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How customer expectations are rising – and what to do about it

Intercom, Inc.

Nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. For example, more customers than ever have had to pivot to online shopping; for many, this has come with an added level of stress due to factors like shortages in supply chains and delivery delays. With empathy. “I

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Annual Planning for Sales Organizations: Headcount, Quotas & Territories

OpenView Labs

Headcount Planning. But headcount planning is often a useful place to start because the inputs required to make decisions are the least dependent on factors outside of the sales organization. This decision will drive many of your other headcount decisions. How many AEs can the infrastructure of the sales organization support?

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2022 customer support trends: How support leaders are adapting

Intercom, Inc.

Reduced headcount, longer working hours, and a spike in queries have led to burnout. They go big on human support to meet demand, and they end up having to backtrack and cut headcount as costs skyrocket. Are there any other options companies can look at instead of reducing headcount? Support teams seem to be suffering here.

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Expansion is a Team Sport: Strategies for Aligning CS and Sales in 2024

Totango

If Sales over-promises what the customer can achieve with your product, then CS has been set up to fail when it comes to onboarding. Totango + Catalyst offers a number of pre-built program templates to improve the efficiency of your team, including automating renewals, navigating business reviews, and managing onboarding projects.

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BrowserStack’s Mark Rudden on hypergrowth in a global pandemic

Intercom, Inc.

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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12 Customer Success predictions and trends for 2023

ChurnZero

First, digital CS will become a way of life due to flat or reduced headcount. AI can also simplify data unification by providing more streamlined, intelligent processing for the people, teams and systems that need accurate insights to build better businesses. A few common themes emerged. Firefighting is no longer an option.

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Four steps to build a digital customer success strategy from scratch

ChurnZero

Subjective internal: Results of periodic business reviews, Customer Success Manager (CSM) sentiment, engagement and responsiveness, customer fit within the ideal customer profile (ICP). Like us, many companies will start considering size, such as customer-company headcount, or product type. It can be highly effective for all customers.