Social media is often thought of as an external, customer-facing sales tool.
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So when mortgage pre-qualification became a sales tool for mortgage reps, there was no uniform process for determining and issuing these coveted golden tickets.
Not only does that help avoid embarrassing gaffes by raising red flags for unidentifiable names, but it can turn any customer contact into a subtle sales tool.
Linking pico phones to 4G and video transforms pico phones into a sales tool for carriers to sell data packages to consumers or to nudge people who already pay for data to purchase higher-capacity plans.
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"When my father said they were not in a position to order that day, the salesman lost interest and left, leaving my parents feeling flustered and annoyed that they had been targeted by a company which was using their mobility problems as a sales tool, " said their son, who did not want to be named.
Power tool sales in the U.S. grew 10% in the first half of 2012, the analysts said.
That way both my CRM application and LinkedIn would together be a powerful sales and service tool to help me grow my business.
"We view it as a marketing tool that targets sales and the timing of those sales, " a Wiley spokeswoman says.
The price-to-sales ratio remains a useful tool in sizing up a stock.
It involves from the moment they hear about the product (marketing), to the experience of purchasing (sales), to using the tool (product design) and finally to service.
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That has big implications for advertising as an educational tool and as a sales channel, says Jeremy Lockhorn, director of emerging media at digital agency Razorfish, a unit of Publicis Group.
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The doubters are about to see why Alexa is hot: It offers a great market research tool and a sweet way to steal sales.
Facebook as a primary tool for either acquiring new customers of generating sales leads.
Houston says Dropbox has been using the tool internally for months to share recruiting and sales documents.
The tool can also be used in the non-sales divisions of large companies, such as HR and recruiting, Lawrence says.
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Take another example of a Business Intelligence tool to analyze how a company is performing in sales across multiple territories.
And notebooks have been Jobs' preferred tool for this bit of larceny--laptop sales account for roughly 29% of Apple's sales this year, according to analysts, up from just 22% in 2006.
Old Navy, whose Supar Tool parody campaign was charted in this blog, has seen modest sales increases and continues to be a stronger brand than parent company Gap.
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Adelman aims to convince some 40 major retailers to post the sizing tool on their Web sites--in exchange for either a small percentage of sales, or perhaps a few pennies per click.
Nobody questions the viability anymore of the sales department that uses web conferencing tools like GoToMeeting or the cool new multi video and web conference tool iMeet.
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