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Top Service Challenges for 2020
Welcome to 2020! What do you consider to be the top challenges for your service organization in the year ahead? Hiring, training and retaining staff? Transitioning to a subscription model? Implementing new service technologies? Redefining your service portfolio? Adopting success practices? Satisfying and retaining customers? Expanding revenue?
Success Marketing and Portfolio Management
Technology service programs are evolving to offer new value and benefits such as use and adoption assistance and resources to help attain successful outcomes. As technology service programs change service marketing must evolve beyond selling the initial service engagement and focus on sustaining and growing relationship value.
The Digital Transformation of Support
The digital transformation of support is defined by an increased use of digital technologies to improve and extend core support processes and enable new service capabilities. Digital transformation includes human-assisted, self-assisted and fully automated support transactions. This article defines and introduces key characteristics of the digital transformation of support.
How Organizational Structure Limits Your Ability to Achieve Service Outcomes
The current organizational structure of your Services team and alignment with other customer facing resources may inhibit your ability to retain customers and expand relationship value. Organizational alignment, increased cooperation, and shared goals are key to customer retention and revenue expansion initiatives.
Top 10 Customer Success Stats
The fundamentals of Customer Success are not new, the general concept has been around for some time, but current practices suggest that something more profound is happening across the industry. This article defines the state of customer success and introduces Top 10 Customer Success Facts.
Six Customer Success Activities You Need
Customer Success is a series of interrelated activities performed throughout the customer relationship lifecycle. This article identifies and defines critical success activities.
Customer Experience vs. Customer Success – Similarities and Differences
The terms Customer Experience (CX) and Customer Success (CS) are commonly used within the service industry. Sometimes CX and CS are used to describe the same or similar things and other times to describe complexly different actions, activities and outcomes. This article offers definitions for each term and identifies similarities and differences between CX and CS.
5 Principles for Service Success in 2020 and Beyond
There are many approaches to achieve service success and each company must chart its own unique course. Regardless of the path, there are five principles that all companies must embrace. Every company must have an established CX plan, attainable goals, well-defined service programs, optimized service capabilities and the means to measure and improve performance. These five principles establish the foundation from which to define, execute and achieve tangible, positive service outcomes.
The Three Most Important Characteristics of a Support Web Site
The primary objective of a support web site is to help customers find the information and resources they need quickly and intuitively. Well-designed support web sites encourage customers to invest their time to explore and discover the information they need. This article introduces the three most important characteristics of a web support site.
Using Net Recurring Revenue to Identify Customer Service Opportunities and Risks
Net Recurring Revenue is a comprehensive indicator that reveals the extent to which you are retaining, expanding and growing customer relationship value. Examining the specific underlying elements that contribute to the calculation of Net Recurring Revenue provides the necessary insights to identify the root causes of churn, attrition and contraction. In addition, examining the reasons for revenue growth presents opportunities to embrace and expand practices that encourage expansion of relationship value.
The Journey to Customer Success
The term Customer Success seems to permeate the industry with nearly every company engaged in some type of success initiative. The focus and awareness of Customer Success is timely and refreshing. This does not imply that technology companies have not been focused on making customers successful in the past, but this emphasis on Customer Success creates a new level of awareness and commitment to truly impacting customers’ ability to derive benefits from technology. Customer Success has profound implications for the ways that companies engage, serve, and retain customers.
This article introduces four key milestones to help you define essential Customer Success capabilities.
Support Imperative: Track and Report Defects
Support Imperative: Track and Report Defects. If a customer took the time to report an issue, Support has the obligation to document this event.