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Best Practices in the Call Center: A Customer Touch-Point Methodology by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd October 10, 2012 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER)

TransPromo Opportunities in a Digital World: Electronic Adaptations in an Era of Mobile Communications and Distracted Customers by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software September 2008 - (Free Research) This whitepaper traces the evolution of E-Transpromo, demonstrating the increasingly important role across new media. It explores self-service web portals, online banking and bill consolidators, cell phone bill pay, and secure transaction email.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Seven Contact Center Trends You Can't Ignore by Siemens Enterprise Communications January 2013 - (Free Research) For customer service contact centers, it's critical to stay on top of the latest in technology and practices in order to provide your customers with the experience they expect. Check our this easy to read resource to discover 7 trends in contact center strategy, so that you can prepare your organization for what's to come  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine Issue 2 by SearchCRM January 2012 - (Free Research) 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.  (EZINE)

Social Customer Service: The Pivotal Driver of the Social Enterprise by LiveOps July 2012 - (Free Research) Read this paper to see how you can maximize your customer relationship management efforts through social customer service and foster brand loyalty, higher customer lifetime value, enhanced customer experience, and higher revenues.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Customer Communication Management by Pitney Bowes Business Insight July 2010 - (Free Research) CCM helps businesses transform routine business documents into communications that truly enhance the customer experience. CCM is an integrated end-to-end solution that enables companies to create, manage and deliver effective multichannel communications all while reducing the cost of communicating with and providing superior service to customers.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Who Are My Best Customers? by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters February 2009 - (Free Research) Who are my best customers? If you manage sales, marketing, or customer service, you want an answer to that. That's because implementing successful strategies for every customer segment is critical to increasing business profits. This paper describes just a few of the ways that you can use analytics to better understand your customers.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Mobile apps reach the busy customer by SearchCRM March 2013 - (Free Research) In this expert e-zine, discover two key areas of app development in today's mobile climate: delivering quality mobile customer service, and uniting front-end and back-end functionality. Also included is a case study of a mobile app that delivered user-oriented, ultra-simple service with outstanding results.  (EZINE) READ ABSTRACT |

Connect social and enterprise intelligence to transform the customer experience. HP Information Management and Analytics Solution Brief by Hewlett-Packard Limited July 2012 - (Free Research) With the widespread adoption of mobile technologies and social media, businesses have been given a plethora of fresh information on customer wants and needs. Review this paper to learn about how you can utilize these new information resources to maximize customer experience and transform your business strategy for enhanced profitability.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Using Social Media to Win Over Customers by SearchCRM March 2013 - (Free Research) While many businesses are eager to join their customers at the social media party, doing so without the proper internal processes in place could spell disaster. In this brief expert e-book, you can learn how to create a successful social CRM initiative (and valuable customer relations) through implementing the right processes and technologies.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

CRM in Financial Services: Best practices, trends and strategy for the new economy by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution November 2010 - (Free Research) Find out how financial services companies are leveraging CRM technology and best practices to improve service and operational efficiency. Read this e-book to learn more.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

How to Profit in a Downturn: 4 Customer-centric Strategies for Growth in a Challenging Market by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution February 2009 - (Free Research) In this white paper, learn how your organization can use customer-centric strategies and CRM tools to maximize the value and loyalty of your customer base. Gain insight into new areas of opportunity and do more with less in a time of economic uncertainty.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Implementing Web Chat: How to Launch, Staff, and Monitor by Citrix Online- GoToAssist October 2011 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn more about why you should implement web chat into your current customer support operations.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

A realist's guide to building bottom line revenue and customer loyalty with social CRM by SugarCRM Inc. October 2011 - (Free Research) Is social CRM just hype or is it really worth your business's time? Read this eBook from SearchCRM.com for expert advice.  (EBOOK)

Staying connected: Don't let faulty mobile applications lose customers by SearchCRM May 2013 - (Free Research) Mobile applications are quickly becoming the most common way customers interact with businesses, and can often make or break a customer's experience. In this expert e-book, explore what customers expect from mobile applications and discover the technologies and practices you'll need to create useful, engaging mobile apps.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine: Taking a swing at social CRM by SearchCRM May 2012 - (Free Research) This edition of the CEM e-zine examines the role social media can play in your company. Learn how Major League Baseball is capitalizing on this revolution to fill its stands even during the darkest of times of the season, why Pinterest is such a success and how Dell measures it's social media success by tracking 22,000 daily online comments.  (EZINE)

Let Customer Feedback Do the Driving by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters May 2007 - (Free Research) As the second installment in The Customer Innovation Series, this paper describes why and how Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) is a critical component in solving the problem of enhancing customer-driven innovation.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Increasing Competitiveness and Reducing Costs in Today's Economy by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd November 2009 - (Free Research) This paper outlines the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, illustrates its relevance to small and midsized business customers, and provides the resources to help you evaluate how your business might benefit from the service.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

3-2-1 Contact the Call Center by SearchCRM January 2013 - (Free Research) Contact centers can't live in the past. This three-part handbook offers insight into how contact centers can modernize an agent's tools to meet the demands and needs of customers whose mobile and social empowerment has put companies in the virtual hot seat.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine: Issue 3 by SearchCRM March 2012 - (Free Research) In this third edition of the Customer Experience Exchange e-zine, Chris Maxcer delves into world of incorporating team-building activities into contact center agents' schedules, Vangie Beal discusses Dell's six-year investment in social media and Anna Fiorentino writes about why customer loyalty has dipped nearly 10%.  (EZINE)

Turning Customer Interactions into Money: Using Predictive Analytics to Achieve Stellar ROI by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters December 2008 - (Free Research) This whitepaper makes the case for using predictive analytics as a catalyst for a company's growth. It includes best practices from several global companies including: Cablecom, Royal & Sun Alliance, and T. Rowe Price. Ultimately, it is about maximizing the level of understanding that can be achieved with customer data.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Business Management in the Age of Enterprise 2.0 by Oracle Corporation December 2008 - (Free Research) In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

8 Traits of IT-Friendly Contact Center and Web Customer Service Software by eGain Communications Corp. May 2010 - (Free Research) In this white paper, we discuss eight IT-friendly software traits that minimize risk, maximize ROI, and encourage innovation. Although the focus of this paper is on contact center and web customer service software, the discussion is broad enough to be a valuable guide for any technology investment.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Salesforce.com's Service Cloud for Dummies by Salesforce.com April 2010 - (Free Research) Salesforce.com's Service Cloud doesn’t just track and resolve customer service cases. It lets you participate in the online conversations about your products and services. Now, try the Service Cloud free for 30 days and bridge the gap between your call center, the social Web, and Web self-service. Plus get the free ebook Service Cloud for Dummies!  (EBOOK)

Eight Strategies for First Rate Customer Service by Cisco Systems, Inc. February 2008 - (Free Research) This paper provides eight strategies for creating a relationship with your customers that will keep them coming back.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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