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. 

Your customers are also calling, chatting, tweeting and emailing your contact center agents, sharing valuable information during each interaction. Download this complimentary white paper to learn how you can easily gather and leverage data from all customer interactions to assess how your agents are performing and improve the customer experience. 

Read this white paper to get a framework, plan and recommended best practices for transforming your siloed contact centers into a multi-channel servicing environment. 

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. 

Access this case study to learn how a company deployed WIC Messenger to automatically push an up-to-date list of PINs to each BlackBerry smartphone so users could easily contact each other in the event of a power outage or email service disruption. 

Access this case study to learn how a company implemented an emergency messaging system with an application that provides an up-to-date contact list pulled from the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server and corporate directory. 

This video explains how you can combine interactive voice response (IVR) and ACD systems into one that tracks calls, call waits and offers "self-service" options for callers with a long wait. Watch this now to see a detailed overview of this all-in-one system that will save your organization money. 

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. 

Companies need to take their customer experience to the next level. This means being more responsive and proactive, delivering consistently on brand promises, listening to customers and acting on that insight. Read on to learn why customer trust is critical to your business and how to successfully build your customer's trust. 

Access this case study to learn how a busy, mobile legal team successfully developed a Blackberry application to easily look up contact lists, access internal information about their firm and have an emergency communications system in place. 

E-commerce has gone from fringe to foundation. Now, businesses must tailor their customer serivce approach to the more complex "anytime, anywhere" customer with mobile device in hand. This white paper from Oracle details the "commerce anywhere" approach.