ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Here are some simple, common sense tips to building a better relationship with your customer – that can ultimately lead to repeat business and loyalty. Skyrocket SaaS Growth: 56 Must Read Tips From Top SaaS Companies by Adam Feber. My Comment: Don’t be misled to thinking this article is for just SaaS types of businesses.

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Customer Service SaaS Customer Experience Marketing 288

ShepHyken

AUGUST 24, 2021

Managing Customer Success. Preventing Customer Churn. Shep Hyken interviews Philipp Wolf, CEO of Custify , a company that helps SaaS businesses deliver great results for customers. They discuss how to utilize customer information and behavior to help ensure customer success.

SaaS 360

SaaS Upselling Customer retention Feedback 360

Totango

AUGUST 3, 2021

A freemium strategy is one of the best ways to sell a SaaS product. However, common freemium SaaS mistakes can thwart this otherwise effective approach. Here we’ll help you steer clear of the most frequent pitfalls SaaS companies encounter when deploying a freemium sales model. Limiting customer support.

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SaaS Best practices Sales Marketing 118

ProProfs Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Everyone says that customer support used to be easy. For an 18th century blacksmith, the questions and concerns from customers were pretty simple. At least it was obvious that customers would simply walk to the store whenever they needed support. . Customer support is not rocket science.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Your SaaS customer journey map lays out optimized outcomes that lead to customer renewals, upsells, and referrals. Here, we’ll show you how to create your path to customer success. First, we’ll define what a SaaS customer journey is, break it down into stages, and explain why mapping it out is important.

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SaaS Journey mapping Upselling Best practices 117

Totango

JULY 31, 2020

Customer retention is critical to success in today’s customer-centric economy. Onboarding sets the stage for customer retention by beginning a positive long-term relationship between you and your customer. How SaaS Enterprises Can Streamline New User Onboarding. Proactively Optimizing SaaS Onboarding.

SaaS 127

SaaS Healthcare Customer retention Enterprise 127

AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 16, 2022

Zendesk is a SaaS company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software for everyone, with simplicity as the foundation. It thrives on making over 170,000 companies worldwide serve their hundreds of millions of customers efficiently. Take for example the use case of customer support platforms.

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SaaS Engineering Personalization Enterprise 141

ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Customer service and customer support may seem like semantics; even Google does not make a difference in them. Each of these terms is customer-facing disciplines, but they cannot be used in place of the other. So, what can you do to get these Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) up?

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Customer Support Customer Service Customer centricity Chatbots 146

ProProfs Blog

APRIL 12, 2019

A loyal customer base is the cornerstone for any successful business. More so for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies since acquiring new customers on a B2B level is much more difficult. This makes customer retention a necessity for SaaS-based companies. A high churn rate is quite alarming for a SaaS company.

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SaaS Customer retention Surveys Morale 120

aircall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Corporate finance teams tend to view customer support as a cost saver at best and a cost center at worst. These customer support statistics tell that revenue-related story. Poor Customer Support Stalls Growth. Nothing scares away future revenue quite like a reputation for subpar customer service.

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Customer Support B2C Upselling B2B 115

Helpware

AUGUST 8, 2023

It requires a brand to present itself as both approachable and of top-tier customer service. Unfortunately, however, many businesses tend to fixate on honing their sales department so much that their customer support falls to the wayside.

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Customer Support SaaS Sales Customer Service 86

VirtualPBX

MAY 18, 2021

VirtualPBX has excelled in the communications industry for more than 20 years, and this past week, our COO, Lon Baker, was invited to the SaaS District podcast to explain how our company came into being. SaaS Before There Was Saas. The solid infrastructure that VirtualPBX now offers to its customers was created in a garage.

SaaS 98

SaaS Marketing Customer Support Management 98

ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Before we discuss how SaaS help desk software enables you to accomplish your business objectives, let us quickly learn what a help desk software tool is. Basically, it is a tool that aids customer support teams to track requests of end users and effectively resolve customer-care related issues.

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SaaS Airlines Customer retention Finance 109

ProProfs Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The importance of SaaS Customer Service is visible in these two data-proven statistics: AmericanExpress reports that 70% of consumers will go with the company that offers excellent customer support. So, the question that arises is: How to reduce churn and improve retention with SaaS customer service?

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SaaS Customer Service Best practices Customer Support 83

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 6, 2019

This week we feature an article by Valeriya Yordanova who writes about how customer support agents can deliver the fast and personal customer support that today’s customers demand. Unfamiliar with the concept of waiting, customers want their problems solved now with minimum effort from their side.

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Customer Support Personalization SaaS Analytics 136

TeamSupport

APRIL 15, 2021

Usually, whenever a customer encounters a problem, a salesperson or call center representative provides them with discounts, coupons, or store credits, or in the case of B2B SaaS models, free seats or a complimentary month. Although this temporarily relieves angry customers, it does not really impress them.

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Omni-channel support Customer Support Technology B2B 106

ShepHyken

MARCH 5, 2021

This week we feature an article from Deb Mukherjee , a SaaS marketer with DelightChat. He shares five customer-related applications worthy of taking your eCommerce customer service to the next level. This directly enhances the overall customer experience of the store. In this day and age, eCommerce is a booming industry.

Customer Experience 241

Customer Experience SaaS Sales Marketing 241

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s undeniable that the SaaS model works differently and attracts revenue on a monthly or annual basis, unlike the on-premise software that deals with one-time payments. So, it’s legit to have a customer success team in hand. But with effective customer success, it’s possible to attain those extra gains from the SaaS revenue model.

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SaaS Benchmark Upselling Metrics 98

TeamSupport

JULY 20, 2020

This blog series, inspired by the ServiceXRG report , identifies the outcomes we have come to expect from Support, then offers goals and action items that enable us to achieve these outcomes. Let’s take a look at four elements of B2B customer support excellence and the strategic business impact of each.

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Customer Support B2B Technical Support SaaS 98

Totango

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Customer Enablement Essentials: What B2B and SaaS Brands Need to Know. Customer enablement empowers customers by giving them the resources they need to use your product successfully. Here we’ll walk you through the essentials you need to know to harness customer enablement to increase B2B and SaaS sales.

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B2B SaaS Education Brand ambassadors 88

TeamSupport

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In Part 1 of this blog series, we introduced the concept of how to position the investment in customer support as a strategic value aligned to current business practices and target outcomes—based on the whitepaper co-produced by ServiceXRG and TeamSupport. Now in Part 2, we’ll talk about the evolving role of B2B customer support.

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B2B Customer Support SaaS Strategic Value 81

Nicereply

MARCH 10, 2021

Outsourcing customer support is an effective way to manage your customer service system, but it can be a double-edged sword. Customer support is the backbone of a lasting relationship between you and your customers (current and potential). Your brand can flourish or perish by your customer support system.

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outsourcing Customer Support Automotive B2C 98

Help Scout

JUNE 24, 2021

Getting someone to make a one-time purchase is difficult enough, but for SaaS companies that rely on repeat business, the task is even tougher. However, there is one time-tested solution for standing out: offering top-notch customer service. Why is a help desk an important tool for SaaS businesses? Help Scout.

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SaaS Self service CRM Analytics 85

JustCall

OCTOBER 6, 2022

?SaaS companies are in a race for growth. That’s why we see many SaaS businesses starting their business with just the right features: enough to make the product useful, but not too much – so they don’t scare away early adopters. Every company wants a great customer experience SaaS. Wrapping Up.

SaaS 52

SaaS Customer Support Enterprise Analytics 52

AWS Machine Learning

MAY 9, 2024

The software as a service (SaaS) platform offers out-of-the-box solutions for life, annuity, employee benefits, and institutional annuity providers. In this post, we describe the development of the customer support process in FAST incorporating generative AI, the data, the architecture, and the evaluation of the results.

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Engineering Customer Support APIs Government 129

Totango

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

SaaS Tools to Jumpstart Your Business Growth: Five Essential Apps. Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) tools automate your business functions, fueling your growth by increasing efficiency. Here we’ll guide you through the essential SaaS tools you need for business growth. What Are SaaS Tools? Customer success.

SaaS 71

SaaS CRM Advertising Analytics 71

aircall

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Especially at SaaS companies, support often means assisting customers “hands-on,” but house calls are simply out of the question (I need not enumerate the reasons why). GoToAssist lets your technical support representatives — literally — take control of the client’s computer.

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Customer Support Multichannel First call resolution Analytics 103

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Self-service support is becoming more and more widely accepted. As both a professor and chief scientist at a SaaS software company, I spend time around two groups of people that couldn’t be more different: Enterprise marketing, sales, and customer experience executives. Nineteen year-old college students.

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Self service B2B SaaS Enterprise 212

TeamSupport

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series based on the whitepaper co-produced by ServiceXRG and TeamSupport, we introduced the concept of how to position the investment in customer support as a strategic value aligned to current business practices and target outcomes, and about the evolving role of B2B customer support.

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B2B Customer Support Strategic Value Customer retention 89

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Baphira Wahlang Shylla, a digital marketer at Knowmax , a SaaS company that provides knowledge management solutions for various industries that are seeking to improve their customer service metrics. She shares how BPOs can enhance your customer experience.

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Customer Experience Scripts Self service outsourcing 165

ChurnZero

MARCH 7, 2025

An active digital customer community is a competitive advantage for any B2B SaaS company. Well-managed communities are proven to increase customer retention, provide valuable product insights, expand brand awareness, and improve overall customer satisfaction. Integrations are key to creating a 360 view of your customers.

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SaaS Gamification B2B Metrics 52

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Top Takeaways: Here is something brands and even CX practitioners often forget – customers just want to get things done. They are not worried about what department, whether it be sales, marketing, or customer support, resolves their issues. Customers really only care about problems solved. New York Times ?bestselling

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Customer centricity SaaS Engineering Sales 165

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In order for feedback to be effective, it should help businesses improve their services and overall customer experience. So, feedback such as: “This is great!”, “This product sucks”, or even, “Bad customer support, won’t suggest to anyone” is considered useless feedback. It tells a lot more about the experience of a customer.

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Feedback Customer Experience Surveys Construction 253

Helpware

AUGUST 8, 2023

It requires a brand to present itself as both approachable and of top-tier customer service. Unfortunately, however, many businesses tend to fixate on honing their sales department so much that their customer support falls to the wayside.

Customer Support 52

Customer Support SaaS Sales Customer Service 52

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2025

Onboarding Training Welcome new customers with informative guides, video tutorials , and walk-throughs to help them get started smoothly. For example, a SaaS company might offer an in-app tutorial detailing their platform’s key features. Make resources easy to access via your website, app, or customer portal.

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Education Upselling SaaS Self service 52

ShepHyken

JUNE 10, 2016

Benny Tjia is co-founder and CEO of Bornevia , SaaS product for better and more responsive customer support. He likes writing about startups, growth, and customer experience. He was educated and worked in the US. For more articles from Shep Hyken and his guest contributors go to customerserviceblog.com.

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Best practices Customer Service SaaS Education 204

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The essential handbook for building the modern customer success program Are you ready to elevate your SaaS business with a robust customer success program? Dive into “the ultimate guide to customer success in SaaS” and gain the insights and strategies you need to create a high-performing customer success team.

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SaaS Customer advocacy Journey mapping Customer centricity 52