Strategic Account Management Association

JULY 13, 2021

By Dominique Côté, Founder & CEO, Cosawi & Principal, The Summit Group. Disruption Leads to Innovation. Disruption, although most times unwelcome, gives way to innovation. This last year has certainly proven this saying. Could the mother of creativity and innovation, in fact, be disruption? We have seen seismic shifts in industries like events and hospitality that have been devastated by the pandemic.

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Customer Think

JULY 13, 2021

Augmenting Retail space with intelligent technologies that can create an interactive and context-specific personalization experience. Technology-driven innovations ranging from one-click ordering to personalized recommendations to smart speakers to anticipatory shipping are redefining shopping. Modern technologies like AI, VR, IoT are enhancing the intelligence of the products and services.

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Help Scout

JULY 13, 2021

Sometimes the customer service teams who are supposed to be solving problems somehow manage to make them so much worse instead. These are their stories — along with some tips to help you avoid ending up on this list next time we update it! 1. Running from responsibility The root of many terrible customer experiences is a company that is happy to collect money from a transaction but not to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

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Customer Think

JULY 13, 2021

Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, once quipped about technological innovation that, “if it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” And Wright wasn’t wrong. Like many other information workers, I spend my days punching buttons on my computer keyboard – most frequently the “delete email” button. Sometimes I switch things up […].

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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.

The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 13, 2021

First, it was a phone call. Then an email. Finally, a text message. Was my wife trying to get a hold of me? No, it was my doctor's office. It was that time of the year — time for my annual check-up. Ugh! Does anyone get excited to have a physical done by your doctor? It's uncomfortable, a bit invasive, and he's going to tell me all of the things that I've done wrong in the last year that I already know, but I don't want to admit to myself.

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Customer Think

JULY 13, 2021

Within the last few weeks, two research reports have been published that provide several important insights about how marketers are managing content-related activities and processes. One report is by the Content Marketing Institute ("CMI"), and.

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Customer Think

JULY 13, 2021

Accountability and transparency build the foundation of any successful affiliate marketing program. Right from a handful of affiliates to large communities, the transaction is about settling and attributing the fair number of conversions generated. Client-side tags have largely accounted for attributing conversions from an affiliate property. But with regulatory changes and complexity in data privacy […].

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Sandler Training

JULY 13, 2021

Mike Montague interviews Janice Lintz on How to Succeed at Changing the World. The post How to Succeed at Changing the World [PODCAST] appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Customer Think

JULY 13, 2021

In the event that you need to modernize legacy softwares, the best methodology depends upon the issue you’re attempting to tackle. Digital change has made it basic for software pioneers to discover successful approaches to modernize legacy frameworks. The greatest challenge here is to know the risk-to-reward ratio prior to acting. For some android application […].

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Zendesk

JULY 13, 2021

Doing business with a company that misses the mark on providing a high-quality customer service experience goes a step further than leaving a bad impression; it can keep the customer from ever giving your business a second chance. According to recent research, roughly 73 percent of customers will stop patronizing a company after only three (or fewer) bad customer service experiences.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Customer Think

JULY 13, 2021

Mobile game development is witnessing growth since the evolution of smartphones. This growth became more evident during the period of the Covid-19 outbreak. During that severe time, mobile gaming emerged as an effective means of entertainment and time killer. This makes the mobile gaming industry a lucrative proposition for business in terms of revenue.

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Showpad

JULY 13, 2021

One of the core capabilities required for modern selling is communicating with buyers on their terms. And to measure its effectiveness, this communication needs to be based on compelling and verifiable methods of true buyer engagement. Top-performing sellers do this by relying on asynchronous communications, sharing information and connecting in new ways, rather than via back-and-forth calendar invites, unwieldy email threads and ever-increasing attachments.

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Customer Think

JULY 13, 2021

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QYMATIX

JULY 13, 2021

B2B sales intelligence – should you make or buy your tool? With the cost of sales sky-rocketing and customers changing their buying behaviour, sales intelligence has become critical to the success of any company. This situation is especially evident in Business-to-Business, where the cost of sales makes takes the top red of each income statement.

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Customer Think

JULY 13, 2021

Combines ZoomInfo’s Business-to-Business Intelligence, Workflows, and Engagement Software with Conversation Insights from Chorus to Transform Go-to-Market Execution.

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Strikedeck

JULY 13, 2021

Jason Hoe, Director of Customer Success at Revionics, discusses how a business designs value that profoundly impacts customer success (CS) and its desired outcomes in an interview with Vincent Manlapaz. The post Making an Impact During these Unprecedented Times — In an interview with Jason Hoe, Director of Customer Success at Revionics first appeared on Strikedeck | Customer Success Platform.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 13, 2021

Role: VP of Customer Success Location: Remote, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom Organization: Gearset As a VP of Customer Success, you will work with the senior leadership team to shape and edit our customer success strategy. Define commercial targets for the customer success function, focusing on areas such as retention, growth, and net churn, and build a plan to deliver on those results.

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

JULY 13, 2021

One of the buzzphrases swirling around the sales stratosphere over the last few years is Strategic Account Management, or SAM. Unlike a lot of trendy words or concepts, SAM is a legitimate, logical strategy. It may play a major role in ensuring the long-term viability of your organization. In today’s post, we’ll examine exactly what SAM is, why you need it, and how to implement it.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Aepiphanni

JULY 13, 2021

Every business needs to understand how they get more business. Hands down, that is the hallmark of building a solid company; having a solid business development program. The problem is that every business development program is not created equal, and every business development program is not for every business. Worse yet, there are business development programs that can actually hurt a business.

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