In this podcast, SearchCRM.com sits down with Richard Snow, a contact center technology and strategy expert with Ventana Research, who shares tips on how to select the right hosted contact center provider, create the proper RFPs, craft airtight SLAs, and more. 

After evaluating several customer relationship management solutions, including Salesforce.com, the company replaced NetSuite CRM with Microsoft Dynamics® CRM. Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the company cut call times in its customer support call center by 30%, reduced agent training time by 25 percent, and strengthened its growth capacity. 

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. 

Join our guest speaker Krystal Sautter, of Moving Beyond the Bricks, as she outlines what it takes to get moving. Watch this webcast to learn how to use virtual infrastructure, staff for at-home positions and manage, train and coach home agents and evaluate your results. 

Whether it's in your call center, on the Web, or in-person, effective survey research requires proven practices that reach across the board. In this webcast, you learn how to cut the costs and improve the performance of your survey research efforts - regardless of where you reach your respondents or what language they speak. 

The IT team at Palm Valley Health Care needed to provide technical support to their 200 field nurses and wide-spread administrative staff throughout South Texas. Find out why they chose LogMeIn Rescue to solve 9 out of 10 support issues remotely. 

Read this paper to learn about options for deploying and managing a home-based agent model with the ultimate goal being increased customer loyalty. As the key driver in this model, other cumulative benefits result: higher agent productivity, reduced attrition, lower operational costs, stronger business continuity, and more. 

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

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. 

Efficient call centers that also meet customer expectations is a challenge that many organizations face. Discover the key steps to turning your call center into a strategic asset. 

This guide is intended to help new users and seasoned professionals learn new ways to design and implement successful load testing initiatives using HP LoadRunner. 

This expert E-Guide offers beginner tips and real-life examples for automation planning and deployment, you'll also learn proven techniques to avoid or resolve common pitfalls, so you can reap all of the perks of IT automation. 

MKS Toolkit for Developers speeds the software development and administration process and reduces errors by eliminating the time spent on tedious manual tasks. MKS Toolkit dramatically improves the compatibility between Windows and UNIX environments.