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When Sales and Customer Service Collide

ShepHyken

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how sales and customer service combine to create an experience – hopefully a positive one. This is where sales and customer service collide. This is where sales and customer service collide. And by the way, you will enjoy this story even if you’re not in sales. . Here’s the short version.

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2020 Business and Customer Service Experience Trends

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According to The Northridge Group's State of Customer Service Experience 2020 report, as a result of COVID-19, 68% of consumers have increased their online shopping and plan to continue at this increased rate post-pandemic. To access the full 2020 State of Customer Service Experience report, please click here.

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Keep Your 2021 Sales Pipeline Full Using the Selling Lessons of 2020

Integrity Solutions

This past year laid bare some critical underlying selling skills and cracks in their sales pipeline that sales leaders were able to ignore or avoid while focusing on more immediate concerns. Now that 2020 is in the rear view mirror, most of us are ready to bid good riddance to an incredibly tumultuous year and do our best to forget it.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of December 21, 2020

ShepHyken

My Comment: Vala Afshar is back with more information on the Salesforce 2020 State of Service report. Airline Customer Service Improved In 2020. Forbes) Airline customer service improved in 2020, rising to its highest level since 1994. 10 Customer Experience Books Worthy of Discussion in 2020 by Dan Gingiss. Here’s Why.

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5 Essential Pieces of a Prospecting Solution

Forward thinking sales leaders are starting to prioritize technology initiatives. Is your team focused on building a reliable tech stack for 2020? Five essential features to consider when assessing the vendor landscape. Steps your buying committee must go through when purchasing a prospecting solution.

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Contact Centre Predictions for 2020

Callminer

Microsoft’s Richard Peers predicted that by 2020, 85% of all customer service interactions would be handled without the need for a human agent. Here are my predictions on how the contact centre will evolve in 2020. This is only likely to get worse in 2020 if call centres aren’t prepared to handle it correctly.

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Our 10 (OK, 11) Favorite Sales Influencers of 2020

Integrity Solutions

Many sales influencers are doing great things, but we wanted to shine a spotlight on a few of our favorites, those whose viewpoints align well with ours and can help motivate you and your teams to perform better in 2020. . Sales Influencers You Should Be Following. by Will Milano. Alan Allard . Joanne Black . Tiffani Bova .

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond.

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Using Customer Reviews, Advocacy, and Referrals in Your Journey Map

Speaker: Jeremy Boudinet, Marketing Manager, Nextiva

The best customer experiences go beyond the sale. Wednesday July 29th, 2020 11AM PST, 2PM EST, 6PM GMT. Making a customer want to advocate for your brand takes passion, personalization, and gratitude: all things that can be gracefully elicited throughout the customer journey map.