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The ultimate guide to a successful discovery call

Have you ever asked someone for their phone number but then stressed about that first call? It can be daunting to pick up the phone and call a stranger, but it’s the only way to get to know someone. Discovery calls are the same way—somewhat daunting, but critical to building relationships with leads. They’re your chance to get to know the prospect and introduce them to your business.

How Self Organization Impacts Work Results

Being organized and having a work ethic may increase the productivity of your performance. It also helps reduce stress and tensions at work because you have everything planned out, and you deliver top quality services. But what are the most important elements of self-management at work? And, most importantly, how do your organization techniques impact your performance. In this article, you’ll find key aspects of self-organization along with some tips to become better at planning your work.

How COVID Exposed Digital Transformation Leaders and Laggards

Almost overnight, COVID-19 amplified a performance gap between those companies that invested in technology innovation at scale before the pandemic and those that did not. It turned a performance gap into an abyss. The task now centers around how to hasten this kind of digital change during a crisis, even as many are falling behind. To persist and succeed, organizations of all sizes across industries will need to employ a new strategy with information management solutions as a centerpiece.

The definitive guide to contact center as a service (+ the 5 best CCaaS providers in 2020)

We get it. Running a call center is hard. Between the endless inbound calls and technical hiccups, managing a call center tests your patience and persistence. The good news is you can make things easier on yourself with a call center software solution: CCaaS. By 2022, contact center as a service (CCaaS) software will account for roughly 50% of preferred adoption models in contact centers.

Customer Retention Gets Tough. Here's How to Deal With It

If you want your business to succeed, it’s not enough to just bring in new customers over and over again. Yes, new customers are always needed, but if you’re not retaining the customers that you already have, you’ll always be working from a marked disadvantage. That has always been true, but in 2020 it is more true than ever before. A whopping 65% of a company’s business comes from existing customers.

Mattermost Integrations Guide, Episode One: A New Hook

One of the great things about Mattermost is how well it integrates with all the other systems you use. But this flexibility can make it difficult to figure out which integration to use for each purpose. This series will review the various ways Mattermost can connect to other systems to give you an idea of what is possible and when to use what method.

OneDesk for VARs & System Integrators

Learn how you can utilize OneDesk's helpdesk and project management features for Value Added Resellers (VARs) & System Integrators. OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

Why Remote Collaboration is more than just Communication

See why adopting Slack just isn’t enough for your remote workflow. Talk is cheap— except when it’s getting in the way of productivity, as then it becomes rather wasteful. The most common mistake when working remotely is to think that discussion is the same thing as collaboration, when in reality it’s only one component of it.

Asana tips: Four ways to master My Tasks

Do you use your My Tasks in Asana? If not, you might be missing out on one of the easiest ways to reduce work about work. Think of My Tasks as your home base. In this view, you can see all of the tasks that are assigned to you, no matter what Team or project the tasks live in. In conjunction with your Inbox, My Tasks is designed to help you focus on and complete all of your high-impact work.