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DO YOU STILL NEED SALESPEOPLE?

ImprintCX Articles

The traditional salesperson role is to navigate the sales process from the manufacturer’s perspective, leveraging knowledge and pricing arbitrage. The power of price arbitrage allowed salespeople to negotiate prices and accommodations while customers managed their budgets. Salespeople find themselves at a disadvantage.

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3 Events Paved The Path For The Customer Experience Discipline

Kerry Bodine

Middle management and frontline staff got it, too. Best of all, executives could see how a customer’s experience dealing with their organization would influence their likelihood to recommend — and how that likelihood to recommend could have a direct financial impact in the form of new customers and increased sales.

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3 Events Paved The Path For The Customer Experience Discipline

Kerry Bodine

Middle management and frontline staff got it, too. Best of all, executives could see how a customer’s experience dealing with their organization would influence their likelihood to recommend — and how that likelihood to recommend could have a direct financial impact in the form of new customers and increased sales.

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Stop Building CX Departments and Build Influence Instead

Horizon CX

A permanent autonomous CX department creates competition for access to clients with the operating departments – account management, customer service/success, etc. Pelco set a new path for post-sale support. — already charged and accountable for customer deliverables and outcomes. Pelco called it “Fanatical Customer Service.”

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Digital Transformation in Customer Service: 5 Inspirational Success Stories (Part 3 of 4)

Comm100

CBS introduced Comm100 AI Chatbot to manage the simple, repetitive questions that were taking up a substantial amount of the agents’ time. Denny Michaud, Customer Relations Manager, Canadian Blood Services. Since 2007, Fitbit has brought technology to health and fitness to change the way people move. Joanie Gentile, Sr.

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A History of Customer Support Technology

Team Support

Companies started using customer relationship management (CRM) software to manage customer information and interactions. was initially designed as a contact management tool, but evolved to include more CRM functionalities over the years. Talk to our sales team today. One of the early pioneers in CRM software was ACT!,

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How to Create a CX Presentation that Doesn’t Suck

Seaton CX

Look how Steve Jobs, in his 2007 iPhone launch keynote, contrasts the smartphone of today with the iPhone of the future. Steve Jobs, iPhone Launch Speech, 2007. Show the audience how today’s problems—customer churn, lackluster sales, market disruption—can be overcome with a renewed focus on customers. They’re really complicated.

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