Uniphore

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Through Cisco’s SolutionsPlus Program, Cisco’s customers and channel partners can purchase Uniphore’s conversational automation products to enable more efficient, frictionless and secure conversations between customer service agents and customers. Follow our blog and connect with us on LinkedIn , Twitter , Facebook , and Instagram.

Sentiment Analysis 264

Sentiment Analysis Customer Experience ML Contact Center 264

Totango

APRIL 4, 2024

If you asked your customer success (CS) and sales leaders this question, what do you think each of them would say? Revenue retention hinges on the collaborative efforts of CS and sales teams as they collectively shepherd customers throughout the lifecycle journey, from acquisition to retention and expansion.

Sales 89

Sales Start-ups Gaming Customer Satisfaction 89

Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

On the other hand, the CCO focuses on what happens after the sale, overseeing onboarding, customer support, driving retention, and minimizing churn. Both your pre- and post-sale teams should know the answer to: “What is my customer’s business outcome?” “If

Customer Acquisition 91

Customer Acquisition Sales CRM Innovation 91

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We know that sales and customer success (CS) teams must work together to drive revenue growth and expansion. Check out three highlights from the conversation, and listen to the full podcast to gain more insights and tips on how your teams can create a mutually beneficial relationship between CS and sales.

Sales 71

Sales 71

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 13, 2018

Great SaaS sales reps can change your entire business. So what is it about these SaaS sales reps that differentiates them from the rest? So what is it about these SaaS sales reps that differentiates them from the rest? What do they know about the industry that mediocre sales reps don’t? of sales emails are opened.

Sales 224

Sales CRM Social Media Customer Acquisition 224

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2022

Lead generation uses marketing to generate interest for a company’s products and services, turning a lead into a prospect and nurturing them down the marketing funnel. Captured leads are usually funneled from lead generation software tools into sales and marketing databases. Is lead generation marketing or sales?

B2C 118

B2C Social Media B2B Sales 118

Comm100

MARCH 6, 2024

The advent of live chat has revolutionized the customer experience, the agent experience, and overall productivity. This blog will take you through the key live chat advantages and disadvantages that you need to know if you’re considering adopting this solution. This data can reveal common customer issues, preferences, and trends.

AI 90

AI Customer Service Sales Customer Satisfaction 90

Customer Think

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Managers spend time helping them become productive. Ironically, we provide very little in the way of onboarding new managers, particularly new front line sales managers. The post Onboarding New Managers first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. The Sales Manager's Job Is Different.

Sales 75

Sales 75

The Customer Service Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

John Lewis is a company I have mentioned numerous times in my blog over the last few years. In fact one of the very first articles in this blog - way back in 2016 - was about them (you can read the article by clicking here ). After all, this entire blog is about customer service! Darren Bugg Editor, The Customer Service Blog.

Retail 57

Retail Finance Sales Customer Service 57

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Over the past few years Intercom’s customer base has grown considerably beyond the startup and product-focused readership we initially focused on with Inside Intercom. We still love that audience, but we now offer products for sales , marketing and support teams and have been going deep on those topics as well.

Engineering 162

Engineering Social Media Customer Acquisition Start-ups 162

Totango

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Enterprise businesses can now use their critical product usage data from Pendo and Mixpanel in their Totango experience to design optimal customer journeys, improving product adoption and customer retention. It offers powerful real-time charts and visualizations of how users interact with digital products. What is Pendo?

Finance 91

Finance Customer Retention Sales Technology 91

Comm100

APRIL 22, 2024

The productivity of your customer service agents directly impacts your company’s success. Enhanced agent productivity not only accelerates response times but also elevates the overall quality of service. This can directly lead to improved customer satisfaction, increased sales, and more repeat business.

Omnichannel 52

Omnichannel Social Media Customer Satisfaction AI 52

Totango

AUGUST 3, 2021

A freemium strategy is one of the best ways to sell a SaaS product. Here we’ll help you steer clear of the most frequent pitfalls SaaS companies encounter when deploying a freemium sales model. Mistake #1: Not Unlocking Enough Features to Showcase Product Value. Limiting ad-free access to your product.

Sales 118

Sales Social Media Engineering Technology 118

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

For example, a website visit, an online sales purchase and a phone support call are all potential customer journey B2B touchpoints. In terms of the customer lifecycle, touchpoints may occur at any point during an interaction with your brand, including: Pre-sales, starting with a prospect’s first marketing touch. Blog content.

Touchpoint 115

Touchpoint B2B Customer Journey Map Social Media 115

Fonolo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

When you develop your contact center, you create opportunities for more sales, customer satisfaction, and workplace efficiency. . Enhancing customer satisfaction and sales . Are your sales dropping? Still, your call center software can do a lot more for sales than you think. . Providing data-driven insights .

Contact Center 142

Contact Center Net Promoter Score Customer Satisfaction Sales 142

Totango

MAY 17, 2023

When it comes to understanding customer needs, marketing, sales, and CS teams are the experts, so it’s on us to work together to define today’s most valuable growth opportunities. More than half raised hands for sales and the CRO, and when asked if they felt the relationship with product teams could be enhanced, even more hands shot up.

Sales 106

Sales Sports AI Touchpoint 106

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This shift presents a compelling opportunity for B2B enterprises to invest in tailor-made tools for their post-sales organizations and customer success (CS) teams. Refining post-sale strategies to better understand and meet the needs of customers. For example, unified data bridges the gap between sales and CS teams.

B2B 91

B2B ML CRM Customer Relationship Management 91

Zendesk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And if you wait to interact with them until the end of their decision-making process, you’re missing out on profitable sales opportunities. The buyer’s journey (sometimes called a purchase journey) describes the process a customer goes through to purchase a product or service. That’s where the buyer’s journey comes in.

Social Media 98

Social Media Sales Education CRM 98

Zendesk

MAY 26, 2022

81 percent of buyers research products online before contacting sales, so if your company doesn’t have a bit of advertising skin in the game, you’re not getting very far. They need sales collateral. According to Forrester, the average salesperson uses about 17 pieces of sales collateral throughout their pipeline.

Sales 97

Sales CRM B2B Start-ups 97

Totango

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

CS has the 360-vantage point to know where customers are engaging with products and where they’re struggling. And, CS has the technology and customer data to feed product, sales, and marketing with the integrated insights to drive innovation forward.

Outlook 113

Outlook Innovation Omnichannel Education 113

Fonolo

JULY 5, 2023

These are typically generational trends caused by new technology or information about a product. Salesforce reports that a staggering 84% of customers say the experience a company provides is at least as important as its products or services. The best employees don’t push random, irrelevant products.

Social Media 104

Social Media Sports Customer Satisfaction Net Promoter Score 104

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2022

For example, users who signed up for a particular product in the month of May 2021 could be classified as a cohort, since they share a specific action: they all signed up for the same product during the same time period. Maybe you want to know how many customers visited your blog or read your testimonials before making a purchase.

Customer Loyalty 118

Customer Loyalty Sales 118

Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Totango’s customer success software drives cross-functional enterprise teams toward enhanced productivity, retention, and growth. The best of customer success At Totango, we know just how important it is for customers to receive not only a high-quality product but one that has been thoroughly vetted by their peers.

Outlook 112

Outlook Customer Satisfaction Customer Feedback Gaming 112

Totango

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Recent years have seen an astonishing rise in the popularity of subscription-based products and services. The answers revealed that customer success teams are enterprise-wide collaborators—engaging with product management, sales, marketing, operations, and services and support departments. Developing a winning strategy.

Sales 110

Sales Customer Retention Innovation Customer Experience 110

Totango

MARCH 19, 2021

The traditional customer journey infographic envisioned the customer’s experience from a sales and marketing standpoint, visualizing a funnel marking the steps from a lead acquisition through a sale, also known as the buyer’s journey. Keep in mind that onboarding can also begin in the presales process.

Customer Retention 124

Customer Retention Sales Business Growth 124

Totango

APRIL 6, 2023

With budgets being cut, staff being laid off, and sales cycles getting longer, many businesses are feeling the pressure, especially in the tech sector. Opportunity Management leverages Totango SuccessPlay automation to identify potential expansion sales and allows CMSs to use a form to create opportunities from anywhere in the platform.

Innovation 85

Innovation Outlook CRM Sales 85

Zendesk

APRIL 18, 2022

It’s no different for sales and marketing teams when sourcing leads. While you’re not sharing your work with a professor these days, your sales reps need to know where and how leads had first contact with your company. Blog articles. For one thing, understanding how a lead has found you aids in successful sales prospecting.

Social Media 98

Social Media CRM B2B B2C 98

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

Engineering 225

Engineering Start-ups E-commerce Sales 225

Customer Think

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Every organization has goals—revenue, earnings, growth, market penetration, geographic penetration, product/offering growth, how they are perceived by customers, how they are perceived in their communities, expansion, competitive positioning, and on and on. first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference.

Sales 78

Sales 78

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. The best of the blog. Significant digits: 240 blog posts, 18 videos. Paul Adams, VP of Product.

Engineering 150

Engineering Start-ups Gaming Sales 150

Customer Think

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I read a lot of commentary from “experts” about PLG–Product Led Growth. Apparently, much of the “future of sales,” will be driven by PLG initiatives. I get why sales people revel in this. PLG is great for sales. first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference.

Sales 78

Sales Innovation 78

Zendesk

APRIL 16, 2021

Sales reps know nothing’s harder than patiently nurturing a lead, establishing a relationship with them, and carefully converting them into a customer—nothing, of course, except finding a good lead in the first place. Lead generation is often a huge challenge for sales and marketing professionals. But it doesn’t have to be.

Social Media 98

Social Media B2B Sales Start-ups 98

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

To do this, Dishman recommends keeping focus across all of your touchpoint teams (CS, marketing, product, sales, etc.) on the aspects of your product that are most helpful to your customers and then doubling down on those. However, a customer’s health score is constantly shifting.

Touchpoint 103

Touchpoint AI Gaming Innovation 103

SurveySensum

JANUARY 26, 2024

Intrigued, she navigated the website and product and finally placed the order. Decoding the Customer Journey Stages The Foundation: Awareness Stage Exploring Options: Consideration Stage Decision-Making: Decision Stage Beyond the Sale: Post-Purchase/Retention Stage Advocacy and Referrals: Advocacy Stage Wrapping Up!

Social Media 52

Social Media Touchpoint Start-ups Customer Feedback 52

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

At Intercom, we believe the best products are built with the market in mind. That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . product marketing team. Involve PMM in the entire product process (or: it’s not all about launches).

Start-ups 138

Start-ups Sales Gaming 138

CommBox

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In this blog, we’ll dive into this new era and explore how embracing Generative AI can benefit customer service and support teams, and why it’s a crucial tool for staying ahead in the competitive landscape. Generative AI for sales: a new sales assistant emerges Generative AI also has the potential to revolutionize sales.

AI 98

AI Customer Service Artificial Intelligence Omnichannel 98

Zendesk

JANUARY 28, 2022

A lead funnel is the process through which a potential customer becomes aware of your product, expresses interest, and then moves through your funnel to become a paying customer. Before we talk about how lead funnels work, let’s clarify the differences between lead generation funnels, sales lead funnels, and sales pipelines.

Social Media 98

Social Media CRM Sales Start-ups 98