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Are You a Salesperson or a Customer Service Person?

The Sales Hunter

.” Your job description says “sales” and you’re part of the sales team. If that’s the case, then why are you acting like a customer service person? I’m not bashing customer service people. Sales managers, what behavior are you rewarding?

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How to Get Sales and Customer Service Teams Working Together

Zendesk Sell

But this shift towards relationships and away from mere transactions has also revealed one of the fundamental problems in how we think about sales and customer service. The problem is priorities: a sales team’s priority, the thing they’re judged by, is having as many conversations as possible.

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Crisis management in sales: How to act before, during & after a crisis

Salesmate

How to act when then the crisis is coming. As a leader or a sales manager, it is necessary for you to keep an eye on the emotional health of your teammates. These businesses have realized that investing in new software or service is not the priority of their prospects at the moment, but survival is. Check on your team.

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Leading Your Team to Success: 3 Key Competencies of a Sales Manager

criteria for success

What makes an effective sales manager? Acting as sales manager can be a difficult job because you wear two bulls-eyes: one on your front and one on your back. Your senior management is pushing for results, numbers, revenue, and profit. Your sales people are looking to you for guidance. Mentorship.

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Sales Management Training: 9 Keys for a High-Velocity Team

Marc Wayshak

If so, you might often find yourself thinking, “I feel like with just a couple of small tweaks, we could be making so many more sales…”. One of the most common questions I get from sales managers is, “How can I make some small changes that will allow my sales team to sell significantly more?”. Scalable offering.

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How to Apologize to A Client In Sales

SalesFuel

Apologizing is an art form that is the backbone of customer service…” writes Rachel Cagle for SalesFuel. This, according to Tim Riesterer , is known as the “service recovery paradox.” But proper apologizing is essential to customer satisfaction. How to Apologize to A Client First, act quickly and take responsibility.

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2018 Sales Management Critical Issues, Part 2

Partners in Excellence

This isn’t the result of sales people being sloppy with what they are doing, it is the unwitting end result of the complexity built into too many of our organizations. Simply the act of getting things done within our own organizations diverts huge amounts of time from selling activities.