CSM Magazine

MARCH 13, 2025

The Importance of Measuring Customer Satisfaction Customer satisfaction is more than just a feel-good metric. Customer feedback, when combined with satisfaction metrics, becomes a powerful tool for shaping business decisions. At its core, satisfaction metrics are the compass for strategic planning.

Metrics 52

Metrics Surveys Feedback Analytics 52

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Are you too focused on sales revenue? Sometimes, the only time senior management ever deals with customers is when there is a significant sale on the line. She made a lot of suggestions to the group about how they could change things to improve the Customer Experience. She was very engaged in the training.

Customer centricity 427

Customer centricity Airlines Consulting Consulting 427

Integrity Solutions

MAY 12, 2020

With leaner sales organizations, your sales enablement strategy has to step up and be a valuable contributor to the organization. In many organizations, revenue has “fallen off a cliff,” as one sales leader put it, and companies are looking at where they can make cuts and recapture lost momentum.

Sales 122

Sales Coaching Metrics Technology 122

CrazyCall

APRIL 9, 2019

There are dozens of hundreds of rankings devoted to sales influencers and experts across different industries and the world in general (we’ve also published one ). We’ve decided to remedy the situation and created a list of 18 saleswomen who in our view play an essential role in the world of sales. Tiffani Bova. Tiffani Bova.

Sales 133

Sales Consulting Consulting Coaching 133

SharpenCX

AUGUST 31, 2021

Your agents are concerned with their individual metrics and the day-to-day goals. Use the following list of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) as a guide for which metrics to show your executive team. Four Metrics to Show your Executive Team in your Call Center Dashboard: 1. Agent Satisfaction Metrics.

Call Center 128

Call Center Metrics Benchmark Contact Center 128

ChurnZero

APRIL 11, 2025

Are your metrics aligned with your goals? Bring customer success, sales, product, and executives together to build out a customer journey that incorporates different perspectives. But its all helpful to define responsibilities and metrics, as well as to build and maintain efficient internal workflows.

Metrics 86

Metrics Benchmark Feedback SaaS 86

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 28, 2020

Sutherland says that if you play by the same rules as everybody else and become obsessed with comparison, you will use the same metrics as your competitors. Sutherland refers to the book Blue Ocean Strategy, which says the point of differentiation is to develop better metrics than your competitors. Apple’s was subjective.

Metrics 371

Metrics Engineering Consulting Consulting 371

ProProfs Blog

APRIL 17, 2020

But without numbers or metric data in hand, coming up with any new strategy would only consume your valuable time. For example, you need access to metrics like NPS, average response time and others like it to make sure you come up with relevant strategies that help you retain more customers. So, buckle up. 1: Customer Churn Rate. #2:

Metrics 142

Metrics Customer retention SaaS Surveys 142

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The short version is that a study by the CFI group tracked the share prices of the leaders of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) and the leaders National Customer Satisfaction Index, UK (NCSI) versus the broader markets. I have a whole post that looks into this relationship in more detail.

Customer Experience 411

Customer Experience Customer retention Upselling Banking 411

AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 26, 2024

At AWS, we are transforming our seller and customer journeys by using generative artificial intelligence (AI) across the sales lifecycle. Our field organization includes customer-facing teams (account managers, solutions architects, specialists) and internal support functions (sales operations).

Sales 127

Sales Accountability Feedback Metrics 127

Integrity Solutions

JANUARY 18, 2021

This past year laid bare some critical underlying selling skills and cracks in their sales pipeline that sales leaders were able to ignore or avoid while focusing on more immediate concerns. It’s also clear that the shift to a remote sales model isn’t just a temporary fix. New Sales Pipeline Strategy. By Will Milano.

Sales 127

Sales Coaching B2B Metrics 127

AWS Machine Learning

APRIL 6, 2023

For this engagement, they sought to generate monthly sales forecasts for new and existing products across different material groups and business lines. In this post, we demonstrate how the MLSL and NXP employed Amazon Forecast and other custom models for long-term sales predictions for various NXP products. “We

Sales 105

Sales Metrics APIs Marketing 105

CX Accelerator

AUGUST 19, 2019

It helps you, as a CX Manager, focus on the metrics that are important. They will want your customer satisfaction (or Perception) metrics such as NPS, CSAT, and CES shown overall and by journey stage. Finally, they will also want to see the key Outcome metrics which measure what action customers took as a result of their perceptions.

Journey mapping 182

Journey mapping Telecommunications Metrics Sales 182

CX Accelerator

AUGUST 19, 2019

It helps you, as a CX Manager, focus on the metrics that are important. They will want your customer satisfaction (or Perception) metrics such as NPS, CSAT, and CES shown overall and by journey stage. Finally, they will also want to see the key Outcome metrics which measure what action customers took as a result of their perceptions.

Journey mapping 182

Journey mapping Telecommunications Metrics Sales 182

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Unfortunately, Reichheld says too many organizations use NPS as a stick or a metric for earning bonuses. He says that the financial metrics most companies use for valuations point you toward the wrong investments. His new metric concept is called Earned Growth Rate. Several industries use this metric already.

Airlines 273

Airlines Metrics SaaS Accountability 273

ClearAction

AUGUST 19, 2020

There are many types of customer experience indexes, and they each communicate something specific, based on certain assumptions, with greatest usefulness to one or more groups in your company. You should never use indexes and metrics blindly. Most meaningful for marketing / sales. Most meaningful for marketing / sales.

Customer Experience 174

Customer Experience Customer centricity Metrics Sales 174

Expivia

APRIL 29, 2021

If you know what your performance metrics are, you know how well you’re doing. While there are a lot of different kinds of call center metrics, these 15 KPIs are the most crucial to monitor. Below, you’ll see a list of important call center metrics you need to know about and track. At Expivia, we look at sales per hour.

Call Center 98

Call Center Metrics Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 98

Quality Contact Solutions

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Sales leaders are one of the most critical assets to your company. Their decisions are directly responsible for how sales reps contribute to the company’s growth or lack thereof. But what makes sales leaders great? Here are 10 qualities that great sales leaders have in common.

Sales 98

Sales Telemarketing Best practices Coaching 98

TechSee

MARCH 7, 2023

Serpil Timuray – CEO Europe Cluster and Member of Group Executive Committee, Vodafone – Serpil inspires us with her advocacy to close the global digital divide. She is also an active member of the Women in AI Canada group, participating in mentorships, events, & talk shows.

Chief Customer Officer 207

Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Telecommunications Finance 207

ShepHyken

JUNE 27, 2016

New Temkin Group Research Shows Connection Between Net Promoter Score Metric And Loyalty by Temkin Group. PRNewswire) Net Promoter® Score (NPS®) has become a popular customer experience metric. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.

Customer Service 185

Customer Service Metrics Customer Experience Surveys 185

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. In this article, we share Kristen’s best advice on how you can use metrics to reframe your customer stories, so they’re primed for investor engagement. What metrics do investors care about? What metrics do your investors and board care about?

Metrics 98

Metrics Consulting Consulting Best practices 98

ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

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. Onboarding metrics serve two main purposes. Basing onboarding metrics on your internal operations can produce false positives.

Metrics 98

Metrics SaaS Surveys Self service 98

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. There is often more than one way to calculate a given Customer Success metric; Gaming.

SaaS 94

SaaS Metrics Customer retention Construction 94

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

For many companies, the brand-appropriate customer experience spans across multiple channels and touchpoints, and it can involve internal groups such as IT, sales, marketing, operations, customer support, new product or service development, and product management.

Chief Customer Officer 250

Chief Customer Officer Enterprise Customer centricity Consulting 250

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Sales, Marketing, and Product teams can all benefit from having the answers to those sorts of questions. Customer Success Software & Sales. Customer Success software can easily show Sales teams the customer type or particular industry in which current customers have renewed, or are forecasted to renew. Realistic Timeliness.

Sales 98

Sales Marketing Accountability Surveys 98

Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 16, 2021

A major professional sports league with teams and venues in virtually every city in North America has selected The Taylor Reach Group to assess its contact center operations. Award-winning global contact center consultants and customer experience experts, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. About The Taylor Reach Group, Inc.

Contact Center 131

Contact Center Consulting Consulting Best practices 131

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Paul is a Transformational, hands-on, customer service department leader with extensive experience using performance metrics, lean process improvements, and positive leadership in building effective, efficient, and happy customer service departments. Colin Taylor, CEO at Taylor Reach Group.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Consulting 251

The Northridge Group

AUGUST 19, 2020

At The Northridge Group, we frequently come to the aid of companies with struggling contact centers, but what about the ones already doing a pretty good job? Companies that want to take their call centers from good to great should focus on these four areas: Clearly defined and focused metrics. This will depend on your area of business.

Contact Center 145

Contact Center Coaching Call Center First call resolution 145

The Northridge Group

JANUARY 9, 2020

The solution to creating a program that actually drives to improved customer experience or improvement in any other key performance metrics, is to design a behavior-based quality program. If you fixate your focus on improving a few specific metrics, it becomes easier to identify the behaviors that correlate to those specific desired outcomes.

Customer Experience 131

Customer Experience Coaching First call resolution Metrics 131

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Calculating Lifetime Customer Value Obviously, the full impact of losing customers isn’t as simple as the loss of one particular sale or the associated make-good. While companies are increasingly tracking customer lifetime value (LTV), the accuracy of the key metric still often falls short.

Advertising 62

Advertising Customer retention Sales Enterprise 62

AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 18, 2022

One of the challenges encountered by teams using Amazon Lookout for Metrics is quickly and efficiently connecting it to data visualization. The anomalies are presented individually on the Lookout for Metrics console, each with their own graph, making it difficult to view the set as a whole. Overview of solution.

Metrics 90

Metrics Scripts Accountability Best practices 90

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. increased sales (repeat business and referrals), which leads to….

Employee engagement 170

Employee engagement Consulting Consulting Metrics 170

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2024

James Hughes, Group Head of Solutions at Sabio, explains. These pressing industry challenges and more – lie at the heart of an upcoming webinar being hosted by our team at Sabio Group, supported by our partner Avaya , on Thursday, December 12th. About the Author James Hughes is Group Head of Solutions at Sabio Group.

Cloud contact 52

Cloud contact Average Handle Time Metrics Technology 52

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AHT, as in average handle time, is a metric used to measure the average length of time for a customer support call. Two areas not typically considered in this metric, should be. So, what better time to cultivate some customer loyalty so you can supercharge your sales towards the end of the year? What an honor.

Customer Service 184

Customer Service Average Handle Time Contact Center Metrics 184

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2022

Along with Belwadi Srikanth , Group Product Manager, Google, Inc.(aka, Many retailers provide a fragmented experience that can leave the customer frustrated so they never complete that sale. Moreover, 84 percent said they would continue with this new behavior once the pandemic officially subsided. .

CRM 348

CRM Technology Contact Center Personalization 348

CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

They feel the pressure of meeting metrics but don’t know how and when to strike a balance. Lastly, if you've not read "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni, I'd encourage it as a team reading assignment that's woven in with facilitated group discussion around the key learnings.

Calibration 244

Calibration Schedule adherence Coaching Employee engagement 244

ProProfs Blog

JUNE 5, 2020

As companies see sales declining, one of the first actions that leadership takes is to cut costs. Christa Heibel CEO at Christa Heibel Consulting Group. Built a people-centric culture, where people come before metrics, products, and profits. Build a people-centric culture, where people come before metrics, products, and profits.

Customer Service 214

Customer Service Customer centricity Metrics Customer Support 214