Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Q: What has two Million phony accounts, 5,300 fired employees, a fine of $185 million and a retiring leader enjoying $124 million in stock and options after retirement? There is always pressure to make your sales goals. Sales people thrive on this and are compensated well for making their goals.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Like millions of Wells Fargo customers, Lorraine and I have checked to see if we had any accounts opened with the bank without our consent. In both of these messages, Wells Fargo talks about eliminating product sales goals for their retail banking team. Like millions of Wells Fargo customers, we don’t trust them because they lied.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

He writes about designing a compelling customer experience process and training your team to implement it. You’ll primarily need: Time for training new CX processes. Regularly update training materials based on customer feedback. Partnering with your sales team here can help.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The San Francisco-based bank, whose employees opened many fraudulent and unauthorized accounts in their customers’ name, now enjoys the dubious honor of shouldering the most substantial penalty the agency has issued since its formation in 2011. million deposit accounts and over 500,000 credit accounts in all. Money.cnn.com.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 14, 2020

As a specialist in applying the science of influence and persuasion in sales, leadership, and coaching, Ahearn spoke to us about the six fundamental principles on how to influence people. Most of the time, the people Ahearn works with are intentional about trying to make a sale or changing the behavior of individuals in an organization.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Features are inputs to ML models used during training and inference. Also, when features used to train models offline in batch are made available for real-time inference, it’s hard to keep the two feature stores synchronized. For a deep dive, refer to Cross account feature group discoverability and access.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Customers are not a sale, an account number, a prospect, etc. Train and empower your employees. If you have good people and train them well, let them do their job. For information on The Customer Focus customer service training programs, go to www.thecustomerfocus.com. They create lasting impressions. .

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 14, 2015

A separate enrollment application is required with no apparent linking to the charge account. At the end of the transaction I remember that we’re members of this new program and ask the clerk if the purchase can be credited to our loyalty account. We’ve had a pretty good shopping experience so far.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Ensure that you take that into account when you make these decisions. Are you too focused on sales revenue? Sometimes, the only time senior management ever deals with customers is when there is a significant sale on the line. She was very engaged in the training. How We Make Decisions—Prospect Theory.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The hope was the Clean Diesel would boost sales in the U.S., which accounts for only about 6% of global sales for the brand. Colin Shaw is the founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy , one of the world’s leading Customer experience consultancy & training organizations.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Was Wells Fargo “building relationships” when it opened all those unauthorized accounts? The company loses sales on that day, but it communicates a shared set of values with its outdoorsy customer base. Wells Fargo deceived millions of customers, opening accounts without telling them. Disagreements. Lorraine and I rarely argue.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 12, 2020

We’ve recently trained some of our clients on journey mapping. It gives you a rational customer process, meaning an account of how they move through your experience from point A to point B, but no insight into how people behave as customers and why they do what they do. . Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter @ColinShaw_CX.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

I like a good deal as much as anyone, but as a customer experience consultant I’ve always thought these frenzied holiday sales were penny wise and pound foolish. It has beefed up the number of sales associates, who will be decked in holiday attire. But it turns out that just 10 percent of its shoppers account for half of its sales!

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ShepHyken

JUNE 7, 2021

That question has accounted for millions and millions of extra sales. They have to overcome a reputation and work hard to train the government employees. Go to The Customer Focus™ to learn more about our customer service training programs. My Comment: “Would you like fries with that?” Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Integrity Solutions

JULY 20, 2021

In many ways, building sales confidence is about expanding belief boundaries, addressing some underlying perceptions and providing the type of sales training and coaching that maximizes strengths, encourages risk taking and helps your customers think differently. Building Sales Competence Builds Sales Confidence.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 26, 2024

At AWS, we are transforming our seller and customer journeys by using generative artificial intelligence (AI) across the sales lifecycle. Our field organization includes customer-facing teams (account managers, solutions architects, specialists) and internal support functions (sales operations).

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aircall

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As your start planning for the coming year, optimizing your sales win rate is probably a top priority. How to Define Your Sales Win Rate. As our partners at Richpanel share, “Win rate is not just a sales team’s metric. How is sales win rate calculated? . Why You Should Prioritize Your Sales Win Rate.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For a multi-account environment, you can track costs at an AWS account level to associate expenses. A combination of an AWS account and tags provides the best results. For multiple accounts, assign mandatory tags to each one, identifying its purpose and the owner responsible.

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Sales enablement has become an integral component of the modern sales organization, yet there is still confusion around what sales enablement actually is and, crucially, how to really make it deliver results for your salespeople and your business. This is not unlike the situation many sales leaders are finding themselves in.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 17, 2018

These results, however, are the basis for an economic principle called Mental Accounting. Mental Accounting describes the situations where fungibility breaks down. Simply put, mental accounting works with emotions also. I was running a workshop in the states for a mobile company when the sales manager came in late.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2017

When employees couldn’t reach the company’s aggressive sales targets, they started opening accounts without the account holders’ permission! Colin Shaw is the founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy , one of the world’s leading Customer experience consultancy & training organizations. Remember Wells Fargo ?

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aircall

OCTOBER 6, 2021

One of the best strategies for increasing engagement and retention is to refine your sales onboarding process. In this article, we’ll look at effective sales onboarding and how it can fundamentally improve the new hire experience for your sales professionals. Defining Effective Sales Onboarding.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Last week, the Senate voted to repeal a rule that banned most mandatory arbitration clauses in credit card agreements, checking account agreements, car loans, and many other types of consumer banking transactions. They expose patterns of wrongdoing and hold big corporations accountable. million fake accounts , things only got worse.

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Their emphasis customer service training delivers end-to-end service excellence that is driving strong loyalty, competitive differentiation and direct revenue generation. WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN CUSTOMER SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAMS A customer service culture has to be built on more than just words.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Customer Success / Account Management – Outside of support, this team interacts with customers the most frequently. If they see a customer is having problems with chat conversations, they can provide training on their next call around configuring the chat technology to ensure its meeting their needs.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

We find that many organizations measure performance in sales growth or stock price. Yes, finance, legal, accounts receivable, we are talking about you. Significant sections of meetings are devoted to operations and sales but nothing for Customer Experience. It also helps you allocate proper resources. Not celebrating quick wins.

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CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The specific challenge was as follows: How can we as leaders develop a healthy blend of compassion, flexibility, and empathy, while fostering the right amount of individual accountability inside of our teams? You might take some ideas from what they did: All leaders attended Situational Leadership II training.

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AWS Machine Learning

APRIL 6, 2023

For this engagement, they sought to generate monthly sales forecasts for new and existing products across different material groups and business lines. In this post, we demonstrate how the MLSL and NXP employed Amazon Forecast and other custom models for long-term sales predictions for various NXP products. “We

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Outbound call centers depend on skilled and well-trained agents as much as useful software to consistently meet business goals. Call centers that implement agent performance management solutions equip their agents with the ongoing coaching and training needed to perform at their best. Aim to connect.

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JustCall

JUNE 28, 2022

In the same context, the structure and processes of the modern-day sales department are drastically different than those of the past, which isn’t at all surprising given that the average customer journey has become more complex than ever. The result: the sales team will minimize the time and resources wasted on indifferent prospects.

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CCNG

JUNE 16, 2021

The FTC noted negative outcomes of AI models and warned those using AI to “hold yourself accountable – or be ready for the FTC to do it for you.” The overarching theme in all of these regulatory discussions is that negative outcomes most often arise from AI models trained with data that has human bias.

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Kapta Customer Success

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The High Cost of Low Empathy in Account Teams Acquiring a new client is 5 to 25 times more expensive than retaining an existing one. When sales and cs teams lack these crucial skills, it leads to conflict, misunderstandings, and ultimately, client churn.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 24, 2017

According to news accounts , they are starting to, though they’re moving at a sloth’s pace to do anything about it. If you can afford its Black Label program, sales people come to you, and you deal with one person from beginning to end. So has Tesla, which also offers cars at a fixed price, bypassing the dealership model altogether.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It only shows that a sale was completed (success!) But in other contexts, it’s impossible to make real improvements in Customer Experience without taking customer emotions into account. It only sees another successful Jeep sale. Either one can destroy value. Big Data can’t see the distinction because it doesn’t measure emotions.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2019

With the right training, they can, and the humans will continue to do the jobs that AI isn’t ready to handle. Accountants today couldn’t imagine performing their job without some form of calculator. In fact, who would trust an accountant who did not use a machine to supplement their skills?

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Nicereply

MARCH 16, 2022

Some treat Customer Experience as a synonym to Customer Success, others see Success and Support as part of the CX team, and still, others prefer it reports into Sales as a way to increase upsells and renewals. She had a very unique solution to this structure: incorporating Sales into the Customer Experience team.

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Integrity Solutions

MAY 23, 2023

Sales prospecting is vital to the success of any sales organization. Simply learning how to find, approach and engage new customers is at the heart of being able to meet and exceed your sales goals. Why Is Sales Prospecting More Important Than Ever? What is Sales Prospecting?

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