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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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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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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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Customer Retention Metrics Part 2: How to Keep Loyal Customers Happy and Optimize Post-Purchase Measurements b y Alan Finlay. Relay) Improving customer retention requires looking at the customer lifecycle as a whole and searching for ways to optimize each stage.

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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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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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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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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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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 16, 2018

However, when you don’t have a clear articulation of what you are trying to deliver, everyone does what he or she thinks is the right thing for Customer Experience, which can have a broad scope of outcomes. The result is a misaligned Customer Experience with problem areas for the customers. Otherwise, why bother?

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ShepHyken

JULY 31, 2018

Shep Hyken sits down with Scott Walker, the CEO of ethosIQ ,and discuss three levels of customer optimization, finding the correct customer service metrics to focus on, and why companies should give back to their communities. ? ?. This means that metrics like “average handle time” or “time to resolution” can be misleading.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2025

Understanding how SEO metrics tie to customer satisfaction is no longer optionalit’s essential. Metrics like bounce rate, time on site, and keyword rankings don’t just track website performance; they reveal how well you’re meeting customer needs.

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Integrity Solutions

APRIL 28, 2021

What actions can you take to both increase employee engagement and create a customer retention strategy that moves more of your customers from “satisfied” to “loyal”? One of the key tenets of a customer retention strategy is that it relentlessly focuses on value creation. Operationally define “customer-centric”.

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ShepHyken

JULY 31, 2018

Shep Hyken sits down with Scott Walker, the CEO of ethosIQ ,and discuss three levels of customer optimization, finding the correct customer service metrics to focus on, and why companies should give back to their communities. ? ?. This means that metrics like “average handle time” or “time to resolution” can be misleading.

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Hodusoft

JUNE 8, 2022

Top Call Center Metrics and KPIs to Every Business Should Track. Running a call center is stressful as there are hundreds, if not thousands, of calls that you have to manage every day while ensuring to deliver outstanding customer service. But how do you decide what metrics are to measure? . Customer Retention Rate.

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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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Quiq

MARCH 31, 2022

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. Keeping customers happy and continuing to buy from your e-commerce business deserves (and often requires) as many resources.

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Totango

MAY 7, 2024

Both CS and Sales leaders agree: Retention is the #1 priority. Achieving higher retention requires close alignment between CS and Sales teams, yet 87% of CS and Sales leaders told us there’s significant room for improvement in their collaboration. But there’s a problem. Use your words Talk to each other!

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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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aircall

OCTOBER 6, 2021

One of the best strategies for increasing engagement and retention is to refine your sales onboarding process. In this article, we’ll look at effective sales onboarding and how it can fundamentally improve the new hire experience for your sales professionals. Defining Effective Sales Onboarding.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

For those of you that don’t know, Net Promoter Score (NPS) represents the likelihood a Customer would recommend your product or service to other people (i.e., It has become a standard metric used to determine if your Customer Service and Experience improvements are effective. Please CLICK HERE to join us for the Webinar.

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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

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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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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TeleDirect

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Track and analyze customer trends to improve service. Advanced Analytics Monitor call center performance metrics, such as resolution times and customer satisfaction scores. Predict customer needs using data-driven insights. Offer real-time assistance during global sales events. The result?

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 14, 2019

Measuring just a piece of this journey can seem short-sighted or not as powerful as other CX metrics, like Net Promoter Score (NPS). But I see a place for Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT), based on organizational goals, resources, and structure. CX shouldn’t ever be measured by one metric alone.

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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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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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Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

More effectively identifying and managing customer vulnerability isn’t just a benefit for consumers, companies that can successfully support vulnerable customers deliver better customer service and improve customer retention and loyalty. Michael Stahl. Michael Stahl is the chief marketing officer of SERVPRO.

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customer sure

DECEMBER 21, 2024

What Is Customer Retention? Customer retention is the practice of keeping your customers loyal and engaged over the long term. Why Customer Retention Is Important If customer acquisition feels expensive, it is. Gather Key Metrics: S = Customers at the start of the period.

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OctopusTech

JUNE 29, 2023

Most organizations generally use these different tactics such as outbound call center services for customer retention in the long run and to enhance the entire sales process. Almost 68% of the customers believe that a company should check the taste and preference and then modify the experiences.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 22, 2021

“But I didn’t want a job in sales!”. If you’ve internally cursed the idea of selling or simply desire to take your sales skills up a notch, then this webinar is for you. Apply a language framework to “get into” the sales conversations. Never get ghosted by a customer again. Customer Success Around the Web.

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CCNG

JUNE 14, 2023

Here are some key metrics and approaches to consider: Key Metrics to Assess Customer Engagement and Loyalty In Jeanne Bliss’s book, Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine , "Competency #1 is to Honor and Manage Customers as Assets".

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 30, 2016

When Customer Retention, my first book on customer behavior was published, now over 20 years ago, one of the strongest reactions voiced was my contention, and the proof offered, that satisfaction and retention were fundamentally different concepts, and that they required different measurement protocols.

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The Petrova Experience

JANUARY 14, 2025

Its 2025, and businesses across sectors have a customer retention problem. companies alone lose an estimated $168 billion annually due to customer attrition, as revealed in a CallMiner whitepaper. The financial implication of customer churn is staggering, with little end in sight, if unaddressed.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2021

By creating healthy boundaries, Customer Success and Sales don’t have to spend their days assessing and arguing over every expansion situation. Your rules of engagement should be based on which team is genuinely the best fit in each scenario and has the greatest likelihood of gaining sales traction.

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ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2021

Choosing between Net Revenue Retention (NRR) and Gross Revenue Retention (GRR) as your north-star growth metric isn’t an either-or question. SaaS companies must be cognizant of and weigh the implications brought about by a sole focus on these metrics when assessing the performance of and building strategies for Customer Success.

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