Tue.Aug 13, 2024

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How to Use Customer Kindness to Make Hard Jobs Suck Less

Customer Think

Josh had only been a waiter for two weeks and tonight was going exceptionally poorly. He was overwhelmed with managing orders and feared the repercussions for his long-term job prospects. That evening, a family had arrived to celebrate their grandmother’s 82nd birthday.

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5 Practical Ways to Help Salespeople Build On Their Strengths

The Center for Sales Strategy

As the new fiscal year approaches, sales managers should evaluate and leverage their teams' unique strengths. Recognizing and nurturing individual sellers' talents can lead to improved performance and better results. Our strengths are hard-wired in us from a very early age, and people notice and appreciate them when they are strong. To develop these talents over time, we need to practice using them.

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Why We Need EI in an AI World

Customer Think

It’s easy for all of us to fall into all or nothing thinking. In this day and age, the thinking is that we must teach our teams artificial intelligence skills. That thinking is correct because AI is here to stay and the power of AI is in its’ infancy.

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How To Perform a Customer Churn Analysis (And Why You Should)

Groove HQ

Struggling to understand why some of your customers stick around for years, but others vanish in the blink of an eye? Some customers will come and go. Often, business relationships are transitory or temporal, so churn is inevitable. However, it can be minimized, and a high churn rate often signals something wrong that requires immediate action. […] The post How To Perform a Customer Churn Analysis (And Why You Should) appeared first on Groove Blog.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Benefits and Outcomes of Using AI in the Contact Center

Customer Think

I originally wrote today’s post for GoTo as a follow-up to our June 26, 2024, webinar. It appeared on their site on July 9, 2024. To get access to this webinar on-demand and to hear more about the topics I write about in this post, be sure to listen to/watch the webinar on demand.

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From Traffic to Income: A Comprehensive Guide to Monetizing Your Website—Part 1

Strategic Communications

While many people may not think of it this way, Amazon is likely one of the most successful —if not the most successful—websites from a monetization standpoint. Initially, it started as an online bookseller, but today, much of Amazon’s revenue comes through payments received from third parties selling products on its site—a practice referred to as affiliate marketing.

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Best Sales Intelligence Tools: Your Key to Maximized Sales

DemandFarm

A salesperson without sales intelligence is like an eagle without eyes. Sale is a long hard process that tends to take everything from the salesperson. But it does not need to be this way. The main problem faced by a salesperson is the lack of information. This not only slows down your sales team but also hinders your sales process. Just providing your salesperson with useful bits of information could help him choose whom to pursue and how to pursue it.

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Why Localization Is Now Taking Center Stage in Business Strategy

Customer Think

Over the next three years, more than three-quarters (79 percent) of business leaders expect the roles of translation and localization to evolve within their business strategies. That’s according to a recent global survey conducted by Censuswide for Phrase, involving 2,000 business leaders.

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Sales Operations KPIs You Should Always Keep Track

DemandFarm

Sales operations KPIs are the metrics that help sales teams measure their performance, identify areas for improvement, and make data-driven decisions. Without these metrics, it would be challenging to understand what’s working, what’s not, and where to focus efforts to drive better results. Once you understand which key metrics to go after, you can start training your sales representatives and replicating the success blueprint.

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What is Missing in Customer Experience Today?

Customer Think

Customer Experience is failing. According to Forrester, US Consumer Perceptions of CX quality are at an historic low. Post-COVID the quality of customer experience eroded every year across the three Forrester categories: effectiveness, ease, and emotion. That means organizations operate inefficiently, underutilize technology, and fail to invest in frontline leadership training.

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2024, The Year of the Customer

2023's struggles fueled a shift: companies are ditching wasteful strategies in favor of data and AI-powered growth. Enter 2024, the year GTC takes center stage. Discover 5 ways a customer-centric approach unlocks new revenue and delivers lasting success.

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Insider Secrets: What Tradespeople Won’t Tell You and How to Deal with Them

Customer Think

Listen to the podcast: I’ve undertaken a kitchen renovation, and the Customer Experience the various tradespeople provide leaves much to be desired. After this project, it’s not hard to imagine why tradespeople have the poor reputation tradespeople do.