CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The answer varies for different companies, but the customer success team performance metrics below are an excellent place to start. As a customer success team leader , these metrics provide a solution to demonstrate the value of your customer success team to top executives and other teams. Customer Health Metrics.

Metrics 59

Metrics Customer advocacy Customer centricity Customer effort 59

CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Unhappy Customers Learn how promoters differ from detractors 86% of consumers will pay more for a better customer experience. Oracle, 2011) Businesses have a 60 to 70% chance of selling to an existing customer while the probability of selling to a new prospect is only 5% to 20%. over the last two years, 2.4 IDC, 2022).

Customer Experience 195

Customer Experience Journey mapping Metrics Surveys 195

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

more friendly behavior in customer service) Marketing to take the info into account in better targeting (e.g. upselling to the most loyal customers) Process changes (e.g. Customer churn is the opposite of retention. Wondering which metric to choose? So why should you care?

Customer Experience 167

Customer Experience B2C Journey mapping B2B 167

JivoChat

AUGUST 24, 2021

Many people don’t understand the importance of customer service metrics. Consider that 78% of customers will do business with you again after a mistake if you have excellent customer service. The main challenge is knowing which metrics to track. Ticket Volume. Unresolved Tickets.

Metrics 59

Metrics Customer Service Upselling Average Handle Time 59

Totango

MAY 5, 2021

By measuring product experience, as a facet of customer experience, you can view how your clients interact with your product on a daily basis and the level of satisfaction they get with your service. Once these metrics are recorded, you can use this information to proactively engage customers and meet their needs in a more personalized way.

Customer Experience 118

Customer Experience Education Customer centricity Metrics 118

GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

At this level, you’re also working on developing a customer experience strategy. Stage 4 —O perationalize: You begin to re-design your company’s operational processes based on customer insight and other customer experience metrics. Stage 5 — Align: Being customer-centric is the norm in your company at this stage.

Customer Experience 134

Customer Experience Journey mapping Metrics Customer centricity 134

Totango

MARCH 6, 2020

Product metrics. You should also value information from different types of customers. In short, having access to your customer’s comprehensive history with your organization allows each team member to speak with authority and relevance for every engagement. Customer suggestions are just that – suggestions.

Best practices 93

Best practices Upselling Feedback Enterprise 93

Interaction Metrics

APRIL 17, 2025

At Interaction Metrics, we help organizations of all sizes improve how they collect and use feedback. Meanwhile, the customer experience software space is vast and there are competitors that offer simpler reporting tools, comparable (or better) design, and stronger value. Metrics Cards display real-time scores.

Surveys 48

Surveys Enterprise B2B Analytics 48

Nicereply

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

That’s why in this article, we are going to focus on showing you how to retain your customers with the help of a few effective tools and solutions. What is Customer Retention? Customer retention is a company’s ability to keep its customers over a period of time. Segment.

Customer retention 98

Customer retention SaaS Upselling Analytics 98

Pointillist

JULY 25, 2018

The questions below will help you define the scope of your customer journey analytics project: Will the project be confined to a single team, such as customer experience or marketing, or will other business functions use the platform? Is your organization already aware of specific pain points and friction in your customers’ journeys?

Analytics 93

Analytics Government Metrics Upselling 93

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2020

By measuring customer experience, you can view how your clients interact with your product on a daily basis and the level of satisfaction they get with your service. Once these metrics are recorded, you can use this information to proactively engage customers and meet their needs in a more personalized way.

Customer Experience 90

Customer Experience Education Customer centricity Metrics 90

Lumoa

JULY 10, 2018

If you improve the availability of customer support agents, you certainly know how much it is going to cost. But will it improve the customer experience in a way that also has a positive impact on our business? There are lot of research and studies about the relationship between financial metrics and customer experience metrics.

Customer Experience 113

Customer Experience Metrics Banking Feedback 113

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

As customer success has grown into a critical corporate function for SaaS organizations, CSMs have turned to data and metrics to make strategic decisions for their customers. This is where the Customer Health Score comes into play. Billing and Contract Terms: Is the customer up to date on all their bills and payments?

Upselling 68

Upselling Metrics SaaS Customer effort 68

Kayako

JUNE 15, 2017

Reducing customer effort is a high priority for support teams. As customers we all know the frustration of getting lost in endless email chains, chats, or phone support to resolve a simple issue, or so we thought. If you want to irritate your customers give them a high effort experience.

Metrics 93

Metrics Upselling Sales Personalization 93

CustomerSuccessBox

AUGUST 27, 2021

Having a clear picture of a customer journey roadmap will help you define your execution process for your SaaS startup. In any given scenario, a customer goes through the following steps in a customer journey-. Onboarding Adoption Escalation Renewal Upsells Referrals. Expansion- Upsell and Renewal.

Upselling 52

Upselling SaaS B2B Metrics 52

Help Scout

MAY 27, 2021

Not only that, but through that education, they can expand customer usage without forcing customers. By educating customers on critical features relevant to their needs, your team empowers them to move forward in their journey while also boosting product usage metrics. Key components of account management. Knowledge type.

Accountability 66

Accountability Management Upselling Education 66

Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

One of those considerations is metrics. As Forrester notes in their 2016 report, How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management , “Every customer interaction leaves a trail of customer data waiting to be analyzed.” But how should human versus chatbot metrics be treated? This depends on the metric.

Metrics 45

Metrics Chatbots Average Handle Time Wait times 45

Mindtouch

MAY 2, 2018

As the age of the customer continues to influence the shape and strategy of customer interactions, customer experience (CX) data such as Net Promoter Score (NPS ® ), Customer Effort Score (CES), and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) inform strategic discussions across industries and verticals.

Customer Experience 59

Customer Experience Customer advocacy Customer effort Upselling 59

Babelforce

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The Customer Lifetime Value of a client is the amount of profit they generate for your businesses in their entire time as a client. CLV combines information on acquisition costs, retention rates and customer spend. Unlike metrics like CSat or NPS , CLV relates directly to profitability (so it tends to be important to more people!).

Upselling 52

Upselling Customer retention Customer effort Metrics 52

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Here are some things to look for with this metric: How many chats are agents accepting as opposed to rejecting or passing off to other agents? We’ll look more at the average handle time metric later. You can analyze this metric by viewing your chat volume report. You can check out this metric in the agent workload report.

Average Handle Time 98

Average Handle Time Benchmark Wait times Metrics 98

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 24, 2022

Monthly Recurring Revenue is a SaaS metric that you should be tracking in order to see where your SaaS business stands. This blog focuses on the excellent customer success techniques that will help you improve your recurring revenue. And it is much easier to retain existing customers than to find new customers.

Upselling 52

Upselling SaaS Customer advocacy Metrics 52

TechSee

MAY 29, 2018

Maximizing relationships with existing customers by improving communication and service processes is a clear priority in our customer-centric era. Implementing visual support in a call center directly affects the key elements that impact a business’ NPS: Reduced customer effort. Higher agent engagement.

Contact Center 95

Contact Center Call Center Best practices Customer centricity 95

Help Scout

JULY 20, 2021

Rather than focusing on the customers and their needs, these companies choose to do what will maximize their bottom line. This could look like a customer success team choosing to focus on churn and expansion metrics rather than product adoption scores and the stories they tell.

Sales 145

Sales Feedback Metrics Surveys 145

ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many in customer success, customer satisfaction, health, and happiness are more abstract concepts than actual numbers. Go beyond just conceptualizing this information by tracking detailed metrics and data points to build a holistic picture of customer satisfaction and health. Are NPS scores taking a dip?

Customer retention 70

Customer retention Upselling SaaS Accountability 70

Talkdesk

AUGUST 7, 2017

The origins of customer satisfaction (or CSAT), as a metric, date back to the 1970s — an era in which the business world was much more obsessed with supply chains and pricing than customers or service. These companies are able to identify customers at risk of churn and proactively engage in retention efforts.

Metrics 40

Metrics Customer Service Advertising Upselling 40

aircall

DECEMBER 9, 2016

This presents you with opportunities for upselling and capitalizing on their loyalty towards a mutually beneficial relationship. But by upselling your existing customers and enticing them to make further purchases as they grow, it can ultimately yield a much higher ROI for your own business. The lower your score, the better.

Customer centricity 81

Customer centricity Customer retention Upselling Customer effort 81

Talkdesk

AUGUST 7, 2017

The origins of customer satisfaction (or CSAT), as a metric, date back to the 1970s — an era in which the business world was much more obsessed with supply chains and pricing than customers or service. These companies are able to identify customers at risk of churn and proactively engage in retention efforts.

Metrics 40

Metrics Customer Service Advertising Upselling 40

Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

One of those considerations is metrics. As Forrester notes in their 2016 report, How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management , “Every customer interaction leaves a trail of customer data waiting to be analyzed.” But how should human versus chatbot metrics be treated? This depends on the metric.

Metrics 40

Metrics Chatbots Average Handle Time Wait times 40

Lumoa

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If you improve the availability of customer support agents, you certainly know how much it is going to cost. But will it improve the customer experience in a way that also has a positive impact on our business? There is a lot of research and studies about the relationship between financial metrics and customer experience metrics.

Customer Experience 97

Customer Experience Metrics Feedback Banking 97

Tethr

JULY 21, 2020

Using Tethr’s Agent Impact Score (AIS), businesses can start connecting agent quality to effort reduction, while holding agents accountable for customer experience. Customer care teams have been using QA scorecards to measure agent performance for decades. Modernizing QA. Driving agent behaviors using AIS.

Coaching 69

Coaching Construction Upselling Scripts 69

Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

more friendly behavior in customer service) Marketing to take the info into account in better targeting (e.g. upselling to the most loyal customers) Process changes (e.g. informing the customer more often how the repair is proceeding) Only after you have acted on feedback, customer experience processes are developing.

Customer Experience 107

Customer Experience B2C Journey mapping B2B 107

Lumoa

JANUARY 23, 2018

If you work in a big company with large number of customers (or users), you most probably receive a lot of feedback: people write about their experiences, complain about the things that do not work and tell about the things they love. Some companies use other metrics , such as Customer Effort Score or Customer Satisfaction.

Analytics 114

Analytics Feedback Metrics Customer Experience 114

Tethr

JUNE 22, 2020

We’ll also show you the insights that matter and the actions that make a difference in the customer journey. At Tethr, we find the majority of our customers’ experience drivers fall into one of two general buckets: Customer effort-related drivers and their reasons Customer interaction reduction drivers and their reasons.

Customer Experience 65

Customer Experience Customer effort Interactive Voice Response Coaching 65

Nicereply

JUNE 18, 2020

Notice they don’t try to win customers back or make excuses. Track the right metrics. To successfully deal with all these activities you are also going to need a reliable system of metrics for tracking customer retention. Customer Churn Rate. Constantly adding value to your customers’ experience.

Customer retention 125

Customer retention Feedback Surveys Metrics 125

Amity

JULY 4, 2017

From outcome metrics, to usage data, to engagements – there’s a lot of data out there to indicate how healthy your customer truly is. Yet, if you think you’re getting a full picture of your customer, but you’re not asking them exactly how they feel, you’re missing the point.

Surveys 66

Surveys SaaS Feedback Customer advocacy 66

Fonolo

MARCH 28, 2023

Monitoring customer satisfaction levels: A customer experience manager will evaluate feedback and monitor trends. They’ll also track contact center metrics like net promoter score, customer satisfaction score , and customer effort score to understand customers’ needs and identify ways to improve CX.

Customer Experience 81

Customer Experience Management Contact Center Call Center 81

aircall

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Correspondingly, making the customer jump through hoops just to find your phone number will make them that much more irate when they do call you up. You could go the extra-mile and further minimize customers’ effort by providing a click-to-call button. Customer service mistakes: You’re disregarding the data.

Customer Service 88

Customer Service Customer retention Metrics First call resolution 88