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The Hidden Talent in Your Ranks

Sales and Marketing Management

As such, many companies today are beginning to look with renewed interest at their most readily accessible talent pool when filling open roles: their own employees. Rather than battling for new hires in an uber-competitive job market, smart companies are moving to train and promote from within. According to the U.S.

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From the Switchboard to Social Media: A Brief History of Customer Service

Sales and Marketing Management

Given such a clunky, limited system, it’s a wonder that this method of communication caught on at all. Smart companies saw the possibilities of cyber customer service from the beginning, and jumped right on that bandwagon. It was a huge leap forward for CS-kind, but email was about to be eclipsed by social media.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

and withstood the emergence of high-powered tech tools that promise to put so many aspects of engaging customers on automatic pilot. David Richards recently joined FluentStream Technologies as product manager of the phone and VoIP system provider. If you’re a good storyteller, your customers will never feel that way.”.

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The Perils of Piecemeal

Cincom Smart Selling

Smart companies don’t have software initiatives; they have business initiatives that drive software purchases. If each division bought its own technologies (the piecemeal approach), it’d be more difficult to sell since salespeople would have to go to multiple systems to get the information they need. How smart are you?

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26 CRM Techniques and Strategies for Customer Retention

Cience

Your customers are one of your company’s most important assets. Although new sales are important, smart companies also focus on retention. The CRM: A Key Customer Retention Tool. Make it easy for your customers to succeed by providing the tools they need to hit the ground running. Use Automation Tools.

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Smart Selling Visions: Up-Close with Top Revenue Leader Brian Leach, CEO of @unboxedtech

SBI

In everything we create—from our learning management system and custom training content to our m obile sales apps and observation tool —the user experience is ridiculously simple and highly engaging. Plus, our tools are versatile. Smarter companies look for ways to integrate with that data to better leverage their investment.

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Build Predictable Revenue

Your Sales Management Guru

In recent years, organizations have gotten better at analyzing financial statements, refining manufacturing procedures, reengineering business systems and improving marketing effectiveness. Smart companies are scrutinizing their strategic sales management plans, taking a closer look at everything from their pipelines to their forecasts.

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