ShepHyken

MAY 25, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. How to calculate your customer retention rate by Bryce Baer. How to calculate your customer retention rate.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 10 Examples Of Amazing Customer Service Departments For Customer Service Week by Blake Morgan. Top Five Bonus.

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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? Why is Customer Retention Critical for SaaS?

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Help Scout

MAY 12, 2021

That’s a foundational belief at Help Scout, as outlined in our support-driven growth articles. Even so, it can be difficult for empathetic customer service staff to think about customers in terms of business revenue. What is customer retention and how is it measured?

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Global Response

JULY 28, 2023

Many companies focus primarily on customer acquisition, sometimes at the cost of customer retention. After all, the more customers, the better, right? For example, recent data shows that 92% of customers will switch companies after just three—or fewer—bad experiences.

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Totango

MARCH 5, 2021

Customer retention is the lifeblood of any savvy enterprise. It’s the only way to be successful in this customer-centered economy and ensure scalable long-term revenue. To retain customers, companies must make the customer experience better and ensure customers never stop seeing value from their product or service.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 15, 2021

This week we feature an article from Thomas Fordham, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at TAP London. H e shares different strategies to help your business monitor and measure customer satisfaction. Customer experience is crucial for businesses looking to retain existing customers and attract new ones.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Customer acquisition and customer retention are two vital aspects of business growth, each playing a unique role in ensuring the long-term success of a company. Understanding Customer Acquisition and Customer Retention Customer acquisition involves attracting prospects to a business and converting them into paying customers.

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Totango

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Equipped with the knowledge provided by customer data, you can help your customer survive tough times by offering practical solutions that add value and ultimately contribute to customer retention during economic downturns — even ones caused by a pandemic. Customer Retention Is Your Future.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The contract renewal stage of the customer lifecycle is a critical component of driving retention for SaaS products. Knowing how to use technology to optimize your contract renewal process can increase your retention rates and your revenue. Automated procedures also may be set up to reach out to customers who fail to renew.

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Win the Customer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Customer satisfaction is not just a feel-good metric; it’s a tangible indicator of how well your products, services, and interactions resonate with your audience. In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of measuring customer satisfaction and delve into key metrics that provide valuable insights.

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Global Response

AUGUST 7, 2023

There’s no business out there who doesn’t want to improve their customer retention and CLV. The secret weapon to improving customer retention and CLV? First, customer retention rates are always measured based on a specific timeframe, typically monthly, quarterly or annually. Your call center.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 5, 2023

4 Gold CX Metrics for CX Leaders Lynn Hunsaker Concentrate on just 4 CX metrics and you’ll see greater progress in more than 20 growth metrics. Otherwise, gaps between these will cost you a lot (negative word of mouth (customer effort score, CSAT), churn, costs to serve, internal productivity, etc.).

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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. It is an outcome based on an emotional reaction and connection to the performance of a supplier and the value a customer experiences through using that enterprise’s product.

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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. That’s where customer retention comes in.

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ChurnZero

JULY 8, 2022

This article was originally published on Forbes.com. “Oh, 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. NRR offers the most clear-cut valuation of your customers’ success.

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Totango

MAY 1, 2020

Retaining existing customers is especially important during uncertain economic times, when fewer new customers may be signing on with your service. That’s why customer retention management software is a vital component of your retention strategy. What Are the Benefits of Customer Retention Management Software?

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SharpenCX

JUNE 8, 2021

If your team can’t retain customers and establish long-term relationships that last, your entire company suffers the losses. According to research out of Bain & Company , increasing your customer retention rate by just 5% can increase profits anywhere from 25 to 95%. Customer acquisition on the other hand is costly.

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GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

If you Google customer experience you’ll get about 2,340,000,000 results—articles, videos, reports—with in-depth information about the space. This article is inspired by our own frustrations with getting to know the CX space. Customer experience is how your customers perceive their interactions with your company.

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Customer success metrics are essential to the growth of every SaaS company. Table of Contents How is customer success different from customer service? Customer satisfaction score (CSAT) 2. Customer churn rate 4. Customer lifetime value (CLV) 5. Customer retention rate 6. Renewal rate 7.

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Totango

MAY 5, 2020

These businesses will be well-situated to speak to, lead, and ultimately retain customers through customer retention strategies in B2B like the following: Re-evaluate Current Digital Engagement Strategy Make Use of Key Engagement Metrics Personalize Communication Foster Lasting Relationships.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. Kristen Hayer, Founder and CEO of The Success League , has witnessed this communication friction from both sides through her past experience as a customer success leader and through her current work running a customer success consultancy. Board meetings.

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aircall

JUNE 30, 2021

Many look to the company for ways to improve customer retention. Email: Ring’s Secret to Improve Customer Retention. For one thing, it sends new customers emails to share tips on properly setting up the product. However, Ring is not the only company to reap the rewards of its stellar customer retention strategies.

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Lumoa

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

You can easily see that NPS is the most common CX metric: almost two thirds of companies follow it. The churn or retention rate are usually used to understand the connection between the customer experience management and its monetary value. Since 2003, when the metric was first introduced, NPS has been gaining popularity.

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Global Response

JANUARY 27, 2023

Far too many companies blindly track dozens of customer service metrics or KPIs without having a clear pathway to actioning them or understanding which metrics can truly move the needle for their customer satisfaction and bottom line. Your contact center should track both operational metrics and experiential metrics.

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Calltools

JUNE 14, 2023

Equally as important as your agent’s experience , the customer experience (CX) involves your customer’s perceptions of your brand and how they feel about interactions with your contact center. Tracking KPI metrics can help your contact center to gauge the success of customer experience.

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Totango

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Customer retention is the continuation of a valued service. In B2B terms, it is still possible to maintain your customer relationship and even improve customer retention during uncertainty, but you will need to focus on five key steps: Understand Your Customer. Listen to Your Voice of Customer Programs.

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Voiptime

JANUARY 2, 2023

We are not now discussing any social or other functions of a business, because it doesn’t relate to the topic of this article - the fact remains that the main goal for every sales organization is to do as many sales as possible. So, there are numerous questions to answer in this case - what are sales key metrics? But how to do it?

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JivoChat

JULY 20, 2021

People have a lot of options these days, so if you don’t have good customer retention strategies , your business won’t be as stable or profitable. It costs five times as much to win a new customer as it does to retain an existing one. In this post, we’ll reveal why you should start focusing on customer retention and when.

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Playvox

MAY 24, 2023

For just about any business or department, metrics are crucial to measuring performance. For the typical contact center, metrics are the key to identifying the reason behind a bad day and being able to create operational efficiency that helps avoid a repeat. The customer retention that follows these efforts makes them worth it.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. Understanding the key call center efficiency metrics to track , and more importantly, how to improve them, will set you up for success and help keep your customers happy.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Irit: Hi everyone.

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Answer Dash

DECEMBER 7, 2019

(This article is originally published on AdRoll - re-published by the consent of AdRoll) Once upon a time, customer loyalty depended on the product or service you’d provide. Nowadays, it’s different — the market is saturated with various brands offering similar services, and an essential distinguishing factor is customer experience.

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TLC Associates

JULY 24, 2019

Studies by Bain & Company show the effort to increase customer retention by 5% produces 25% additional profits through upsells, cross-sells, and customer referrals. It’s not a stretch to say your ability to retain customers reflects your ability to grow your bottom line. The Importance of Measuring Customer Retention.

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ShepHyken

MAY 4, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Clive Hanks from TextExpander , a communication and efficiency tool that helps individuals and companies become more productive. In today’s digital world, customer service productivity is more important than ever. This can increase customer retention and loyalty, which can benefit businesses.

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Amity

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This article was originally published on WnTD's blog. Tracking the proper metrics is essential in understanding how your business is performing. For now let’s concentrate on the following four main metrics. It is also worth engaging an independent unbiased third party to do a Voice of the Customer project and analysis.

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Netomi

AUGUST 31, 2022

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a special set of metrics that help determine whether business is going in the right or wrong direction. At first glance, it seems that customer service KPI scores take a backseat to traditional business KPIs, like profits, costs and regional sales. What is a customer service KPI dashboard?

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