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Riding the Crest of a New Wave: How the Original SaaS Companies Have Gained the Upper Hand (PI Intelligence Bite)
With tier one vendors such as Ariba and SAP moving into the SaaS space, a model upon which organizations such as Source One’s reputation and business have been built, it is in effect an admission that the traditional licensing model does not work. Because of what can only be described as a monumental shift (remember the old analogy about big ships turning slowly), overall awareness and acceptance for SaaS-based or on-demand solutions is on the rise. And with it, the players who are and have already defined this new paradigm.

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ROI Based Marketing and Sales Strategy
If you are not sure that you need an ROI based marketing and sales strategy, think about the following for a few minutes: • 81% of buyers expect vendors to quantify the business value of their product or service, meaning 60% more projects are likely to be approved (Information Week). • According to an Ernst & Young study, only 2% of the buyers say vendors are exceeding their expectations for ROI justification during the sales cycle. This means 98% of the time sales professionals miss an opportunity to win the deal.

How Bad Is Your Service?
Whose best interests do you have in mind? Yours or your clients? What are the elements of superlative customer service that create the edge for you over your competition? Learn the simple secrets to exceeding your customers expectations every time.

Handling Angry Customers
We’ve all had the joy of being faced with an angry customer for one reason or another. Sometimes it is something your company has done to upset him; such as a late delivery, poor service, a flawed product or a billing problem. Sometimes it’s something you did or didn’t do personally; such as forgot to follow up, messed up his order or just ignored him as a customer. And sometimes it’s something in the customer’s mind or his perception that you or your company did, when in reality it was just that his expectations weren’t set correctly. Whatever the reason, you must deal with an angry customer and do it in a respectful, professional manner.
Developing Your PB (Personal Best)
The idea of your PB is the idea of meeting and exceeding your own best performance and standards. Athletes tend to judge their own performances by how close to their PB it is. And it can be a huge source of disappointment to fall below this in a major championship. Your PB can be used as a tool to navigate your own performances and expectations.

Want Loyal Customers? Make it Easy for Them to Get their Problems Solved
While it is often believed that to increase loyalty companies need to WOW customers by exceeding expectations, what customers really want (and rarely get) is just a satisfactory solution to their service issue.

Where is the Red Cape --- Maximizing Counter Sales
As a counter sales person, when a customer walks through the door, you are generally the person they are looking for. The customer wants to place an order and expects you-the counter sales person-to take care of them. Although this encounter is usually brief, let's examine what the customer's overall expectations may be. What do customers expect of counter sales professionals? Since the customer's perceived value of you as a supplier drive their expectations, knowing the answer to this question is important to meeting expectations and building relationship equity. Today's customers expect more than free coffee and popcorn at the counter. They expect a more than satisfactory experience with the people that represent the company they are doing business with.
Is Your Technology Solutions Destroying Customer Loyalty?
Customer expectations are part of the customer loyalty formula. With technology increasing at what sometimes appears to be warp speed, this is also increasing the sales expectations of those very same technology conditioned consumers.
The Realities of Service Excellence during Recovery
The primary focus of your company’s operations especially during a recovery period should be on having uniformly “Excellent Customer Service”. We define Service Excellence simply as “doing what you say you will do”. This involves setting customer expectations and then delivering on them. If Reality Exceeds Expectations then the Customer Will be Happy

Are You A Good Customer?
There are great books on the market about customer service: Raving Fans, Contagious Customer Service and Exceeding Customer Expectations. All good books, however, none address a core issue required for receiving great customer service from vendors and suppliers: be a good customer.

6 Tips for Setting Better Client Expectations
As an experienced business consultant I see issues with client expectations all the time. Businesses don't want to say ‘no' to customers during the sales process. They don't want to tell a new potential customer the truth about how long, how difficult or how costly it will be to achieve the desired result. They want to say ‘yes' and get the new customer to say ‘yes' so they overpromise. Somewhere down the road, your customer will question the promises you made and start to wonder why their expectations haven't been met. The natural reaction to losing clients is to assume the problem was with them-they didn't give you enough time or enough budget and they wanted the world in return, right?
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