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7 Ways to End Your Sales Presentation With a Bang

Hubspot Sales

Closing a Sales Presentation. But most sales presentations end with a whimper, rather than a bang. Their typical customer success rep could handle three calls per hour -- which meant hundreds of calls per day weren’t resolved. Customers were dropping like flies.”. Go back to your opening anecdote or idea.

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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

Strategic Account Management Association

The pandemic has presented an opportunity to reflect on what matters most in our personal and professional lives. Examine the methodologies and frameworks that are being used to guide customers down a path to value realization. Are we putting our team in the best possible position to make our customers successful?

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Customer Success Specialist Job Description: Template & Examples

Help Scout

The first named customer success group was created in 1996. While the original driver for the role was to grow relationships and increase revenue, the customer success specialist job description has changed quite a bit since then. Learn from those examples, and apply the elements that fit for your team and situation.

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The Future of SAM – Revisited

Strategic Account Management Association

This blog post is based on a keynote presentation from the 2021 SAMA Annual Conference. There is no one else better positioned to lead, to orchestrate that team, to play that role and to represent the needs of a customer.”. The session was moderated by Jim Ford, Chief Commercial Officer, Solecta and SAMA Chairman of the Board.

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The Customer Success experiment: How focusing on long-term value solved our retention problem

Nutshell

When Nutshell’s last Customer Success effort fizzled out (more on that in a bit), I was fairly new to the CX team at Nutshell. Understanding the efforts Nutshell had already made to launch a Customer Success initiative was critically important in ensuring I did not repeat any past missteps. What were those missteps?

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How to Drive Sales with a Customer-Centric Strategy

Brooks Group

Your customer service and account management teams are an integral part of the buyer experience. Customer service skills training will help all team members find out whats causing service headaches, fix customer success challenges, identify common pitfalls, and resolve pain points.

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5 Best Sales Enablement Platforms of 2025

Hubspot Sales

Revenue enablement aligns sales, marketing, and customer success teams to optimize the entire revenue cycle. Revenue enablement focuses on selling, marketing, and customer success alignment with seamless communication at each touchpoint in the Customer Life Cycle with consistent messaging across.

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