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

Sales and Marketing Management

From a business standpoint, it’s imperative to provide customer service across a multiplicity of channels, too. Sometime in the 1960s, large companies realized that they needed a dedicated department to handle customers’ orders, concerns, queries — and complaints. Operators Are Standing By. Thus the call center was born.

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Creating A Customer-Centric Strategy

Sell Integrity

Even for companies that see the value in customer-centricity, it can be challenging to create and sustain a customer-centric culture. more than other companies in the previous year. It’s the product of a strategy that extends across the organization and is central to the way you do business. Why Customer Centric Firms Are Successful.

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3 Facts About B2B Buyer Experience You’re Probably Ignoring

Sales Hacker

For many of us, that’s also the primary channel through which we make an increasing number of purchases. For this specific survey we spoke to more than 300 B2B buyers, representing a cross-section of goods and services, company sizes and vertical markets. Clearly, companies should work to close this costly gap with professional buyers.

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Outbound Sales vs. Inbound Sales: How to Win Big With Each Strategy

Crunchbase

Any company involved in selling needs to decide where to center its efforts: outbound or inbound sales. However, the primary difference between outbound and inbound sales for companies is where the lead originated. An inbound sale begins with the prospect reaching out to your company. Inbound sales.

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21 Salespeople Reveal the Worst Sales Advice They Ever Got

Hubspot Sales

Not only did this hurt my credibility as a salesperson and my company's credibility as a business, but it ingrained prospecting habits that are ultimately unsuccessful in the long term as buyers get smarter about what solutions exist. Smart companies always want to keep good people. 6) “Trade up in jobs to get a promotion.”.

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The Perils of Piecemeal

Cincom Smart Selling

Smart companies don’t have software initiatives; they have business initiatives that drive software purchases. Customers today are looking for large companies to deliver solutions instead of products. You’ll find it hard to track your dealer channels. Smart companies consider their front-office processes strategically.

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4 Trends Shaping B2B Marketing in 2011

Pointclear

A mere 12% of business executives say their companies are using social media effectively, according to a recent study by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Sometimes, it’s because they are unsure of the real value, and sometimes it’s because they aren’t sure how to approach social channels. Why is that?

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