One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Business growth either leverages profitable leadership communication. How many of your clients have voiced this sentiment, when attempting to traverse execution of pre-sale promises and their post-sale service delivery and execution? As degradation of services became more frequent, I exercised leadership communication.

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Leadership Communication Customer Retention Sales 61

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Thanks to a fun report from CCW , Customer Contact Week, and some clever customer experience pros (and prose – ha ha,) there is a discussion around leadership buzzwords we should have. We aim for an exceptional “journey” for our customers but are only referring to marketing. And I agree. Is that odd?

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Leadership Culture Customer Centricity Report 227

One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Social communication etiquette is going over the top. In spite of the topics I scheduled on my editorial calendar, the theme of this week’s posts is rapidly becoming Communication. Communication between leadership, management and front line employees. This strategy continues our social communication. No pitching.

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Communication Social Media B2B Conference 167

Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We know that sales and customer success (CS) teams must work together to drive revenue growth and expansion. Check out three highlights from the conversation, and listen to the full podcast to gain more insights and tips on how your teams can create a mutually beneficial relationship between CS and sales.

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Sales Customer Success Communication Leadership 71

Kate Nasser

MAY 22, 2022

Customer Experience Strategy Leaders: Your words need to say collaborate with customers not conquer them. Examples fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX Leadership Teamwork Collaboration. The post Customer Experience Strategy: Do You Conquer or Collaborate? | #Leadership #CX appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Leadership Strategy Customer Experience Customers 126

Integrity Solutions

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Effective sales conversations, however, are rooted in a mindset of listening to understand. Let’s explore why that distinction is so fundamental in sales, and what you can learn about active listening in sales from the best sales coaches. That’s what active listening in sales is all about.

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Sales Consulting e-support Leadership 86

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

TechSee’s Annual Influencer List For a second year, everyone at TechSee is proud and excited to share our annual list of influential leaders in the space of digital customer service. As the Head of Customer Support and Engagement at HotDoc, she is responsible for leading the customer support and engagement strategy.

Customer Service 207

Customer Service Contact Center Customer Centricity Leadership 207

Horizon CX

APRIL 30, 2024

Organizational Transformation: The Role of Customer Experience Professionals Introduction Organizational transformation is often perceived as an elusive goal, reserved for C-suite executives with immense power and influence. That may be true in many instances, but the reality is more nuanced.

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Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage Culture Customer Experience Professionals 130

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Art of Selling CX: Convincing Skeptical Senior Leaders on Customer Experience Success Introduction In the dynamic landscape of customer experience (CX) management, the journey extends beyond strategic implementation; it’s a constant process of persuasion and selling ideas, especially to senior leadership.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Automotive Fashion 130

Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“If you have a customer success job in an organization that isn’t interested in customer retention, you need to consider doing something else,” says Lucy Norris , Executive VP, Global Leader of Customer Success at Genesys , a technology company that provides solutions for customer experience, marketing, and sales.

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Blake Morgan

JULY 18, 2023

           From Chief Experience and Chief Customer Officers to Customer Experience leaders, more companies are creating customer leadership roles. These positions can greatly impact customer-centricity, but they bring a common question: where do you start?

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Leadership Chief Customer Officer How To Customer Centricity 52

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. Without making those choices upfront, you’ll find it hard to create a good customer experience and scale it, and you’ll easily fall into the chaotic trap of “doing what it takes”. Here’s the webinar in full. A: Try to narrow it down.

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Sales Customer Success Tourism Roadmap 52

Gainsight

MARCH 8, 2023

Today, financial leadership is transforming once again. Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta champions a concept known as “ human-first leadership.” As he explains it, the key to winning in business is simply to be human, communicate openly, and treat those around you with compassion and respect. Look in the mirror. Give more to get more.

Leadership 52

Leadership Financial Conference Communication 52

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Mitel , a company that works with teams by supporting their communications and technology needs so that they can provide the best customer experience possible. They share their top 5 unified communications predictions for 2023. 2023 will be all about customer lifecycle management (CLM).

Communication 70

Communication Contact Center Return on Investment System 70

TechSee

MAY 10, 2021

At TechSee, we have put that knowledge into practice with solutions that help our clients and their customers every day. This cutting-edge approach enables consumers to DIY for technical issues and helps contact center agents and field technicians provide remote guidance while seeing exactly what the customer sees.

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Sales ROI Contact Center Culture 109

TechSee

MARCH 7, 2023

Taksina Eammano, EVP & GM Field Service, Salesforce – Taksina is leading the conversation in applying AI and workflow to manage cost and improve field service outcomes while improving customer experience in the SFDC Field Service Customers. She is a force to be reckoned with as a writer and speaker on customer experience.

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Contact Center Leadership Hospitality Chief Customer Officer 207

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Nick Bandy, Chief Marketing Officer at LiveVox , an omnichannel platform that helps brands seamlessly communicate with their customers. He shares how you can align your customer’s journey with their brand expectations. The customer journey is essential to any company’s success.

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Customer Journeys Brands Sales Contact Center 123

Totango

MAY 17, 2023

When it comes to understanding customer needs, marketing, sales, and CS teams are the experts, so it’s on us to work together to define today’s most valuable growth opportunities. VP of Customer Success at Veriforce, Andy Kearney. The idea that CS can own the entire customer journey is both unrealistic and outdated.

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Sales Marketing Sports Customer Journeys 108

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 1, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing customer service and transforming the way organizations manage their customer and employee experiences. As a customer experience leader, it’s crucial to understand the potential of AI and how to leverage it effectively to elevate and not deduct from the customer journey.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Self Service Chatbots 143

Education Services Group

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Success Plans are key to starting your customer relationships off on the right foot. CSMs use them to guide their first interactions with the customer, helping them clarify and set expectations, set up an action plan for moving forward, and establish critical milestones to work toward through the customer journey.

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Sales Customer Success Leadership Meeting 52

Kate Nasser

JUNE 7, 2020

Customer Experience Strategy Leaders: Your words need to say collaborate with customers not conquer them. Examples fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX Leadership Teamwork Collaboration. The post Customer Experience Strategy: Do You Conquer or Collaborate? | #Leadership #CX appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Leadership Strategy Customer Experience Customers 95

Customer Bliss

JULY 21, 2016

United leadership is important. I’ve been doing this type of work since 1983 (wow), and united leadership — which I regularly call one-company leadership in my books, speeches, and my five competencies — is as important as anything else. (If United Leadership: Necessary to move from talk to action.

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Leadership Chief Customer Officer Customer Journeys Metrics 100

Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 13, 2021

Great sales team coaching takes specific knowledge and functional expertise to build a successful team. On their own, these aren’t enough to bring out the best in their sales teams and help them achieve their full performance potential. Emotional and Social Intelligence for Sales Coaches. Here’s why.

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Sales Culture Connections Examples 111

Gainsight

JANUARY 26, 2022

In the era of Customer Success 2.0, the solid force of customer-centricity ensures that no department is isolated within your company, certainly not the Customer Success team. CS adds value to all parts of your business, whether Product, Sales, or Marketing. It can make your company a truly customer-centric organization.

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Sales Customer Success ROI Customer Centricity 111

Customer Bliss

JULY 11, 2017

This is his third time around in a tech customer experience role, previously having held similar jobs at DocuSign and Citrix. Catherine is committed to delivering world-class products and services that drive customer adoption, loyalty and business results. Communication and storytelling. I communicated.”

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As CX leaders and in our own lives, we’ve seen that sometimes, finance companies can be a little late to the customer experience train, so I think you’ll enjoy today’s conversation, as I speak to Samantha Paxson , Executive Vice President and Chief Experience Officer for Co-op Financial Services.

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Leadership Chief Customer Officer Financial User Experience 128

Integrity Solutions

MAY 26, 2022

This is a critical component of what we have always believed strong coaching and sales leadership cultures must include. Ethical Sales Practices and Your Brand Promise. Cultivating Ethical Sales Teams. Instead, this is something that’s silently, subliminally and consistently communicated from one person to another.

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Sales Culture Leadership Brands 52

Integrity Solutions

JUNE 23, 2020

What kind of conversations are your front-line managers having with their customer-facing teams? With sales booming, several top salespeople were promoted to manager roles, and the expectations were high. In their new roles as sales managers, these individuals’ success would now depend on how well they could rally their teams.

Sales 85

Sales Company Management Employee Engagement 85

Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 24, 2022

If you’ve implemented sales training this year, you’re not alone. Studies have shown that upwards of $15 billion is spent annually on sales training in the United States alone. And are there specific sales training strategies behind that critical investment to help ensure its success and strong ROI?

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Training Sales Strategy Study 88

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

On this episode of Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show, I chat with Ross Garretson , Vice President of Customer Experience at Hunter Douglas North America , about how he builds out both the business to business and business to consumer experience for the worldwide leader in custom window treatments and architectural products.

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B2C Leadership Customer Experience B2B 111

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

On this episode of Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show, I chat with Ross Garretson , Vice President of Customer Experience at Hunter Douglas North America , about how he builds out both the business to business and business to consumer experience for the worldwide leader in custom window treatments and architectural products.

B2C 111

B2C Leadership Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer 111

Education Services Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study is out! Especially when they are telling a story about how Customer Success is booming. Without further ado – here’s a quick recap of the 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study! I don’t know about you, but I love data. Numbers are the best. Who owns what, when, and how?

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Study Leadership Customer Success Chief Customer Officer 52

ShepHyken

MAY 13, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 8 Keys to Making Customer Service a More Positive Experience by Martin Zwilling (Inc. They expect you to be there, to know their history as a customer, and to treat them with priority and respect. What Is Churn Rate?

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Customer Service Loyalty Programs Customer Retention Metrics 73

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2022

IRIS Audio Technologies appoints Neil Titcomb as SVP Global Sales as part of global strategy to eliminate background noise in call centres. IRIS Audio Technologies , the team behind the AI-powered voice isolation software IRIS Clarity , has appointed Neil Titcomb as SVP Global Sales.

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Sales Technology Leadership Industry 52

One Millimeter Mindset

MAY 21, 2020

There’s nothing novel about virtual post-sale client abandonment. What is novel about this post-sale scenario, to you, is that now you have to sell virtually. Because what has not changed is that once a coveted contract is consummated, what is the next sales step? In spite of all your pre-sales assurances.

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Sales Groups Course Culture 132

Andrew Mcfarland

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Before you jump from sales to project management, there are some things you should know. This is critical since many sales teams find their financials a complete mess when they hand the account over to project management. If you are considering transitioning from sales to project management, there are several things to consider.

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Sales Management Financial Leadership 48

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd.

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