{"id":788,"date":"2014-07-18T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dynamics-365\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/7-ways-customer-service-can-support-sales\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T15:16:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T22:16:14","slug":"7-ways-customer-service-can-support-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dynamics-365\/blog\/business-leader\/2014\/07\/18\/7-ways-customer-service-can-support-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Ways Customer Service Can Support Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>If your brand’s fortunate enough and works hard enough at service and engagement before and after the sale, a one-time customer can become a lifetime customer who also creates additional customers.<\/p>\n But often, there is a disconnect between sales and customer service where the two don’t work together to attract new customers and keep current ones. As an example, I recently visited the customer care section of a major eyewear\/apparel brand, and because it was after their live customer service business hours, sent an email requesting help with a missing part for my son’s glasses that I could not find via their website or the search engines. Two weeks later, and after several additional emails to them marked high priority, they still haven’t answered or acknowledged my customer care request.<\/p>\n That same night, I went to the product section of the site and ordered a part that I hoped would work with my son’s make of glasses. Within one minute of purchase, I received an auto-acknowledgement email thanking me for my order, and have since received seven additional emails promoting the brand’s sales and summer products. Meanwhile, still no email or acknowledgement from customer care. Will I ever buy from them again based on this happy-to-sell, but not happy-to-help experience? Not unless I absolutely have to. They’ve lost my loyalty, trust and continued interest (and investment) in their brand.<\/p>\n Customer Service and Sales: Better Together<\/p>\n <\/b>According to recent research from NewVoice Media, an estimated $41 billion is lost by U.S. companies alone each year due to poor customer service experiences. If your brand’s sales and customer service departments aren’t working closely together, they should be. Here are seven ways customer service can support sales: Forrester Research calculates that just a 10% improvement in an enterprise company’s customer experience score can translate into more than $1 billion in increased revenue. Make sure your brand’s sales and customer service teams are working together to give that extra 10%.<\/p>\n If your brand’s fortunate enough and works hard enough at service and engagement before and after the sale, a one-time customer can become a lifetime customer who also creates additional customers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ms_queue_id":[],"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","footnotes":""},"post_tag":[],"product":[],"content-type":[18],"topic":[],"audience-type":[],"audience":[4684],"ms-author":[],"coauthors":[1717],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","content-type-thought-leadership","audience-business-leader"],"yoast_head":"\n
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