article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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. The CRM: A Key Customer Retention Tool. Make it easy for your customers to succeed by providing the tools they need to hit the ground running. Use Automation Tools.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

4 Trends Shaping B2B Marketing in 2011

Pointclear

It’s true that B2B marketers are embracing social tools as a way to both connect with customers and grow their businesses. 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?

Trends 180
article thumbnail

Overloaded And Overwhelmed

Partners in Excellence

In some cases, smart companies re-engineered a lot of what they did, slimming things down and doing what they could to eliminate unnecessary workloads. As our networks expand, and the tools we leverage to network, the rate of distraction and overload skyrockets. Adding technology, new apps, new systems and tools.

article thumbnail

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

Sales Hacker

LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a relationship-based digital selling tool that is designed to help you do just that. 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. Go to sales.linkedin.com to try it out for yourself.

article thumbnail

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?

B2C 182
article thumbnail

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?

B2C 100