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Explore how communication and the proper sales tools can create a strong synergy between sales and finance, yielding increased visibility and accountability within your company's forecasts.
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The evolving role of the CIO
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Lead with trust: advice from Shopify’s Marcie Murray
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Want to provide great retail CX? Start with your employees
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What is a support ticket?
Support tickets offer a wealth of data about your customers that can benefit your entire organization — but what do support tickets actually look like?
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Squarespace’s Jessica O’Connell on customer support as brand ambassadors
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How to collaborate across teams to scale customer support
For enterprise companies with hundreds of employees and dozens of departments, you often need to go outside of your customer service team to answer a question
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These consumer contradictions mean AI opportunities in CX
Your customers still aren’t entirely comfortable with AI, nor do they understand how it’s already affecting them. Here’s how to help them — and your agents.
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4 strategies for managing customer conversations
Discover four strategies to effectively manage the customer conversation and create quality relationships.
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How to keep that personal touch as your company grows
As businesses grow, they often grapple with a perplexing problem: how can a customer service team maintain that personal touch as it scales?
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Informal leadership: Be the person at work that others look up to
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Optimize your sales forecast process
Better forecasting leads to more (and more predictable) sales.
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11 customer service response templates to improve workflow
Respond to customers fast by using customer service response templates. Don’t worry about sounding robotic—you can always add your own unique touch to keep your communication human and empathetic.
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Dos and don'ts for marketing with memes
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Sales motivation: 12 proven techniques to motivate your team
Sales motivation runs deeper than quotas and bonuses. Here’s how to motivate your sales team with tried-and-true strategies.
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Integration anticipation
I’ve written at least 50 headlines for our monthly integrations post, you think you could do better? Let’s just move onto what you’re all here for
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