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Customer 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.
Seven Engagement Practices for a Successful Sales-to-Service Handoff
Effective customer engagement starts with Service and Sales coordination. Know these seven essential sales-to-service handoff practices to help your organization foster continued Customer Success and recurring revenue growth.
How Much Should You Charge for Support?
How much should you charge for Support? It’s a driving question as your organization seeks to drive recurring revenue growth. And it’s a balancing act. Let’s explore a Support pricing model that’s been shown to work equally well for businesses and their customers.
GUEST POST: Sell Services Faster and More Accurately
Company executives understand that selling services alongside core product offerings leads to greater alignment and customer value, while subsequently decreasing the likelihood of customer churn and loss of recurring revenue. Well-defined services and the means to sell them are imperative. so why is selling services so difficult? This article introduces 10 ways to help Sales teams sell services.
Is It Time to Modernize Your Service Portfolio?
Modern, well-defined post-sales service portfolios that combine elements of Customer Support and Customer Success can significantly increase your ability to help customers use and apply products; reduce churn; and expand revenue growth. This article will help you to determine the type of post sales service portfolio you need.
Treat Your Service Portfolio as a Product Line
Service and Success programs are a significant source of revenue. To assure that they yield their maximum revenue potential, treat service portfolios as strategic offerings in the corporate portfolio by assigning dedicated program management resources.
Support Pricing Benchmarks
Setting the correct price for your support programs begins with a baseline understanding of what your market will bear but ultimately the price must be based on the type and level and entitlements offered. The average prices for support programs range from 15.6 percent for a basic level of support to more than 26 percent for a high-end premium offer.
Support or Success – What Type of Post Sales Service Portfolio Do You Need?
Support and maintenance portfolios have been the foundation of many post-sales service offers, yet Support offers alone are no longer adequate to sustain and growth customer relationship value. Modernization of support portfolios and the evolution to customer success-focused programs and offers is the future of post-sales service portfolios. This article will help you to determine what type of post sales service portfolio you need.
Stop Selling Support and Start Selling Success
It is no longer enough to attach a support program to a product sale. Effective Success Sales teams must be able to establish long term service relationships that last and grow well beyond the initial sale.
Your Support Value Proposition is Out of Date
In a subscription economy your support value proposition is likely out of date. If your value proposition is based on promising access to updates and service level response its time to for support value proposition refresh.
Selling Service Value
Selling the value of service is making the case for why the customer is better off with it than without. This article explores the 5 critical steps for establishing a credible and compelling service value proposition.
Top Reasons Why Customers Do Not Buy Services
Why don’t customers buy services? Because they believe they do not need the coverage or that they do not feel that the costs outweigh the benefits. Learn how to overcome customer objections by understanding what customers want from Support.