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Taking Customer Service from Cost Center to Profit Center

Sales and Marketing Management

In spite of this, I have found that how you handle these types of situations can have a very significant impact on the strength of your customer relationships. Stated somewhat differently, customer problems are opportunities in disguise. These conversations with customers highlight a key point.

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Every Great Conversation

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Randy Sabourin The most important things that happen at any organization are conversations. A salesperson who struggles to have meaningful customer conversations, a leader who is misunderstood when implementing strategy, or a manager who prefers to avoid coaching conversations are all negatively affecting their organizations.

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Holistic Customer Service: Why Customer Experience Is a Shared Responsibility in the Company

Pipeliner

The concept of customer service has evolved from a post-sale afterthought to a key driver of business success. Today, it’s not just about solving customer problems but creating an experience that resonates with them at every touchpoint. This brings us to the core concept of holistic customer service.

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How to Enhance Your Business Approach to Customer Service

Smooth Sale

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How to Enhance Your Business Approach to Customer Service. Our collaborative blog offers insights on ‘How to enhance your business approach to customer service.’ ’ Customer service is something that most businesses know they need to get right.

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Do You Ensure a Smooth Running Customer Service Department?

Smooth Sale

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Ensure a Smooth Running Customer Service Department ? Our collaborative Blog provides insights on ‘How to ensure a smooth running customer service department.’. Sometimes the wait for customers is extraordinarily long, and on occasion, the line drops to begin again.

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How to Get Sales and Customer Service Teams Working Together

Zendesk Sell

But this shift towards relationships and away from mere transactions has also revealed one of the fundamental problems in how we think about sales and customer service. The problem is priorities: a sales team’s priority, the thing they’re judged by, is having as many conversations as possible. The length of calls.

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5 best practices for offering excellent customer service

Zendesk Sell

Great customer service is a key part of any successful business. Poor customer service has the opposite effect. According to the NewVoiceMedia’s 2018 “Serial Switchers” report , poor customer service costs businesses around $75 billion a year. Only 5% did not share a negative customer service experience.