ShepHyken

JULY 6, 2018

This week we feature an article by Natasha Postolovski who shares the idea of using sales contests to help motivate a higher level of customer experience at your organization. – Shep Hyken. The aim to provide perfect customer experiences must be present not just at the organizational level, but at the level of every sales associate.

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Sales Customer Experience Upselling Management 182

ShepHyken

APRIL 30, 2021

Merging The Boundaries Between Customer Service and Sales . In the world of omnichannel experiences, sales and customer service teams must work together to create more user-friendly experiences. F or more articles from Shep Hyken and his guest contributors go to customerserviceblog.com. Conclusion .

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Customer Service Chatbots Analytics Upselling 371

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Your existing customers are far easier to upsell. And to make the cross sell and upsell case more clear, the majority of customers’ buying decisions are tied to how they feel about the experience. That article also revealed that 85% of customers that had a good relationship with the bank increased their commitment.

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Customer Experience Customer retention Upselling Banking 411

Totango

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Key takeaways : Sales leaders should ask potential customers about the outcome they need to achieve to be successful. Starting with an outcome focus makes it easier for sales leads to kick off an entire customer lifecycle, rather than just a quick handoff. This blog shares a few key takeaways.

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Sales Upselling Engineering Enterprise 62

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This week we feature an article from Gladly, a customer service platform. Knowing a customer’s purchase history can help you create a personalized experience that ultimately leads to authentic upsell opportunities. That way you motivate your agents to try to make the sale, rather than just resolve an issue.

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Contact Center Upselling Personalization Sales 290

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Devin Pickell, Growth Marketing practitioner and head publisher of Do I Need SEO. Account management Offer workshops on relationship-building, active listening, and consultative selling for identifying upsell or cross-sell opportunities. Partnering with your sales team here can help.

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B2C Customer centricity Feedback Upselling 346

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 1, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Dmitry Dragilev, Founder of the keyword and SEO tools, TopicRanker.com , JustReachOut , and Chief SEO Geek. He shares how to get your customer service, sales, and marketing teams in sync. Messages, questions, tickets, and sales inquiries come in, are dealt with, and archived by the same department.

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Sales Marketing Customer Service Upselling 174

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This week we feature an article from Jyothi Tulasi, Outreach SEO Specialist at SmartKarrot Inc. Having an affiliate marketing strategy will drive traffic, improve leads, sales, and encourage customers to engage with your brand. Through a variety of methods, customers can move towards purchasing the core product and generate sales.

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Marketing Journey mapping Advertising Upselling 309

ShepHyken

MARCH 7, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. My Comment: I’ve written many articles on how to deal with angry customers. My Comment: The article starts with a great story.

Customer Service 33

Customer Service Airlines Advertising Upselling 33

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This week we feature an article by Robert C. It’s also not uncommon for other departments such as Sales, Onboarding, and Marketing to have access to support software as well. Teams should integrate support software with development tools, sales tools including CRM technology, and marketing communication tools.

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B2B Customer Support CRM B2C 281

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. You can watch all the recorded sessions from the conference for free and with no form-fill required – after you finish reading this article, of course).

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Upselling SaaS Sales Accountability 98

Playvox

MAY 26, 2021

Are your customer service representatives (CSRs) cross-selling and upselling relevant products and services to your customers? As more contact centers explore implementing cross-selling and upselling, they’re finding very little information on how to do it successfully. What do they value?

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Upselling Education Contact Center Coaching 92

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This is a guest article by Stephanie Neale , CEO, Blind Zebra , a sales and client success training company for B2B pros. To avoid hounding your customers for renewals and upsells during the holiday season, try using Blind Zebra’s Q4 deal accelerator. Step 2: Rate your open renewal and upsell opportunities for timing.

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Upselling B2B Sales Management 98

GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

If you Google customer experience you’ll get about 2,340,000,000 results—articles, videos, reports—with in-depth information about the space. This article is inspired by our own frustrations with getting to know the CX space. In fact, you’ll find many articles dance around this question. Heck, we’re still learning. 73% of U.S.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Metrics Customer centricity 134

Totango

MAY 7, 2024

Both CS and Sales leaders agree: Retention is the #1 priority. Achieving higher retention requires close alignment between CS and Sales teams, yet 87% of CS and Sales leaders told us there’s significant room for improvement in their collaboration. But there’s a problem. Use your words Talk to each other!

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Sales Upselling Metrics Accountability 103

ShepHyken

JUNE 8, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Sage , an international company that helps organizations of all sizes with accounting, payroll, and payment solutions. It discusses customer experience gaps that hinder profitability and how to close them. Are you providing as good of a customer experience as you think you are?

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Customer Experience Upselling Accountability Feedback 156

ShepHyken

JULY 31, 2020

This week we feature an article by Ashwini Dave , a digital marketing expert at Acquire. They were facing the challenge of increasing sales and improving overall customer satisfaction on their website. This helped them provide better customer service and enhance the overall CX by enabling better sales conversations.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Chatbots Upselling 216

Totango

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In a world where customer expectations are sky-high and data complexity is ever-increasing, Totango Unison is the game-changer that customer success and post-sales teams have been waiting for. The Evolution of Customer Success and Post-Sales Gone are the days when customer success was merely about putting out fires.

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Chief Customer Officer Enterprise Upselling Sales 62

Quality Contact Solutions

JANUARY 27, 2022

Whether your call center is inbound or outbound , and if you have a product or service to deliver, finding ways to increase sales is a consistent priority. The topic of increasing sales is so prevalent that thousands of books and articles are published. Increase Sales with Cross-Selling. Sales and Service.

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Sales Upselling B2C Best practices 98

Quality Contact Solutions

MARCH 11, 2021

At Quality Contact Solutions , we believe our company exists because sales drive the world. Quality Contact Solutions is no different, and proud to be part of the sales world that keeps our economy running. Our focus centers around offering telemarketing services that help increase sales and support customers all across the U.S.

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Telemarketing Sales Upselling outsourcing 98

Cincom

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This article outlines 10 CPQ best practices to help optimize your performance, eliminate inefficiencies, and maximize ROI. Align CPQ with Your Sales Strategy A CPQ system that operates in isolation from the broader sales strategy leads to misaligned workflows, inconsistent pricing approvals, and disconnected customer interactions.

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Best practices Sales CRM Finance 40

Joe Rawlinson

MAY 29, 2019

Well, in this article, we’ll explore a few actionable ways that can help you to increase e-commerce sales and gain an advantage over your competitors. But how can you improve your sales using email marketing? Use Upselling & Cross-Selling. e-commerce market is its ability to cross-sell and upsell to its customers.

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Sales Upselling Marketing Customer Support 102

Tethr

MARCH 22, 2021

This material originally appeared as part of our Learning Series podcast on B2C sales. Welcome to the Tethr Learning Series, The four “D’s” of better B2C sales performance. In the HBR article , we shared the findings from a large study that we ran. Listen to the original here. Why do this research at all?

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B2C Sales Inbound sales Upselling 106

Totango

APRIL 4, 2024

If you asked your customer success (CS) and sales leaders this question, what do you think each of them would say? Revenue retention hinges on the collaborative efforts of CS and sales teams as they collectively shepherd customers throughout the lifecycle journey, from acquisition to retention and expansion.

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Sales Upselling Accountability SaaS 94

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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Sales Coaching Brand ambassadors B2B 91

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2021

By creating healthy boundaries, Customer Success and Sales don’t have to spend their days assessing and arguing over every expansion situation. Your rules of engagement should be based on which team is genuinely the best fit in each scenario and has the greatest likelihood of gaining sales traction. Product and process complexity.

Sales 98

Sales Upselling Enterprise SaaS 98

ShepHyken

MAY 25, 2018

This week we feature an article by Matt Nolan who shares five keys to building more compelling, sustainable customer relationships. What happens is an organization builds strategies to control how they interact with customers in certain situations, like retention, sales, service, risk, etc. – Shep Hyken.

Call Center 185

Call Center Customer retention Advertising Upselling 185

Totango

MAY 17, 2022

Wondering what is the best CRM for B2B sales? Business-to-business customer relationship management software is a sales app that provides a central interface for handling data about your interactions with business clients. Delivery of crucial customer data to sales representatives to support higher closing rates and upsells.

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B2B Sales CRM Enterprise 85

ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In fact, employees who are engaged more are likely to improve customer relationships, with a resulting 20% increase in sales. Both the teams can identify knowledge gaps by keeping a track of: What keywords were used by visitors to find relevant self-help articles in the knowledge repository? That’s not all. Take Amazon for example.

Marketing 147

Marketing Customer Service Upselling Customer Support 147

ChurnZero

JUNE 15, 2023

Most recently, we’ve seen leaders question whether they should revert to using their organization’s longstanding incumbent sales tool—the CRM—as an interim solution to their team integration challenges. Treating a CRM as a Swiss Army Knife is both inefficient and reductive to the work of post-sale teams. Let’s look at task management.

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CRM Sales Accountability Analytics 96

Win the Customer

JANUARY 20, 2020

This article will look at why a business should integrate live chat as well as AI to their eCommerce business as well as how to integrate them correctly to your eCommerce business. More conversions and sales – Keeping in tune with the previous point, live chat executed correctly results in more conversions as well as sales.

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Chatbots Feedback Surveys Sales 159

ShepHyken

JULY 1, 2022

This week we feature an article by Prabhjinder Bedi, Chief Growth Officer at Tech Mahindra Business Process Services. Grow revenues & increase sales through upselling & cross-selling . For more articles from Shep Hyken and his guest contributors go to customerserviceblog.com.

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Airlines Upselling Customer Experience Chatbots 191

Totango

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This article illustrates how large enterprises can modernize customer health scores for growth. Maintain predictable retention metrics while identifying cross-sell or upsell opportunities. Learn how to: Measure and act on health scores in dynamic environments. Optimize outcomes for diverse customer bases.

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Enterprise Metrics Accountability Construction 62

Quality Contact Solutions

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The right outbound calling center allows an organization to accomplish more with marketing and sales. When done right, an outbound calling program consistently provides qualified appointments to your sales team without them having to do the tedious calling. Outbound Call Center Pricing.

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call center solutions Call Center Telemarketing B2C 98

Totango

AUGUST 14, 2020

Which then got our account teams, sales team, product teams, and support teams all excited and asking how to leverage Totango. A: Now that you have a 360 view of your customers for your Customer Success team, how do you ensure your Sales team is also plugged into what’s happening during the post-purchase experience? .

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Accountability Feedback Sales Upselling 158

Playvox

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If your contact center isn’t currently focusing on cross-selling and upselling, you’re missing a great opportunity to strengthen customer relationships and increase revenue. Our original contact center research revealed that 28 percent of contact centers generate 11 to 20 percent of their revenue from cross-selling and upselling.

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Upselling Contact Center Best practices Sales 52

Totango

MARCH 19, 2021

The traditional customer journey infographic envisioned the customer’s experience from a sales and marketing standpoint, visualizing a funnel marking the steps from a lead acquisition through a sale, also known as the buyer’s journey. Keep in mind that onboarding can also begin in the presales process.

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Best practices Customer retention Upselling SaaS 126