You’re about to have many insightful statistics and research thrown your way, but before you dig in, let’s put the most important data point front and center: According to the Harvard Business School, increasing customer retention rates by 5 percent increases profits by 25 percent to 95 percent. This is important to consider when evaluating your own [...]
About Greg Ciotti
Gregory Ciotti is the marketing guy at Help Scout, the invisible help desk that helps small businesses love their customers. Get more insightful customer data from our free e-book or visit the Help Scout blog.
Has Social Media Made Your Sales Team Obsolete?
Maybe it’s true that “video killed the radio star”, but has social media snuck up and killed the salesman behind our backs? Jim Farley, VP of Global Marketing & Sales for Ford Motors seems to think that on some level, social media has killed the sales person as we know him (or her). Here’s what he [...]






