Wed.Mar 15, 2023

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3 Steps to Building a Remote Team That Delivers Excellent Results

Customer Think

We’ve had to redefine a lot about the workplace in recent years, but that doesn’t mean we have to adjust the standards and expectations we set.

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A Quick Guide to Revenue Performance

The Center for Sales Strategy

Revenue performance in a sales organization is a crucial metric that measures the financial success and performance of the sales team in terms of the revenue generated from sales activities. It includes metrics such as total revenue, revenue growth, sales targets, quotas, and the percentage of sales goals achieved. The importance of revenue performance cannot be overstated, as it is the lifeblood of a company.

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8 Ways To Improve Retail Product Returns And Security With Inventory Control

Customer Think

67% of warehouses in a recent survey said they’re considering adopting new technologies to speed up inventory management processes. Is your retail store implementing agile and reliable inventory control? Inventory control isn’t just for operational efficiency – it benefits your product returns and security processes.

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A CRO's First 100 Days to Drive Revenue Growth

SBI Growth

As a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), you are responsible for the growth of your company’s revenue, and this is no small task. The obstacles you face every day can be daunting, but if you succeed in leading the revenue function of your company, you will have a tremendous impact on its growth. And if you fail, the pain that failure causes can trickle down to customers and prospects.

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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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Chief Customer Officer Playbook: Balancing Experience Leadership with Experience Management

Customer Think

A Chief Customer Officer playbook is a sports analogy for what needs to be done to win the game: maximum customer lifetime value. Playbooks are pivotal to the success of all team sports: football and soccer, baseball and cricket, basketball and volleyball, hockey and lacrosse, rugby and rowing, NASCAR pit crews, and so on.

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ACH vs. Credit Card: Which is Right for Your Business?

Hubspot Sales

All businesses need a way to accept payments — but which method is the best? ACH, or Automated Clearing House network, and credit cards are both methods that enable people to make payments. However, there are a few key distinctions including guarantee of payment, automated clearing house processing times, and fees. In this post, we cover the following: What is ACH?

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Building a Winning Sales Culture: Lessons from Salesforce and Netflix

Sales Readiness Group

"Ohana means family, and family means nobody is left behind or forgotten." For those of you who don’t have Disney-age kids, that quote is from the classic Disney movie “Lilo & Stitch.” Until recently, Ohana was also the basis for the corporate culture at SaaS giant Salesforce.

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[Research Round-Up] Two Surveys Explore the State of ABM

Customer Think

(This month's Research Round-Up features two recent studies that examine the state of account-based marketing. One is the 2022 ABM Benchmark Survey by Momentum ITSMA and the ABM Leadership Alliance, and the second is the ABM Census 2022 survey by.

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Mar 15 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Houston, TX, United States (Remote) Organization: Innovapptive Inc As a Director of Customer Success, you’ll ensure great client happiness, adoption improvements, retention, and expansion, you should lead and manage the customer success team of strategic accounts. People Management & Recruiting: With an emphasis on creating a solid talent pipeline and assembling a high-performing team, hire, train, and manage a group of customer success speci

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What Brands Can Do Before Their Best Customer Ghosts Them

Customer Think

Relationships can move fast. You meet for the first time, and there’s a spark. You feel like you’ve known each other for years, even though you’ve only spent a few hours together. You quickly get a sense of likes and dislikes, as well as what you have to offer each other.

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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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7 Surprising Ways To Boost Business Growth in 2023

Customer Think

As the new year gets fully underway, it’s an ideal time for business owners to evaluate their current strategies. You need a clear plan for this, however.

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How to Scale Managed Services While Providing a Peerless Customer Experience

Customer Think

From state-sponsored Chinese hackers targeting telecom operators to the breach of a major Russian bank, cyberattacks continue to impact the world in new ways. These examples come from just the past month or so, but looking at any time over the past decade will tell a similar story.

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Banks Are Going All In On Digital — What We Can Learn

Customer Think

Traditional banks have struggled to get their arms around the new generation of online-only banks and digital financial services that millennials love. Without the need for expensive retail store-fronts, easy-to-use mobile apps, and better offerings, it’s easy to see why the cell phone generation is abandoning old-style financial institutions for a better alternative.

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What Is Often The Most Effective Customer Winback Strategy? You Might Be Surprised.

Customer Think

As has been understood for decades, every year, the average b2b and b2c company loses 20 to 40 percent of its customers. Today, for on-line companies the rate of customer churn can be significantly higher (and faster). When a repeat or long-time customer defects, the negative effect on profit is substantial.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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The Cost of Automating Customer Care

Customer Think

Remember when a person would answer a company phone? I found myself shocked recently when a live human answered. “Um, Hello?? Are you a real person?

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Tool time, task time and how ChatGPT will change everything in customer support – Interview with Des Traynor of Intercom

Customer Think

Today’s interview is with Des Traynor, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder at Intercom. Des joins me today to talk about some research they recently conducted around customers’ communication preferences and what that means. We then go on to talk abou.

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Outreach Unveils New Features Across Sales Execution Platform, Empowering Sales Leaders to Efficiently Create More Pipeline and Predictably Close More Deals

Customer Think

Introduces seven new platform capabilities to help sales leaders unlock seller productivity, increase deal velocity and conversion rates, and improve rep participation and attainment

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Sendbird Launches New Offering That Cuts SMS Spend by 50% and Increases Conversion Rate by 2X

Customer Think

API-based solution that enables product managers and marketers to customize and launch a persistent in-app notifications experience in minutes

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.