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What are customer service skills?

MTD Sales Training

When you hear the term ‘customer service’, what connotations spring up? Whatever you think customer service is, it often needs to be revisited in order to be kept front-of-mind. Whatever you think customer service is, it often needs to be revisited in order to be kept front-of-mind.

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Taking Customer Service from Cost Center to Profit Center

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: John Larson How many times has one of your customers approached you with an issue or a problem? Often, we find ourselves threatened or at least uncomfortable when a customer approaches us with a complaint or some of other form of problem. Stated somewhat differently, customer problems are opportunities in disguise.

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How To Boost Client Retention – Without Customer Service or Account Reps

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Ajay Gupta It’s well-known that keeping customers is much more cost-effective and profitable than securing new clients. Harvard Business Review estimated that customer acquisition is 5 to 25 times as expensive as customer retention. Put your whole team in a customer-facing role. What to do?

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The Magic Customer Service Question

The Sales Heretic

I was hungry. I had just checked in at the Sheraton hotel in Tampa, Florida, where I was conducting a sales training seminar the next day. Now, normally when I’m traveling, I like to get out of the hotel and find a good, local restaurant to eat at. But this evening, it was late and [.].

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4 Steps to Developing Your Customer Care Strategy

The quality of a customer care strategy can make or break a company. Simply resolving a customer service issue or complaint is no longer enough— in a competitive, customer-obsessed environment, there is always room for improvement. And do all of this while reducing the ever increasing cost and complexity of customer care.

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The One Thing the Best Customer Experience Companies Do Differently

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: John DiJulius The vast majority of business leaders will agree that customer service is critical to their success. However, most haven’t done what it takes to be a world-class customer service organization. . That asset is the customer. . . Why Employees Often Lack Customer Empathy .

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Are You Listening Now? How Sales Leaders Optimize Customer Listening Paths

SBI Growth

Inefficient activity assignment and role clarity issues within your organization can drive down important metrics such as your customer service satisfaction or net promotor scores. As a Sales Leader, you’re liable for understanding where your individual contributors need to be.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.

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Why Conversational AI Is Key to Customer Service in the Customer Experience Era

In today’s hyper-competitive market, every business must become a customer experience-first business. Customer satisfaction has become more important than price or any individual feature. Read the new Tractica white paper to learn how important conversational AI is to your CX strategy.

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Buyer & Customer Engagement: A Digital Exhaust Methodology

Unlock growth through customer-centric campaigns that deeply understand buyer journeys from awareness to post-purchase. This eBook shows how aligning marketing, sales, and customer service via an "outside-in" approach resonates with audiences, fosters trust, and drives loyalty - outperforming "inside-out" product-focused tactics.

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace. Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead.