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From the Switchboard to Social Media: A Brief History of Customer Service

Sales and Marketing Management

Smart companies saw the possibilities of cyber customer service from the beginning, and jumped right on that bandwagon. For the first time in decades, email and live chat support made it possible to quickly and easily communicate with a real person instead of a computerized menu or canned response.

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4 Trends Shaping B2B Marketing in 2011

Pointclear

Most businesses have some kind of social presence or plan to have one: Most have attempted a blog or Facebook page, or have at least peeked at Twitter. How do you foster engagement on Facebook? It’s true that B2B marketers are embracing social tools as a way to both connect with customers and grow their businesses.

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26 CRM Techniques and Strategies for Customer Retention

Cience

Your customers are one of your company’s most important assets. Although new sales are important, smart companies also focus on retention. Smart companies work proactively to make their customers feel seen and heard. Canadian brand Instant Pot built a robust Facebook community around its electronic pressure cooker.

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Forget B2B vs. B2C – Long Live B2P Sales & Marketing

Zoominfo

Maersk now has over 63K Twitter followers and 2.45M likes on Facebook. After all, it’s not a business that reaches out to your company for support — it’s a person. As Ann Handley has so rightly said , smart companies lead conversations, not just join them. Do you offer personalized customer service?

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Forget B2B vs. B2C: Long Live B2P Sales & Marketing

Zoominfo

Maersk now has over 63K Twitter followers and 2.45M likes on Facebook. After all, it’s not a business that reaches out to your company for support — it’s a person. As Ann Handley has so rightly said , smart companies lead conversations, not just join them. Do you offer personalized customer service?

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PODCAST 115: Improving Customer Experience: Your Magic Key to Success with Leah Chaney

Sales Hacker

But we just knew, smart companies… It’s not “we”; luckily, I worked for someone that knew that, and I learned this trick and wrote it down. I wish I could say the same about Facebook; I personally am not doing that anymore. Leah Chaney: Yeah, absolutely. Listen, I’m a huge fan of LinkedIn.

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Need to Fill Your Pipeline? It’s Time to Reconsider Your Partner Ecosystem

Sales Hacker

In May 2020, Facebook announced it was buying the gif search engine , Giphy, for $400 million — primarily for its Instagram product. Smart companies, and sales professionals, are leveraging their integration ecosystems to create more sales deals and attract higher valuations. At first, you may be taken aback.