Tue.Apr 30, 2024

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Use Knowledge Graphs to Improve Experiences Throughout the Customer Journey

Customer Think

AI projects are increasingly running into a brick wall when it comes to getting meaningful, measurable results. The best way to measure impact is to understand what information is needed to support a specific process. One process or lifecycle that is important to all parts of the organization is the customer experience.

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Closing the Gap: Aligning Sales Expectations and Reality for Appointment Success

The Center for Sales Strategy

I think we can all agree that securing appointments is foundational to achieving sales goals. However, findings from the recent Media Sales Report found a persistent gap between the expectations and reality of salespeople and their managers when it comes to the actual number of scheduled appointments.

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The Bright & Shiny B2B Customer Experience Map

Customer Think

When I sat down to write this, I was reminded of an experience I had. I was on my second call of the week with an executive interested in a B2B customer experience map. This senior exec had a mid-size B2B company and wanted to improve its customer experience.

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You're making it harder to buy. 3 ways sellers contribute to stalled deals.

SBI Growth

Many companies experienced an inconsistent and underwhelming year for business in 2023—and with promising forecasts for demand in 2024, many executive teams are eager to take their companies back on the path to rapid growth. However, the flat to declining commercial productivity among many sales teams today still poses an obstacle to that goal.

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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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Revisiting the role of trust in sales

Customer Think

The latest edition of the International Journal of Sales Transformation focuses on the critical role that trust plays in sales. Here’s my contribution: Trust is an essential foundational element in any sales environment – and it can (and must) take many forms.

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Incremental sales explained in a guide with formula, examples, tips, and best practices

PandaDoc

Regularly keeping track of incremental sales is one of the best ways of determining how best to allocate your marketing resources. In this article, you’ll find out how to calculate incremental sales for any given marketing campaign, as well as some useful tips and best practices on how to maximize this metric. Key takeaways Measuring incremental sales helps improve your marketing strategy.

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Customer Journey Mapping

Flevy

Customer Journey Mapping is an essential tool for organizations aiming to enhance customer experience and deepen engagement across all points of interaction. By systematically representing the Customer Journey, businesses can align their operations to better meet customer needs, ultimately driving satisfaction, loyalty, and growth. A comprehensive Customer Journey Map includes the following elements : Personas Stages Actions, Emotions, and Touchpoints Supporting Content and Features Insights and

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Awin Prioritizes Customer Experience Personalization with New Platform Features

Customer Think

New Tools Let Advertisers Achieve Greater Success with More Automation, Deeper Insights, and Publisher Reward Opportunities

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Account Growth Strategy: What it is and How to Use it

Arpedio

Understanding Account Growth Strategy In this section, we will take a closer look at the intricacies and purpose of account growth strategy. Understanding how to effectively implement this strategy is crucial for long-term success in maximizing your business growth and revenue. Defining Account Growth Strategy Account growth strategy refers to the systematic planning, execution, and management of approaches aimed at expanding your existing client base, increasing revenue, and improving customer

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How to zohotize a global business

Customer Think

IDT started to use Zoho around 7 years ago for its internal startup NRS. The scope was customer care with the objective of enabling the business to respond to quick and effectively to customers.

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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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Value Selling Strategies: What it is and Why it Matters

Arpedio

What is Value Selling? Value selling is a sales approach that can revolutionize the way you sell. Unlike traditional methods, value selling focuses on delivering unique value to customers and aligning their needs with your product or service. By understanding and implementing value selling strategies, you can elevate your sales approach and close more deals.

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Use Sales Scorecards Because People are Fickle

Customer Think

Brad Bolino provided a link to an Inc Magazine article about the Peter Principle. For their example, the author used salespeople who were promoted to sales managers based on their sales performance, but not because they had any specific skills or capabilities to be effective sales managers. Their sales management performance was poor.

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Customer Service Analytics: Understanding the Story Behind the Data

Help Scout

Unlock the potential of your customer service with analytics, and explore data-driven strategies to improve your business operations.

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Using an agile approach to improve outcomes in a website re-design project

Customer Think

For a recent website redesign and development project, we adopted an agile project management approach with 30-day planning phases broken down into weekly sprints. This methodology allowed us to accelerate the design process because we had regular discussions with all members of the team involved.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Product Marketing Is Always Visual, But What About Customer Service?

Customer Think

When someone asks you to describe ‘product marketing’ what is the first thing that you think of? It will usually be a visual reaction. You will think of how a specific product looks or how it makes you feel. Auto brands know this.

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Crafting Compelling Stories: The Key to Unlocking True Customer Engagement

Customer Think

Listen to the podcast: Once upon a time… These four words are the unmistakable beginning of a story, and if there is one thing we humans love, it’s stories. We love them in our news, in our dinner conversations, and even in our commercials. Storytelling is an essential part of communication with customers, too.

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5 mistakes to avoid in Consumer Duty outcomes testing

Customer Think

A lot of people have been asking for advice on how they can get better at monitoring and evidencing Consumer Duty outcomes. It’s top of priority lists as we inch closer to completing the first year of implementation. The mandate from day one has been clear.

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5 Types of Stories Leaders Need to Tell

Customer Think

Premise As I had mentioned in my blog post yesterday, stories are a medium to transmit ideas. As leaders, it is one of our most fundamental responsibilities to transmit ideas to those who follow us. The objective of the transmission of ideas may be different but the best medium remains stories.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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New Adobe research: Generative AI is changing what consumers expect from brands

Customer Think

About a year ago, I spoke to Luc Dammann, President EMEA at Adobe, about some new research that Adobe had just published. The research found that consumers expect even better experiences from brands when economic conditions become more challenging. Now, if you think about it, that makes complete sense.

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How a Software Developing Company Align Projects with Customer Expectations

Customer Think

Meeting customer expectations with the end product is one of the top priorities for scaling and growing a business. A software developing company faces several challenges to bridge the gap between the customer’s vision and the final product. This article discusses how a business can align the project with what its customers want.