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How To Boost Client Retention – Without Customer Service or Account Reps

Sales and Marketing Management

What’s more, a Bain & Company study found that increasing customer retention rates by a mere 5% boosts profits by 25% to 95%. The fact is retaining best customers remains a challenge for sales and marketing professionals, leading to wasted time and money. You can follow Ajay on Twitter at @realAjayGupta. What to do?

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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. It wasn’t all that long ago when “contacting customer service” simply meant visiting a store or office and talking to the owner or manager. Operators Are Standing By. Reach Out, Reach Out and Touch Someone.

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How to treat every week like it’s National Customer Service Week

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“National Customer Service Week.” It sounds like a made-up holiday that megacorps use to keep their frontline customer service representatives happy. In reality, National Customer Service Week has been recognized by U.S. The best ones even make it to Twitter. Code One CPR. With the sales team.

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They Actually Said My Sales Lead Generation Is Old School

No More Cold Calling

But here’s what they’re missing on referral B2B lead generation. Instead, I prefer to focus on sharing insights and tips for referral sales lead generation. There’s a reason I’m recognized as America’s leading authority on referral selling and a thought leader on social media. It’s just how B2B lead generation works.

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The Economic Collision of Customer Service and Social Media

Increase Sales

The customer has evolved from being King or Queen to being an Internet socially connected King or Queen. No longer must he or she hang on for minutes to speak to your customer service department. Today, social media has expanded communication and has created a very loud and significant economic collision with customer service.

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How to build a data-first customer service team

Close.io

companies lose more than $62 billion annually due to poor customer service. Getting customer service right should be a priority for every business, regardless of size. Businesses that are providing this exceptional customer service are data-driven, and making use of data from a variety of different sources.

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3 Reasons Why Your Sales Team Isn't Generating More Leads (And How to Fix It)

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Matthew Sunshine More than 40 percent of salespeople claim that lead prospecting is often more difficult than qualifying and closing the actual deal. This could be why so many salespeople struggle with lead generation and instead spend much of their time on current business. 4 Ways to Fix These Problems and Generate More Leads.