Would love to hear from this group on high level how you're handling (sales) reference calls when it comes to the enablement + contact hygiene piece - how do you get your teams to consistently keep references up to date, and anyone have any best practices on setting the right expectations with your sales team on the type of references you can provide?
ReferenceEdge has a "profile update reminder" feature where you can send a request for reference profile updates. It's not perfect, but it helps automate. I've seen contests with incentives work well too. Teams love to compete against each other.
Any thoughts Andru Creighton
Rebecca Jukoski may have some good insight here!
Heather Quitos Mary Green A strong best practice to help manage program hygiene is to put the onus on the account teams and/or CS teams, mixed with tool automation. Programs are only as strong as the customers who are members, and they are only going to provide value if they are willing to do so. I've seen customers run quarterly reports on who has participated in activities and who has not. From there, they filter one step further to show anyone who was not requested and anyone who was requested but received a lower feedback score. That list can then be shared with CS/account teams to review and update. Our customers find out a lot of information just by organizing the data and asking for input from the teams who own the relationships. Orca customers take a two-step approach beyond that report. First, set up reminders to check in on the status of advocate health. Second, set up automation called Classifiers that automatically help maintain a healthy pool of advocates. For example, if an advocate’s health score drops to "yellow" or has a renewal coming up in 30 days, Orca will automatically pause them from the program until resolved. This gives stakeholders peace of mind that anyone who is available will meet a predetermined standard. Happy to share more!
