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A Hopscotch Client Retention Strategy will not boost Client Success

Babette Ten Haken

Babette Ten Haken is a STEM design thinker, Six Sigma Green Belt and Voice of the Customer facilitator, forged by her background in new product development, startups, market research and sales. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. Her professional speaker profile appears on the espeakers platform.

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The What You Do Story is Key to Retaining Clients

Babette Ten Haken

Evolving within the relentless pace and cadence of changing Industry 4.0 Babette is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. A What You Do Story is a continuously evolving story. Once a sale is consummated, and a contract comes in-house for execution, the client’s story keeps changing. At least I hope not.).

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2 Ways We create Unforgettably Innovative Customer Experiences

Babette Ten Haken

Innovative customer experiences stand out from what customers are used to experiencing. Also, after the customer service rep, sales rep, engineer, field sales service rep, Quality professional departs, the customer asks themselves: “What just happened?”. Customers cannot get you out of their minds.

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3 Ways to improve Your Customer Retention Scorecard

Babette Ten Haken

Her speaking programs combine her training as a STEM design thinker, Six Sigma Green Belt and Voice of the Customer practitioner with her background in new product development, startups, market research and sales. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. is available on Amazon.com. Image source: Fotolia.

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Are Clients hiding Their Real Business Stories from Us?

Babette Ten Haken

When we sell to them, design for them, implement solutions or engage in customer service activities. Initially, we are excited to do business with these clients, even if they already are existing customers. Babette is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. is available on Amazon.com.

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

Bernadette McClelland

We know that selling has had a bad rap over the years based on the old snake oil guy followed by the desperation the industrial age brought us with an oversupply of product and the aggressive approach to win the business and move that product. Is it customer service? ‘, especially here in Australia. Management? Financials?

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It’s too early to worry about retaining Customers, isn’t it?

Babette Ten Haken

And besides, your customer just may be investing in your imagination, as well. And if you are on a field service team or serve an internal customer service function, you continuously look at the daily, weekly and monthly aggregated topics comprising customer calls. is available on Amazon.com.