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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.   |
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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. |
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
August 29, 2010
Scott Brave |
The Social Work of Social CRM Collective intelligence can find a needle in a haystack. |
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
October 2003
Ginger Conlon |
The Great Service Debate Used properly, self-service applications can enhance the buyer-seller relationship. |
CRM
April 1, 2005
Coreen Bailor |
Self-Service Satisfaction More customers are adopting Web self-service, but not all customers are satisfied. |
CRM
September 26, 2014
Jake Wobbrock |
Changing Consumer Behaviors Make Self-Service Growth Inevitable To give today's customers what they want, help them help themselves. |
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
July 1, 2009
Donna Fluss |
Contact Centers and the Age of Analytics A variety of applications promise revenue generation and cost reduction. |
CRM
October 17, 2014
Yaron Wilf |
How Social Service Communities Can Drive Loyalty When customers help each other, companies and customers win. |
CRM
April 23, 2015 |
AnswerDash Launches New Web Analytics Features AnswerDash Analytics provide instant insight into Web users' behavior. |
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. |
CRM
August 2011
Leonard Klie |
Changing the Channel Research reveals how consumers will contact customer service within the next two years |
CRM
April 3, 2012 |
inContact Extends Its Cloud Platform The platform is expanded to include more reporting, scripting, and integrations. |
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
October 31, 2014
Kumaran Ponnambalam |
How Human Variability Can Improve Contact Center Performance Look beyond technology to serve your customers best. |
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
December 2014
Leonard Klie |
5 Hot Customer Service Technologies The latest innovations add a sense of immediacy to customer interactions. |
CRM
April 1, 2007
Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: CSRs Are Inundated with Routine Customer Inquiries, Which Increases Wait Time and Reduces Agent Effectiveness. Tech Solution: Speech-enabled IVRs. Aspect Customer Self-Service... Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal... VoiceObjects 6... |
CRM
July 9, 2015
Yvonne Ba |
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. |
CRM
April 2013
Leonard Klie |
Should Your Company Abandon Phone Support? Why several Silicon Valley-area firms have done just that and are sticking with their decisions. |
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
September 2010
Koa Beck |
Call Weighting With ClickFox, Sprint takes an analytical look at its cross-channel customer experience - and saves millions in the process. |
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
April 1, 2007
Collins et al. |
Satisfying a Double Standard How to capture the real self-service opportunity. Satisfying the double standard of attempting to drive customers to lower cost channels while improving the experience is the key to success. |
CRM
January 25, 2013
Leonard Klie |
Consumers Are Happier with Contact Centers Call Center Satisfaction Index finds Web self-service and email dominate the non-phone mix of contact channels, but social media is playing a critical role. |
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
April 1, 2006
Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: The Call Center Is Overwhelmed with Basic, Repetitive Inquiries With the average agent-assisted phone call as much as 30 times more expensive than a Web self-service interaction, properly implemented Web self-service solutions can save a company time, resources, and money. |
CRM
June 7, 2013
David Lloyd |
Prepare for the Age of the Customer Advances in technology will help contact centers shine. |
CRM
February 2015
Leonard Klie |
SIO Emerges as a New Contact Center Segment Frost & Sullivan identifies support interaction optimization as a $1.3 billion global market category. |
PHONE+
December 30, 2009
Khali Henderson |
What Should an Agent Look for in a Partner Program? As an agent, you must evaluate many criteria before entering into a distribution agreement with carrier or master agency -- both about the supplier and its partner program. Here are some tips to get you started. |
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
January 21, 2005
Paul Stockford |
It's Not Your Father's e-Learning The entire concept of agent training has been turned on its ear, and delivers unprecedented levels of efficiency and productivity. |
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. |
Insurance & Technology
July 11, 2008
Karen Pauli |
Integrated Agency Management Systems Key to Improving Agent Performance and Efficiency Agents want fully integrated systems that offer a single entry of data, a single view of the customer, and mobile and real-time functionalities. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 25, 2006
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Perspectives: High-Performance Contact Centers Emerging technologies such as VoIP, voice- driven, self-service systems, and intelligent call routing systems can increase flexibility in the bank contact center, resulting in improvements in agent productivity and enhanced customer satisfaction. |
CRM
January 30, 2012
Gustaf Sahlman |
Customer Service Gets Smart with Artificial Intelligence Mimicking customer care agents, this technology offers improved customer satisfaction and a healthier bottom line. |
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 2007
Ian Jacobs |
Gethuman? Get Real. Arising from consumers' growing hostility toward interactive voice response systems, this new project's standard could work to deepen, not reduce, consumer dissatisfaction. |
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
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
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
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. |
CRM
January 27, 2012
Anand Subramaniam |
Deliver on Your Customer Service Brand Promises Six ways to make promises you can keep. |
CRM
April 2005
Phillip Britt |
The 2005 Service Elite Awards The 2005 Service Elite awards in customer service in the following categories: Knowledge-Base Tools, Agent-Facing Universal Desktop, Quality Monitoring, Workforce Management, Speech Solutions, and Outsourcing Services. |
CRM
August 8, 2014
Karnail Jita |
The Missing Piece of the Customer Experience Puzzle Visually enabled IVR picks up where apps and self-service leave off. |
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. |
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
August 19, 2011
Saurabh Mittal |
Six Myths of Social Media Understanding the evolving customer service social landscape. |
