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4 Customer Service Trends to Boost your Business

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jeff Mowatt When organizations invite me to speak at their conferences or train their team members, we start with trends that are impacting their customer relationships. Here are four customer service trends along with some tips for capitalizing on them to boost your business. Good service is wallpaper.

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High Touch, High Tech: Sales Needs Both to Survive

No More Cold Calling

And customer service will go old school, “The more technologically focused the world becomes, the less people will want to check in via iPad and have their pillow preferences stored in a computer. This simple, old-fashioned service is the most pleasant luxury.”. Travel takes more than money. Go Big, Get Personal.

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How Sales Specialists Help Reach Your Customers

Sales and Marketing Management

We therefore need sustained and expert effort to build relationships through various channels – social media, email, voicemail, text, phone and even old-fashioned snail mail! There is a whole field of expertise focused on satisfying our customers in a proactive way. The time spent with sales is decreasing.

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Why Customer Loyalty Isn’t Always About More Choices

No More Cold Calling

Maybe it’s old-fashioned, but the phone works. Stop confusing your buyers. I was so frustrated. I was trying to contact a prospect and couldn’t find the company phone number on their website. I wasn’t cold calling , I was calling a referral—who, by the way, had no contact information on his email signature.

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78 Customer Engagement Statistics

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A quarter of Millennials are fully engaged customers, and their engagement is highly dependent on technology ( source ). Customer service interactions over Twitter have increased 250% in the last two years ( source ). On average 29% of B2B customers are fully engaged ( source ). Customer Engagement Challenges.

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Sales & Operations Planning: The C-Suite Dilemma

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Alfred Baumbusch Over the past four decades, manufacturing, distribution and some service companies have invested management time and attention, consulting dollars and technology expense to properly balance supply commitments and realized demand. The results have been spotty at best.

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A Bold New Model for Launching Brands in a Market that Demands Speed and Certainty

Sales and Marketing Management

Brainstorm specific brand experiences that would help bring the brand story to life across multiple points of touch, be it logo and store design, customer service, online applications, events, advertising, and so forth. Consumers don’t experience the marketplace in a linear fashion, nor the brands with which they interact.

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