Customer Service Best Practices White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how BI can combine your explicitly-defined business rules and automatically-identified statistical information to deliver the best possible content to your customers for every single interaction.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Organizations need to differentiate themselves by providing personalized and rewarding service that leverages the unique value of all customer touch points. If done well, a company can transform customer service into a competitive advantage, and use it to turn a buyer into a customer for life. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: What is the relationship between a loyal customer and a profitable enterprise and what role can feedback play in improving loyalty? Organizations with fiercely loyal customers take the time to listen to feedback and integrate it into decision making. EFM solutions provide the tools needed help businesses transform feedback into business results.

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 | Published: 26 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This featured white paper sponsored by inContact looks at new innovative ways to improve the customer experience through CRM software and best practices.

Posted: 04 Jan 2011 | Published: 04 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses six success factors that will enable your marketing organization to overcome the challenges to reaching growth and profitability objectives. Continue reading to learn more about these six success factors and more.

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 | Published: 18 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: CVE is a predictive, adaptive approach to linking front and back office functions through the prism of advanced business intelligence and analytics. Read this paper to learn how to link strategy and operations with CVE for better customer loyalty and margins.

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 | Published: 02 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Customer support has long been a business mainstay. Yet, the business impact of support is seldom measured - despite the influence of support on higher revenue, customer satisfaction and increased productivity. This new ServiceXRG white paper explores the importance of quantifying the impact of support on your business.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: 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.

Posted: 07 May 2010 | Published: 06 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Take a look at the concept of a solution-centric business model, where companies provide a combination of products and services designed to meet specific customer needs. Explore best practices that include properly balancing products and services, and aligning activities across sales, service, and marketing.

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Download this white paper for an extensive summary of The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions.

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 14 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: The service desk is the last place you should try to cut back. For external-facing organizations, quality support keeps customer loyalty and repeat business high and ensures that partners and suppliers can do business with you cost effectively. Read this white paper to discover the path to proper service desk consolidation and its many benefits.

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how a lightweight mobile CRM application - more task - than system-focused - can actually provide useful information and encourage salespeople to utilize it.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: When the economy turns around, as it will, how will your organization be poised to take advantage of the next expansion? Read the latest white paper written by Steve Diamond, Sr. Director, Product Marketing at Oracle, to learn six areas your organization can focus on to improve business results.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: By implementing loyalty programs that are integrated across sales, service, and marketing - across all channels of interaction - a firm can greatly enhance the customer experience, increase customer retention, and foster development of a community of people who serve as advocates for the business.

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 | Published: 27 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Web 2.0. Collaborative computing. Social media. And now Social CRM. These terms are used interchangeably, and often, to describe the massive transformation taking place across organizations today. What strategies and tools do the newest CRM solutions provide to leverage this new reality? Read this white paper to learn more about Social CRM.

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: In today's tough economic times, businesses face a daunting challenge: do everything possible to attract and retain customers. This paper examines eight strategies for creating a relationship with your customers that will keep them coming back.

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 | Published: 25 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: TechExcel's HelpDesk application is unique in the industry, offering a combination of intuitive interfaces, sustainable performance, and total customizability for a reasonable price.

Posted: 19 Aug 2008 | Published: 19 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper explores the benefits of employing a vertical CRM application based on industry best practices. Learn challenges, opportunities and benefits of vertical applications as well as advice for industry-specific solutions.

Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: Customer and Service Management Software (CSMS) provides a unified solution to manage all business aspects of a service business.

Posted: 19 May 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2007

WHITE PAPER: Grocers can pursue customer-focused initiatives and investments with greater precision and success by concentrating on customer advocacy. This paper discusses the attitudes and behaviors that can do improve the level of advocacy among customers.

Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

WHITE PAPER: The most successful contact centers are turning to leading-edge automated feedback solutions and developing processes to incorporate feedback into daily operations.

Posted: 05 Mar 2008 | Published: 04 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: Organizations can obtain and analyze feedback from a department, region, branch, or most importantly, an individual employee.

Posted: 05 Mar 2008 | Published: 04 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this paper is to outline the basics of the correlation between loyalty and profits and to present the case for continuous customer and employee feedback.

Posted: 05 Mar 2008 | Published: 04 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: Implementing a CRM solution can be difficult for organizations that have multiple business units. Read this paper to learn how your organization can benefit from a CRM strategy that provides an understanding and guidelines for reaching long term goals.

Posted: 14 May 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2006