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Depend on Recurring Revenue? Here’s How to Contain Creation Costs

Braveheart Sales

Hearing these many business leaders discuss containing their customer creation costs, it seemed to be the squishiest of the measurements for companies that have field sales teams. An outside sales call costs $308, an inside sales call costs $50 [Source: PointClear]. Source: com]. They are not one and the same.

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Culture Always Wins: Closing the Cross-Cultural Sale

Pointclear

ITSMA’s member companies see this every day. Our members execute big-ticket cross-border IT services projects. A common cross-cultural misunderstanding in these projects occurs when the service provider gives the customer only good news. customer. “Of asks the U.S. Of course,” answers the Indian systems integrator.

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PowerViews with Ginger Conlon: Trustability & Your Customer's Voice

Pointclear

Click to start video at this point —Asked about what companies are thinking and doing about satisfying their customers in 2012, Ginger notes the combination of the current economy and customers having social media megaphones means companies can’t hide from what customers are saying anymore.

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Marketing Automation is Not Marketing Strategy

Pointclear

But it’s only a tool. Too often, these days, I am hearing B2B marketers mouth claims like, ”We got this new [fill in the brand] automation tool, so now we can reduce headcount.” But it’s only a tool. Marketers thought that the new CRM software would solve their customer service and customer retention problems.

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PowerViews with Dan Waldschmidt: Changing the Conversation

Pointclear

They've helped companies worldwide change the conversation and dominate their industry. Dan tells his consulting clients about well-known brands, like Ford Motor Company, General Electric, and Kentucky Fried Chicken, that only achieved success after their founders failed thousands or even tens of thousands of times. Connections.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

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Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. brings you written content, video, slideshares and infographics, e-publications and even free tools. ” As a modern digital magazine, Sales POP!