One Millimeter Mindset

JANUARY 19, 2022

Surprised to enter 2022 digging yourself out of a huge 2021 customer defection hole? It just could be you left your entire client retention strategy up to the virtual customer retention dog. What excuses do you make to your managers about your less-than-stellar rate of customer retention?

Customer Retention 99

Customer Retention Touchpoint Customers Sales 99

Help Scout

MAY 12, 2021

In this article, we discuss the role of support teams in retaining customers and show how to combine high-quality, empathetic customer service with a deliberate focus on business growth. What is customer retention and how is it measured? 15 practical ways customer service teams can improve retention.

Customer Retention 115

Customer Retention Effort Score Self Service Measurement 115

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And in today’s digital age, customer service is now more important than ever before. So how can you make sure that your customer journey is aligned with your brand expectations? And more importantly, how can you ensure that it’s not costing you sales? What do customers expect from contact centers? .

Customer Journeys 123

Customer Journeys Brands Sales Contact Center 123

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

If you’ve never thought about how you engage customers, then what’s to stop them from becoming actively disengaged? It even echoes back to us in the way we engage within our own organizations. It Starts with A Sale. A customer isn’t a customer until they purchase something from you, right?

Engagement 179

Engagement Social Media Sales Loyalty 179

Totango

MARCH 29, 2022

Building and maintaining each unique customer journey can be a complex task — often with teams needing to understand how each customer communicates, what their needs are, and how best to move forward with individual customer engagement efforts. How Mapping Customer Journeys with Data Helps Marketing + Sales Teams .

Customer Engagement 94

Customer Engagement Engagement Effort Score Customer Journeys 94

ClientSuccess

APRIL 28, 2021

Silicon Slopes, Utah, April 28, 2021 — ClientSuccess, a leading Customer Success Platform, announced today that Kristi Faltorusso has joined their executive leadership team as Vice President of Customer Success. . Faltorusso brings over a decade of experience in Customer Success leadership. and PracticalCSM.

Leadership 59

Leadership Customer Success B2B Customer Retention 59

InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Sales and Marketing Strategy Analysis: Break down competitors’ sales funnels and marketing campaigns. The Importance of CRM Databases in Competitive Analysis Customer Relationship Management (CRM) databases are essential tools for storing and tracking customer information, interactions, and sales history.

Analysis 260

Analysis Marketing Competitive Advantage Analytics 260

One Millimeter Mindset

AUGUST 29, 2018

Ah, the impact of experience conflicts on the performance of our customer retention strategy. That “something” completely disrupts customer experience equilibrium. Perhaps experience conflicts are more important when detected prior to acquiring customers than they are when they occur during post-sale execution?

Customer Retention 60

Customer Retention Strategy Customer Experience Comparison 60

ClientSuccess

APRIL 28, 2021

Silicon Slopes, Utah, April 28, 2021 — ClientSuccess, a leading Customer Success Platform, announced today that Kristi Faltorusso has joined their executive leadership team as Vice President of Customer Success. . Faltorusso brings over a decade of experience in Customer Success leadership. and PracticalCSM.

Leadership 54

Leadership Customer Success B2B Customer Retention 54

InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The event brought in senior leadership from analytics, CX, insights, and VoC programs from 44 different brands, all with the common goal: sharing how integrated CX is making groundbreaking changes to their companies, customer experiences, and the market as a whole.

Hospitality 260

Hospitality Call Center Retail NPS 260

One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Business growth either leverages profitable leadership communication. How many of your clients have voiced this sentiment, when attempting to traverse execution of pre-sale promises and their post-sale service delivery and execution? As degradation of services became more frequent, I exercised leadership communication.

Leadership 61

Leadership Communication Customer Retention Sales 61

Education Services Group

AUGUST 16, 2022

CS Plans can also help ensure that the handoff between sales and CS goes nice and smooth. For all these reasons and more, I’d say the best Customer Success Plans are developed collaboratively with your customer and your counterparts in Sales during the pre-sale stage of the customer journey.

Sales 52

Sales Customer Success Leadership Meeting 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2024

Then consider how to intentionally design and execute on customer journey improvements, internal process design, and employee engagement efforts to move the organization closer to those goals. Some organizations find that focusing on retaining customers in volatile times can provide more revenue than sales.

ROI 260

ROI CEM Net Promoter Score Customer Experience 260

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

If you’ve never thought about how you engage customers, then what’s to stop them from becoming actively disengaged? It even echoes back to us in the way we engage within our own organizations. It Starts with A Sale. A customer isn’t a customer until they purchase something from you, right?

Engagement 110

Engagement Social Media Sales Loyalty 110

West Monroe

APRIL 28, 2024

Despite these uncontrollable forces, we find that in most cases, key retention issues stem from one (or more) of these addressable areas. Additionally, there’s sometimes a disconnect between the value proposition sold and what’s delivered to customers—exacerbating the problem.

Software 52

Software Customer Retention Roadmap Sales 52

One Millimeter Mindset

MARCH 28, 2019

Each of us has a customer retention superpower. And our unique qualities, actions, beliefs and behaviors keep customers glued to our sides, year after year. Our customer retention superpowers are more than attaining functional expertise and excellence in our current professional position. What are yours?

Customer Retention 64

Customer Retention Communication Customers Sales 64

ShepHyken

MAY 13, 2024

There are several suggestions on how to be customer-obsessed, but I was especially happy to see one of his major points in all caps: EXPERIENCE IS THE NEW BRAND. In this article, we explain why businesses must understand, calculate, track, and decrease their churn rate to retain customers and grow revenue. What Is Churn Rate?

Customer Service 73

Customer Service Loyalty Programs Customer Retention Metrics 73

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. Tom Hinds, SVP Customer Engagement at Advocate Aurora Health.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

Education Services Group

AUGUST 31, 2022

CCO of Blackbaud, Chris Singh, joined our VP of Customer Success, Peter Armaly for this month’s webinar, to discuss how to embrace the concept of the post-sale environment as an entire ecosystem. With his wealth of knowledge and experience, Chris answered some engaging questions from the audience that I have recapped below.

Sales 52

Sales Effort Score Chief Customer Officer NPS 52

One Millimeter Mindset

MAY 21, 2020

There’s nothing novel about virtual post-sale client abandonment. What is novel about this post-sale scenario, to you, is that now you have to sell virtually. Because what has not changed is that once a coveted contract is consummated, what is the next sales step? In spite of all your pre-sales assurances.

Sales 132

Sales Groups Course Culture 132

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Engaging your investors starts by understanding what they care about. They care that you’re staffed appropriately to serve the needs of your customers, because ultimately that results in revenue. If perceptual or stylistic barriers are holding you back from engaging with investors, reframe your story. Customer retention.

Metrics 98

Metrics Customer Success Engagement Effort Score 98

One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

These 3 Industry40 soft skills are mandatory skills for personal development and leadership success in Today’s and Tomorrow’s evolving, complex business ecosystem. Instead, isn’t it time to develop the leadership soft skills for Tomorrow and the Future? Beyond our current personal development and leadership comfort levels?

Leadership 71

Leadership Communication Industry Knowledge Base 71

ClientSuccess

MARCH 17, 2020

For many people working in the SaaS industry, the term Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has become a blanket ‘catch-all’ term for anything having to do with sales, onboarding, adoption, renewals, and, yes, customer retention. So, do you really need a stand-alone customer retention management solution?

Customer Retention 59

Customer Retention System Management CRM 59

One Millimeter Mindset

MAY 11, 2022

Regardless of your in-person, hybridized, or virtual environments, you have sales quotas and key performance indicators to meet. If you continuously engage in damage control occurring towards the middle of the sale, project, or hiring process, it’s time to take a step back. Make sense? Delivered virtually or in-person.

Innovation 88

Innovation Customer Retention Sales Consulting 88

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Q&A Recap: 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study Results Revealed. With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been in many ways just as challenging as the last. Speakers: Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer, ChurnZero. Marley Wagner , Sr.

Study 52

Study Leadership Customer Success Chief Customer Officer 52

Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

What do you do when you realize that 95 percent of your customer base is tech-touch and you don’t have the manpower to properly engage with and measure this group? Getting Started: Tips for Implementing an Effective Customer Engagement Strategy. How many employees support digital engagement at Aruba?

Customer Engagement 111

Customer Engagement Customer Journeys Engagement Strategy 111

Customer Bliss

JULY 11, 2017

The Ad/commerce space is a major revenue driver at Google, so it was close to a ‘power core’ there and allowed her to work with sales as well. Some include: Customer satisfaction. Customer retention. The Google role allowed her two major advantages: She could understand a full ecosystem of experiences.

Leadership 0

Leadership Customer Experience Report Innovation 0

Verint

DECEMBER 28, 2017

One Millimeter Mindset customer retention moves you and your organization one millimeter outside your current comfort level. One of the biggest differences has to do with how we acquire and then retain customers. More importantly, One Millimeter Mindset customer retention is about today and tomorrow, not yesterday.

Customer Retention 36

Customer Retention Leadership Sales Innovation 36

Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study is out! Especially when they are telling a story about how Customer Success is booming. Without further ado – here’s a quick recap of the 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study! This year, there was a small downtick to 86% for both Product and Sales.

Study 52

Study Leadership Customer Success Chief Customer Officer 52

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It involves measuring customer effort on customer service interactions, such as the number of customer emails received, the length of customer wait times, and the number of customer complaints. This helps to ensure customer satisfaction and builds long-term customer loyalty.

Net Promoter Score 445

Net Promoter Score Customer Journeys Customer Experience Omni-Channel 445

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2022

Your company has surpassed its annual goals for customer retention, referrals, and satisfaction. C-level leadership is thrilled, and the customer experience program you helped develop was instrumental to this success. You clearly aligned your CX goals with what was most important to your organizational leadership. .

Resources 369

Resources Customer Journeys Video Strategy 369

GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

Stage 4 —O perationalize: You begin to re-design your company’s operational processes based on customer insight and other customer experience metrics. At this stage, the cross-functional CX coalition team is also working on engaging the entire workforce in the strategy.

Customer Experience 337

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Metrics Effort Score 337

Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

What do you do when you realize that 95 percent of your customer base is tech-touch and you don’t have the manpower to properly engage with and measure this group? Getting Started: Tips for Implementing an Effective Customer Engagement Strategy. How many employees support digital engagement at Aruba?

Customer Engagement 85

Customer Engagement Customer Journeys Engagement Strategy 85

One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Communication between leadership, management and front line employees. 1st LinkedIn message] Hi Babette, I understand you’re the author of Sales Aerobics for Engineers Blog. I’m working on groundbreaking XXX technology for B2B sales and marketing. When you engage in social communication, you are communicating.

Communication 167

Communication Social Media B2B Conference 167

Innovative CX

JUNE 11, 2024

Frequently, organizations need a reason to do better such as a competitor invading their marketplace, satisfaction levels taking a dip, contact centers having long hold times, product quality is failing, or customer retention is spiraling downward. evaluated for performance against specified customer expectations?

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Contact Center Customer Expectations Customers 52

One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The quality of engagement experience is essential for fueling ongoing, high-quality customer experiences. First, the act of engaging customers encourages both customers and sellers to exchange energy with one another. Or, is the quality of the engagement forceful and overwhelming?

Engagement 74

Engagement Customer Experience Sales Customers 74

Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Digital customer education has traditionally been tied to the post-sale stages of the customer journey—think onboarding and ongoing product adoption. But training can pay dividends before a sale, leading to many more of them. Thought Leadership Think of any well-established company.

Competitive Advantage 52

Competitive Advantage Leadership NPS Sales 52