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Keeping Balance in the Center Organizations no longer have to choose between efficiency and effectiveness as contact center technology evolves. If your contact center efforts are unbalanced, consider these five approaches to achieving service and efficiency equilibrium. |
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October 2004
Coreen Bailor |
12 Ways to Boost Productivity From better knowledge bases and improved natural-language search engines, to workforce management strategies and business process reengineering, here's what's new in enhancing contact center productivity. |
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July 2003
David Myron |
Service on Steroids The contact center performance enhancers of choice these days are training, workflow automation, workforce optimization, and workforce management. These tools are coming together to form one dynamic performance-optimization solution to pump up the service volume. |
CRM
January 1, 2007
Jim Blayney |
Self-Help, Not Hindrance Here is how to immediately increase efficiency and user satisfaction by applying IT service management self-help technologies wisely. |
CRM
September 2010
Koa Beck |
11 Tips to Conquer Contact Centers If your contact center empire feels as if it's crumbling all around you, these best practices may help you reclaim the seat of power. |
CRM
September 2014
Leonard Klie |
Call Handling Time Continues to Rise Sales and customer service calls take 16 percent longer today. |
CRM
January 2004
Jason Compton |
The Changing Role of the Contact Center Agent With the proliferation of online self-help and new call center technologies, agents are being asked to resolve more challenging issues or to transform themselves into salespeople. But are current agents, who primarily respond to basic service requests, right for these new roles? |
CRM
April 2003
David Myron |
Delivering on its Promise CRM is turning call centers into profit centers. |
CRM
March 2004
Jason Compton |
The 2004 Service Elite Five companies that have gained impressive returns on their customer service implementations. |
CRM
April 2006 |
The 2006 Service Elite Awards Here's five organizations that reaped the benefits of their contact center and customer service initiative: Washington State Department of Information Services... Charter Communications... Health Net... etc. |
CRM
November 2012
Leonard Klie |
The New Measure of Customer Service Success Why some traditional performance metrics are wrong and what you need to evaluate now. |
CIO
June 1, 2006
Susannah Patton |
Answering the Call Everyone's had a bad experience with a call center. But now companies are investing in advanced technologies and at-home agents to connect with customers, not put them on hold. |
CRM
December 2003
David Myron |
Service Revs Up Nissan's Turnaround Getting a better understanding of agent performance enabled Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. to address problem areas; the results were significant. |
CRM
February 2, 2004 |
Hot Seat: Self-Help Alters the Service Landscape As Web self-help grows in popularity among both customers and the companies that serve them, CRM magazine asks: Can Web self-help solutions enable companies to bring outsourced customer service efforts back in house? Why or why not? |
CRM
May 2005
Coreen Bailor |
Making a Clear Connection Integrating your multichannel operations can seem like a near-impossible feat, but it doesn't have to be. Follow these strategies to ease your integration process and maximize your multichannel potential. |
CRM
February 1, 2006
Phillip Britt |
Scheduling Tool Traction By implementing a new workforce scheduling application, agent hours have been reduced by 20% at Taction, a call center outsourcing company. |
CRM
February 22, 2013
Paul Lang |
What's Next for the Contact Center? The challenge for contact center managers will be finding a way to offer the best customer service at the lowest cost. Here are seven trends that we can't ignore. |
CRM
September 2007
Ian Jacobs |
Across the Universe Contact center managers have begun to examine this idea of the universal agent, agents theoretically capable of handling any contact, via any channel. |
CRM
October 31, 2014
Kumaran Ponnambalam |
How Human Variability Can Improve Contact Center Performance Look beyond technology to serve your customers best. |
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November 1, 2006
Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: Poor e-mail Response Times Lead to Increased Numbers of Phone Calls to the Contact Center Tech Solution: e-mail management tools. KANA Response... Kintera CRM... Talisma Email... |
CRM
August 26, 2011
Rajaram & Manasa |
The Next Frontier in Call Center Analytics Investing in operations is not enough. Ideally, companies would invest unlimited funds into ensuring that each and every customer receives a personal, efficient call center experience. |
CRM
January 27, 2012
Anand Subramaniam |
Deliver on Your Customer Service Brand Promises Six ways to make promises you can keep. |
CRM
July 2013
Barton Goldenberg |
Happy Agents, Happy Customers Increased agent productivity leads to increased satisfaction. |
CRM
November 2011
Leonard Klie |
10 Ways to Rearchitect Your Contact Center Hiring, training, and technology are considered keys to raising the customer service standard. |
CIO
July 15, 2005
Alice Dragoon |
CRM Wake-Up Call How to transform your call center from a budget drain into a source of competitive advantage. |
CRM
June 2005
Bailor et al. |
100 Proven CRM Ideas, Part 2 90 bright ideas for your CRM strategy and 10 dim ones to avoid. Here are tips 51 through 100. |
CRM
January 2007
Coreen Bailor |
Home Bodies Cut contact center operating costs, reduce churn rates, and up flexibility -- a serious look at the at-home agent model. |
CRM
February 2010
Christopher Musico |
Stressed and Distressed Under-appreciated. Overworked. Underpaid. Here's a shock: Stressed-out customer service agents provide lousy customer service. We've got ways to reduce the tension - and raise satisfaction - on both sides of the call. |
CRM
November 2014
Leonard Klie |
Work-at-Home Solutions Are Transforming Call Center Operations At-home agents can be as productive, if not more so, as those in the contact center. |
CRM
February 26, 2013
Leonard Klie |
inContact Releases New Version of Cloud Contact Center Software The company expands multichannel offering with Universal Queue, new agent interface, true inbound and outbound blending, and an API-driven cloud ecosystem. |
CRM
July 2013
Leonard Klie |
A Matter of Time Within five days of introducing RightTime management solution from Intradiem, Vivint delivered 2,400 training and coaching sessions, all during idle time. |
CRM
October 2014
Leonard Klie |
Should CSRs Be Paid for Performance? Why companies must assess the effectiveness of tying agent compensation to contact center metrics. |
CIO
May 15, 2001
Esther Shein |
Hello, Dolly! A virtual, Web-based call center helps this custom doll maker find made-to-order agents... |
CRM
January 26, 2004
Patrick O'Neal |
Customers Prefer Self-Service When companies empower customers to transact how they want, when they want, the majority of customers will choose the lowest cost option.. |
CRM
July 20, 2012
Duke Chung |
Customer Service 2.0 Five tips for creating an agile and successful call center to keep up with customer demands. |
CRM
July 15, 2015
Subramaniam & Sharma |
Do You Feel Your Customers' Pain (Points)? A study finds that agent knowledge is the biggest customer service headache. Here's how to spell relief. |
InternetNews
August 10, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
RightNow Does It for Customers The company updates its CRM app and introduces two products to leverage customer data. |
CRM
October 2010
Koa Beck |
Anybody's Bot Virtual agents, deemed the new concierge of the Internet, help customers navigate through ever-increasing Web site complexities. |
CRM
March 2010
Christopher Musico |
Email Management You've Got Mail: Despite fits and starts, many still believe email management solutions can deliver on their promise. |
CRM
March 2004
the CRM editors |
The 2004 Service Leaders--Part II The leading customer service vendors for 2004 |
CRM
July 2004
Joshua Weinberger |
The Sweet Taste of Success Ben & Jerry's gives the scoop on how it serves up information to its customers using RightNow. |
CRM
September 1, 2004
Lior Arussy |
Stop Wasting Everyone's Time Give agents timely access to relevant data, and watch sales and satisfaction soar. |
Insurance & Technology
May 16, 2007
Susana Schwartz |
Drive For Automation Causes Insurance Carriers To Integrate The Internet has yielded more choices among comparative raters and aggregators, thus elevating agents to a more powerful position as the gatekeepers to multiple company ratings. |
CRM
November 15, 2004
Jason Compton |
How to...Train and Manage Multichannel Agents Not all agents are ideal for a demanding multichannel role, but these five steps will help contact center managers find the right agents, and give them the tools they need to make each phone call, email, and chat session a top-notch experience. |
CRM
December 20, 2004
Coreen Bailor |
Dedicated Call Center Agents Make a Difference Vision Improvement Technologies uses specialized telemarketers to stimulate sales results. |
Insurance & Technology
February 10, 2010
Joel Curry |
Data Quality is Key to Agency Portal Performance A relatively small investment in data quality can make a big difference in helping insurers get more out of their agent portals than they put in. |
Insurance & Technology
November 28, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Higher-Tech Agents Leading experts in agent technology answer critical questions about the relationship between agents and technology. |
Insurance & Technology
July 11, 2008
Akhil Tripathi |
Web-Based Solutions Deliver on Agents' Tech Expectations Insurers can leverage agent portals and systems integration technology to streamline agents' workflow and improve efficiencies. |
CRM
February 2003
Rochelle Garner |
Just Desserts Rewarding and recognizing contact center agents is as much science as it is art. |
