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Use Sales Scorecards Because People are Fickle

Customer Think

For their example, the author used salespeople who were promoted to sales managers based on their sales performance, but not because they had any specific skills or capabilities to be effective sales managers. Their sales management performance was poor. This correlates very […]

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Harmonizing sales and CS to drive revenue growth and deliver value (Part 2)

Totango

Merging sales and customer success (CS) is a delicate art that is often challenging but necessary for driving business results and creating a frictionless customer journey. Teaming leaders from each of these functions to focus on a respective industry, these “pods” work together to build deep knowledge and vertical expertise.

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Implementing a balanced scorecard to measure agent and contact center performance

DMG Consulting

Question: We’re implementing a balanced scorecard to measure agent and contact center performance. practice to calculate the cost of each category of items (by channel or inquiry/sales. Customer satisfaction – how satisfied customers are with their service or sales. What categories should we evaluate? It is a best. experience.

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What to Expect When Shopping for Support Software

Help Scout

For example, sales may use the shared inbox or chat features to interact with potential leads, or product and marketing might use metric insights to better understand customers’ wants and needs. Even in this scenario, it’s probably good to have some sort of scorecard to objectively measure each tool and easily compare them side-by-side.

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What’s the best way to use contact handle time as a key performance indicator?

DMG Consulting

A balanced scorecard that measures productivity along with quality, effectiveness, customer satisfaction and reliability (for agent scorecards) provides the necessary insight. The most effective balanced scorecards also identify trends by comparing performance day-to-day, week-to-week, etc.,

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Proactive Stakeholder Engagement – Key Strategies During Covid-19 From Lucid and Totango

Totango

Continually measure success with a scorecard that surfaces customer health, the success of customer engagement, and internal engagement. Consider implementing a “group hug” for the customer.

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How to rapidly improve customer service by finding your Betty

Inside Customer Service

That's how the request came to me: "Let's call a meeting to talk about what needs to be in the agent sales training program." That led to an unenthusiastic sales pitch. One agent pointed out that the credit card offer wasn't on their quality assurance scorecard, so they weren't held accountable for the results. Congratulations!