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April 2003
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February 26, 2013
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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. |
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July 2013
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Happy Agents, Happy Customers Increased agent productivity leads to increased satisfaction. |
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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
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. |
CIO
November 1, 2001
Louise Fickel |
Know-It-Alls To streamline customer service, Marconi employed a system to facilitate knowledge sharing among its tech support personnel. In the process, the roles of tech agents changed dramatically... |
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February 2, 2003 |
Hot Seat Lior Arussy, corporate vice president and general manager of Nice Systems Ltd. and author of The Experience! How to Wow Your Customers and Create A Passionate Workplace, talks about some of the common customer-service roadblocks and how to solve them. |
CRM
June 2005
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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. |
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September 2014
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Call Handling Time Continues to Rise Sales and customer service calls take 16 percent longer today. |
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August 26, 2011
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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. |
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May 15, 2001
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Hello, Dolly! A virtual, Web-based call center helps this custom doll maker find made-to-order agents... |
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February 2003
Rochelle Garner |
Just Desserts Rewarding and recognizing contact center agents is as much science as it is art. |
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August 1, 2003
Lisa Picarille |
No Means No Companies need to balance the potential of bringing in more revenue with overly aggressive tactics that might send a customer running to a rival. |
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Call Centers Make or Break Relationships Bank service centers have become a crucial arena for managing customers' overall experience. |
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December 2, 2013
Stephanie Overby |
Call Centers Suffer From Big Data Overload Nearly half of all contact centers consistently collect and report on metrics that they never use to improve the customer experience, according to a new survey. |
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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. |
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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. |
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July 20, 2012
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Customer Service 2.0 Five tips for creating an agile and successful call center to keep up with customer demands. |
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January 2016
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Freeman's Contact Center Continues Its Winning Ways What does it take to win J.D. Power's Certified Contact Center Program distinction six years in a row? A Q&A with Brenda McCord, vice president of customer support at Freeman. |
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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? |
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June 2014
Leonard Klie |
Ovum Expects Home-Based Agents to Soar by 2017 The annual growth rate is twice that of the brick-and-mortar contact center outsourcing market. |
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 2015
Leonard Klie |
The Hidden Sources of Poor Customer Service Interactions should be designed with the customer in mind. |
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
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
December 2003
David Myron |
Driven by Service Contact centers are no longer for basic problem resolution or order-taking. Organizations are now using them to lead major strategic initiatives. |
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November 11, 2014 |
LiveOps Launches New Agent Recruitment Platform LiveOps' new platform makes it easier for Americans to apply as independent, work-at-home sales and customer service agents. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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October 2003
David Myron |
How to Overcome the Call Center Conundrum Five ways to improve efficiency without sacrificing relationships. |
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. |
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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. |
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October 2014
Leonard Klie |
Should CSRs Be Paid for Performance? Why companies must assess the effectiveness of tying agent compensation to contact center metrics. |
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March 2010
Lauren McKay |
The 2010 CRM Service Awards: The Service Elite - New York Life A Verint Systems deployment gives New York Life's Tampa-based contact center agents something to stick around for. |
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April 3, 2012 |
inContact Extends Its Cloud Platform The platform is expanded to include more reporting, scripting, and integrations. |
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July 9, 2015
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How to Solve the Customer Experience Puzzle You can't do a jigsaw puzzle without the box; likewise, you can't satisfy today's omnichannel customer without a sound strategy. |
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November 2012
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Work-at-Home Solution Flies for Alaska Airlines The company maintains high standards with telecommuting agents using Envision's Click2Coach training and quality monitoring solution. |
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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. |
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May 2013
Leonard Klie |
Toronto's Nerve Center Provides Easy Access Canada's largest city improves customer service with Toronto 311. |
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January 29, 2015
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Oracle Updates Service Cloud to Optimize Collaborative Interactions New features aim to help service agents better understand the customer's journey and streamline cooperative processes. |
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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. |
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How Human Variability Can Improve Contact Center Performance Look beyond technology to serve your customers best. |
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Lynn McCullough |
Agents Identify 7 Best Practices for Channel Managers Agents share their points of view on what can be done on a daily basis to ensure the best possible customer experience. |
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June 2015
Garrison Wynn |
The Call Center: Talk About Issues! Three observations on keeping -- and cultivating -- agent talent |
