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November 2011
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CRM
January 2004
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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? |
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February 2010
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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. |
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CRM Wake-Up Call How to transform your call center from a budget drain into a source of competitive advantage. |
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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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February 2013
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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
October 19, 2012
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The Changing Nature of Customer Relationships How social media is forcing large companies to rethink CRM. |
CRM
May 2005
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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
August 2, 2010
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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
March 2006
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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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April 2003
David Myron |
Delivering on its Promise CRM is turning call centers into profit centers. |
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July 2014
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Is It Time to Replace Your Complaint Management System? Flexibility is the key to meeting evolving business challenges. |
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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 2013
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Happy Agents, Happy Customers Increased agent productivity leads to increased satisfaction. |
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November 15, 2004
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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. |
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April 2007
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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. |
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September 1, 2005
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Re: Tooling Business Problem: Customer Satisfaction Levels Are Too Low and Agents Are Not Cross- and Up-Selling Products Enough... Tech Solution: Agent Training Applications... |
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February 2015
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The Hidden Sources of Poor Customer Service Interactions should be designed with the customer in mind. |
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September 16, 2009
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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. |
CRM
April 1, 2006
Coreen Bailor |
Market Focus: Telecommunications: Sharpen the Focus on Agent Training/Answering the Call Bring specialized agents into the mix to enhance service levels for wireless companies as CSRs work to understand new products and services. Poor customer care can quickly translate into lost business. |
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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... |
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September 2010
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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
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. |
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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. |
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February 2006
Coreen Bailor |
6 Common Contact Center Mistakes Here, contact center industry experts reveal six common, but sometimes overlooked, blunders that plague the industry, and offer advice for avoiding or reversing missteps. |
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February 22, 2013
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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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September 1, 2005
Marshall Lager |
What Would Genghis Do? In response to the assertion that the 13th-century warlord Genghis Khan would make a top-notch manager or executive today, a look at how he would stack up in terms of CRM. |
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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. |
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January 27, 2012
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Deliver on Your Customer Service Brand Promises Six ways to make promises you can keep. |
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. |
CIO
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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November 2012
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The New Measure of Customer Service Success Why some traditional performance metrics are wrong and what you need to evaluate now. |
CRM
October 2004
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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
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. |
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March 28, 2014
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5 Tips for Making CRM an Enterprise Portal Focus on revenue to drive project objectives. |
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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. |
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August 19, 2011
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Call Centers Support Insurance in Multichannel Environment Customer experience continues to be a key differentiator in insurance |
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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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September 2003
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The 2003 CRM Elite There is one thing that every company wants from its CRM initiative: results. Our inaugural CRM Elite awards showcase six companies that know how to get them. |
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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
December 2003
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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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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. |
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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 1, 2009
Christopher Musico |
Serving Up Service Strategies Delivering quality customer service means making quality shots. |
CRM
September 2, 2011
Duke Chung |
Five Ways to Amplify Your CRM System By opening up a two-way communications channel for customers and your CRM system, it provides an enormous overview of what customers want, accessed, and engaged in during their customer service experience. |
CRM
December 2006
Marshall Lager |
The New World of Sophistication From mashups and analytics to melanges and intimacy, in the coming year CRM's evolving opposable thumbs will add dexterity to business processes. |
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January 2014
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Risk-Proof Your CRM System Focus on the people and the process, not the technology. |
