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Customer retention is the new conversion

Intercom, Inc.

It turns a previously complex sales process into a simple sales processes with self-serve sign-up. Most importantly, subscription businesses enable you to think about marketing as a function of delivering customer success, and not just about the transactional “get that customer over the line.” Sounds great.

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Your sales team needs account plans. Here’s how to create them.

Intercom, Inc.

They bring together critical information about your customer, your competitors and your strategy to nurture existing business in a simple document to ensure each customer is set up for success. So why do sales teams often ignore them? The secret here is simple: ask the customer.

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Effective real-time marketing

ECXO

According to the survey, about 50 percent of organizations that use real-time analytics say they have measured an increase in customer retention, loyalty and revenue growth. Almost 75 percent have increased spending on real-time customer analytics. Those companies are using real-time marketing. The full Report is available HERE.

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How Support Teams Can Improve Customer Retention

Help Scout

In this article, we discuss the role of support teams in retaining customers and show how to combine high-quality, empathetic customer service with a deliberate focus on business growth. What is customer retention and how is it measured? 15 practical ways customer service teams can improve retention.

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Eyes on the future – How to predict your revenue with sales forecasting

Intercom, Inc.

We all know it’s impossible for a sales team (or anyone for that matter) to predict the future. But with rigorous sales forecasting, they can actually get pretty close. But forecasting isn’t as easy as asking your sales reps to give you a number. What is a sales forecast? Sales forecasting has many major benefits.

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5 lessons learned starting a new team within our sales organization

Intercom, Inc.

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. The opportunity emerged out of a shift in how we practice sales. Starting a new sales team is not unlike doing improv.

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Five Best Customer Retention Software Solutions for Customer Success

Totango

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn.