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Taking Customer Service from Cost Center to Profit Center

Sales and Marketing Management

When I conduct focus groups or individual interviews with highly loyal customers across a broad spectrum of different industries (e.g., retail, restaurants, medical devices, chemicals), I consistently find that what creates loyalty is the absence of perceived risk. What do profit-maximizing companies do with cost centers?

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

Sales Hacker

She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and lives in Los Altos, California with her two children. We were trying to build a sales team with a group of financial service representatives that were good at customer service but had not interest in selling. We were not moving the needle.

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