Tue.Dec 07, 2021

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10 Web Design Mistakes Small Businesses Make And How To Avoid Them!

Customer Think

Image: By Author Recently, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed. I came across an interesting post talking about the web design mistakes small businesses make and how to avoid them. It caught my attention! This is something I can connect to as someone who owns a small business. I believe it is critical to […].

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Sales Leaders’ Top Challenges: Time Management

The Center for Sales Strategy

No matter how good a product is, nobody will buy it if they have not heard about it. On top of that, sometimes it takes a skilled and informed presentation of a product for people to realize how much value it can bring to them. That is the job of the more than 13 million people who are employed in sales just in the United States! Of course, the world of sales comes with its own challenges.

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Hybrid Work Forever: How to Enable Work-Life Balance in the Contact Center

Customer Think

For many organizations, the move to remote work was a stopgap solution put in place to simply keep the lights on as COVID-19 caused widespread shutdowns. In customer-centric organizations, it meant moving traditionally brick-and-mortar contact center operations to a remote model almost overnight—all while adjusting to new customer behaviors and an explosion in digital channels. […].

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The 8 Best Team Email Management Software for 2022

Help Scout

Team email management software minimizes the stress of organizing, processing, and prioritizing email, improving your team's productivity.

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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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How to Choose a Payment Gateway Provider For Your Ecommerce Business

Customer Think

Did you know that while 33% of millennials use cash, only 18% of Gen Z-ers say the same? The way we pay is constantly shifting toward quick, easy digital payments, so if your business doesn’t have a designated payment gateway, it’s time to choose one. A payment gateway is the service that connects your online […].

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3 ways to provide an AI customer experience

Zendesk

A great customer experience features efficient and personalized interactions at each step of the buyer’s journey. But in order to achieve this, companies need a way to quickly analyze customer data and act on it. According to the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report , businesses that leverage customer data see 36-percent faster resolutions and a 79-percent reduction in wait times; they also solve four times the number of customer requests.

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The Linkage Between Technology & Business Outcomes

Revenue Storm

The sole existence of almost all business technological innovation is due to the need to solve a customer issue or problem. From a proactive perspective, it is to improve the performance of the business by increasing revenue, margin, customer loyalty, or competitive performance. The question becomes… how do we share a strong point of view and position our technology, innovation, or solutions with a customer while prioritizing their business?

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The Making of a Sales Champion #AskJeb

Sales Gravy

This is another episode of #AskJeb where Jeb answers a question, from Justin, a sales leader based in Dallas. Justin asked: "What's the best predictive indicator of a person becoming a sales champion." Sales Champions Are Optimists This is a question that sales leaders all across the globe grapple with because they all want to hire sales champions and build sales champions.

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How to Create a High-Performance Organizational Culture

Kainexus

An organization's culture is the foundation upon which success, stagnation, or failure is built. It is imperative during times of growth or disruption. The problem is that often well-intentioned leaders don't make culture a priority during challenging times. Instead, they put their energy into protecting assets and maximizing efficiency. Of course, those strategies are essential, but leaders need to practice both defense and offense by creating a solid and resilient culture.

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How CMOs are leading the digital transformation revolution

Customer Think

Digital Transformation is evolving the role of the CMO as we know it A CMO’s primary focus used to be to help manage a team’s ability to build effective strategies across multiple traditional and non-traditional marketing channels. The goal was to help guide the consumer through a static and highly-structured path-to-purchase; until the customer took […].

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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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The Best Subject Lines of 2021 for Real Estate, Insurance, Mortgage and More

Outbound Engine

What’s in a subject line? A lot, actually. If you’ve ever spent time in the world of email marketing, you already know that a great subject line can be the difference between a campaign that drives results and one that flops. The best subject lines are usually short, pithy and promising something valuable inside the email (without misleading the reader).

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We don’t know what buyers are thinking.

Customer Think

Source: Getty Images If you’re being told to “go learn the industry, start a discovery, ask open ended questions that lead to your product or get the prospect to admit need,” you’re taking the first step toward creating resistance and a Long. Purchase. Cycle. Why do we follow this well-worn sales process if it causes […].

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Want to Roll Out the Red Carpet for VIP Buyers? Try Drift + Salesloft.

Drift

Working in sales can be like stumbling through a dark room. Now more than ever, B2B buyers want fast, easy, and personalized buying experiences. But putting that into practice is tough. According to McKinsey, more than 80% of buyer interactions now happen digitally, and sellers often don’t have any insight into them. So while sellers know what they want the buying experience to look like.

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Consultants – Help or Hindrance?

Customer Think

When it comes to finding answers to marketing and business problems, there is rarely only one solution. The question is, not whether one marketing policy or action is the right one, but rather in the given circumstances, is it the best one? When managing marketing strategies, plans and actions, there is generally an advantage in […].

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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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Understanding customer touchpoints—and why they matter

Zendesk

Let’s start with the basics: What is a customer touchpoint? To put it simply, a customer touchpoint is any time a consumer interacts with your brand, whether that’s through an employee, a website, an advertisement, or an app. And the experiences consumers have with those touchpoints can shape how they view your company. A customer touchpoint is any time a consumer interacts with your brand, whether that’s through an employee, a website, an advertisement, or an app.

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Five9 Extends its Digital Workforce Solutions with Support for Life-Like Synthetic Voices

Customer Think

Five9, Inc. is adding a new capability to help businesses reimagine their self-service experiences using life-like conversational AI synthesized from human voices.

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This is Why LinkedIn Isn’t Working for You!

Strategic Communications

We’ve been managing our own, and client, LinkedIn profiles and company pages for several years now. I’ve always been a big LinkedIn fan and I’ve seen interest in using LinkedIn for business development grow significantly during the pandemic as opportunities to connect in person with clients and prospects has diminished, or disappeared in some cases.

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The five most frequently asked questions about predictive analytics

QYMATIX

This article answers the most frequently asked questions about predictive analytics (PA), according to Google. Especially in the last two to three years, we have noticed a significant increase in interest in predictive analytics technologies, their possibilities, and their functionalities. We tried to find out what people were googling about predictive analytics already in 2015.

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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.

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Kissflow rolls out an enhanced version of its powerful productivity platform to manage ad-hoc and unstructured workflow for hybrid teams

Customer Think

Advanced case management capabilities will empower business users to become citizen developers and realize the true value of automation.

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How to Conduct an Employer Brand Audit

ReviewTrackers

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6 Myths about Meeting Notes Keeps You from Growing

SmartKarrot

In any organization and particularly B2B business, the relevance of taking meeting notes cannot be undermined. . While some favor taking meeting notes, others believe meeting notes are nothing but a waste of time. Meeting notes are important points from the meeting that are a reminder of the actions or decisions from the meeting. So, where does all this negative information circulate in the corporate world about meeting notes?