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The Plastic Customer Service Phenomenon

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Walk into most financial institutions to departments stores to telecommunications businesses and you will have that now all too common “plastic customer service” experience. Do you feel special and of value when you hear these lame attempts to demonstrate caring customer service? Share on Facebook.

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

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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Believe It or Not Everyone Is In Sales

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Years ago when facilitating some customer service training and development for a telecommunications firm, one of the participants (a customer service technician) flatly said he was not in sales. Yes everyone is in sales, just some people get paid to for their marketing and selling efforts.

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Hanging Up Not the Best for Future Sales Referrals

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Believe it or not I was hung up by a salesperson who made it a very clear he was seeking sales referrals after he had sold me on his solution. What prompted this action does require sharing of the events leading up to this not the best sales referral strategy. I called the customer service number given to me by the salesman. .”

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What We’ve Learned Supporting Telecom Sales Teams

Janek Performance Group

The new year is upon us, and this year looks to be anything but easy for telecom sales. It was rollercoaster of a year last year for enterprise sales: It’s not how we start in January but how we finish in December that counts. The changing macroeconomic conditions have created a more competitive climate and extended sales cycles.

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Highspot Ranked a Fastest Growing Company in North America on the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™

Highspot

Global customer adoption, product innovation and category momentum drive strong growth that earned placement for third consecutive year. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Highspot , the sales enablement platform that improves sales performance, today announced it ranked No. Stevie Award for Customer Service Department of the Year.

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65+ Statistics About Artificial Intelligence

Zoominfo

72% of businesses in the technology, media, and telecommunications industry expect AI to have a significant impact on product offerings in the next five years ( source ). 80% of sales and marketing leaders say they already use chatbot software in their customer experience or plan to do so by 2020 ( source ). AI in Sales.

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