CX AI Start-ups 86

Totango

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Customer Success team accountability isn’t something you just worry about figuring out later once your CS team is up and running. As a manager, when your organizational best practices and your customer’s goals align with your employee’s actions and responsibilities, you have the perfect conditions for growth. .

Touchpoint 95

Touchpoint Start-ups Customer Experience 95

Totango

AUGUST 9, 2022

B2B customer segmentation gives you the power to customize your service and even personalize it for individual clients. This yields superior customer satisfaction, translating into higher revenue for your business. This article will give you six best practices for optimizing your B2B customer segmentation.

B2B 102

B2B Customer Journey Map Social Media Net Promoter Score 102

Totango

MAY 10, 2022

A customer engagement strategy is critical for retaining and growing SaaS clients. In this blog, we’ll look at the essentials of a customer engagement strategy, particularly how to use it to engage enterprise clients. What Is a Customer Engagement Strategy? What Are the Benefits of Customer Engagement Strategies?

Customer Journey Map 78

Customer Journey Map Net Promoter Score B2B Social Media 78

Totango

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The digital business landscape has made it so competitors can easily reach out to prospective customers with offers of enticing deals and promises of attentive service. As a result, if a user isn’t fully satisfied with their service , switching providers can be done in a day’s time. What is Customer 360? . Goals and KPIs.

Net Promoter Score 109

Net Promoter Score NPS CRM Scorecard 109

Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. It’s worth noting that companies with any of these primary cultures can still deliver good customer service experiences. Strategies for company executives.

Customer Service 139

Customer Service Sales Start-ups Voice of the Customer 139

Totango

MARCH 4, 2022

B2B customer service is often confused with B2B customer success, but they are not the same. Despite their differences, however, they do share an intimate relationship – you need strong customer service to achieve customer success. What is B2B Customer Service? Server interruptions.

B2B 94

B2B Customer Service B2C Net Promoter Score 94

SurveySensum

JANUARY 30, 2024

A few months ago, I interviewed candidates for the Customer Experience Head position in our team. The role is crucial – CX professionals shape how customers perceive a company. Understanding the Company’s CX Vision “What does ‘customer experience’ mean to you, and how is it measured?

CX 52

CX Customer Experience Customer Feedback Customer Satisfaction 52