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Unlocking Success: 8 Powerful Strategies to Drive Sales Through Others

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Before we get into that, let’s remember a foundational element of success in marketing and sales tactics: before you plan and execute, think about what you want to get out of it. For example, I’ve had my own company since 2002, and I’ve considered each area. I would then get a cut of all the pens sold via that link.

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Secrets Revealed: This is How You Get Growth!

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Since 2002, Beyond Philosophy has focused on growth driven by an improved Customer Experience. Moreover, our work with RICOH Canada, the printer company, improved their NPS by 34 points in 30 months and also increased printer sales by 10 percent—and this was in a declining market. So, how do we get growth?

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Vital for your careers: learn from the worst decisions we have made

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So, I quit that job and moved to an engineering-based company with plans to become a sales manager with a sales team. So, I was sure that if we took a proactive approach and instituted an outbound sales team effort, we would enjoy an avalanche of new projects too numerous to count. So, I set up a telemarketing team.

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Interactions Wins 2 Stevie Awards for Customer Service Technology Excellence

Interactions

Interactions was awarded not one but two prestigious Stevie Awards at the 17th Annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service , acknowledging our outstanding use of technology and partnership with NVIDIA. The Interactions-NVIDIA partnership was a Bronze Stevie Winner in the Achievement in Customer Service Automation category.

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7 Questions That Reveal Whether Your Company is Committed to CX

Beyond Philosophy

When I started Beyond Philosophy back in 2002, I could ascertain whether a company was customer-focused or not right away. Are you too focused on sales revenue? Sometimes, the only time senior management ever deals with customers is when there is a significant sale on the line. I wondered how I did that.

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What is Customer Science? Is This the Next Wave of Change?

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It reminded me of 2002 when I first started talking about getting into Customer Experience. Sure, there are outliers where a business makes a small adjustment to the process and ends up with 300% growth, or, to the contrary, a 50% loss in sales. There are a few out there, but not an overwhelming amount.

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Is Outsourcing Your Customer Experience Really A Good Idea or Just Wrong?

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When I was writing my first book, Building Great Customer Experiences , back in 2002, I interviewed a source from BMW who said something I never forgot: “We don’t have any ‘Only-ers’ in our organization.” ” He meant that no employee did only one thing, like be an engineer or a sales associate.