VirtualPBX

JULY 18, 2024

Hear from guest blogger, Co-founder and CEO of Onilab, Art Malcovich, on what SMS marketing can do for your e-commerce. E-commerce businesses connect with their customers through multiple channels: emails, social media, live chats, and chatbots. SMS marketing is another valuable tool for reaching potential buyers.

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delighted

MARCH 23, 2021

By emphasizing customer retention as a key performance indicator (KPI) for your business, you can ensure your priorities are in the right place. What’s your customer retention rate? Before you can focus on improving customer retention, you must benchmark how you’re currently doing in this department.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 15, 2024

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! How to leverage AI for customer retention by identifying actionable trends.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 25, 2022

Then while considering customer acquisition cost (CAC) why miss out on customer retention cost (CRC)? They both are of equal significance and when the matter is to retain your loyal customers to have repeat business with you, this metric needs a bit of attention as well. About customer retention cost.

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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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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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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

MAY 13, 2024

There are several suggestions on how to be customer-obsessed, but I was especially happy to see one of his major points in all caps: EXPERIENCE IS THE NEW BRAND. In this article, we explain why businesses must understand, calculate, track, and decrease their churn rate to retain customers and grow revenue. What Is Churn Rate?

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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. Moreover, we will delve into the power of referral marketing and how to launch a referral program effectively as a key strategy in this equation.

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Quiq

MARCH 31, 2022

Share This Story So much time and effort is spent on customer acquisition. Marketing and sales consistently combine their efforts to attain the most customers at the lowest price. But few businesses dedicate as many resources to customer retention. What is customer retention? And that’s a big mistake.

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Help Scout

MAY 12, 2021

In this article, we discuss the role of support teams in retaining customers and show how to combine high-quality, empathetic customer service with a deliberate focus on business growth. What is customer retention and how is it measured? For a subscription business, this is a clear and simple metric.

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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

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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Hello Customer

JANUARY 16, 2020

January typically is a month to forecast trends, and we believe customer retention will be an important one. But we see increasingly more organisations move their focus from aggressive acquisition investments to retention management. Customer retention or acquisition? Show your customers you truly care.

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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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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SaaS organizations are focusing more on maintaining and cultivating long-term customer relationships than ever before, and CSMs are at the forefront of these efforts. Here are some tips that can help your customer success team boost customer retention and reduce churn: 1. The post Ready to Boost Customer Retention?

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

They even help you understand if your customers are satisfied or not. There are multiple customer satisfaction metrics that your business can use to get answers to questions like “Is my customer satisfied?” or “Are we successful as a brand to create an awesome experience for our customers?”. Let’s get started!

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Some Customer Success metrics are considered standard but there’s often more than meets the eye. Sales and marketing professionals that geek out on metrics can find themselves in deep philosophical debates about the best numbers to track. That nuance is derived from three underlying factors: Construct.

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

Well, one answer to that question is to make more sales, and no doubt that is important, another answer to that is customer retention. And what exactly is customer retention? No points for guessing, retain customers. Offer Customers Testimonials and Use Cases During the Sales Process.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Typically, a business will send one or more renewal reminders and offers to a customer whose subscription is about to expire. For top-tier, or Enterprise, customers this conversation usually begins 6 months prior to the renewal date. For mid-tier or mid-market, customers the process usually begins 3 months in advance.

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 17, 2020

Customers always have so many options in the market to choose their desired product or service. Just in case they aren’t satisfied, they can opt for any of your competitors in the market. And if you successfully increase customer retention rates by 5%, then you can boost profits by 25% to 95%. So, buckle up.

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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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Anexa BPO

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

One of the biggest challenges for public companies is deciding if their shareholders will respond to customer experience (CX) metrics in earning calls. It can be a hard sell to convince executives and shareholders that CX metrics are tangible and impact earning potential. Support your findings with facts.

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ChurnZero

JULY 8, 2022

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. Net revenue retention (NRR) is taking center stage as the qualifying metric for determining the health of a SaaS business.

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Education Services Group

APRIL 27, 2022

I’m not going to waste time trying to document how to correctly (mathematically) calculate all the three letter acronyms—but feel free to check out our Customer Success Definitions, Calculations, and Lingo…Oh My! Instead, I want to do some level setting on some specific metrics and flaws I see in the industry.

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ProProfs Blog

JANUARY 7, 2022

To steer yourself towards success, it is essential to measure its product-market fit. Meaning: Whether there is a market demand for your product or not. Products whose value proposition satisfies the needs of a market and its potential customers are likely to experience success. But how do you measure product-market fit

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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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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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Education Services Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

You may be asking yourself ‘if this article is about marketing and I’m in Customer Success, why am I using my precious time to read it?’ It’s about gaining insight into customer engagement to understand how they’re interacting with your company. Each of these metrics is essentially the inverse of the other.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

How you customize your dashboard depends on the outcome you’re looking for. Your agents are concerned with their individual metrics and the day-to-day goals. How do our customers feel? Use the following list of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) as a guide for which metrics to show your executive team.

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Totango

DECEMBER 10, 2019

When you make customer retention for B2B business models a priority, you’ll not only save money on acquisition costs; you’ll also unlock the growth potential of your existing customer base. Let’s explore why customer retention for B2B is so important and how you can make it happen. Retain Customers for Life.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 15, 2021

In order to really improve where customer experience is concerned, businesses need to fully understand the experience that they currently offer, and know what needs to be done to make it better. Take a look at our brief guide on how to monitor customer experience to learn how to make changes that’ll benefit your customers, and your business.

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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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JivoChat

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a problem for many businesses, especially in competitive markets. 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.

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JustCall

MARCH 13, 2020

If you want your brand, product or service to outshine your competitors in the market, make sure you track the right set of customer service metrics. A customer service that produces maximum customer satisfaction is a service that walks and talks. Tracking performance With Customer Service Metrics.

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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

The answer isn’t acquiring two new customers. 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.

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