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Program Management Denise Taylor, Senior Advocacy Consultant Program Management Denise Taylor, Senior Advocacy Consultant

Selling Sales on the Benefits of a Customer Advocacy Program

The hardest part of getting buy-in from sales and customer success teams? These are busy people and often advocacy feels like just one more headache when their plate is already full. Read on for quick tips on how to encourage sales and customer success teams to engage with your cohort of customer champions!

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Data Management Lynn Watts, Advocacy Consultant Data Management Lynn Watts, Advocacy Consultant

“What Came First, the Data or the Customer Advocacy Program?”

As Advocacy Consultants a lot of our time is spent reaching out to and learning about customers, either via email, phone, at events or through the internal support and sales teams associated with a customer. Each time we make a connection, we find out new information; customer insights that need to be added to our reference management systems (RMS) to ensure the most up-to-date details are available to use. Of course, over time, this information can become old and incorrect, or gaps may appear, but inaccurate data is of little use to its users!

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