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A Hopscotch Client Retention Strategy will not boost Client Success

Babette Ten Haken

If you practice a hopscotch client retention strategy, do not get your hopes up. Based on the quality of customer insights you have gleaned by going off-script in your conversations? Or do you automatically follow what the system tells you to do next? She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association.

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3 Ways to improve Your Customer Retention Scorecard

Babette Ten Haken

I offer the following three ways to improve the health of your customer retention scorecard. Once they consummate the sale, and the contract is signed, they hunt up their next deal. Customer retention matters when it is time to renew that contract. Not how awesome the pre-sale activities and customer courtship are.

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What Do You Do?… “I’m In Sales…” Try Again!

Bernadette McClelland

We know that selling has had a bad rap over the years based on the old snake oil guy followed by the desperation the industrial age brought us with an oversupply of product and the aggressive approach to win the business and move that product. Is it customer service? ‘, especially here in Australia. Management? Financials?

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3 Strategies to remain On Track yet go Off the Beaten Path

Babette Ten Haken

A great place to start learning how to reach across departmental silos, and the operations-business abyss, is to pick up a copy of my book, Do YOU Mean Business? Then, follow up! She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. I offer 16 Industry 4.0 is available on Amazon.com.

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3 Common Scenarios scream for Innovative Customer Retention

Babette Ten Haken

Actually follow up!!!!! How can you make the critical-to-service-quality-delivery improvements to increase overall customer experience and rate of customer retention? To learn more about creating, implementing and continuously executing an innovative customer retention strategy, contact me.

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Create a Toxic Customer Exit Strategy and save Your Sanity

Babette Ten Haken

In spite of all of the bravado the customer feeds you, when they sign your contract. I offer the following scenario to you. One of my clients secured my consulting services because he wanted to grow his business. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. A hard call, yes.

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5 Questions to create a Collaborative Customer Experience Strategy

Babette Ten Haken

The excuse I hear is that “we are thinking about implementing a customer experience strategy.” As a result, I follow up by asking these five questions to determine the root cause for the presence or absence of a CX program. First, who owns (or will own) customer experience in your organization? is available on Amazon.