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3 Ways to improve Your Customer Retention Scorecard

Babette Ten Haken

When you take ownership of not only acquiring, but retaining customers, you develop your own customer retention scorecard. After all, they are hired, and compensated, to go out there and hunt prospective clients. Customer retention matters when it is time to renew that contract. Close deals. End of story.

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Are Clients hiding Their Real Business Stories from Us?

Babette Ten Haken

When we sell to them, design for them, implement solutions or engage in customer service activities. Initially, we are excited to do business with these clients, even if they already are existing customers. After all, the prospect of turning new business into repeat business means we bring value to their business tables.

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Are We Storytelling compelling Customer Retention Experiences?

Babette Ten Haken

Yet, the further down the sales cycle we go, these are the stories our prospective clients truly want to hear. Then, when our service teams visit with customers, these stories are so easy to tell. Except these teams do not even realize (or have been told) that they actually can engage the customer in storytelling.

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Client Storytelling involves more than retelling Business Cases

Babette Ten Haken

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where prospective or current clients asked you: “So just how did you do that?” One Millimeter Mindset speaking and storytelling programs are dedicated to: Leveraging Collaborative Business Models and Profitable Workforces to Retain Customers. How did you respond? is available on Amazon.com.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Every industry needs sales so the education you receive working in this role can be immense. B2B is H2H – human to human – and most women can leverage these powerful skills to create lasting connections with prospects, personalize value, and create customers for life. Your sales career project has ups and downs.

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2 ways Customer Skepticism erodes Customer Confidence

Babette Ten Haken

When your story is all about customer skepticism, then prospective customers do not do business with you. Because, for starters, they compare stories with your former customers. If you want to change your story, and your customers’ experiences, contact me. Because your former customers are talking about you.

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Best Business Phone Systems: 35+ Tools to Keep You Smilin’ and Dialin’

Sales Hacker

Innovative leaders even know how to find the most affordable services without compromising on quality and customer service. Customer service. More than 150,000 companies choose Nextiva’s business phone service for a reason. And it’s no longer sufficient to have desk phones that only make phone calls.

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