Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

At times (more in the “old days” but every now and then it happens in present times) we’ve literally have been accused of “having religion;” i.e., believing in Customer Experience (CX) without proof and asked to show the value of CX. So, the debate continues. Your existing customers are far easier to upsell.

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Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Whether a best-selling author, keynote speaker, top sales trainer or customer service guru they were gracious enough to share their view on this one (1) question: As an organization gets larger there is a tendency for the mindset to change from “the customer comes first” to “higher profits and lower payroll first”. Grant Cardone.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Back when I was working in corporate life, I went to a presentation in London. 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. So, What Went Wrong with NPS?

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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

APRIL 13, 2020

Start with your remote sales teams, first. In this blog, we will share some hacks and tips sales teams can follow, as they work from home. We spoke to a few leaders and experts from across industries to understand what remote sales practices, and hacks they are using. Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Remote Selling.

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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).

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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?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. Choose Metrics that Emphasize Your Value. When people think of top-line growth, they often think of Sales. But Customer Success? Not so much. Health Scores.

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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.

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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). CX shouldn’t ever be measured by one metric alone. Customers and their experiences are complex and nuanced, so there’s no perfect metric. Use CSAT at key points in the sales process.

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 23, 2023

Sales prospecting is vital to the success of any sales organization. Simply learning how to find, approach and engage new customers is at the heart of being able to meet and exceed your sales goals. Why Is Sales Prospecting More Important Than Ever? What is Sales Prospecting?

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

This post focuses on evaluating and interpreting metrics using FMEval for question answering in a generative AI application. FMEval is a comprehensive evaluation suite from Amazon SageMaker Clarify , providing standardized implementations of metrics to assess quality and responsibility. Question Answer Fact Who is Andrew R.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As metrics pile up, you may find yourself wondering which data points matter and in what ways they relate to your business’s interests. Visualizations turn raw metrics into stories that can be shared and acted upon. Differentiate between presentation and exploratory graphics. Revealing Flaws, Fraud and Anomalies.

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CCNG

MARCH 30, 2022

Some sales organizations utilize email “cadences” to drive their business development efforts by utilizing a certain order of pre-programmed emails in the quest for increasing sales. Because there hasn’t been any real coaching or training from the supervisor, the performance metric doesn’t move in a positive direction.

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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.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Now, many of the “other” stats were probably pretty important, but this was one that I could understand, so it was my metric for comparison. We had several vendors that responded to our request for proposal and presented. We chose them because we trusted them—an emotional metric we hadn’t included in the matrix. .

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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. Product and process complexity.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 3, 2023

Here’s the usual story: Company prides itself on being “sales driven.” The sales team is credited for winning revenue, while the Customer Success team is expected to retain the revenue. Sales closes a customer that’s unlikely to succeed (for any number of reasons.) Sales got the revenue credited to their numbers.

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CCNG

MAY 27, 2021

Contact Center Leaders are continually being pushed to improve processes, decrease cost, increase customer satisfaction, and improve sales or metrics. They have experience across many centers and industries and can either present quick solutions or listen to your ideas and provide feedback on what you might expect.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 25, 2018

One of my all-time favorite sessions as a presenter was “The Case Against NPS” alongside Matt Beckwith. The question on the table…does the 15-year-old metric of NPS (Net Promoter Score) still have a place on CX dashboards? The bottom line is there is no "magic metric." NPS still has value.

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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

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 5, 2022

However, for most other data sets—from sales numbers, customer surveys, web traffic reports, and so on—we have to infer causality from that data. I have presented to organizations that if they make my suggested changes to their experiences, it will bring in $X revenue. Define your metrics and what you’re going to measure.

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Callminer

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As industrial and economic globalization trends continue to develop in the world’s present market, the use of outsourced talent to accomplish a wide variety of tasks ranging from the rote and repeatable to the complex and mission-critical grows ever more ubiquitous. Sales Pursuits.

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JivoChat

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Writing attractive email subject lines for sales can be the factor that makes someone open your email or not. How to Write a Good Email Subject Line For Sales. When writing the email subject line for sales, remember that it should look good whether the recipient is reading it on their desktop computer, tablet, or smartphone.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Thanks to the unique situation that 2020 presented to us, customer success industry leaders can be ultimately prepared for what 2021 will bring – even if things don’t go quite as planned. High-functioning customer success teams will no longer be able to leverage industry-agnostic PM tools or sales-focused CRM platforms.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

With this in mind, it’s no surprise that personalized emails deliver outstanding results in crucial email marketing metrics, such as open or click-through rates. Provide valuable email content As marketers and business owners, our all-time favorite objective is boosting sales.

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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.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2024

As part of Amazon, Twitch advertising is handled by the ad sales organization at Amazon. New ad products across diverse markets involve a complex web of announcements, training, and documentation, making it difficult for sales teams to find precise information quickly. The solution architecture is presented in the following diagram.

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Netomi

AUGUST 31, 2022

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a special set of metrics that help determine whether business is going in the right or wrong direction. At first glance, it seems that customer service KPI scores take a backseat to traditional business KPIs, like profits, costs and regional sales. Why are customer service KPI metrics important?

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

1/ Crash course in Customer Success and SaaS metrics. Presented by: Dave Kellogg , principal, Dave Kellogg Consulting. Many people think of SaaS and CS metrics as black and white. But the truth is, there are many ways to calculate and interpret—and game—metrics. What metrics do investors care about most?

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

After all, workplace training has a reputation for being dull with endless PowerPoint presentations and the occasional role-playing exercise. Ask yourself: Is the information presented in a way that will appeal to our agents? Continue the games onto the sales floor, virtual or in-person, with these engaging call center games.

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CSM Practice

MAY 13, 2020

Recent research by Gainsight has shown that 65-80% of companies are on a hiring freeze for the next few months, 30-45% have halted hiring indefinitely, and 60-70% of sales leaders polled reported a delay in sales cycles. These numbers are an indication that sales are slowing down. 3. Adjust Your Metrics and KPIs.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2019

According to research by Gartner, large organizations having their revenue crossing the mark of $1 billion own more than 50 CX metrics while some big organizations possess around 200 of them. Go for the right CX metrics depending on this. Relevant Customer Experience Measurement Metrics. Know all the touchpoints.

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ProProfs Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

Make a plan of action for both present and future so such incidents are never repeated. Be Omni-present. By omnipresent , I mean acquiring the ability to be present everywhere. And at the same time, they want you to be present all the time. It doesn’t help your business if you’ve got pushy sales or support team members.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 25, 2019

Let's explore the metrics, processes, and culture capable of fostering both happy customers and happy employees. Metrics I have an easy formula for you. The authors introduce both a methodology and a metric ultimately answering the question "why do people work?" Nate Brown is the co-founder ofCX Accelerator.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It would be best if you did everything you could to present your experience in the form of stories. Even better is when the resolution has some critical results associated with it, whether that’s sales figures, increases in a key metric, or return on investment numbers. Consider a job interview. Don’t believe me?

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

From the key responsibilities of each role to activating and deploying the flywheel to the most important metrics to measure, Karen discusses all the hottest topics about this compelling collaboration. Both your pre- and post-sale teams should know the answer to: “What is my customer’s business outcome?” “If

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