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 Numara Track It! helpdesk/ asset management solution offers a fully integrated “Change Management” module that provides flexibility for seamless upgrades of services - hardware and software. Watch this webinar to learn how this comprehensive solution tool allows anyone to manage change from any location without the cost of... 

Read this article for an examination of three considerations for social media: social media driving revenue, customer experience and tracking and using social media measurement tools. 

This paper examines how to conduct successful C-level sales calls and the psychological strategies and linguistic tactics that help you convince company leaders to buy. Read on to learn the five steps for conducting the successful C-level sales call. 

This white paper is intended to help support center managers self-assess their center's primary functions and maturity level in order to choose an incident management system that best fits their needs without wasting money on features that will not be used. 

View the slides presented in the "New Research: How to Improve Your B2B Email Marketing Results in 2007" Webcast and find out how 3,637 marketers responded to tough questions about their open, click and conversion rates. Also, find out which tests work best, what's not working, list growth strategies and how email budgets are changing for 2007. 

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. 

KnowledgeStorm and The Artemis Group conducted an in-depth analysis of 15,452 Web leads generated by KnowledgeStorm. The objective of this study was to identify characteristics of Web leads that maximize sales opportunities and to debunk myths around what makes a good sales lead. 

Sales Partnerships needed a way to coordinate the activities of the outsourced sales force services it offers. They wanted a solution that would help maximize the productivity of the sales force by tracking sales activities, handling territory management, and creating a high level of accountability for the sales representatives working... 

This webcast details the top five challenges in processing customer orders and gives practical expert advice on how to solve them. Host Greg Collins also gives an actual industry example and sets some key performance indicators for success. 

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. 

A disciplined IT performance measurement program is critical not only for business growth but also for economic viability. This paper provides a framework for a Return on IT (ROIT™) methodology and discusses how to deploy it within a company's business processes.