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Customer retention software: Everything you need to know

Businesses work hard to attract customers, and keeping them around takes just as much effort. According to the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report, half of customers say they would switch to a competitor after just one negative experience—that number grows to more than 80 percent after multiple bad experiences. A “bad experience” can happen at any touchpoint in the customer’s journey, from their first interaction all the way to final sale and beyond.

Cha Ching! How Support and Success Join Forces to Drive Revenue

“You’re not paying close enough attention to your customers.” That’s how TeamSupport CEO Pete Khanna and ProfitSword VP of Sales and Marketing Paul Bennie began their speaking session at the recent TSIA Interact annual conference. This blog provides the highlights from their talk. It was a provocative statement to introduce the session. What did they mean?

Managing distributed teams: 3 ways to build a tight-knit team across time zones

Collaboration today is more global and connected than ever. As leaders of globally distributed teams in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the US—Jessica leads the Revenue Marketing team and Joshua leads the Engagement Marketing team at Asana—we live and breathe this every day. One of the most challenging aspects of managing team members located in multiple regions is team bonding. How do you create tight connections across countries (or counties), and how do you maintain them over time?

Jira Align Blueprint - Roadmaps

Atlassian’s Agile at Scale Solution Blueprints are manuals that connect best of breed scaled agile concepts to the tactical how-to details of implementing those concepts with Atlassian’s agile products. In this video we explore the common challenges associated with creating product roadmaps and address questions such as how much capacity do our team have, how do we visualize our work relative to business milestones, and how can we best communicate progress against the work?