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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. |
CRM April 2011 Paul Korzeniowski |
QM Picture Grows Blurry Vendors deliver a broad suite of new functionality. |
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 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 2011 Donna Fluss |
Customer Service Initiatives for 2011 Tough economy erodes customer loyalty, but there are ways to rebuild it. |
CRM January 2006 Coreen Bailor |
Surefire Hires Organizations jeopardize their ability to best serve customers if they don't have selection, retention, and development strategies for contact center agents. Here, industry insiders offer nine tips to help minimize risk. |
CRM February 2013 Leonard Klie |
Case Management Takes a Dynamic Turn Progressive contact centers can incorporate adaptability, cross-sell and upsell capabilities, social media integration, gamification, and multiple channels. |
CRM May 2008 Barton Goldenberg |
Is Your Contact Center Built for Multichannel Customers? The boom in self-service doesn't mean your agents are off the hook. |
CRM February 2015 Leonard Klie |
The Hidden Sources of Poor Customer Service Interactions should be designed with the customer in mind. |
CRM June 2004 Emmy Favilla |
10 Strategies for Customer Service Success Contact center managers can no longer define success by call duration alone. |
CRM July 2013 Barton Goldenberg |
Happy Agents, Happy Customers Increased agent productivity leads to increased satisfaction. |
CRM January 2012 Leonard Klie |
Customer Service Is a Complex Ecosystem As more communication channels become available, running contact centers has become increasingly complex. |
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. |
CRM 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. |
CRM November 2013 Leonard Klie |
Customer Support: Keeping Up with the Digital Migration The phone is losing ground as a leading communication channel. Can you meet customers where they're going? |
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 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 March 2011 |
The 2011 Service Leaders Here are this year's class of service winners and leaders. Each leader is graded on three criteria - customer satisfaction, depth of functionality, and company direction - in seven categories of support and service. |
CRM February 2011 Fluss & Rogers |
How to Listen to the Voice of the Customer in a Multichannel World Contact centers and enterprises in general should interact with customers in their channel of choice, either in real time or periodically. These solutions need to create, issue, collect, and analyze feedback through multiple channels, including IVR, Web, social media, email, SMS, and live calls. |
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 July 8, 2013 |
New Survey Highlights the Growth of Web Self-Service Web and mobile apps are gaining ground on interactive voice response systems as the self-service channel of choice. |
CRM 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 David Myron |
Five Ways to Reveal Your Customer Data Here is a list of five technologies and strategies that can help your organization gain more customer insight. |
CRM October 17, 2014 Yaron Wilf |
How Social Service Communities Can Drive Loyalty When customers help each other, companies and customers win. |
CRM March 2014 |
The 2014 CRM Rising Stars All of these companies add significant value to the customer experience. And, because of this, they have the potential to soar. Congratulations to this year's group of high flyers. |
CRM March 2013 |
CRM Service Awards: Service Elite Activision began to explore solutions that would give it the flexibility it needed to service its gamers in the channel of their choice. Last March, the company selected Salesforce.com Service Cloud and was able to roll out the product globally and across three of its contact centers within 90 days. |
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. |
Insurance & Technology November 15, 2006 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Making Successful Contact Industry experts answer questions about how contact centers fit into insurers' customer service and distribution strategies. |
CRM April 2007 Bailor et al. |
The 2007 Service Elite Here are five companies that realized eye-catching returns on their contact center services and technology investments: Juniper Networks, Web-Support Services... Taylor Corporation, Workforce Optimization... etc. |
CRM January 2015 Leonard Klie |
In Customer Service, It's More Efficient to Be Effective Rushing customers off the phone might cut costs, but ignores the potential for greater value. |
CRM December 2013 Leonard Klie |
Overcome Multichannel Customer Service Challenges Effective strategies start with talking to customers. |
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. |
Insurance & Technology December 23, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell |
Tough Calls Insurance contact centers face a difficult challenge in serving multiple customers, including distributors and policyholders, with very different interests. To maximize satisfaction, carriers must design contact center functionality to fit unique customer needs. |
CRM March 2004 Jason Compton |
The 2004 Service Elite Five companies that have gained impressive returns on their customer service implementations. |
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 May 1, 2007 Jessica Sebor |
Gaining Altitude JetBlue implements a Web self-service solution to power customers to field their own questions and let agents focus on the human touch. |
CRM June 7, 2013 David Lloyd |
Prepare for the Age of the Customer Advances in technology will help contact centers shine. |
CRM March 2006 Coreen Bailor |
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. |
CRM April 1, 2005 Coreen Bailor |
Self-Service Satisfaction More customers are adopting Web self-service, but not all customers are satisfied. |
CRM June 2006 Coreen Bailor |
7 Strategies for Partnering With Outsourcers Overlooking these simple outsource partnership practices may scrap any hope of delivering a seamless customer service experience. |
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 August 2, 2010 Alex Dayon |
From Deflecting Customers to Embracing Them Six ways that the new Internet - a mobile, social, and real-time Internet - is changing the playing field for CRM and putting customers back in control. |
CRM February 2014 Leonard Klie |
10 Social Customer Service Tips New channel interactions don't have to be complicated. |
CRM October 2007 Coreen Bailor |
Help Them Help Themselves Web self-service means having your customer become her own customer service rep -- but without making her resent doing what a real CSR can do in a fraction of the time. |
CRM August 2014 Donna Fluss |
Buzzword Battle: Omnichannel Versus Multichannel When the contact center industry takes notice, we all win. |
Bank Systems & Technology January 3, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Opportunity Calling In their ongoing quest to increase revenue and retain customers, banks have redoubled their efforts to find and implement cutting-edge technologies and strategies to identify sales opportunities and improve service -- sometimes with mixed results. |
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 August 2005 Coreen Bailor |
Do It Yourself Web self-service done right, in the right enterprise, can return some real benefits. Here, a review of the five top vendors with robust, integrated solutions. |
CRM August 2011 Leonard Klie |
Changing the Channel Research reveals how consumers will contact customer service within the next two years |
CRM November 2004 Coreen Bailor |
The Underrated Differentiators Contact centers can help organizations create a significant competitive advantage. Here's how. |