Tue.Mar 08, 2022

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Hold Your Applause

The Center for Sales Strategy

Thank you! Thank you! Really, Thanks. Please hold your applause until the end of the sales meeting. What? You mean that you haven’t been interrupted during your sales meeting by thunderous applause from your salespeople? Really?

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How We Can Align our Corporate Strategy and Supply Chain Strategy

Flevy

Most organizations struggle to find a true strategic fit between their Corporate Strategies and their Supply Chain Strategies. For most organizations, they operate within a highly complex and globally interconnected Supply Chain. Aligning Supply Chain solutions to support the organization’s strategies has become increasingly difficult. This has never been more evident than during the COVID-19 global crisis, as Supply Chains are experiencing unprecedented issues and bottlenecks, resulting in deli

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Planview Stands with Ukraine

Planview

Planview Stands with Ukraine. Like many of you, we have been following the events unfolding in Ukraine closely. We are deeply saddened by the escalating humanitarian crisis, and we condemn the acts of violence and stand with those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Planview has initiated an online fundraising campaign to raise money for organizations focused on humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, including Razom and UNICEF.

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3 AI analytics to add to your KPIs today

Zendesk

Successful companies are constantly asking questions. What makes for the best customer service experience? Does the fastest response time always mean a satisfied customer? Customer support teams are in a tricky situation — they need to optimize costs and still provide the best agent and customer experience. Many businesses use traditional KPIs like average handle time and first call resolution as key metrics.

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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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Reach Back and Ask For More

Revenue Storm

Lush green front yards and gardens have experienced great year-over-year growth over the last couple of years as people spend more time outside than ever before. Our focus on health makes us more conscious of what we put into our bodies, but this also enables us to appreciate more of what we see around us in our environment. So, what does that have to do with selling?

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Why is Quality Assurance Insurance Important?

Kainexus

When most people think about quality assurance (QA), they imagine the process of testing products before delivery to the customer. In software development, QA involves code inspection, user experience assessment, regression testing, test cases, and more. In manufacturing, it requires acceptance sampling, error proofing, statistical process control, and stress testing, among other things.

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How to Discuss a Price Increase With Clients

Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

The last thing we want to do as an account executive is to rock the boat and give our clients a price increase. However, in this economic environment, price increases are a daily occurrence for companies worldwide. The Consumer Price Index rose 7.5% in the last 12 months according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics. This increase represents the highest increase since 1982.

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Why is value-based selling so important?

Mercuri International

Value-based selling has been around for more than 30 years and is still as relevant as ever. When Mercuri Research recently surveyed the most important challenges for business leaders, customer value orientation came out on top, just as it did in our last survey 5 years ago. 1 . 85% of business leaders today consider customer value orientation to be a critical success factor for them, but at the same time 38% say they lack the ability to sell a value-based proposition. 2 In this article, we expl

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The Cost of Not Accomplishing Your Strategic Plan

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals and action plans. Learn more about how we can help align your team with our strategic planning and implementation services.

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What is value creation in sales?

Mercuri International

Value-creation focused selling is essential for sales and marketing organizations. In a previous article , we discussed the factors driving up to 85% of business leaders to consider the customer-value approach as critical to success. 1. In order to become customer-value oriented and value-creating in your sales you need to understand what customer value is and how to create it.

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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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What is Brand Salience and How is It Tied to Reputation

ReviewTrackers

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are honored to present our Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success to Follow list for 2022, celebrating 50 influential women leaders and their inspiring stories of strength and success. While their reputations speak for themselves, this list is our modest tribute to these remarkable ladies who have stood out as role models breaking new ground, blazing a trail, and inspiring many others along the way.

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What artificial intelligence can and can´t do

QYMATIX

For years, artificial intelligence has fluctuated between the terms “Terminator”, “technology of the future”, or “new superpower”, and “doesn’t work”, “is disappointing”, or “no confidence” It is not surprising that there have repeatedly been so-called “AI summers” and “AI winters” over 70 years.

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Best Social Media Management Tool for Your Business

Agile CRM

Normally, big companies have a dedicated or huge team to handle their social media account or platforms. However, when it comes to startups or small and medium-sized companies; they are not always well equipped with human resources that can be specifically dedicated to handling their social media platforms or streamlining their social media business accounts.

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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.