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Expansion is a Team Sport: Strategies for Aligning CS and Sales in 2024

Totango

That’s why we’ve made sure Totango + Catalyst sync seamlessly with Salesforce, for example, so that all the information on your customer accounts flows both ways between the CRM and your CS platform of choice. If you’re ready to drive measurable growth from your customer base, we’d love to talk to you.

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Close.com’s Steli Efti on balancing competition and collaboration in sales

Intercom, Inc.

Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. It doesn’t hurt with the smallest of our customers, but it does hurt in terms of perceptions for some of our largest customers who want to feel comfortable when they choose a partner that they work with as their CRM provider.

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What is Customer Experience Collaboration?

ClearAction

Imagine your company as a sports team, such as volleyball, soccer, hockey or football: do you truly pull together, have one another’s backs, share opportunities and show your opponents and fans you’re a well-oiled machine? Regardless of your awesome VoC, CRM, UX, DX, CS, NPS, etc., What is Customer Experience Collaboration?

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How Does Time of Day Affect How Much We Sell?

Beyond Philosophy

You can even look back through your CRM and see what information you already have that could shed some light on the issue. But after a day of meetings, emails, calls and chauffeuring your children around to sports practices, you might decide drive-thru food will do just fine. My advice is to ask them.

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ExactTarget and Eloqua Stake Their Claim To Centralized Customer Management

Customer Experience Matrix

The IMH, as we cognoscenti call it, combines ExactTarget's email, mobile, Web pages, Web visitor tracking, and social media with external touchpoints as well as Salesforce.com and Microsoft CRM. The IMH sports a slick user interface with a very nice dashboard showing real-time updates of summary statistics for each channel.

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How to Structure Your Customer Success Team

Totango

What makes a sports team successful? Excellent athletes who work together on both offense and defense to win the game. A good pitcher alone won’t win a baseball game. He needs a good catcher and good infielders and outfielders to support him, good batters to score points, and good coaches to make strategic play calls.

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What is sales mix? Definition, formula, and best practices

Zendesk

Let’s meet our sporting goods company: Activa. For our sporting goods company, let’s say it calculated sales mix for the previous quarter and the numbers were as follows: Product A: Number of jackets sold: Total number of all products sold: Sales mix percentage: Heat-tech running jacket. Combine your data with a CRM for maximum gains.

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