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Believe It or Not Everyone Is In Sales

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Years ago when facilitating some customer service training and development for a telecommunications firm, one of the participants (a customer service technician) flatly said he was not in sales. Once he realized that everyone is in sales and being in sales is a positive, he became the star of the customer service training.

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Head Shaving to Fight Cancer, Part 2

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I posted last week how I would be shaving my head to help fight cancer alongside one of my clients, Granite Telecommunications. The event happened yesterday – and the results are in. Before I go back to normal sales business, I just wanted to update everyone – due to such tremendous sharing about this story. (See

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Hanging Up Not the Best for Future Sales Referrals

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This was due to existing poor customer service but more so inconsistent service and high prices given the very competitive nature of the telecommunications industry. Hmm, I wonder if hanging up is part of their sales training and a recommended sales behavior? All worked well for 48 hours and this morning trouble. Share on Facebook.

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How to Implement an AI Pricing Strategy, and Why You Should

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As a former salesperson in hyper-competitive industries like tech, telecommunications, and media, I’ve seen firsthand the importance of getting your product and service pricing approach right. Be sure to train the algorithm on real customer buying behaviors and competitive intelligence.

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Inside Sales Power Tip 115 – Be Social

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An example would be a sales rep in telecommunications understanding where their telecom and data prospects (and customers) spend time online – so they can see and hear them talking about what’s new with employees bringing devices from home and how that might factor into data issues at their clients’ corporate offices.

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Welcome, Gen A: The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

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A Lack of Training. On the face of it, it does seem that the [B2B] industry doesn’t move at the pace that it should in adopting technology,” says Aditya Gupta, assistant professor of marketing at Texas State University and a former product development leader at IT and telecommunications firms.

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The Plastic Customer Service Phenomenon

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Walk into most financial institutions to departments stores to telecommunications businesses and you will have that now all too common “plastic customer service” experience. “Welcome to …” or. “Hello and how are you?” ” Are they really interested in how you are feeling right now?