CCNG

JULY 27, 2022

There is a great deal of debate about what metrics call centers should measure now, especially with COVID-19 and the accompanying shift to work-at-home agents, staffing shortages, and persistent supply chain issues straining customers’ patience. Times have changed, and where necessary, call center and BPO metrics must change with them.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 18, 2017

This week we feature an article by Martha Brooke who writes about how to execute a customer satisfaction survey that gives you the data you need. Surveys can give you a lot of data that you can use to improve virtually any part of your organization. – Shep Hyken. I know you get asked to take surveys all the time, because I do.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

There are multiple customer satisfaction metrics that your business can use to get answers to questions like “Is my customer satisfied?” Customer satisfaction metrics help you back your customer-centric mindset and identify areas (both positive and negative) responsible for leaving an impact on the overall brand experience.

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Integrity Solutions

MARCH 11, 2025

Improving sales performance is key to business growth, particularly in a constantly changing environment. Last year, Salesforce reported 67% of sales reps surveyed didn’t expect to meet their quota, and 84% missed it the previous year.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 2, 2021

But as is the case with other organizations, customer service has its fair share of myths about what customers want, which metrics to track, and how to perform the responsibilities of a front-line agent. of all sales. Misconception #3: Speed is the most important customer service metric. In the U.S. That number is up from 11.8%

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

By coaching to handle every situation amazingly well, you can improve reputation and get more sales/. Remember that employee education should be an ongoing process to keep service quality high and hit sales goals. NPS is a customer satisfaction metric that can help you evaluate the quality of your service.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Through after-call surveys. You might confuse them with net promoter score or cSAT, but post-call surveys are a much more specific way to gather real-time feedback. Of course, these surveys aren’t a foolproof way to improve customer service experience. What is an After-Call Survey? 5 Reasons to Use After-Call Surveys.

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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.

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Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While investing in sales training can produce a range of benefits, all of us in sales know it all boils down to the bottom line. Here are the sales training metrics you should be using to measure your success. How to Determine Sales Training Metrics. How to Determine Sales Training Metrics.

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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.

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ProProfs Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

For this, all you need to do is conduct a brand awareness survey! What Is a Brand Survey? A brand awareness survey helps you gauge how familiar your ideal customers are with your brand as compared to your competitors. The best part is these surveys can be created and shared online with tools like ProProfs Survey Maker. .

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

It’s short – about 21 pages with a lot of pictures – but is packed with information you’ll need to know to get the most out of NPS and how to properly survey your customers. Salesforce Survey Shows Customer Experience Now Job No. Don’t let the fact that you’ll have to give them your email address deter you for downloading the eBook.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Feedback collection and analysis Teach your team how to conduct surveys and interviews with customers. Emphasize the importance of collecting and acting on feedback , as well as sharing results with product, sales, and marketing teams. Partnering with your sales team here can help.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

In any case, I clicked on the icon to begin a survey process online, where I saw this: The “overall rating” question gives me more options than the email would have suggested. To complete the survey, I was then asked to: Comment on things I liked or didn’t like. This was optional but might discourage some from completing the survey. .

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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:

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

Alex Tebbs is the Co-Founder and Sales Director at VIA , the UK’s largest Hosted Skype for Business solution. Rachel Ivers worked as an Inside Sales Representative for 8z Real Estate for one and a half years. Katherine Dougherty, MaidPro National Sales Center Director, describes herself as being MaidPro born and raised.

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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.

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Solvvy

JULY 8, 2022

Quantitative metrics allow you to assign a number to the current state, compare it to the past, and track your company’s progress toward your goals. Managers can use those metrics to guide strategy improvements and employee training. When and how to use those metrics. However, not everything is easy to measure.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 25, 2020

Creating a consumer perception survey is the first step — here’s everything you need to know so you can find out what customers really think of your brand. What’s the point of your customer perception survey? Before you start creating your customer perception survey, you need to decide its purpose. Test your timing.

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Education Services Group

APRIL 27, 2022

Instead, I want to do some level setting on some specific metrics and flaws I see in the industry. Imagine the results of a survey that asked customers when they received value from a product, compared to the lavish number we’re recording. Ex: Does successful completion of the Sales to CS handoff deliver earlier value?

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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). The impact goes beyond just efficiency.

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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 any time you link a survey-based score to someone’s career or compensation, bad things happen. He says that the financial metrics most companies use for valuations point you toward the wrong investments.

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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.

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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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Cincom

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Speed, accuracy, and the ability to meet customer demands efficiently are the pillars of success for the sales team. Configure, Price, and Quote (CPQ) software plays a vital role in automating product configuration, pricing, and quote generation helping sales teams to easily handle complex pricing scenarios.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 9, 2021

While NPS is beneficial in many ways, people focus too hard on the metric and lose sight of the big picture. So, the point of that story is not to disparage salad eating behavior at theme parks or shame people for wanting to eat junk and later lie about why they did on a survey. Also, remember me when you send out a survey.

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Interaction Metrics

JANUARY 7, 2025

When tied to strategic goals, it can help you: Improve onboarding processes Reduce churn Increase sales Takeaway #2. Businesses can overlay real-time metrics, bridging the gap between static planning and dynamic CX optimization. At Interaction Metrics, we specialize in designing scientific surveys that go beyond the basics.

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Interaction Metrics

MARCH 27, 2025

When you look at how quickly advertising costs, introductory offers, sales pitches and tools add up, acquiring a new customer typically costs way more than retaining an existing one. Unlike the typical survey approach, our surveys are built on three key principles: reciprocity, real listening, and scientific rigor.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 18, 2022

With so many SaaS metrics floating around, and even more opinions on when and how to use them, it can be hard to know if you’re measuring what really matters. Leading SaaS expert, Dave Kellogg, and ChurnZero CEO, You Mon Tsang, sat down to answer all the questions you want to know about SaaS metrics like ARR, NRR, GRR, LTV, and CAC (i.e.,

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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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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.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2022

Did you catch our Customer Success and SaaS metrics crash-course webinar with leading SaaS expert Dave Kellogg, of Dave Kellogg Consulting ? We’d like to extend a huge thanks to Dave for his expert insights below, which will help you choose and use Customer Success and SaaS metrics in a more nuanced and purposeful way.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is exciting because we communicate with our customers via text whether it’s through inbound support messages, transcribed phone calls, or voice of customer survey responses. Natural Language Processing (NLP) NLP enables computers to process large amounts of text in any language and understand what’s being said.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 5, 2021

So, the strategy is often to move the price around until you find the sweet spot that hits all these metrics. 16:25 Ryan explains how the common tactics we associate with pricing (aka, sales) work on the individual level impressions. Complete this short survey. Please tell us how we are doing!

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

To deliver superior service, track metrics like First and Average Response Time, and First Contact Resolution Ratio. A popular sales structure is Features- Advantages- Benefits. Measuring the Customer Effort Score (CES) through postservice or in-app surveys will give you a good idea of your company accessibility.

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