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ALSO CALLED:
IT Customer Support,
Customer Support
DEFINITION: Customer service and support (CSS) is the part of a company's customer relationship management (CRM) department that interacts with a customer for their immediate benefit, including components such as the contact center, the help desk, and the call management system.According to Lithium Technologies (a CSS product vendor), corporate costs for CSS interactions are expected to reach $100 billion in 2004.
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Smarter Commerce Manufacturing Interactive Guide
sponsored by IBM
VIRTUAL SEMINAR:
Smarter commerce is designed to help companies better integrate and more effectively manage their value chains. It aligns the buy, market, sell and service processes in a way that puts the customer at the center of decisions and actions, which can lead to greater customer loyalty, revenue and profit margin growth.
Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 30 Jan 2012
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Mass Customization for Communications Service Providers Podcast
sponsored by IBM
PODCAST:
Join author David J. Gardner for a podcast that explains the key to making mass customization more efficient. Using examples of cable service providers and McDonald’s, clients will see how they can tune their infrastructure to make exceptions less exceptional and keep profitability on track.
Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 30 Jan 2012
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IT Download: LogMeIn Rescue and LogMeIn Rescue + Mobile
sponsored by LogMeIn, Inc.
TRIAL SOFTWARE:
Download your free trial of a software that tackles the issues of delivering efficient, effective IT support to employees – remote or onsite – and customers using disparate computing platforms and mobile devices.
Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 27 Jan 2012
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Cognos Business Intelligence for Report Authors
sponsored by IBM
VIRTUAL SEMINAR:
Utilize a complete set of enterprise reports that are easy to build, maintain, secure and deploy, all delivered in a collaborative authoring environment and based on the fundamental principle of "author once — consume anywhere."
Posted: 24 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 24 Jan 2012
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Adapt your contact center for increased customer satisfaction
sponsored by inContact
VIDEO:
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.
Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 20 Jan 2012
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Gain competitive advantage by using Customer Experience Management Solutions to extend brand value
sponsored by Tealeaf
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In this podcast, industry expert Rebecca Wettemann discusses how companies can balance customer experiences and brand promotion without creating conflict.
Posted: 30 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 30 Dec 2011
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Utilize analytics to drive customer satisfaction and retention
sponsored by Infor CRM
WEBCAST:
Watch this webcast to discover how you can increase your online marketing efforts with next-gen customer relationship management (CRM) tools that will significantly improve customer satisfaction as well as increase the return rate of customers.
Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 19 Dec 2011
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Five Easy Steps to Optimizing Your IT Services
sponsored by CA Technologies.
WEBCAST:
IT service management is filled with complexity due to outsourcing, cloud technologies and customer demands. Watch this webcast to uncover 5 strategies for optimizing your IT services and improving business process management.
Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 08 Dec 2011
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Global Instant Remote Support for Multi-Agent Teams
sponsored by NTR Global
TRIAL SOFTWARE:
Support Ultimate’s allows MSPs and high-volume customer call centers to quickly and efficiently handle end-user requests across multiple platforms globally. Find out how this software can solve problems in real-time and increase customer satisfaction with a robust diagnostic and troubleshooting toolkit.
Posted: 17 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 17 Nov 2011
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Operationalizing Online Customer Experience
sponsored by Tealeaf
WEBCAST:
This webinar details the strategic value of operationalizing a customer experience effort across your business. What's more, to give you a head start, Eric T. Peterson will outline Web Analytics Demystified's six step process for operationalizing customer experience management within your own organization.
Posted: 29 Sep 2011 | Premiered: 29 Sep 2011
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Stop throwing away marketing dollars, key steps for online customer retention
sponsored by Tealeaf
WEBCAST:
This webcast explains how without the right tools, organizations lack insight into why particular customers abandon or transactions fail, and the actionable data to be able to re-engage them. But with the right tools and strategies in place, companies can increase revenue and customer satisfaction at the same time.
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 | Premiered: 04 Nov 2010
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Accela Video Whitepaper: Differentiate Your Company with Complete CRM
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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Interactions between partners, customers, and employees are much faster-paced in our highly-networked world. It is important that CRM solutions understand these relationships. Watch this video to learn strategies for CRM evolution.
Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Premiered: 05 Apr 2010
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CUSTOMER SERVICE DEFINITION (continued):
Customer service and support (CSS) is the part of a company's customer relationship management (CRM) department that interacts with a customer for their immediate benefit, including components such as the contact center, the help desk, and the call management system.According to Lithium Technologies (a CSS product vendor), corporate costs for CSS interactions are expected to reach $100 billion in 2004. To increase customer satisfaction, while minimizing the costs involved, many companies are turning to customer-based service applications such as Web self-service and online communities for customer-to-customer support. |
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