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Customer Relationships Are a Waste of Time! Is This True? What Do You Think?

Beyond Philosophy

How do you build a long-term relationship with customers? Tina works for an engineering company in Australia and recently joined the New Zealand office. Tina’s key focus is on Customer Experience and development, and she wants her team to change their transactional approach to customer strategy.

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Contact Center Technology Paves the Way for Enterprise-Wide CX Improvement

DMG Consulting

This underscores the growing importance and contributions of contact centers in enterprises, and these investments and changes couldn’t come soon enough, as the quality of customer service seems to continue to degrade with each passing year.

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Top 10 Reasons to Link Marketing Automation with Sales and Service

SugarCRM

Create a Customer Communication Engine. Market in Response to the Full Customer Journey, not Just the Lead Acquisition Stage . Marketing is not just about gaining new customers; it is also about expanding the relationship with existing customers and providing helpful information to your customer base.

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Customer Experience Vision Silos Dictate Value

ClearAction

Different visions for customer experience at different locations of your company presents a variety of problems. And sometimes customer-facing staff has a distinct customer experience vision that is at odds with their upstream value chain (engineering, IT, finance, production, marketing, supplier management, etc.).

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Watch Out! We Are In Danger of Repeating the Same Mistakes We Did Last Year

Beyond Philosophy

I have seen it before with other influential business concepts, like Total Quality Management, Business Re-engineering, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). In 2002, Fred Reichheld, inventor of Net Promoter Score® [1] , wrote in the Harvard Business Review, “ Avoid the Four Perils of CRM.”

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HubSpot’s CEO Yamini Rangan on ditching the funnel for the Flywheel

Intercom, Inc.

I started as an engineer – at that point, I was fascinated by technology. Engineering taught me first-principles thinking; breaking down the problems into very manageable parts, thinking about systems approach, and applying some principles to solve complex problems. That’s what I took away from my engineering career.

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The ultimate sales glossary: 100 sales terms to know

Zendesk

Net Promoter Score® (NPS). NPS is a metric used to assess customer loyalty. It’s measured via a survey that asks customers how likely they are to recommend the business or product to someone they know. Used interchangeably, cases and tickets refer to any post-purchase customer issues. Gatekeeper.

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