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

Retently

Disloyal customers are costing businesses billions. Former CEB Global’s research (now part of Gartner), explained that the level of effort consumers put into interacting with a brand has a direct impact on loyalty levels. How do you know how easy it is for your clients to interact with your business, though? for example).

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Part 1: What is a Customer Effort Score and How Should CSMs Use It?

ClientSuccess

As a customer success professional, you work with scores daily. From NPS to customer satisfaction to customer health scores, you probably know how to calculate many, many complex data points into an easy-to-use score. What is a Customer Effort Score . Want to learn more?

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The Customer Success Playbook: How to Survive and Thrive During an Economic Downturn

Totango

In uncertain economic times, attracting new customers becomes exponentially harder as budgets get tighter and priorities shift. Let’s take a look at four key actions to take right now that will not only help you prove your worth to your customers but will allow you to see instant results. . Dive into Customer Health.

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How to Be a Customer Success Ghostbuster

Totango

Being ghosted by a client – especially one that you’ve put a lot of time and effort into nurturing. There are a number of reasons why a customer may ghost you. It’s important to have a plan in place for how to identify and re-engage customers who may be at risk for churning. How to Prevent Being Ghosted.

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How to Scale Customer Success with Digital Customer Education

Gainsight

For SaaS companies in 2023, it simply isn’t possible for Customer Success Manager (CSM) headcount to keep pace with business growth. That means self-service resources that guide customers through onboarding to fast value realization have become table stakes, for both low-touch and high-touch CS models. Let’s dive in.

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How to Transform Customer Success Into a Profit Center with Metrics and Forecasting

ChurnZero

Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. 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. But Customer Success? Not so much.

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Pulse Europe 2023: How to Drive Proactive Customer Success When You’re an Early-Stage Company

Gainsight

For a long time, proactive vs reactive was a common debate among Customer Success professionals. Now, the verdict is in, and everyone agrees that proactive Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are best positioned to drive value and deliver a better customer experience. Control over the customer experience.