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Guest Post: How SaaS Companies Can Use Customer Experience to Drive Sales

ShepHyken

SaaS has changed the traditional sales rules. Traditionally, sales leaders are motivated by increasing the number of new logos and the thrill of the sale rather than splitting their attention to managing the day-to-day relationships of customers.? Here are a few reasons why Customer Success should be separated from Sales.? .

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Car Sales Through Vending Machines!

Beyond Philosophy

Customers might still visit a dealership or two for a test drive, but they also might just buy the car sight unseen and have it delivered, according to dealers and industry executives who gathered recently for the Tampa International Auto Show. While the auto industry as a whole doesn’t seem to get this, a few startup companies do.

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Guest Post: Is Your Customer Journey Aligned with Brand Expectations? If Not, It Could Be Costing You Sales

ShepHyken

And more importantly, how can you ensure that it’s not costing you sales? It’s important to note that brand expectations can vary depending on your industry, your customer base, and other factors. . If Not, It Could Be Costing You Sales appeared first on Shep Hyken. What do customers expect from contact centers?

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Guest Post: How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Progression of Contact Centres

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Gary Williams, Director of Sales and Consultancy at Spitch. They were the cornerstone of the service industry, and in many ways they still are. Gary Williams is the Director of Sales and Consultancy at Spitch.

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How ZoomInfo Helps Overcome the Top Pain Points of Inside Sales

With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”. How can sales organizations meet the buyer along the journey at the perfect time? Download this eBook to find out!

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Guest Post: What a CX Professional Can Learn from a Top Salesperson

ShepHyken

Jim didn’t win every sale, who does, but he always outperformed his counterparts. He did this by performing a technique that you wouldn’t find in any sales training book or case studies on the best sales techniques. Before Jim gave his sales pitch, he did something very interesting. Except for Jim.

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Guest Post: Reset Buyer Strategy to Drive Post-Pandemic Revival

ShepHyken

He writes about how businesses need to realign their sales and marketing strategies in order to survive a post-pandemic world. The impact extends from B2C (business-to-customer) markets to B2B (business-to-business) sales as well. Increasing online prospects, lead generation and sales. Aligning marketing and sales.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

CRM software is a powerful tool when used correctly, yet another obstacle to a sales team’s efficiency when it’s not.

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

When used effectively, a CRM can be the lifeblood of your sales team – keeping everyone organized, efficient, and at peak productivity. However, as a company, sales stack, and database grow, it becomes difficult to uphold structure and governance to keep a CRM up-to-date. The result? Combatting low adoption rates and data quality.

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The Top 3 Ways to Forecast for Your Contact Center

Forecasting is no easy task. It can be difficult to schedule the right amount of agents at the right time. Download our ebook to learn how to reduce overstaffing and understaffing, lower customer wait times and improve the customer experience with proper forecasting.

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The Impact of Direct Dials on Sales Productivity

Often, sales reps who fail to hit the phones hard are left wondering how they missed their quota. While dialing away at targeted prospects, it’s important for them to remember that not all sales outreach is created equal. How can you (and your sales team) benefit from this eBook?

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Top Industry Secrets for Successful Contact Center Scripting

Speaker: Colin Taylor, CEO & Chief Chaos Officer at The Taylor Reach Group, Inc

They attempt to set out an ‘ideal’ path to success on the call, whether that's a sale, a resolved inquiry, or a closed case. Scripts have been around as long as contact centers. But scripts have had a variety of issues. In some cases, legal requirements mandated that scripts be read verbatim, word for word.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users.

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The Democratization of Customer Success

Speaker: John Ragsdale, Vice President of Technology Research for TSIA

As enterprise technology firms are in the midst of a rapid transition from on-premise to cloud technology, product development, sales, implementation, and support strategies are obliged to follow suit. One of the most visible changes to companies as part of this transformation is the advent of customer success.