Customer Service Best Practices Reports

EBOOK: Leveraging self-service technologies in your contact center can significantly reduce costs, but successful implementation is tricky. Gain expert advice on how to ensure your self-service contact center initiative is a success. Read on to learn self-service contact center best practices, how to obtain executive support, and more.

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: Mobility has fundamentally changed the business world, particularly customer relationships. It has not only changed consumer expectations, but also provides a chance to drastically improve the customer experience. Read on to learn 4 simple steps to improving your customer's experience with mobility.

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 Aug 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Discover how you can take advantage of the mobile revolution to deliver an improved and expanded service experience for your mobile device wielding users.

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 | Published: 15 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper learn the Smart Commerce strategy developed by IBM, designed around customer needs, aspirations, and behavior. This paper goes in depth on each of the four key components of the strategy, demonstrating the work they've done with some of the top names in sports to deliver the Smarter Commerce experience.

Posted: 10 Aug 2012 | Published: 07 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: Social media has fundamentally changed the world of customer service. This comprehensive guide outlines the keys to success to realize your social customer service potential. Learn why actively engaging with customers is imperative, 4 vital customer services areas to focus on, and more.

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 | Published: 01 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: In order to prosper in today’s challenging environment, delivering high quality customer service is critical. This paper outlines an approach to building a solid customer service strategy and addresses common challenges as well as tips for avoiding and overcoming pitfalls.

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 | Published: 21 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper, discover how using unified communications (UC) in your contact center can help you increase effective communications between employees and clients, which will improve your customer satisfaction, retention, and loyalty rates.

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 | Published: 30 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover how a better, smarter approach to commerce can eliminate the potential for unhappy customers and improve your reputation and brand. In today’s highly competitive marketplace, ensuring your customers are satisfied with your services is worth the extra effort.

Posted: 21 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover a smart approach to commerce. In this era of the empowered consumer, customer relationship management is a vital to your enterprises success. Discover a smarter commerce strategy that enables you to reduce, or avoid, the potential for unsatisfied customers.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

EZINE: This edition of the CEM e-zine examines the role social media can play in your company. Learn how Major League Baseball is capitalizing on this revolution to fill its stands even during the darkest of times of the season, why Pinterest is such a success and how Dell measures it's social media success by tracking 22,000 daily online comments.

Posted: 16 May 2012 | Published: 16 May 2012

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, readers will learn best practices for allocating resources for CEM and tips for taking an employee-centric approach to CEM.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper covers 9 critical capabilities to demand from your interactive voice response (IVR) cloud hosting provider.

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 | Published: 13 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: With the right intelligence and personal information, there are plenty of new opportunities for you to provide superior experience and maximize the opportunity of every customer touch point. This paper shares actionable strategies needed to deliver personalized and relevant content, based on a variety of factors.

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: 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.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

EZINE: This second issue of Customer Experience Exchange highlights the contact center. Often an overlooked facet of customer relationship management (CRM), the contact center is usually the first way a customer reaches out to a company and thus should always be considered in CRM strategies.

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

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

EGUIDE: Access this tip guide to learn how American Express and Yahoo Inc., have conquered customer service obstacles while also decreasing customer relationship management (CRM) budgets.

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 | Published: 24 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: Read this e-guide from SearchCRM.com to learn how American Express and Yahoo tackle customer service with their own twists, how to communicate through multiple channels and ways to craft a single customer view through CEM technology.

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

VIDEO: Watch this short video and learn how leading retailers, distributors and manufacturers leverage IBM InfoSphere Product Information Management solutions to boost supply chain productivity and deliver an optimal customer purchase experience.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: To minimize downtime caused by technical failures and end-user problems, organizations can implement rapid resolution processes. Access this white paper to learn how you can leverage live chat to significantly improve customer support efficiency.

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows you how to build your business case and obtain approval for a new or upgraded contact center quality assurance and recording solution.

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: What is "Speech Analytics," exactly, and why is it important? Find out how the latest wave of Speech Analytics offerings are used in call center communication today and what the benefits are.

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 | Published: 20 Jun 2011

CASE STUDY: Changing corporate culture to focus on customer service and support is practically a routine activity in large service-oriented organizations these days.This case study covers what VMware is doing to provide outstanding support for their customers.

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the economy being shaky, the insurance industry has a problem. Customers are increasingly shopping around and making complex demands. Learn how to achieve loyalty in a shaky industry.

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: By reading this short white paper you will gain the knowledge you need to implement a successful customer service system. You will learn best practices for enhancing your customers experience and why cross pollinating your organization can be very helpful.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011