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The Keys To Retaining and Losing Your Customers

Understanding the Sales Force

It’s been quite a while since I’ve written an article about the role that customer service plays in the retention and renewal of customers and accounts. Some products are so exclusive, and so desirable, that crappy customer service might not even stop you from buying again.

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How One Entrepreneur Leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to Build His Business

Sales Gravy

Brian: Why I Started My Business I was in corporate life from the time I graduated college in 2000, all the way up until 2020, and the last four jobs that I had in the corporate world were inside sales and customer service. Listen all Sales Gravy Podcast episodes here. Listen all Sales Gravy Podcast episodes here.

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10 Reasons We Are Seeing More Unicorn Companies Than Ever Before

Gong.io

Companies used to develop products using Waterfall project management — a traditional model based on manufacturing and construction industry projects. It’s never been easier for customers to set up new products — meaning they’re more likely to switch if a product comes with poor customer service. Developer scarcity.

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Top 21 Sales Training Programs and Techniques to Boost Team Performance in 2022

Highspot

And according to Salesforce’s State of Sales Report for 2020 , top-performing sales reps are up to 33% more likely to spend time training with their managers and up to 46% more likely to receive outside training from other sales experts. The courses cover topics ranging from sales to marketing, customer service, and coaching.

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Customer expectations – how are they evolving, what is driving them, what should sellers do to keep up, and how to improve customer experiences

Artesian Solutions

B2B buyers today want a hyper-personalised customer experience. This means they want sellers to listen more, uncover more, be authentic, match up to their exacting customer service standards, empathise with their pain, provoke them into new ways of thinking, and most importantly communicate knowledge, understanding and value.

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7 Practices To Optimize The Use Of Your CRM For Best Performance

Apptivo

billion in 2020 , showing a growth rate of 10.1%. Why does it matter, and how can we optimize these tools to improve sales and customer service? Fundamentally, CRM software is a program that helps company sales teams, customer service teams, and marketing teams achieve three functions. But what is a CRM?

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Understanding the benefits of 360-degree customer view

Salesmate

Organizations first must commit to developing customer-facing teams and start tracking structured and unstructured data. Then everyone from marketing to sales to customer service has a stake in capturing, analyzing, and responding to the data. Drives your customer loyalty. Will they contact customer service?

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