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The Customer Success experiment: How focusing on long-term value solved our retention problem

Nutshell

Coming from a sales management and real estate background, I understood our customers’ hustle. When new customers did knock on our Support team’s door, they didn’t always know what they needed, and all too frequently abandoned ship. Even worse, we were losing over half of new customers at 12 months. The wrong approach to onboarding.

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How to Boost Sales Productivity with Account Planning

Upland

Our sales teams can identify and focus on the most promising opportunities by fully understanding customer preferences and behaviors. I wanted to focus sellers on what I call “transformative deals”—the kind of partnerships that made a big difference for the business and our customers. It wasn’t an obvious move. But it’s worth it.

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Here’s What a Successful Talent Initiative Looks Like

SBI Growth

If you have been following our podcast and latest blogs, you would have heard many of our experts talk about how talent initiatives are the quickest way to drive growth.

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Book review – Why has nobody told me this before? Dr Julie Smith (Mental Health Guidance)

Red Star Kim

Being with others to observe them, interact and build connections can lift our mood. When motivation for a long-term goals dips, it helps to have small rewards along the way. Stress increases the likelihood that we will instead act based on how we feel right now and sabotage our goals. Take home just one task and focus on that.

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The Modern Supply Chain: Global Challenges and Best Practices

Speaker: Bart Huthwaite - Principal, RSM, Operations and Supply Chain

Fueled by innovation and modernization, Bart Huthwaite will unpack how developing and improving your resilience and adaptability will future-proof your global supply chain and set you up for long-term success.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Prospectors, According to Sales Leaders

Hubspot Sales

But as with any other skill, some salespeople have a better grip on prospecting than others — and we, here at the HubSpot Sales Blog, want to do our part to make sure you prospect as effectively as possible. At the same time, they allocate about 25% of their prospecting to focus on long-term aspirational goals.

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The customer may be right, but you need a PoV!

Upland

PS teams often have to walk a tightrope between making a customer happy and therefore, interested in a long-term contract, while simultaneously completing projects on time, on budget, and with a profit. As an ancillary benefit, our model allows us to better position services by diagnosing potential areas a customer could improve.