Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

If your company has customer service reps (Hint: Every person in your company is a customer service rep!), then it’s imperative for your success to make sure your customers don’t feel this same way. Let’s clear up some myths about what it takes to hire or train outstanding customer service reps.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There’s a seismic, yet quiet, shift that’s taking place within the sales industry. The demographics of who is entering the sales industry is quickly changing, which is making it clear that a one-size-fits all approach to sales training won’t work. What should sales leaders be doing today?

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Zendesk Sell

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But this shift towards relationships and away from mere transactions has also revealed one of the fundamental problems in how we think about sales and customer service. The problem is priorities: a sales team’s priority, the thing they’re judged by, is having as many conversations as possible.

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Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Do we really understand the difference between customer service delivery and customer experience delivery? At times, our self-focused perception leaves customer service delivery up to everyone with “service” as part of their job titles. That means we assume customer service is someone else’s responsibility.

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Customer Service Customer Face-to-face Retention 229

Increase Sales

JULY 21, 2017

Bad customer service should not be one of them. Top sales performers know how to overcome a sales objection. Yet when that sales objection is something beyond their control such as customer service, delivery by another vendor to invoicing, earning the sale becomes even more difficult.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 31, 2022

Research shows that it costs businesses 6-7x more to acquire new customers than to retain existing ones. Your customer service team is an untapped resource of customer knowledge that’ll grow your deal sizes and help you close business faster.

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SBI Growth

MAY 24, 2021

Inefficient activity assignment and role clarity issues within your organization can drive down important metrics such as your customer service satisfaction or net promotor scores. As a Sales Leader, you’re liable for understanding where your individual contributors need to be.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 24, 2018

How would you rate your cell phone company’s customer service? Customer service basics are a part of all inside sales positions. Customer service basics are a part of all inside sales positions. True or False: It is hard to find and train good customer service reps. Frustrated.

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The Sales Heretic

AUGUST 14, 2019

I had just checked in at the Sheraton hotel in Tampa, Florida, where I was conducting a sales training seminar the next day. I was hungry. Now, normally when I’m traveling, I like to get out of the hotel and find a good, local restaurant to eat at. But this evening, it was late and [.].

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 4, 2018

The fact is retaining best customers remains a challenge for sales and marketing professionals, leading to wasted time and money. Two solutions have helped my company, Stirista, achieve a 95 percent customer retention rate and should work for your business: Turn every employee into a customer-facing one. What to do?

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. I was curious to hear what he thinks.

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Sales Management Sales Up-Sell Data 195

Smooth Sale

MAY 26, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How to Enhance Your Business Approach to Customer Service. Our collaborative blog offers insights on ‘How to enhance your business approach to customer service.’ ’ Customer service is something that most businesses know they need to get right.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

APRIL 6, 2018

Customer Service is the never–ending pursuit of excellence to keep customers so satisfied that they tell others of the way they were treated in your place of business. Is that the way your customers feel?

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 4, 2019

It’s a buyers market, even in B2B sales. One way that sellers can work on improving buyer perception and exceeding those expectations is to consider the role that service plays in B2B sales. Let’s start by considering how customer perception has evolved in the past few years. Customer Loyalty: The Secret to Success.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Last week, during my travels to Poland and back, I experienced how companies are using customer service as sales tools. In most cases, customer service tends to be vanilla, bland, and although professional in its approach, it is typically highly unspectacular.

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Customer Service Sales Tools Examples Tools 120

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Technology has revolutionized customer service. Businesses can use many technologies to engage with customers and fulfill their requests. New technologies are emerging that will transform the way companies deliver customer service in the years to come. Why You Need Tech for B2B Customer Service.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 26, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I was returning from New Orleans on an airline I had previously decided never to use again. Yes, they sold me, for a second straight time, that flying United is not a good experience, their people don''t care, putting their own needs first, ahead of their customers.

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Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

How many times do those in B2B or even B2C industries fail to understand customer service is sales. A new report just released by Astound Commerce through secret shoppers recognized seven retailers who excel in customer service through: Must have website. Overall customer service. Visibility.

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 8, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Ensure a Smooth Running Customer Service Department ? Our collaborative Blog provides insights on ‘How to ensure a smooth running customer service department.’. Sometimes the wait for customers is extraordinarily long, and on occasion, the line drops to begin again.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 29, 2018

Those customers who experienced a problem and did not have a satisfactory experience with customer service when they reported it did not just sit around and moan. The tendency in this country over the last 10 to 15 years has been to regard customer service as a cost center.

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Customer Service Customer Loyalty Chemicals 270

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The title on your card says “sales.” ” Your job description says “sales” and you’re part of the sales team. If that’s the case, then why are you acting like a customer service person? I’m not bashing customer service people.

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Customer Service Customer Sales Motivation 251

Allego

JANUARY 19, 2023

Sales reps selling to companies on that continent require specialized sales enablement technology , which can be difficult to find in one solution. You need language translation, virtual selling tools, tech to enable content compliance, and anytime-access to sales content and collateral.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When developing a sales strategy, many leaders aren’t sure where to begin. Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to revamp an existing sales strategy, creating campaigns based solely on instincts or assumptions is no longer acceptable. To craft an effective modern sales playbook , data and analytics must reign supreme.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Its customer service? Its sales expertise? That's all well and good when your sales force works in a traditional workplace – sharing office space and meeting face-to-face. We tend to think of inside sales reps as being reasonably autonomous. Over time, you risk your remote sales reps becoming too self-focused.

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CloserIQ

MARCH 17, 2019

One thing that nearly every sales team needs to prioritize is constantly improving their customer service skills. Of course, every team understands that its customer service is the voice and face for its clients. The customer service that an organization offers can break or build its relationship with its clients.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sales account management, like sales, is selling. For the sales account manager, getting processes down can mean the difference between achieving massive growth and losing customers to the competition. What Is the Difference Between Sales and Account Management? Let’s do a quick overview. Let’s do a quick overview.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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Nutshell

MAY 22, 2023

Customer relationship management (CRM) software is a multifaceted sales and marketing tool that can help you elevate your sales and revenue. With advanced CRM techniques like predictive analysis and sales forecasting, you can gain powerful insights to inform your decision-making and improve your business strategies.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

AI tools such as ChatGPT have many potential applications in sales , from creating marketing content to predicting customer behavior. But every new article raises more questions: What does this mean for sales teams? Salespeople can use chatbots to automate their sales processes and provide instant responses to customer queries.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Exceptional salespeople recognize that they have dependencies and that their success depends on the performance of others in the delivery chain, particularly customer service. Frontline service people receive information on these five subjects that are vital to effective long term sales performance. Does it provide value?

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Providing great customer service is what every company and salesperson feels they need to be doing. The sales myth is the more focus that is placed on taking care of existing customers and providing them with great service, the less need there will be to prospect. Sure, that sounds great.

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Nutshell

JUNE 7, 2023

Every business needs to keep track of their sales pipeline , which is a representation of how leads move toward becoming customers. But you might be wondering how to manage a sales pipeline for a roofing company. Navigating a roofing sales pipeline can seem complex, but it doesn’t need to be.

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Selling Power

APRIL 8, 2019

Be sure you’re maximizing the benefits of happy customers by aligning your sales and customer service departments with these six tips.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

DECEMBER 6, 2017

An interesting statistic about customer service jumped out at me. According to MediaPost , only 17% of consumers think manufacturers and retailers are extremely good at caring for their customers after a sale. It’s tough to earn a repeat customer if you don’t follow through and offer superior customer service.

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BrainShark

MARCH 29, 2022

The right customer service training software can help you onboard agents faster, track their learning progress, and ensure they always have access to relevant information for resolving client issues quickly. A better way to train and educate your customer service teams is to get software that’s specifically built for that purpose.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 8, 2019

Great customer service is a key part of any successful business. Poor customer service has the opposite effect. According to the NewVoiceMedia’s 2018 “Serial Switchers” report , poor customer service costs businesses around $75 billion a year. Only 5% did not share a negative customer service experience.

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