Customer Bliss

JULY 14, 2016

Short post this week as I’m in the middle of moving, but I wanted to take a few seconds and discuss leadership accountability as relates to customer experience. In the writings and speeches I’ve done, I commonly refer to this as “one-company leadership.” Leadership accountability. One-company leadership.

Leadership 153

Leadership Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Metrics 153

TechSee

MAY 10, 2021

Our global sales team currently stands at 30, predominantly based in North America, the UK and throughout Europe. Our TechSee Sales Superstars are enterprising, resourceful, experienced and ambitious individuals who collaborate across functions (BD, Sales, Account Management, Pre-Sales, Customer Success) to deliver exceptional results.

Sales 109

Sales ROI Contact Center Culture 109

Integrity Solutions

JULY 13, 2020

No matter how rapidly and dramatically external events may change, the top sales challenges seem to stay the same, year after year. Why aren’t salespeople and sales organizations able to make much headway in overcoming these common struggles? But the sales challenges persist. Sales Quota Achievement. Why do people leave?

Sales 101

Sales Competitive Advantage Culture Leadership 101

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Customer engagement. I find the operational “challenge” of customer engagement particularly telling. Companies worry that employees don’t engage with customers, or don’t engage properly and effectively. Finding and keeping employees. …both challenges related to people.

Customer Engagement 212

Customer Engagement Engagement Retail Leadership 212

Alida

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Joint research released by CMO Council, SAP Hybris and SellingPower magazine suggests it’s sales and marketing who should take joint command. But the study also found most enterprises lack coordinated, centralized CX leadership, leaving “this vital revenue-directing opportunity area without oversight and collective direction.”.

Sales 140

Sales Marketing E Commerce Magazine 140

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Green flag alert: An outsourced customer care partner who not only talks the talk but walks the walk, actively engaging in sound, measurable environmental practices, structuring their business policies and processes around equity and inclusion, and demonstrating a genuine commitment to ethical business conduct.

Customer Care 177

Customer Care Entertainment Government Contact Center 177

Totango

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Merging sales and customer success (CS) is a delicate art that is often challenging but necessary for driving business results and creating a frictionless customer journey. Foster cross-functional alignment through common customer goals Alignment is most frequently achieved when there’s clarity and commonality around insight and objective.

Sales 90

Sales NPS Customer Journey Customer Success 90

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

If you’ve never thought about how you engage customers, then what’s to stop them from becoming actively disengaged? It even echoes back to us in the way we engage within our own organizations. There was a joke of how to save yourself if you had drifted off and were lost when someone asked you to engage in the conversation.

Engagement 179

Engagement Social Media Sales Loyalty 179

Integrity Solutions

APRIL 8, 2024

Sales has always meant navigating highs and lows, dealing with rejection and remaining focused in the face of new business demands and pressures. Exacerbating this issue is the fact that sales training and coaching doesn’t always help salespeople with these internal motivation issues.

Sales 69

Sales Books Financial Travel 69

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. Q: Is there a proven strategy for engagement and continual alignment? 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”.

Sales 52

Sales Customer Success Webinar Tourism 52

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Green flag alert: An outsourced customer care partner who not only talks the talk but walks the walk, actively engaging in sound, measurable environmental practices, structuring their business policies and processes around equity and inclusion, and demonstrating a genuine commitment to ethical business conduct.

Customer Care 156

Customer Care Entertainment Government Contact Center 156

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And more importantly, how can you ensure that it’s not costing you sales? One way to align these two things is by providing omnichannel engagement or employing a contact center CRM. . What is omnichannel engagement? . If Not, It Could Be Costing You Sales appeared first on Shep Hyken.

Customer Journey 123

Customer Journey Brands Contact Center Sales 123

Integrity Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Great sales managers are required to become great coaches. Great sales managers know that everyone in their organization takes a cue from them. It’s more true than ever that the best sales reps may not make the best sales leaders. World-class sales leadership is about embracing both of these roles.

Sales 60

Sales Management Culture Leadership 60

Integrity Solutions

APRIL 8, 2024

Sales has always meant navigating highs and lows, dealing with rejection and remaining focused in the face of new business demands and pressures. Exacerbating this issue is the fact that sales training and coaching doesn’t always help salespeople with these internal motivation issues.

Sales 61

Sales Books Financial Travel 61

Integrity Solutions

MAY 24, 2023

What Is Sales Training? Sales Training – at its heart – should be about learning to uncover and identify customer needs, thus creating value and providing service. Successful sales people know is about doing something for the customer – not to the customer. Why are you doing the training?

Sales 52

Sales Culture Management Leadership 52

TechSee

AUGUST 31, 2022

Making the leap from engaging with customers and agents via text and voice, to visual and live video is a big step. However, not every visual engagement provider offers the ideal solutions to your needs. However, not every visual engagement provider offers the ideal solutions to your needs. End-User Adoption.

Engagement 109

Engagement Culture Technology Omnichannel 109

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

Follow on LinkedIn Agnes So, Head of Customer Support & Engagement at HotDoc Based in Melbourne, Agness is passionate about creating exceptional customer experiences through lean teams, self-service, and training. Brad teaches courses on customer strategy and management, customer service leadership, and CX leadership.

2023 207

2023 Customer Service Contact Center Customer Centricity 207

ClientSuccess

APRIL 28, 2021

Silicon Slopes, Utah, April 28, 2021 — ClientSuccess, a leading Customer Success Platform, announced today that Kristi Faltorusso has joined their executive leadership team as Vice President of Customer Success. . Faltorusso brings over a decade of experience in Customer Success leadership. VP, Marketing & Sales.

Leadership 59

Leadership Customer Success 2021 2020 59

Gainsight

JANUARY 26, 2022

CS adds value to all parts of your business, whether Product, Sales, or Marketing. By advising and incorporating CS ideas into other teams in your company, especially Sales, they make the team members better at what they do. A CSQL is similar to a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) or Sales Qualified Lead (SQL).

Sales 111

Sales Customer Success ROI Customer Centricity 111

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Unfortunately, you must have the engagement of the senior leadership to be successful. To that end, here’s how to tell if your leadership is not REALLY on board with your CX Agenda: Their schedule rarely (if ever) accommodates a discussion regarding Customer Experience Implications. Their talking points focus on operations.

Leadership 153

Leadership Net Promoter Score Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 153

Integrity Solutions

JULY 16, 2021

Effective team leadership requires a blend of people focus and goal focus. While it’s rare that someone will have a perfect balance of the two, getting a clear understanding of your natural leadership style will allow you to adjust when necessary to be more flexible to the needs of your team members.

Leadership 107

Leadership Measurement Engagement Management 107

TechSee

MARCH 7, 2023

Marlene Kolodziej, DBA, ITIL, Senior Vice President, Service Delivery, Ricoh – Recently highlighted as a CX Innovator, Dr. Marlene is a champion for customer and employee experience, driving the adoption of technology, experience engagement, and process to accelerate and shape digital transformation.

2023 207

2023 Contact Center Leadership Hospitality 207

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. Most important, they must be lived and practiced by leadership at all levels in the organization.

Sales 52

Sales Culture Magazine 2021 52

ClientSuccess

APRIL 28, 2021

Silicon Slopes, Utah, April 28, 2021 — ClientSuccess, a leading Customer Success Platform, announced today that Kristi Faltorusso has joined their executive leadership team as Vice President of Customer Success. . Faltorusso brings over a decade of experience in Customer Success leadership. VP, Marketing & Sales.

Leadership 54

Leadership Customer Success 2021 2020 54

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.

Sales 52

Sales Technology 2021 Leadership 52

West Monroe

MAY 29, 2024

Cornerstones of effective comp plan design Research shows that organizations with best-in-class incentive compensation plans for their sales teams see a 20% higher lead closure rate than industry averages (Source: Aberdeen Group). This alignment motivates employees to focus on the tasks and behaviors that drive business growth and success.

Sales 52

Sales Measurement Culture Management 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.

Sales 132

Sales Workshop Culture Presentation 132

Customer Bliss

JULY 4, 2017

He leads the Client Experience Leadership Council, a cross functional team of senior leaders who design, build, and implement strategies to deliver remarkable client experiences for clients consistently. He RFP’ed out to some industry experts, and they brought me in for an engagement around the five competencies. About Mark.

Banking 143

Banking Leadership Net Promoter Score 2015 143

Education Services Group

AUGUST 31, 2022

CCO of Blackbaud, Chris Singh, joined our VP of Customer Success, Peter Armaly for this month’s webinar, to discuss how to embrace the concept of the post-sale environment as an entire ecosystem. With his wealth of knowledge and experience, Chris answered some engaging questions from the audience that I have recapped below.

Webinar 52

Webinar Sales Chief Customer Officer Effort Score 52

Integrity Solutions

MARCH 4, 2020

As they weigh purchase options and evaluate vendors, B2B buyers expect sales teams and their companies to behave in ethical ways. . Transparency Is Key to Creating an Ethical Sales Culture . At the same time, their salespeople didn’t want to make false promises or feel like they were engaging in some kind of coverup. .

Sales 67

Sales Culture B2B Leadership 67

Integrity Solutions

JUNE 14, 2021

Saying there’s no time for coaching or that someone has already reached their potential are just two of the prominent misconceptions around sales coaching. But some simple and very effective sales coaching techniques- when applied consistently and with sincerity and skill- can greatly raise the game of individuals and your entire sales team.

Sales 105

Sales Culture Management Sports 105

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.

Leadership 61

Leadership Communication Workshop Customer Retention 61

Education Services Group

AUGUST 16, 2022

CS Plans can also help ensure that the handoff between sales and CS goes nice and smooth. For all these reasons and more, I’d say the best Customer Success Plans are developed collaboratively with your customer and your counterparts in Sales during the pre-sale stage of the customer journey.

Sales 52

Sales Customer Success Leadership Customer Retention 52

Gainsight

MARCH 8, 2023

Today, financial leadership is transforming once again. Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta champions a concept known as “ human-first leadership.” In recent months, I’ve realized that to overcome the challenges we now face, we need a new evolution in financial leadership: the rise of the human-first CFO. Look in the mirror.

Leadership 52

Leadership Financial Workshop Books 52

BirdEye

MAY 8, 2023

Sales prospecting is vital for any business that wants to continuously grow its pipeline. But finding and engaging new prospects takes time, strategy, and effort. Today, businesses use all kinds of channels and sales prospecting tools to generate leads and convert them into customers. Why is prospecting important?

Sales 52

Sales Social Media Multi-Channel Events 52

Integrity Solutions

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Effective sales coaching yields results, and sales leaders intuitively seem to understand this. Productivity, retention, engagement, adaptability and performance are just a few of the benefits coaching has been shown to deliver. The Sales Coaching Paradox. So where’s the disconnect?

Sales 89

Sales Management Leadership Blog 89

Integrity Solutions

JUNE 23, 2020

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. Beyond Management 101, Sales Coaching Builds Company Culture. By Mike Esterday.

Sales 82

Sales Management Culture Leadership 82