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What Do You Do?… “I’m In Sales…” Try Again!

Bernadette McClelland

’ Or as Dubinsky (1981) notes, most customers consider salespeople as lowly paid, monotonous, uneducated, high pressure, phony individuals who they would never want to meet again. Americans thrive on the sales culture with conferences, think tanks, forums and the like.

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3 Ways Your Value Added Customer Experience Efforts are not Valued

Babette Ten Haken

How are your best value added customer experience efforts sabotaged, both pre- and post-sale? What you do, when you are not actively selling, engineering, coding and serving, adds value to each customer’s experience of how it is to work with you. Instead, value added customer experience becomes your responsibility. .

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Are We reinforcing our organization’s Customer Disloyalty Program?

Babette Ten Haken

Will they take corrective action by increasing product and service pricing? Or will they ask those front-line individuals about the real root causes of decreased sales revenue? Each with their own, branded customer loyalty program. Then, the customer service manager offered to sign me up for a new account, with a new password.

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Professional Communication Soft Skills are more than Talk

Babette Ten Haken

If all you think you do is communicate via presentations, blogging and/or article writing, then you have a perceptual gap about yourself. Because professional communication soft skills create employee and customer experiences: about you and your unique mindset. Especially in industries with STEM and left-brain stakeholders.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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How an Inclusive Storytelling Culture retains Customers

Babette Ten Haken

I read articles and listen to webinars and hear speakers talking about digital transformation of the IoT workplace. Frequently, these end-user stakeholders hold the keys to the type of practical and cost-effective problem-solving which retains customers, post-sale. Do you have an inclusive storytelling culture or not?