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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales run through the phone, website or customer portal focused on the smallest opportunities and the long tail of lower-value accounts. Company size has no bearing on the willingness to use virtual channels. Virtual channels can raise productivity and lower selling costs, due to less time and expense for travel.

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Surviving Tough Times….

Partners in Excellence

Almost every business faces tough new realities. Time to face reality. It’s critical to face the facts, regardless of how bad they are. Get the data, understand it, and face the music. In tough times, doing the right things with the right customers at the right time is the only way to survive. This is impossible.

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Top 3 Things Your Customer Service Software Needs to Have

SugarCRM

A growing number of businesses today focus on providing exceptional customer service. Thus, finding good customer service software is one of the main challenges faced by companies of all sizes, regardless of their profile. We identified the top three aspects that make such systems competitive for your enterprise.

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How to Increase Sales by Focusing on Customer Service

The Brooks Group

In a world where the customer is in control, happy customers are the secret to growth. . The probability of selling to an existing, happy customer is up to 14 times higher than the probability of selling to a new customer, according to Marketing Metrics. Customers are busy and need a solution quickly.

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COVID-19 Trends – Post-Pandemic Channel Strategy

Apptivo

The pandemic has caused every industry to face changes that they must have planned in the years to come within weeks. In this Apptivo blog, you’ll be getting to know how to plan a proper post-pandemic channel strategy with the best CRM system & CRM tools in a cloud business management software suite.

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Sentiment Analysis—The Future of Customer Service

SugarCRM

For the last decade, surveys have been one of the essential tools to measure customer satisfaction. Even if they do, the survey isn’t always relevant since you can’t evaluate customer satisfaction only from closed-ended questions and at a given time—usually after completing an action. Sentiment Analysis and the Sugar Platform.

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Mindfulness: The Next Level of Customer Service

SugarCRM

Now, this movement has transcended businesses internally and extends into their customer base, again, regardless of their nuances and customer base differences. How do you integrate mindfulness into customer service? Here are a few ways to incorporate mindfulness into your customer service success.