Product¶
Product Adoption¶
Product Utilization Enablement involves a comprehensive set of activities and strategies aimed at ensuring users continuously engage with and derive value from a product beyond initial onboarding. This includes facilitating user education, providing in-app guidance, offering proactive support, collecting user feedback, and conducting regular value realization check-ins. The primary objectives are to drive ongoing usage, encourage feature discovery, and integrate the product seamlessly into users' workflows. By focusing on these areas, organizations can maximize user satisfaction, reduce churn, and create opportunities for customer expansion, ensuring that the product consistently meets the evolving needs and goals of its users.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Activation Rate | Activation Rate measures the percentage of users who reach a predefined milestone that signifies meaningful initial engagement or product adoption. This milestone, often referred to as "activation," represents the moment when users experience the core value of the product for the first time. |
| Customer Churn Rate | Churn Rate is the percentage of customers who stop using a company’s product or service during a specific period of time. It reflects the rate at which customers leave or cancel their subscriptions, typically used in SaaS and subscription-based businesses. |
| Trial-to-Paid Conversion Rate | Trial-to-Paid Conversion Rate measures the percentage of users who sign up for a free trial or freemium version of a product and subsequently upgrade to a paid subscription or plan. |
Product Adoption and Use¶
This activity guides customers from their initial interaction with a product through to achieving meaningful value. It begins with onboarding, where users are introduced to key features and functionalities, followed by ongoing education and support to encourage continued engagement. By focusing on driving adoption, reducing time-to-value, and promoting deeper product usage, this process ensures users form lasting habits around the product. Effective execution enhances customer satisfaction and retention, while also creating opportunities for growth by aligning the product’s capabilities with user needs and business goals.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Customer Retention Rate | Customer Retention Rate (CRR) measures the percentage of customers a company retains over a given period. It reflects the ability to keep customers engaged, satisfied, and loyal to the brand, minimizing churn. |
| Customer Support Tickets | Customer Support Tickets is a classification metric that organizes customer support inquiries into predefined categories, such as technical issues, billing problems, product questions, or feature requests. This helps identify trends and prioritize areas for improvement. |
| Daily Active Users | Daily Active Users (DAU) measures the total number of unique users who engage with a product, app, or website on a given day. Engagement criteria may vary by product, such as logging in, completing a transaction, or performing a specific action. |
| DAU/WAU Ratio | DAU/WAU Ratio compares the number of Daily Active Users (DAU) to Weekly Active Users (WAU) over a specified time period. It represents the proportion of weekly users who engage with your product daily, offering insight into how often users return. |
| Drop-Off Rate | Drop-Off Rate measures the percentage of users who leave a process, page, or journey before completing a desired action. This metric identifies points of friction or disengagement, helping you optimize user flows for better retention and conversion. |
| Error Rate | Error Rate measures the percentage of errors or failures occurring during a specific process, interaction, or system operation. It reflects the quality and reliability of a product, service, or workflow. |
| Exit Rate | Exit Rate is the percentage of visits to a specific webpage or app screen that end with the user leaving the site or app entirely. It shows how often a particular page or screen is the last one visited during a session. |
| Feature Adoption / Usage | Feature Adoption measures the percentage of users who actively engage with a specific product feature over a given period. It indicates how successfully a feature resonates with your audience and integrates into their workflow or usage patterns. |
| First-time User Conversion Rate | First-Time User Conversion Rate measures the percentage of new users or visitors who complete a desired action, such as making a purchase, or subscribing during their first interaction with your product or service. |
| Immediate Time to Value | Immediate Time to Value (ITTV) refers to the time it takes for a customer to experience the initial, meaningful value of a product or service after their first interaction. It focuses on the speed at which customers realize a quick win or tangible benefit. |
| Monthly Active Users | Monthly Active Users (MAU) is the total number of unique users who engage with a product, service, or platform within a given month. Engagement can include logging in, performing key actions, or interacting with specific features, depending on the product’s goals. |
| Number of Monthly Sign-ups | Number of Monthly Sign-Ups is the total count of new users, customers, or accounts that sign up for a product, service, or platform within a given month. |
| Onboarding Completion Rate | Onboarding Completion Rate measures the percentage of users who successfully complete the onboarding process, transitioning from new sign-ups to fully onboarded users. It reflects how effectively your onboarding flow prepares users to engage with your product or service. |
| Onboarding Drop-off Rate | Onboarding Drop-Off Rate measures the percentage of users who begin the onboarding process but fail to complete it. It highlights where users lose interest or encounter obstacles during onboarding. |
| Product Adoption Rate | Product Adoption Rate measures the percentage of users or customers who adopt a product or feature within a specific time period after its introduction. It reflects how well the product resonates with its target audience and fulfills their needs. |
| Product Qualified Accounts | Product Qualified Accounts (PQAs) are accounts (businesses or organizations) that have reached a predefined level of engagement with your product, indicating a high likelihood of converting into paying customers. PQAs represent accounts where multiple users demonstrate behaviors that signal readiness to upgrade or purchase. |
Remark: Compared to a PQA, a PQU, is an individual user who has engaged with a product in a way that signals potential buying interest or authority. This is more common in smaller businesses where users may also be decision-makers. | | Product Qualified Leads | Product Qualified Leads (PQLs) are individual users that have demonstrated meaningful engagement with a product, indicating a high likelihood of converting into paying customers. PQLs are typically identified through specific behaviors that align with the product’s core value.
Remark: Compared to a PQL, a PQA refers to an entire account or organization that has demonstrated significant engagement and activity with a product, indicating a higher likelihood of conversion or expansion. This concept is particularly relevant in B2B contexts where the decision-making process involves multiple stakeholders within an organization | | Repeated Visitors | Repeated Visitors are users who return to your website, app, or platform after their initial visit within a specified period. This metric reflects the ability of your content, product, or service to retain and re-engage users. | | Returning Visitors | Returning Visitors are users who visit your website or app more than once during a specified time period. This metric highlights how well your content, product, or experience retains and re-engages users. | | Revenue Churn Rate | Revenue Churn Rate measures the percentage of recurring revenue lost during a specific period due to customer cancellations, downgrades, or non-renewals. It is a key metric for subscription-based or recurring revenue models, highlighting the impact of customer attrition on revenue. | | Scroll Depth | Scroll Depth measures how far users scroll down a webpage or piece of digital content. It provides insight into how much of the content users engage with and whether they reach critical sections, such as calls to action (CTAs) or key information. | | Session Frequency | Session Frequency measures how often users return to a website, app, or platform within a specific period. It tracks the average number of sessions per user, providing insights into user engagement and loyalty. | | Session Length | Session Length measures the total time a user spends actively engaging with a website, app, or platform during a single session. It begins when a user starts interacting and ends when they leave or become inactive for a predetermined duration (e.g., 30 minutes of inactivity). | | Short Time to Value | Short Time to Value (STTV) measures the time it takes for a customer to experience their first significant value or benefit from your product or service. This metric emphasizes achieving quick wins that demonstrate value early in the customer journey. | | Sign-Up to Subscriber Conversion Rate | Sign-Up to Subscriber Conversion Rate measures the percentage of users who sign up for a product or service and then convert into paying subscribers. It reflects how effectively your onboarding and conversion strategies move users from free trials, freemium plans, or initial interest into paid commitments. | | Stickiness Ratio | Stickiness Ratio measures how often users return to your product by comparing daily active users (DAU) to monthly active users (MAU). It helps evaluate how “sticky” or habit-forming your product is. | | Task Success Rate | Task Success Rate measures the percentage of users who successfully complete a specific task or goal on a website, app, or product interface. It indicates how effectively the design and functionality support user needs. | | Time in App | Time in App measures the total amount of time users spend actively engaging with a mobile or web application over a specific period. It reflects how much value users derive from the app and its ability to capture their attention. | | Time on Page | Time on Page measures the average amount of time users spend on a single webpage. It reflects how engaging or relevant the content on that page is to visitors. | | Time on Task | Time on Task measures the amount of time users take to complete a specific task or goal within a system, interface, or application. It reflects the efficiency and ease of use of your product or service. | | Time to Basic Value | Time to Basic Value (TTBV) measures the time it takes for a new user or customer to achieve their first significant milestone or experience the basic value of a product or service. It represents how quickly the product delivers on its core promise to users. | | Time to Exceed Value | Time to Exceed Value (TTEV) measures the time it takes for users to perceive that a product or service has exceeded their expectations or delivered greater-than-expected benefits. It’s a customer success metric that highlights when a user transitions from simply meeting their needs to experiencing delight or exceeding their goals. | | Time to First Value | Time to First Value (TTFV) measures the time it takes for a new user or customer to achieve their first meaningful experience with your product or service. It represents the point at which a user realizes initial value, validating their decision to engage with your solution. | | Time to Value | Time to Value (TTV) measures the time it takes for a new customer to realize the promised value of a product or service after adoption. It tracks the duration from when a customer begins using the product to when they achieve their first meaningful benefit or milestone. | | Upsell Conversion Rates | Upsell Conversion Rate measures the percentage of existing customers who upgrade to a higher-tier product, add-on, or premium feature after being offered an upsell. It reflects the success of efforts to increase the average transaction value through existing customer relationships. | | Usage Depth | Usage Depth measures the extent to which users engage with the features, functionalities, or content of your product. It reflects how comprehensively users utilize available features, providing insight into their engagement and the product’s perceived value. | | WAU/MAU Ratio | The WAU/MAU Ratio compares the number of Weekly Active Users (WAU) to Monthly Active Users (MAU). It represents the percentage of users who engage with your product weekly out of those who are active within a month. | | Weekly Active Users | Weekly Active Users (WAU) measures the total number of unique users who engage with your product, service, or platform at least once during a specific week. It reflects the breadth of active engagement within a weekly timeframe. |
Product Analytics¶
Product Insights & Performance Analysis entails systematically gathering, measuring, and interpreting data on product usage, user behavior, and feature adoption to guide strategic decision-making. This process is essential for understanding customer interactions, uncovering growth opportunities, and optimizing user experiences to boost both acquisition and retention. By utilizing a combination of quantitative and qualitative metrics, teams can identify areas for improvement, tailor engagement strategies, and align product development with evolving market demands. Ultimately, this ensures that product value is continuously enhanced throughout the customer lifecycle.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Expansion Feature Usage Frequency | Expansion Feature Usage Frequency measures how often a specific upsell-eligible feature is used by existing accounts. It helps assess product stickiness, value realization, and readiness for expansion. |
| Feature Adoption / Usage | Feature Adoption measures the percentage of users who actively engage with a specific product feature over a given period. It indicates how successfully a feature resonates with your audience and integrates into their workflow or usage patterns. |
| Feature Adoption Rate (Ongoing) | Feature Adoption Rate (Ongoing) measures the percentage of active users who regularly use a key product feature over a longer period. It helps track sustained value delivery and product adoption health. |
Product Education¶
Product Enablement is a strategic process focused on equipping go-to-market teams—including sales, customer success, and support—with the essential knowledge, skills, and resources to effectively position, demonstrate, and support a product. This involves ongoing training, development of sales collateral, structured onboarding, and the implementation of interactive tools or demos. By ensuring that all customer-facing roles are well-versed in product features, value propositions, competitive differentiators, and use cases, Product Enablement drives product adoption, accelerates sales cycles, and enhances customer satisfaction.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Feature Adoption Rate (Early) | Feature Adoption Rate (Early) measures the percentage of new users who use a key feature within their first few sessions or days. It helps evaluate onboarding effectiveness and early value realization. |
| Feature Adoption Velocity (Top 3 Features) | Feature Adoption Velocity (Top 3 Features) measures the average time it takes for new users to adopt your top 3 product features after onboarding. It helps assess onboarding effectiveness and early value alignment. |
| First Feature Usage Rate | First Feature Usage Rate measures the percentage of new users who use at least one core feature during their initial sessions. It helps assess early product interaction and onboarding effectiveness. |
| First Session Completion Rate | First Session Completion Rate measures the percentage of new users who complete a defined onboarding or usage flow during their first session. It helps track early-stage friction and product clarity. |
| Key Feature Exploration Rate | Key Feature Exploration Rate measures the percentage of users who engage with a high-value feature for the first time—regardless of whether they complete or repeat use. It helps evaluate feature discoverability and user curiosity. |
| Multi-Session Activation Completion Rate | Multi-Session Activation Completion Rate measures the percentage of users who complete the full activation flow across more than one session. It helps track long-path engagement and sustained activation behavior. |
| Time to First Habitual Action | Time to First Habitual Action measures the average time it takes a user to perform a recurring, value-driving action for the second or third time — indicating the start of habit formation. It helps assess how quickly users are becoming engaged and sticky. |
Product Engagement¶
"Product Interaction Tracking systematically captures and analyzes user behaviors as they engage with a product’s features, functions, and workflows. This activity delivers critical insights into how prospects and customers find value, encounter friction points, and progress through their user journey. Leveraging these insights allows organizations to optimize onboarding, personalize outreach, and inform both product development and sales strategies, ultimately driving adoption and revenue growth."
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Gross Revenue Churn Rate | Gross Revenue Churn Rate measures the percentage of total recurring revenue lost due to cancellations or downgrades over a given period. It helps quantify the direct revenue impact of churn. |
Product Feedback Loops¶
Product Insight Integration involves the systematic collection, analysis, and application of feedback from users and stakeholders to inform and enhance product development as well as go-to-market strategies. This process ensures that valuable input from customers, sales teams, and other sources is continuously incorporated into the product lifecycle. By leveraging insights from real user experiences and sales interactions, organizations can prioritize feature enhancements, quickly address pain points, and align product evolution with market needs. This approach helps maximize product-market fit, speeds up iteration cycles, and promotes strong cross-functional collaboration among product, sales, and customer success teams.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Escalation Rate | Escalation Rate measures the percentage of customer support cases or issues that are escalated to a higher level of support, such as specialized teams, managers, or senior agents. It reflects the complexity of issues and the ability of frontline support to resolve them effectively. |
Product Feedback Monitoring¶
Customer insights collection and analysis is the ongoing process of systematically gathering, organizing, and interpreting feedback from users and customers about a product's features, usability, performance, and overall value. This activity is essential for aligning product development and sales strategies with actual customer needs and current market trends. By utilizing multiple feedback channels—such as surveys, reviews, user interviews, support tickets, and in-app analytics—teams can identify opportunities for improvement, prioritize feature requests, and proactively address pain points. Incorporating customer feedback directly into roadmap decisions enables faster iteration, increased customer satisfaction, and a stronger product-market fit.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Ticket Volume | Ticket Volume is the total number of customer support tickets created within a specific timeframe. It represents the demand for support services and provides insight into user needs, product issues, or service performance. |
Product Improvement Mapping¶
This activity involves systematically evaluating customer feedback, usage data, and market trends to identify and prioritize opportunities for product enhancements that directly impact user satisfaction, retention, and revenue growth. By aligning product development with insights from sales and customer interactions, the process fosters a continuous feedback loop among product, sales, and customer success teams. This collaborative approach maps actionable improvement initiatives to key business objectives, supporting more effective product roadmapping and go-to-market planning.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Exit Reason Frequency (Segmented) | Exit Reason Frequency (Segmented) measures how often specific reasons for churn or cancellation occur across different customer segments. It helps identify patterns in churn behavior and root causes by cohort. |
Product Marketing¶
Product Marketing Strategy is a multifaceted discipline that connects product management, marketing, and sales to drive product adoption, revenue growth, and customer engagement in modern go-to-market environments. This activity involves developing and executing positioning, messaging, competitive analysis, and pricing strategies, as well as orchestrating product launches. It also includes enabling sales teams, crafting compelling value propositions, and generating market insights to ensure product capabilities align with evolving customer needs. The ultimate objective is to achieve cohesive, data-driven communication and alignment across product development, marketing, and sales, thereby maximizing market impact and accelerating growth.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Cross-Sell Conversion Rate | Cross-Sell Conversion Rate measures the percentage of existing customers who purchase additional, complementary products or services, typically during or after the initial sale. It reflects the effectiveness of cross-selling efforts aimed at increasing revenue from existing customers. |
Product Packaging¶
"Product Offering Design is a strategic process focused on defining, structuring, and presenting a product or solution to align with target customers and support company go-to-market objectives. This activity involves identifying key value propositions, configuring pricing and feature sets, clarifying product tiers or versions, and ensuring effective positioning for both self-serve and sales-assisted channels. By shaping how buyers perceive the product, enhancing sales enablement, and driving product adoption, Product Offering Design plays a critical role in achieving market competitiveness and supporting successful market entry and expansion."
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Feature-Based ARPU | Feature-Based ARPU measures the average revenue generated per user who actively uses a specific feature. It helps quantify feature value and its impact on monetization. |
Product Positioning¶
Product value differentiation involves strategically defining and communicating the unique benefits and advantages of a product to its target audience compared to competitors and alternative solutions. This process ensures alignment among sales, marketing, and product teams, directly influencing messaging, pricing, and customer engagement strategies. By continually adapting to evolving market needs and harnessing customer insights, effective value differentiation highlights outcomes that matter most to users, fostering increased adoption and sustaining a competitive edge.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Return Visitor Rate to Product Pages | Return Visitor Rate to Product Pages measures the percentage of visitors who return to your product-related pages after an initial visit within a defined timeframe. It helps track sustained interest and buying intent across the marketing and sales funnel. |
Product QA¶
Product Validation & Enablement plays a crucial role in ensuring the product meets the needs and expectations of customers as well as internal stakeholders, including Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing. This activity involves thorough testing, validating features and workflows, and proactively identifying potential issues that could affect user experience or disrupt the sales process. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential to gather product feedback, develop enablement resources, and support readiness for launch and scaling.
By integrating continuous feedback loops and upholding high product standards, Product Validation & Enablement ensures the product remains reliable, competitive, and aligned with market requirements. This approach accelerates user adoption and supports revenue growth across diverse go-to-market strategies.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Cost of Poor Quality | Cost of poor Quality (COPQ) refers to the costs incurred by an organization due to defects, inefficiencies, and errors in product or service delivery. It includes the financial impact of delivering substandard quality, both in internal operations and external customer-facing activities. |
Product Tours¶
A Guided Product Experience is an interactive walkthrough that helps prospective or current customers explore a product’s core features, understand its value propositions, and navigate common user workflows. These experiences can be self-serve—embedded directly within the product—or facilitated in real time by sales or customer success teams during live demonstrations. By showcasing relevant use cases and streamlining the evaluation process, Guided Product Experiences enable users to achieve meaningful results quickly. They also aid teams in qualifying prospects and personalizing interactions based on user engagement data. This approach accelerates user understanding and adoption, empowering users to explore independently while providing teams with a structured framework for impactful presentations.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Onboarding Satisfaction Score (OSS) | Onboarding Satisfaction Score (OSS) measures the average satisfaction rating given by users after completing their initial onboarding experience. It helps gauge perception of ease, clarity, and helpfulness. |
| Time to First Key Action | Time to First Key Action measures the average time it takes for a new user to complete a product’s primary activation event — often referred to as the “aha moment.” It helps track how quickly users begin experiencing real value. |
Product Usage Scoring¶
"Product engagement assessment involves systematically evaluating how users interact with a product by measuring the frequency and depth of feature usage, user actions, and behavioral patterns. This process enables go-to-market teams to quantify customer adoption, identify key activation milestones, detect early signals of expansion opportunities or churn risks, and tailor outreach strategies. By leveraging engagement data, organizations can prioritize accounts, personalize customer journeys, and optimize resource allocation to drive growth and improve retention."
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Time to PQL Qualification | Time to PQL Qualification measures the average time it takes for a user or account to reach Product-Qualified Lead (PQL) criteria after signing up or starting a trial. It helps track how quickly users demonstrate high intent or sales-readiness via product usage. |
Product Usage Tracking¶
User Engagement Analytics involves systematically collecting, monitoring, and analyzing customer interactions with a product following initial acquisition. This process provides actionable insights into user behavior, feature adoption, and the realization of product value. By tracking detailed usage patterns, organizations can identify friction points, optimize onboarding experiences, personalize customer outreach, and enhance retention efforts. Additionally, these insights support effective upselling and cross-selling strategies. User Engagement Analytics forms the foundation for data-driven decision-making and fosters collaboration among sales, product, and customer success teams, ultimately maximizing customer lifetime value and driving sustainable growth.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Expansion Intent Signal Rate | Expansion Intent Signal Rate measures the percentage of accounts showing behavioral or engagement signals that indicate interest in upgrading, expanding, or purchasing add-ons. It helps identify and prioritize expansion-ready accounts. |
Product Use¶
Product engagement is the process by which users interact with and gain value from a product's features and functionalities. Tracking and understanding these interactions is essential for identifying user adoption patterns, evaluating the effectiveness of onboarding, and shaping customer success strategies. Key metrics include feature usage, session frequency, and depth of interaction. By analyzing these data points, organizations can personalize outreach, enhance user retention, and support expansion efforts based on real product experience.
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Engagement Metrics | Engagement Metrics are data points that measure how users interact with your product, content, or campaigns. They assess the depth, frequency, and quality of user interactions, providing insights into customer interest, satisfaction, and loyalty. |
| Engagement Rate | Engagement Rate measures the level of interaction users have with your content, product, or campaigns relative to the size of your audience. It provides insight into how effectively your efforts capture attention and encourage meaningful user actions. |
Product Utilization Monitoring¶
Product Engagement Analytics involves systematically tracking, analyzing, and interpreting how customers interact with a product after adoption. By examining data such as feature usage, session frequency, user journeys, and retention patterns, teams gain actionable insights into customer behavior and product value realization. These insights help identify opportunities for customer success, expansion, and retention. Additionally, Product Engagement Analytics supports proactive account management, informs product development decisions, and enables tailored customer outreach by aligning engagement metrics with key business outcomes.
Related KPIs
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| Contract Renewal Rate | Contract Renewal Rate measures the percentage of expiring customer contracts that are renewed within a given period. It helps track customer retention, revenue continuity, and CS performance. |
Product UX Feedback¶
This activity focuses on systematically gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing feedback from users and customers about their interactions with a product's user experience (UX). The process involves collecting both qualitative and quantitative insights through methods such as surveys, interviews, usability testing, in-app feedback tools, and support channels. By identifying pain points, areas of friction, and opportunities for improvement, teams can enhance the product's design, usability, and overall experience. Establishing strong feedback loops enables product teams to prioritize enhancements, inform roadmap decisions, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Key Outcomes:
- Improved product usability and satisfaction
- Data-driven prioritization of feature development
- Enhanced alignment between customer needs and product evolution
- Increased retention and advocacy through better user experiences
Related KPIs
| Metric | Description |
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| Complaints Received | Complaints Received refer to the number of formal or informal complaints submitted by customers or users about a product, service, or experience. These complaints highlight dissatisfaction and can cover a range of issues, from product defects to customer service challenges. |