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When Sales and Customer Service Collide

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Lately, I’ve been thinking about how sales and customer service combine to create an experience – hopefully a positive one. She created an experience for her customer. This is where sales and customer service collide. This is where sales and customer service collide.

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The Worst Sales Call Ever

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Even though this is about a sales presentation, it ties into customer service. It has to do with preparation, knowing your customer, understanding what they want, and more. This is what great salespeople do to prepare for a meeting with a customer or client. Yes, it was a terrible sales call.

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Win the Customer, Not the Argument

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I’ve written about this before, and it’s worth coming back to this topic from another angle with a different example. First, an interaction with a customer should never result in an argument. The best people in customer service, sales, or any frontline customer-facing job avoid escalating a confrontation to the level of a dispute.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of December 21, 2020

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How to Provide the Best Possible Customer Experience? GISuser) If you don’t have a well-planned customer service strategy, you are highly likely to lose business. According to Channels, after just one negative experience, 51% of customers will never do business with that company again. by GISuser.

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Five Ways to Make Customers Feel Special

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Here are five ways to make your customers feel special: . Building a relationship that fosters confidence, trust and connection is a less obvious sales technique. The customer experience shouldn’t just be a non-stop sales pitch. . Make your customers smarter. And don’t do it with a sales pitch.

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The Light Switch Mentality??

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Great customer-focused companies make it easy to get information quickly. It might be a Frequently Asked Questions page on the company’s website or a video tutorial that teaches exactly what the customer needs without having to call customer support. They want to get information quickly and easily.

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23 Ways to Create an Amazing Experience In 2023

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Customers want to work with people who “know their stuff.” . Make the customer feel like a person. Customers are not a sale, an account number, a prospect, etc. Don’t make customers wait on hold. Making customers wait for unreasonable amounts of time is a sign of disrespect. . Be customer focused.

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