Vonage

OCTOBER 24, 2016

I recently organized a service bench-marking visit to Singapore for 22 Korean sales and service trainers. Ron Kaufman is the world’s leading educator and motivator for upgrading customer service and uplifting service culture. Attending Connect 2016? When a company reaches the top, does customer service quality still matter?

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Taylor Reach Group

MAY 1, 2020

Research suggests the cost of providing bad CX is climbing rapidly, from $20 Billion USD annually in 2013 to $62B in 2016 ( Forbes-Hyken ) to $83B in 2017 ( Customer Think-Jaiswal ). If your customers are part of a particular Sales Rep’s book of business, you may want to check with Sales before making calls. Talk to Them.

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aircall

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Alex has a professional background in creating and leveraging targeted sales enablement content to produce qualified leads and increase sales efficiency. The growing buzz around sales enablement. Up until a few years ago, sales enablement was not a function that warranted any serious attention.

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Vonage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Operations-focused companies hire based on skill, looking only at education and experience with no consideration of how the applicant’s personality fits into the corporate culture. 5 reasons not to miss Connect 2016 if you’re striving for sales & service excellence. Read more from Shep Hyken.

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ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2016

The ‘frustrators’ for driving a genuine customer centric approach were as follows: Organisations being focused on things other than the customer – short term revenue; sales; restructures; cost cutting (at all costs); wrong metrics in performance management 29%. ENABLE people to have a customer focused mindset.

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Both sessions are guaranteed to be thought-provoking and educational. Talkdesk VP of Sales, Andrew Bothwell, will be revealing what modern customers expect from today’s businesses and how to meet those demands. The post Talkdesk at Dreamforce 2016 appeared first on Talkdesk. Tuesday, October 4, 2:00 p.m.

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ProProfs Blog

AUGUST 21, 2020

While the mechanic is fixing the brake pads, your sales rep shares how he encountered a similar experience once and reflects similar emotions of sadness and fear. We all have seen how sales professionals are always ready to recite their sales scripts that they have learned by heart over time. Remember That People Have Feelings.

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Natalie Petouhof

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Tweet Using data from NCWIT , Anita Borg Institute and Deloitte , the report evaluates whether there have been any improvements for women in tech in 2016 and what this means going forward. They also look at the context behind the numbers, examining the opportunities for women in education, employment and running startups.

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ProProfs Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

Do you know that 80% of US end-users prefer cloud-hosted and SaaS apps for communication and organization purposes, compared to 51% in 2016? Make sure you do not pitch sales. With your targets in place, the next step is to assess and evaluate your sales process. What is SaaS Customer Lifecycle. Qualify Your Customers.

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Totango

AUGUST 8, 2019

In his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders , Bezos describes the preservation of this day 1 feeling as the biggest driver for pursuing a customer-centric approach. This means the majority of customer revenue is now spread over months and years of recurring renewals rather than being captured in a single sales event.

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Fonolo

MARCH 25, 2019

While it was outside the top 100 search terms on gartner.com in January 2016, it was ranked #7 by May of the following year. Tobias has over 15 years of experience in customer care technology and the contact center industry with roles spanning engineering, consulting, pre-sales engineering, and product management/marketing.

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Vcaretec

JUNE 6, 2022

The second part is the Educational Sessions ; this is where your team can see first-hand how others in your industry are tackling their biggest challenges. During this part of the event, you’ll likely break off into separate Tracks based on your discipline - Marketing, Sales, Operations, etc. - for detailed how-to educational talks.

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ProProfs Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The shock does not come from Best Buy’s annual boost in sales. Our comparable sales growth was helped by the favorable environment in which we operate and driven by how customers are responding to the unique and elevated experience we are building,” Hubert Joly, Best Buy’s chairman, and CEO, said in the company’s statement.

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Amity

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Pay attention in pre-sales calls. Whether your team then passes them on to a sales representative or answers the questions themselves, pay attention to the top queries that come in. This is the recording for our segment on Sales Funnels: Using this approach, you’ll find it hard to run out of content ideas!

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Amity

JUNE 28, 2016

Now that we’re halfway through 2016, we can check in on how accurate some of those 2015 predictions were, and how those trends are impacting Customer Success. Back in February, HubSpot shared this infographic , highlighting data-driven decisions as a trend to watch in 2016. Enabling the Sales Team. Driven by data.

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CX Journey

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

By 2016, 89% of companies surveyed by Gartner plan to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience. It needs to be a comprehensive strategy with engineering, analytics, sales, marketing, and all job functions sharing the same appreciation for the customer and aligned with the same objectives. #2 And this number is only rising.

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Nicereply

JUNE 18, 2020

Your sales team went home, and all you had left was your current group of customers. The funny thing is, customers who churn have the same effect on your business even when you are still making sales. — Viktor Magic (@viktormagic) November 16, 2016. Tyler Wanlass (@twanlass) November 18, 2016.

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CX Journey

JANUARY 11, 2017

It appeared on their blog in August, 2016. These are two important tools that customer experience professionals must have in their toolboxes in 2016 and beyond. I originally wrote this post for CXpert. I'm often asked about the future of customer experience: What does it look like? What will companies focus on this year?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

The post-sales customer journey will also become more intelligent as organizations accelerate their use of cutting-edge data and technologies. Educating customers in-product and with actionable content is important as customers become more sophisticated. It’s about time CS gets the same attention as sales.

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aircall

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Now, by strengthening their partnership with HubSpot, Aircall is upscaling its credentials as a source of education and information for business owners working on scaling their businesses. . Enabling Aircall customers to provide superior customer service – from marketing to sales to customer service.

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Talkdesk

MAY 24, 2016

This blog post is an Opentalk 2016 panel recap. Speaker : Emmanuelle Skala, VP Sales, Influitive. The modern sales conversation. Sales have become over-automated to the point that it is no longer human-to-human. We spend too much money on sales tools. Tactical changes to improve sales conversations.

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ClearAction

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Do we believe “the purpose of Marketing is to maximize revenue leads for Sales” as 70% of CEOs now expect? Sales-centric management) is a continuous hamster-wheel that perpetuates complexity of managing expectations. Marketing-Sales alignment right-sizes attention across the end-to-end customer journey.

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Branch Mesenger

JUNE 1, 2018

Retail sales from e-commerce are up to about 13 percent. E-commerce continues to evolve and scale and represents about 13 percent of all retail sales. "The Physical retail trending, longterm sales are on a decelerating trend. Collectively, we log about 6 hours per day with a digital device. ?? New Retail Takes Shape. . "Mobile

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Fonolo

JANUARY 9, 2018

and] a minimum of 20,000 cloud-based agent seats globally… own their own technology; offer direct sales to end users; and host their services in their own data centers or in well-established, well-known data center provider facilities, or a combination of the two.”. Some questions to ponder. VPs & Directors of Customer Experience.

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LiveChat

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If you take a look at Google Trends to see when the phrase “chatbot” was trending, you will quickly notice that the interest started to grow in 2016 to reach its peak in September 2017. None of our live chat agents had previous experience with chatbots, so it was a challenge for support leaders to introduce it in a fun, educational way.

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JustCall

JUNE 26, 2020

9 out of 10 global consumers want to text with businesses, but only 48% of businesses are equipped with SMS, s tatistics as reported by Global mobile messaging report 2016. Sales and marketing teams use bulk SMS to majorly deliver reminders, offers or promotions. In education - SMS is automated in response to a trigger.

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RichCall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Dimension Data’s 2016 Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report, © Dimension Data 2013-2016. Wade Wiant , Vice President of Sales and Channels at Mediu. The contact centre will support this by providing hints, tips, education and technical support. However, in 2016 Forrester has already reported that. Self-service.

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aircall

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For sales and support teams, this means a heightened pressure to operate efficiently and better track performance; two tasks that have historically presented a significant challenge. As a result of Aircall, the Spotahome team was able to increase bookings by 350% from 2015 to 2016.” ? You can read the full report here. “As

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CSM Magazine

MAY 25, 2023

Since launching in 2006 in South Africa, CCI Global offers international outsourcing services for every stage of the customer lifecycle from sales all the way through to retention, and everything in between. “We employ highly educated young people who are keen to progress in their career.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

AUGUST 3, 2018

trillion in 2016. Do they have pre-sales questions? One of Forrester’s 2016 surveys shows that 41% of customers expect a response via email within a 6-hour time frame. The growing size of today’s consumer market sets the stage for entrepreneurs and companies of varying capacities to take part.

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REVE Chat Blog

MARCH 11, 2020

customer service interactions via legacy channels like phone and email fell by 7% over the course of 2016 and 2017.” . It helps to acquire more customers and of course generate more sales. Having a chat tool improves the response time of the website visitor, and improves the chances of sales. . Key learnings.

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Interaction Metrics

AUGUST 14, 2024

Whether it’s tech support, consumer affairs, front desk personnel, or inside sales, ensuring that every interaction is exceptional is crucial. Why You Need a Customer Service Consulting Firm The quality of customer service impacts everything from how your customers perceive your brand to sales.

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Amity

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Eve explains “Sales are your starting point; it’s where you get your revenue and build your client-base. With so many customer success resources to choose from, we’ve selected the top customer success resources and events that we think will educate and inspire you for the rest of the year.

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SaaS Customer retention Education Best practices 60

Natalie Petouhof

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Tweet Searches for Influencer Marketing have grown 5x in 2015 according to a study from Google Trends from January 2016. And with content marketing a #1 priority for most CMOs as more and more sales are decided upon before even talking to a sales person. So how does a company get their target customer’s attention?

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LiveChat

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Build an entire series of emails that are sent sequentially, explain more of the product features that specifically help them, and push them further into the sales funnel. While email automation can be used at various points during the sales process, it is also a powerful tool to use after the sale in a welcome program.

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VHT

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Chatbots using natural language processing (NLP) can conduct email or text conversations that promote add-on products, offer extended warranties or link to entertaining and educational videos. A 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark study found that companies with the highest rated CX had 1.5 Employee Engagement Technology.

Contact Center 48

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Connecting the Dots

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The data collection plan should collect data describing the end-to-end customer journey with a special focus on marketing, sales and customer onboarding, activities which are often underreported. Quality’s New Frontier, Applying Continuous Improvement to Marketing and Sales”, Quality Progress , June 2016.

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