This tip guide features chapter 6 from Paul R. Timm's book, 'Technology and Customer Service: Profitable Relationship Building.' Access this resource now to learn how to align business process with customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives, tips for CRM strategy and how to effectively leverage the call center to improve customer loyalty. 

This tip guide comes straight from Paul R. Timm's book, 'Technology and Customer Service: Profitable Relationship Building.' Read on to learn how to utilize today's technologies for enhancing customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. 

In this white paper, learn all about IBM's smarter commerce approach, which considers the entirety of the business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) experience. Read on and gain insight into how you can separate yourself from the competition by offering outstanding customer care in the days, months and even years after a sale. 

If you are unfamiliar with proactive chat or already have proactive chat software and want to learn how to make the most of it, then check out this white paper to gain a strong understanding. 

This white paper discusses leveraging frequent engagement to help increase the number of brand advocates – loyal customers who help market, sell, recommend or even service products. Inside, discover the unique challenges and opportunities brand advocates can provide. 

As e-commerce continues to grow, customer expectations for B2B e-commerce are changing rapidly. Business to business (B2B) companies that wish to grow and become more profitable are realizing that the old ways of doing business are insufficient and are investing in e-commerce platforms. 

Access this whitepaper to learn more about the changing landscape for mobile devices and platforms, and how remote support can help improve customer service. 

This second issue of Customer Experience Exchange highlights the contact center. Often an overlooked facet of customer relationship management (CRM), the contact center is usually the first way a customer reaches out to a company and thus should always be considered in CRM strategies. 

This white paper describes five tips and challenges for using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. 

This white paper provides insight on how to retain Generation Y contact center employees so your business can flourish and stay within budget. 

There has been tremendous innovation in contact center workforce management (WFM) over the past three years, with new vendors and offerings entering the scene. Find out how the new generation of WFM solutions are easier to use, improve agent satisfaction, enhance customer experience and cut costs. 

This e-book examines the need to adopt new metrics for customer service in response to the new ways they engage customers using social media and networks. Inside, learn how to avoid the common pitfall of adding new metrics to traditional performance measurement systems. 

This white paper provides the results of a survey of industry professionals about how they were using social channels to engage customers from a service perspective. Learn how you can leverage these findings to transform your own efforts to integrate social and traditional methods of communication with your customers.