One of the biggest dangers in establishing best practices for your contact center is to do so in isolation from your self-service stakeholders. Instead, all customer "touch-points" must be viewed as part of a continuum. Customer touch points include Web Self-Service, Interactive Voice Response, Contact Center Agents, and Face-to-Face transactions. 

The Internet has changed the dynamics of technology sales and marketing. While most marketing efforts emphasize generating leads, and most sales efforts are focused on closing sales, not enough consideration is given to the little-understood but vital middle ground of lead qualification. Learn more about industry best practices. 

This podcast shares techniques for communicating with your customers in an acceptable manner that fits their preferences while expanding your marketable universe. 

This white paper discusses one of the most effective ways to extend CRM functionality to competitively enhance your customers' experiences. 

Frequently, organizations that operate contact centers are faced with the challenge of working with inadequate telephony equipment. Frustrations range from having to get a few more years out of telephone equipment to having disparate systems. Read this white paper to learn about how contact centers can resolve these telecommunications complexities. 

The purpose of this white paper is to highlight best practices of identifying and managing changes that might occur on a construction project, and provide a process to effectively manage changes on construction projects. 

MessageStats simplifies management of Exchange helping IT administrators to improve performance, increase efficiencies and plan for capacity requirements. 

View this webcast to see how that Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 gives you the capability to easily create and maintain a clear view of customers from first contact through purchase and post sales. 

In today’s highly competitive economic climate, there is no margin for error when it comes to attracting and retaining customers. Businesses must now offer more channels of communication, more customer options, and faster responses than ever before. 

White papers are one of the most misunderstood, miswritten and misused marketing tools available. While many companies think they need a white paper, few manage to write, design or use them to their full potential. This podcast outlines eight key steps to take when writing a white paper and what you should do once the paper is written. 

Channel management is a pressing issue for high-tech manufacturers that sell through partners. IDC believes that companies that leverage channels partners should begin to integrate channel management into broader corporate infrastructure applications that include the supply chain and potentially PLM applications. 

The best practitioners of online marketing are those who meld Internet marketing and technology tools with timely follow-up and tried-and-true, old fashioned human contact. This podcast walks you through key strategies for implementing an effective lead follow-up and qualification process 

This podcast explains the business value of unified communications to improve productivity by streamlining processes. Discover how to get started and which considerations to keep in mind when implementing this technique. Gain an understanding of various use cases of this approach and determine which applications best fit your needs.