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How To Boost Client Retention – Without Customer Service or Account Reps

Sales and Marketing Management

Harvard Business Review estimated that customer acquisition is 5 to 25 times as expensive as customer retention. What’s more, a Bain & Company study found that increasing customer retention rates by a mere 5% boosts profits by 25% to 95%. Ajay Gupta has served as CEO of Stirista since founding the company in 2010 at age 26.

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The Hidden Talent in Your Ranks

Sales and Marketing Management

Rather than battling for new hires in an uber-competitive job market, smart companies are moving to train and promote from within. In fact, Research from Gartner-owned CEB found that median time to fill posts increased by 30 business days, or six weeks, between 2010 and 2017. Tight Times Yield Smart Strategies. According to the U.S.

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The Biggest Threat to Sales Teams in 2018 Isn't Losing Clients

Hubspot Sales

A quick Google search or skim through your favorite sales blogs will show article upon article about how to hire the perfect reps, increase customer retention, and write the perfect sales job description -- for good reason. What if the biggest threat to sales teams isn't losing clients, but losing our teammates themselves?

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What is Smarketing and how do you do it?

Salesmate

Previously, many businesses have conceptualized their sales and marketing teams and functions as two separate entities. In this context, marketers’ job is to produce content and promote the company to bring in as many leads as possible, while the sales team are left to attempt to convert these leads into customers.

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The Sales Leader's Guide to Performance Management

Hubspot Sales

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 years , down by half from 2010.

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Guest Post: Sales Teams Have More to Worry About Than Just Losing Clients

Don on Selling

If you conduct searches on Google and look at popular sales blogs, you will find plenty of articles about what it takes to locate the perfect sales representatives. You will also find information about how to write the best job description for a sales position and how to boost customer retention.

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8 Instagram tips for small business

Pipeliner

Founded in 2010, Instagram has shown insane growth in the previous decade. Not only are most of the international brands active here but small businesses are boosting their sales as well. Without content, you can not promote your products. Instagram gives you plenty of ways of customer retention through interaction.