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How Leaders Can Help Develop Customer Service Strategies

Tanveer Naseer

A customer focused business, whether B2C or B2B (we all have customers), is more profitable and has greater longevity. To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business.

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How Leaders Can Help Develop Customer Service Strategies

Tanveer Naseer

A customer focused business, whether B2C or B2B (we all have customers), is more profitable and has greater longevity. To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business.

Strategy 267
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Old way or new way? Only one way works. My way.

Strategy Driven

The only people who don’t know that are other sales trainers, recently released old-world sales tactics books that are still trying to convey old messages, and several million salespeople still trying to cold call, pitch the product, overcome objections, and close the sale. DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN A PRISTINE REPUTATION.

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business Review

All of these examples are B2C. If your business is B2C, the train is about to leave the station. If you’re B2B, the train is parked in the station, but it’s leaving soon. But, full service means handoffs between humans, it means haggling. Buyers have become much less patient, and less forgiving of friction.

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Focus on Your Customer's Customer

Harvard Business Review

Much of the conversation about customer-centricity focuses on business-to-consumer (B2C) firms. And while these companies were the first to acknowledge the business benefits of delivering a great customer experience, business-to-business (B2B) organizations are increasingly getting in on the game.

B2B 15
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Quantifying the Impact of Marketing Analytics

Harvard Business Review

This use metric has a positive and significant effect on both outcomes even after controlling for marketing analytics spending, product vs. service, and B2C vs. B2B. The table below shows the usage rates across various strategic and tactical areas of marketing, and highlights how there’s plenty of room for improvement.

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How to Find New Competitive Knowledge in Social Media

Harvard Business Review

A number of companies, B2C and B2B alike, now realize the potential benefits of monitoring conversation flows from social networks. Even after the rise of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, the combination of clunky tools and executives' low social-media literacy hampered companies from extracting valuable insights. HBR Insight Center.

Media 16