ProProfs Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

Do you have a customer retention strategy? Companies focus on customer acquisition strategies, since increasing your customer count is the lifeblood of your business. But, customer acquisition won’t help, if you are unable to retain customers. Understand Customer Retention.

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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

Much of the marketing world is still focused on customer acquisition, but to improve customer retention will yield f ar better ROI and cost about 5-25X less than customer acquisition. What is Customer Retention? Why Customer Retention Matters. My Customer Retention ?

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Call Center Weekly

APRIL 25, 2018

What do you think is overlooked by contact center leadership, that hinders their customer retention efforts? Customer retention is a relationship rather than an event! Too much emphasis is placed on "saving" customers. That is like waiting until the end of a romantic relationship to tell someone you love them.

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ClientSuccess

JANUARY 25, 2021

For most customer success departments, the internal department you work closest with and most often is definitely sales. Conferences and Webinars. Vendors have been asking customers to speak for them at conferences or on webinars for decades, so this one isn’t new. Webinar: Top 6 Trends in Customer Success.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Studies by Strativity, and other consulting organizations, among corporate executives have identified the financial benefits of increasing customer experience management-related resources. Today, businesses are able to measure their activities, impact of customer experiences, and customer relationship with unprecedented precision.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2020

Top 10 Must Attend Conferences in 2020 for Customer Success Professionals. I’m not talking about a vacation (although those days off are also oh so very important) but I’m talking about, stepping out of the office for a day or two to attend a conference. ChurnZero is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the event.

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Sharad is the Managing Director (Strategy and Analytics) and global leader in the Applied Intelligence practice at Accenture, with deep expertise in AI-powered customer engagement, and the enterprise-wide adoption of AI across industries, including insurance, communications, travel, and health care. Follow on LinkedIn.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Wondering how your approach to customer experience leads to tangible outcomes like increased sales, customer retention, and referrals? My Comment: This article is from Social Media Examiner, which puts on the Social Media Marketing World conference in San Diego, CA (Feb 18-20, 2024).

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

If you enjoyed this post, you might be interested in the following blogs: Case Study: Increase Your Sales by 47% By Doing This…. Colin Shaw is the founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy , one of the world’s leading Customer experience consultancy & training organizations. Please CLICK HERE to join us for the Webinar.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The C hief Customer Officer Fall, 2018 (CCO), held September 12th-13th in San Diego, is an interactive peer-lead conference attracting senior-level customer focused professionals. One of the hottest topics at this year’s CCO is what a Customer Success program really means and how to get started.

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Nicereply

MAY 14, 2019

Strong communities form an important part of customer retention strategy, because they keep customers coming back for more. Let’s contrast a community strategy against traditional sales tactics. A big reason why customers can feel hostile to sales tactics is because they don’t think they are getting enough in return.

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Call Center Weekly

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

a Canadian training company that helps contact centers improve their sales and customer retention results. A call center expert, Mike serves on the Advisory Council of the Greater Toronto Area Contact Center association, and was Master of Ceremonies for their 2012-2014 and 2016 Annual Conferences.

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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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Uniphore

JANUARY 4, 2022

How are you planning to leverage conversations to drive revenue and customer retention? At Uniphore Converse 2022, enterprise executives from CX to Sales will learn the latest innovations in automation, conversational AI and emotion intelligence. The future of business is understanding how to unlock the value of conversations.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 12, 2016

Here’s a summary which encapsulates the difference between satisfaction and loyalty as metrics, expressed by Susan Wyse of Snap Surveys in a June, 2012 post: “Customer Satisfaction is a measurement of customer attitudes regarding products, services, and brands. Customer Loyalty on the other hand has two definitions.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 4, 2015

More than just a buzzword, ‘being human’, especially in brand-building and leveraging customer relationships, has become a buzz-phrase or buzz-concept. To understand customers, the effective enterprise needs to think in human, emotional terms. But, there is little that is really new or trailblazing in this idea.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For instance, owning customer retention signifies direct responsibility for renewal rates. Provide strategic guidance and recommendations to optimize customer outcomes. Secondary Responsibilities: Collaborate closely with sales, marketing, product, engineering, and other teams to ensure a seamless customer journey.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 15, 2024

As a post-sales leader, my role hinges on increasing revenues from existing customers. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is to leverage AI for customer retention by using it to understand customer trends and mitigate churn risks. Now, back to crafting those perfect customer experiences—happy retaining!

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Education Services Group

OCTOBER 15, 2020

We were thrilled to sponsor the first annual BIG RYG Customer Success Conference, and have our own Vice President of Customer Success & Operations, Megan Macaluso , included in the list of impressive speakers! (If Due to CSMs’ responsibility for retaining the customer, their role is hyper critical to any business.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 1, 2015

Are, beyond customers who would be loyal anyway, are they driving more purchase activity and narrowed consideration sets? These programs produce positive sales increases for hotels, for example, but negative sales impact on car rental, airlines and food retail.

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Callminer

JULY 15, 2019

This virtual conference will cover a ranging of topics, expert speakers, partners and customers about better customer and agent experiences through speech analytics. How to Use SA to Close more Sales featuring JLodge. This year CallMiner is presenting our first annual WebinarStock, July 23rd through 25th.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 3, 2016

In turn, relationship quality links and contributes to the perception of satisfaction and trust, creating business outcomes of customer retention and advocacy. This compares to 39% for sales representatives, 38% for meetings, events, and conferences, 37% for Internet, and 37% for trade shows and exhibits.

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Totango

MAY 17, 2024

A recent poll taken during the Higher Logic Super Forum SPARK conference in April says 61% of CS professionals sometimes use AI platforms alongside other systems, while 11% always leverage AI in various instances and workflows. solution can be as easy as consolidating your sales and customer success information.

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Joe Rawlinson

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Lead generation : Marketers who customize content can expect to generate more leads than their less agile counterparts. Higher conversion rate: The same goes for sales results – personalized offers drive more conversions. He regularly takes part in different career growth conferences and contributes his posts to different websites.

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CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

We encourage you to explore the consolidated results of the survey to improve your understanding of business trends, to implement new customer retention strategies. The key findings arising from our survey results are as follows: Customer Engagement. Sales and Retention Forecast. Sales and Customer Success.

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Education Services Group

JULY 5, 2022

I was lucky enough to attend The Customer Conference Europe 2022 in London, and after taking in what was a very full two days of information, thoughts, opinions, and interaction, I’ve untangled all that I experienced and observed to come away with five key points that really resonated: 1. Customer Success is not one-size-fits-all.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 16, 2020

SaaStock has been helping SaaS businesses gain traction, grow and scale for the last five years with their in-person conferences. Don’t Forget About the Human Touch in Your Customer Communications. Great talk by @triciagellman on re-thinking the sales funnel! Customer Success Around the Web. Key takeaways: 1.

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360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

We were constantly walking into meetings in conference rooms with LONG agendas that could get pretty boring and stuffy. Instead of focusing solely on the revenue generated by increasing customer retention, improving customer engagement and creating more customer loyalty… What happens when we do not engage customers?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Check out this post to see if you’re inadvertently sending subliminal negativity to your customers. Customer Success Operations 101: Drive Productivity with Purpose, People, and Process. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity sales, marketing, or product team without a designated operations function.

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ijgolding

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Businesses that THINK there is no need to change are usually ones who are focussed on one primary measure of success – SALES. If we consider the way the legal profession has worked traditionally, it is one that is as SALES focussed as any other. Every minute of every day is an opportunity to generate sales….or

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That means the customer needs to renew their contract more than once. Without a high customer retention rate, a SaaS company will shut down, no matter how great the other metrics are. You may believe that if the customer does not have any problem, the customer will renew the contract.

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Amity

JUNE 11, 2018

Experience shows that we often overestimate the time customers can afford to spend on a platform and underestimate the complexity of deployment and operations in the customer’s environment. First, start by examining how sales has prioritized and segmented customers. You might be able align with their strategy.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Last week we had the much anticipated opportunity to sponsor, attend, and speak at the in-person 2021 SaaStr Annual conference. Customer Success begins in Sales and needs to be part of your funnel. You should have a customer success funnel just like you have a sales funnel” @nrmehta dropping CS at @SaaStrAnnual.

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Totango

JULY 6, 2021

These components, which correlate closely with customer engagement and satisfaction , can be quantified by assigning key performance indicators to them. This makes customer loyalty a metric as well as a concept. Why Is Measuring Customer Loyalty Important? How Do You Measure Customer Loyalty? Current Customer Referrals.

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JustCall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Do you know that many sales reps don’t like to follow imposed instructions, and 2/3rds of all salespeople don’t follow a s ales process ? Salespeople must be creative, often adapting their selling techniques to a potential customer’s needs and sometimes whims. What is a Sales Process ? Sales is a numbers game.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Adi also led WalkMe’s EMEA customer success team. Amir Siddiqi, Chief Customer Officer, CentralSquare Technologies. Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. Follow Adi on LinkedIn.

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JivoChat

APRIL 8, 2021

There are many benefits of customer engagement tools, as they can help your company do the following: Boost Sales and Revenue. Do you know that 86% of customers will pay more to get a great customer experience? So, striving to deliver excellent customer service is a surefire way to increase your sales.

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