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How to Make Sales Your Top Priority

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Customer acquisition is king. Right now you might be wearing five hats, such as for operations, accounting, customer service, collections and human resources. Put together a boilerplate presentation, proposal and demonstration—information that you can customize client by client—to show your ability to make a difference.

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Ep 227: David Karandish on Automation in the Workplace, Energy Management, and the Executive Assistant Partnership

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He and his business partner Chris Sims started the parent company of Answers in 2006 and sold it to a private equity firm in 2014 for $960m. Prior to starting Capacity, David was the CEO of Answers Corp.

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Swissôtel Métropole, Geneva

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During my time in Geneva it certainly hadn’t escaped my notice that Geneva is an expensive city: you can’t really escape it (unless you spend all of your time hanging around the central train station). Quite simply breakfast at the Swissôtel Métropole was some of the worst customer service I have ever experienced.

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Six reasons every assistant should be using a corporate taxi service

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Everyone that signs up to a GetTaxi Corporate Account will have access to a dedicated account manager and access to a 24hr customer service number. In fact, I found out the other day that half the Fortune 500 companies use GetTaxi’s corporate service. The code expires 31/12/2014, so get hailing! HAIL YOUR CAB.

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Rebranding? 7 Keys to Ensure a Smooth Transition

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To customers, a brand is the promise of an experience as well as the experience of that promise being delivered. Some aspects of your brand (great sensory appeal, supreme customer service , excellent training, meeting deadlines , etc.) This article was published in October 2014 and has been updated.

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3 Tricks to Scoring That Sale

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The product, service or solution you’re selling improves the performance of a customer’s company as a whole but makes tasks more difficult for some stakeholders. It might lack the budget for training customer service reps to use the new software. This article was published in August 2014 and has been updated.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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Commutes can be the bane of city dwellers’ existences, but not for commuters at the Armitage train station in Chicago. In the coldest of winter mornings, Janet Martin, with Chicago Transit Authority, mans the turnstiles, welcoming customers with a smile. I’m screwed.”. Megan O’Neal. Good Day to You. ELLEN KOBE. You’re back!”

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