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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. Smart companies saw the possibilities of cyber customer service from the beginning, and jumped right on that bandwagon. It was a huge leap forward for CS-kind, but email was about to be eclipsed by social media.

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4 Trends Shaping B2B Marketing in 2011

Pointclear

Social media = Lots of room for improvement. 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. Social media is like baseball, says Brian Watkins, Social Media Manager of Adobe. Why is that?

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

Crunchbase

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. They want to know more information, connect with you on social media, or are already confident they are ready to make a purchase. Inbound sales.

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The Different Inside Sales Roles Explained

Factor 8

lead forms or inbound calls), qualifying, and routing them to the appropriate sales channel. That means these folks need more product training, more business acumen training, social media, and more robust sales skills. (We We like Vengreso and Sales for Life for social media skills). Won the business? Congratulations.

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The Power to Delight: Inspiring Quotes on Customer Success

Mindtickle

Tweet This: Companies need to prove their worth… if they wish to win their customers’ loyalty.’. Tweet This: Focus less on being at the top of every social media channel and more on building easy ways for customers to contact you. Kaiser Mulla-Feroze , CMO at Totango. Richard White , Founder & CEO at Uservoice.

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The Power to Delight: Inspiring Quotes on Customer Success

Mindtickle

Tweet This: Companies need to prove their worth… if they wish to win their customers’ loyalty.’. Tweet This: Focus less on being at the top of every social media channel and more on building easy ways for customers to contact you. Kaiser Mulla-Feroze , CMO at Totango. Richard White , Founder & CEO at Uservoice.

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Overloaded And Overwhelmed

Partners in Excellence

In some cases, smart companies re-engineered a lot of what they did, slimming things down and doing what they could to eliminate unnecessary workloads. An ever increasing number of channels conspire to interrupt us, each demanding attention, or at least distracting us enough to decide whether they merit attention.