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Welcome to TSIA Exchange! Here's how to Get Started.Welcome to TSIA Exchange, an online community for you and your team to navigate business challenges along with peers from the best growth and enterprise technology companies in the world. Learn more…Announcement Jerome Peck 807 views 6 comments 5 points Most recent by Jerome Peck About TSIA Exchange -
Success turning Data into Insights that drives Sales?Would you have a success you can share about converting raw customer data into insights to inform the work of your sales reps and CSMs to drive sales (renewal, expansion, etc.)? I enjoyed participa…Answered Doug Caviness 9 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Steven Forth Sales & Revenue Growth -
Solving The Digital Renewal Challenge? (Q&A responses)If you're working to digitize renewals and registered for last week's TSIA Interact, you may enjoy viewing this on-demand session (30 min) entitled, Solving The Digital Renewal Challenge, that I did …Answered Doug Caviness 13 views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by Doug Caviness Sales & Revenue Growth
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Are you using Customer Journey Maps in Customer Service and Support?Customer Journey Maps (CJMs) capture the customer's experience as they interact with your product or service. While Process Maps capture the steps in a process from the company's perspective, CJMs ca…Accepted Answer David Seaton 37 views 9 comments 1 point Most recent by Steven Forth Service & Delivery -
TSIA Blog: Evolving from a “Do No Harm” company to an “Anti-Racist” companyYesterday we published a blog with the results from our very first survey on DEI, as part of our Rapid Research Response (R3) polls. Here's a link: https://www.tsia.com/blog/evolving-from-a-do-no-har… -
How to convince customers to initiate stalled services projectsI am a Senior consultant working for a product company and I work for PSO(Professional services organisation). We sell services as part of license deals or upsell services individually to existing cu… -
Prepaying a budget for fixed-fee services?I have a fixed fee services question for the group. If you offer fixed fee services, do you let your clients pre-purchase a budget in advance? We have a fixed fee services menu and a client that want… -
Is there a trade off triangle for customer successI have been thinking a lot about tradeoff triangles recently. One classic is the project management triangle of Cost-Time-Quality. I have been reading Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned … -
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Virtual classroom toolsWhat tools are you using to deliver vILTs? I am looking for something that is engaging, innovative and immersive to a degree. -
Employee Productivity SuiteWith so many folks now working from home does anyone have knowledge of an employee productivity analytics tool? This is going to sound a bit big brother-e, but I have long thought that a analytics to… -
We are in the process of evaluating a new Customer Success Tool.The challenge is to find all requirements in one platform. It would be interesting to get your feedback on the type of platform your Customer Success Managers use to track: Health Monitoring Lifecycl…Answered Martina Stiegler 52 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Cassandra Vera Customer Success -
Data Analytics Tools for the TradeToday with Customer Support we have selected MS Power BI and the primary data delivery/dashboard tool. However, I know there are other Tools like Tableau that are standard and have various advantage…
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Diversity-Enabling Metrics?This is the Q that I raised during Julian Guthrie's keynote at TSIA Interact: "Can you talk to metrics on how having a diverse, inclusive workforce helps to successfully innovate and to navig… -
Who Should Own Renewals?Is the topic of 'who should own renewals' being debated or controversial within your company? If yes, I'd enjoy hearing how you're going about solving this question. This seems to be a common challen…Accepted Answer Doug Caviness 11 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Larsen Sales & Revenue Growth
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What is preventing your organization from taking advantage of a pricing strategy rooted in value?Many organizations are failing to optimize their customer engagement and are leaving money on the table because they have been unable to implement value-based methodologies. Without having a clear un…Answered Karen Chiang 41 views 9 comments 1 point Most recent by Steven Forth Product Management & Strategy -
Diversity and Inclusion Training OfferWe are in the process of re-evaluating our current Diversity and Inclusion training offer for all employees as well as the various leadership levels. What are some of your top recommendations or &quo… -
What are your best practices for increasing renewal rates through the channel?What have you found to be the most effective in enabling renewals through 2 tier distribution particularly given the current climate? -
Learning Subscription RenewalsHi everyone, Does anyone have any consumption benchmarks they can share regarding likelihood to renew a learning subscription? For example, are you seeing that users who utilize the learning subscrip…Answered Christy Vega 11 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Doug Caviness Sales & Revenue Growth -
What Customer Success innovations are on your roadmap?I was wondering what kind of CS innovation you are considering these days to drive customer value and reduce churn. I wonder if anybody is leveraging any new technologies or trying any new processes.…Accepted Answer Jaime Farinos 92 views 4 comments 1 point Most recent by Steven Forth Customer Success -
How to measure self-service rate in the community?Hi All, I would like to know how can I measure self-service rate in the community? is there a industry standard on how this should be done? And is there any benchmark for this measure? Any insight w… -
Anyone have experience implementing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to generate renewal quotes?Hi All, I'm doing research on this automation topic and interested in the experience of others about practical applications of RPA in the renewal sales workflow. Thanks, DougAnswered Doug Caviness 31 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Jerome Peck Sales & Revenue Growth
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As we embark on Longtail Renewal automation (low dollar / high volume) - looking for best practicesMany hardware / software companies struggle w/ the sales motion and GTM around longtail renewals (these are the renewals that are low dollar, but high in volume or number of quotes). It requires a d…Answered Lynn Fraser 91 views 7 comments 6 points Most recent by Doug Caviness Sales & Revenue Growth -
Feedback CultureGood Day All, I hope everyone is well. Lately, I am hearing a lot of chatter regarding the topic of a "Feedback Culture". I am curious to know if your organization employs the historic annu…Accepted Answer Darryl Benjamin 21 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Patrick Martin Service & Delivery -
How do you get alignment on strategy and connect strategy to execution?I understand that alignment is not a once and done sort of thing but something that needs to be worked towards. But how do you do this? I think we can get out of alignment in three ways: Different pa…Accepted Answer Steven Forth 31 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by Christine Sei Culture & Well-being
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What new techniques are being used to develop customer relationships when delivering remotely?This is a question that came out of our interactive member to member session on "extreme remote services." Companies are concerned it will be harder to build personal relationships with cus… -
Converting temporary solutions (free trials) into digital stratgies and compliant solutionsAs many of you would have experienced, during COVID a number of clients took advantage of 'free trials' from various vendors, and in most cases just stood up a 'quick and dirty' solution in order to …Accepted Answer Sonu Natt 41 views 3 comments 10 points Most recent by Doug Caviness Sales & Revenue Growth -
Why Partners Must Face the Fish in an XaaS WorldDo you have questions for me related to the webinar topic below? Any questions we miss during the live webinar we will be addressing here in the community following the live event. If you did not att… -
eBook vendors for TrainingHey everyone - Curious which vendors you use for your eBooks and DRM solutions? We're currently evaluating a few and would love to know who you love/hate and why. Thanks! -
Data Privacy regulations effects on digital transformation, i.e. Europe and Germany specificHow are you dealing with the data privacy regulations when digitalizing your enterprise solutions? Limiting access do by compliant to user data both internal and customer, not be able to take full us…Accepted Answer Petra Andersson 11 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Steven Forth Service & Delivery