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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?Accepted Answer Doug Caviness 36 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Doug Caviness Sales & Revenue Growth -
What are the 1st Steps Towards Establishing a "Customer Success" Structure?For organizations without "Customer Success" departments, what are some easy first steps to move in that direction (versus upheaval of entire org or conflict with Sales)?Accepted Answer Chris Wright 70 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Phil Nanus Customer Success -
What is the standard range for enterprise support adherence?Some of my members are dealing with increased call volumes. For companies that experience high call times and high average handle times, what is the standard range for enterprise support adherence?Accepted Answer Tishia Beneventi 53 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by David Perrault Service & Delivery -
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?Accepted Answer nahin sanchez 73 views 5 comments 2 points Most recent by nahin sanchez Sales & Revenue Growth -
What offer and pricing actions have you taken in response to the COVID-19 crisis?Members have been asking this about offers and pricing updates, changes and market withdrawals during this time. The quick poll is designed to capture these trends. Feel free to check it out. https:/…Accepted Answer Laura Fay 126 views 8 comments 2 points Most recent by Doug Caviness Product Management & Strategy -
Any recommendations for push routing solutions with Zendesk?We're planning on moving from a pull ticket routing model to a push model. We use Zendesk for our ticketing system. Zendesk does not offer this out of the box and I only see two solutions in the Ze…Answered Larry Aronovitz 67 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by David Perrault Service & Delivery -
In an effort to survive in a down economy, are companies taking the less compassionate route?In an effort to survive in a down economy, are companies taking the less compassionate route of laying people off in tough job seeking times? If not, what options are they using?Accepted Answer Deby Covey 16 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Deby Covey General Technology & Services -
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?
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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…Answered Alyssa Ortiz 30 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Elise Lostutter Sales & Revenue Growth -
Returning to "normal" - what does it look like?As businesses start to re-open in phases what are some things that support centers are doing to ensure that people returning to the office have "clean" equipment? (headsets/microphones) ? …Answered Deby Covey 26 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Lexi Provost General Technology & Services
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How do you combat the issue of agents not logging out?What are your enterprise support centers doing to combat the issue when agents forget to log out at the end of their shift?Accepted Answer Tishia Beneventi 23 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by John Ragsdale Service & Delivery
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What are examples of specific ways COVID-19 has impacted your Services Organization?Are you seeing little to no services impact, improved business opportunities, or negative impact? -
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?Accepted Answer Pierre Raynal 151 views 6 comments 5 points Most recent by Jack Johnson Sales & Revenue Growth -
Are employees eager to use chat when providing support, or do they resist?For those of you who have introduced Chat support in the last few years, how did your employees react to the introduction of chat (not chat bots) in your company? Were they eager to use it, or were t…Answered Joseph Reifel 22 views 2 comments 5 points Most recent by David Perrault Service & Delivery -
Outcome Based ThinkingWhat are some examples of how you have promoted or adopted "Outcome Based Thinking" in your ServicesAccepted Answer Chris Wright 38 views 1 comment 5 points Most recent by Thomas Lah Sales & Revenue Growth
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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…Answered Alex Gershman 56 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by Spencer Hancock Sales & Revenue Growth -
XaaS Channel Optimization - Prioritizing Partners’ Economic Engines(Link) What have been some successful strategies your organization has employed to design offers that are "channel first" and "partner first"? Specifically ones that included new … -
How has the shift to a fully remote workforce impacted Service Delivery and Security?What is the impact of Covid-19 to service delivery organization, as workers must work remote from physical NOC? Have there been security implications to providing remote access for workers?Accepted Answer Paul Bohlman 60 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Stephen Spence Remote Services -
What are the top SaaS outage communication best practices?Qlik is transitioning to SaaS first and I am looking for best practices to manage communication to internal and external stakeholders. With COVID-19, communication is becoming a key factor of succes…Accepted Answer Daniel Coullet 77 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Melanie Gallo Service & Delivery -
COVID-19 Impacts to Digital Customer ExperienceIn the wake of this pandemic how is your digital customer experience strategy evolving? Revised customer engagement strategies? Enhanced customer community plans? Additional plans or changes to onlin…Answered Christina Luna 94 views 5 comments 3 points Most recent by Tim Lopez General Technology & Services -
What concessions are you making to get renewals done?Hi, everyone. Steve Frost from TSIA. We're currently running a poll that talks about how renewal rates are going, and what you're doing with your policies when customers say their procurement or bud…Answered Steve Frost 60 views 2 comments 2 points Most recent by Jack Johnson Sales & Revenue Growth -
What is the expected post COVID-19 business state for changes made to offers and pricing?Hi Everyone, A crystal ball would be helpful to business planning, right? Without one we can combine all our data and insights to form a collective view of where thing are headed in tech, for exampl…Answered Laura Fay 54 views 1 comment 5 points Most recent by David Perrault Product Management & Strategy
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How are you measuring the impact of COVID on your support delivery?COVID-19 is impacting businesses in infinite different ways. For those of us concerned with how we can provide a great experience and be there from our customers through continued support delivery, h… -
Are you extending existing contracts to accommodate customers impacted by the Pandemic?In the wake of this crisis, is your organization changing or extending contract dates for service delivery packages?Accepted Answer Courtney Ellis 74 views 2 comments 7 points Most recent by Jeremy Dalletezze Service & Delivery -
TSIA Exchange Ranks & GamificationAs you use TSIA Exchange and participate in questions, answers, discussions, comments, and reactions you'll earn Badges and increase your Rank. Rank will display on your profile and next to your name… -
Mental Well-BeingRichard Branson says, "If you take care of your employees, they will take care of your clients." What has your company been doing to promote the mental well-being of your employees during … -
What is the COVID-19 Impact to your Delivery Operations?Hi Community, hope you are all staying safe and healthy! By now we hope you've seen our Rapid Research Response content and polls at: (Link) In this community, we'd love to hear how COVID-19 is imp…Answered George Humphrey 48 views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by George Humphrey Service & Delivery