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What is Customer Effort Score (CES) and How to Measure It?

Kayako

For many years companies believed that customer service was the vanguard for building customer loyalty. The Corporate Executive Board’s Customer Contact Council (CCC) surveyed 75,000 B2C and B2B customers over three years and published their research in 2010. But what is the Customer Effort Score ?

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B2B Customer Service vs. Customer Success

Totango

B2B customer service is often confused with B2B customer success, but they are not the same. Despite their differences, however, they do share an intimate relationship – you need strong customer service to achieve customer success. What is B2B Customer Service? Social media.

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A to Z Guide to Customer Experience Definitions and Terms (Updated)

Lumoa

Whether you’re new to customer experience or seeking inspiration, this guide serves as your ultimate resource for exploring and delving deeper into this exciting field. B2B Customer Experience B2B Customer Experience is, simply put, the experience and interactions with your company of a B2B customer.

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5 Ways to Leverage Net Promoter Score to Boost Customer Retention

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One user engagement strategy you can use to boost your customer retention is to make use of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) system. What Is Net Promoter Score? NPS is a metric designed to measure customer experience. Then, customers are asked to explain in their own words why they chose the score they did.

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Trends shaping The Forrester Wave™: Customer Success Platforms report

Totango

With acquisition costs proving too high in today’s constrained environment, many businesses are finally putting greater focus on nurturing existing customer relationships to ensure retention and expansion. The global market research company conducted its first Forrester Wave™ evaluation of top customer success platforms.

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What is Customer Enablement? A Quick Guide for B2B & SaaS

Totango

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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Customer Success Plan for Mature B2B SaaS Firms

CustomerSuccessBox

Like we have goals to accomplish in the to-do list and it has a predefined roadmap laid out to achieve it, a customer success plan is no bummer! It focuses on reaching the business outcomes of the customers, which can’t afford any excuses of delay, whatsoever! Why do you need a customer success plan?