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2022 Customer Service Quality Benchmark Report: A roundtable on support strategies for the year ahead

Intercom, Inc.

With the 2022 Customer Service Quality Benchmark Report , we wanted to look deeper than individual metrics. Here are a few key takeaways: An Internal Quality Score offers a more holistic view of an agent’s strengths and opportunities for growth and helps organizations gain insight into their teams’ work.

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Raise, Sell, Merge, or Scale? How to Navigate the Market Downturn.

SaaSOptics

Raise, Sell, Merge, or Scale? In this article, we’ll help you determine the next best step for your business and provide guidance on whether you should raise, sell, merge, or scale your SaaS. The acquirer gets an opportunity to grow market share without doing the heavy lifting of growing and scaling an existing business.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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Four ways customer education helps support the Customer Success team

ChurnZero

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. But as a company scales and brings in new accounts, CSMs can start to feel like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory—the customers keep rolling along faster than CSMs can properly manage them! Lighten the load CSM’s normally carry.

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Conversational support isn’t just a nice-to-have – it’s make or break

Intercom, Inc.

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Increased business efficiency (58%).

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Help desk metrics: Elevate your customer support with the right insights

Intercom, Inc.

But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? This can empower teams to take strategic action to improve their overall support experience for customers. This metric represents the average amount of time it takes your customer support team to settle a case once it’s opened.

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Ultimate Guide to B2B Sales Hiring and Management

OpenView Labs

What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. What’s your biggest weakness? Continuously hiring, managing, and retaining the right team can be incredibly difficult and time consuming—if you don’t have the right tools and processes in place to make it scalable, that is. Conducting interviews. Onboarding.