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Discussion List
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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 … -
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…
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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… -
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, Doug
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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… -
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 … -
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… -
"Service Catalogue" - is there a better name for our catalogue of packaged service offers?For years we have been listing our packaged service offers in a catalogue that we call our "Service Catalogue". (This is internal for now but will eventually be customer facing.) We are now… -
Are you maintaining Social Presence (e.g. Twitter, Facebook etc) for each of your business lines?Are you maintaining Social Presence (e.g. Twitter, Facebook etc) for each of your business lines like Consulting, Support and Training? Or are you maintaining only 1 Social Account for all of them e.… -
Microlearning & Educational ServicesToday those in the education space see that the popular topic is shifting towards microlearning content. Any tips or recommendations on resources for newbies? If you have taken this approach, any tre… -
Covid Impact on Marketing Strategies & Lessons LearnedExplain how your marketing approach has changed during Covid and what lessons have you learned? Assuming most had to refocus their efforts towards digital, will you continue down that route once the …
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Role for PS RevenueDoes anyone have a role specialized to generate Professional Services revenue. For example, during the sales process the customers gets handed off to a specialist who creates the right success prescr… -
How are you using website analytics to align with future business strategies?Hello, TSIA community! I am curious if anyone has seen trends regarding an uptick around eCourses vs. scheduled virtual instructor-led training courses on your website? I assume that some customers p…
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What are best practices in connecting value promises made during sales to value delivered?Marketing, pre sales and sales often make value promises, including providing ROI calculators. What are the best practices in connecting these value promises to the value actually delivered by custom… -
No Letter in LAER Stands AloneDo you have a question for me related to the webinar topic below? Please ask your questions here If you did not attend the event and would like to access it on demand, click the link below access the… -
The Building Blocks for an XaaS Partner FrameworkDo you have a question for me related to the webinar topic below? Please ask your questions here Any question we miss during the webinar we will be addressing here in the community following the live…
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What new ways have you found to maintain and grow customer engagement since COVID?For example, turning physical offerings into digital ones, increasing touch-points, etc. -
What has been the biggest COVID driven change in the way you do sales?How has COVID impacted new business generation and led to a change in the modus operandi or process of your sales? -
Are you seeing an increased demand from clients to outsource?We are seeing in some regions that more clients are looking to outsource, including people and assets (trends similar to 2009/ 10), in an attempt to optimise costs. Are others seeing the same? Or ar…
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Partners accessing customer data & AnalyticsHello community! Are XAAS Editors partnering with Channel Partners giving access to data & analytics for free or do Channel partners have to pay fees for accessing these precious customers data &… -
What new skills are needed for customer success to be effective in times of economic uncertainty?Customer success does need new skills. How are people helping management and HR understand the new skills needed for customer success? Customer success is very different from customer support but not…
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Outcome Selling & Renewal Value Management—Successful joint ownership of AER (Adopt, Expand, Renew)The Outcome Selling and Renewal Value Management webinar covered the importance of alignment after the Land activities prior to customer onboarding and Adoption plays. This alignment is ideally 'join… -
What's successful for improving Channel performance in long tail renewals?What tools and processes have you found essential for improving long tail renewals of your Channel customers? What have you found to be your biggest challenges in this area?
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How has COVID-19 impacted your investment priorities this year?What are the main priorities in terms of investment in your projects facing COVID-19? -
Identifying best PSA system solutions for delivering ProServicesWhat are some of the PSA (Professional Service Automation) solutions that you have had especially good experience with for delivering Services? -
What Persuasive Tactics are you Using for Driving Virtual Training?For those who are currently conducting customer training, can you share any success stories on persuading customers who want to wait for ILT, both present and future, to not wait and take on alternat…
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How to react facing big discount request for recurring contracts or x% cut in PO for project ?Customers asking for big discounts in recurring contracts (M&S). In some cases, they are just imposing a cut of 20% in every PO for every project until the rest of the year. How to react? -
Outcome Based ThinkingWhat are some examples of how you have promoted or adopted "Outcome Based Thinking" in your Services
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What tangible expectations have been changed as "Outside Sellers" have become "Inside Sellers"?The vast majority of our Services salesforce are "outside" sellers -- who are quickly learning the ways of the "internal seller" world. We've been working to rapidly evolve expect…