CRM Best Practices Reports

EZINE: In this third edition of the Customer Experience Exchange e-zine, Chris Maxcer delves into world of incorporating team-building activities into contact center agents' schedules, Vangie Beal discusses Dell's six-year investment in social media and Anna Fiorentino writes about why customer loyalty has dipped nearly 10%.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Mar 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

WHITE PAPER: Read this report to learn how Forrester Research rated 24 CRM solutions in terms of their strengths and weaknesses in supporting four key cross-functional processes in the finance and insurance industry.

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2011

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

EGUIDE: This tip guide offers an explanation from industry expert James Taylor as to why every customer should not be treated the same in today's ever-evolving business environment. Taylor details why decision management systems involving automation are essential to making successful strategic and operational decisions that please your customers.

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 | Published: 23 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: In this expert tip, find out which certification programs are getting overhauled, including those focused on individual call center managers and agents, such as the program from ICMI, and the costs associated with these certifications.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: Read this expert e-guide to see what Donna Fluss and Michael Krigsman have to say about how companies can ensure contact centers utilize new social media, video and mobile support to their best advantage.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, you will discover ways that contact centers are using social media channels to manage customer contact volume and the 10 steps to creating a call center social media strategy.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, find out how social and mobile customer relationship management (CRM) are changing the CRM landscape.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide discusses next-generation BI software, in particular customer relationship management (CRM) analytics and how these factors complement the SMB market.

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 | Published: 15 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper covers many of the complications and complexities of managing a call center. It explores the various solutions available and offers pros and cons to each of the options. It shows the positive financial impact picking the right choice can have.

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

EBOOK: In this exclusive e-book, find expert tips and strategies for using SAP sales order management software to regain control of your processes to increase efficiency, decrease problems, and boost customer satisfaction.

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: This tip e-guide from SearchCRM.com features insight from Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for social customer relationship management (CRM). Read this now to learn what challenges are cropping up in CRM, how social media is affecting CRM strategies and what the future of social CRM looks like.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 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

EGUIDE: Read this tip guide now to learn expert tips for interacting with your customers through Web 2.0.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: This tip guide from SearchCRM.com shares Gartner's expert insights on the fragmented social customer relationship management (CRM) market and how it will continue to evolve in the next three years.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 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

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, readers will learn more about customer relationship management (CRM) analytics and what can be gained from having this in place.

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Published: 13 Dec 2011

EZINE: With rapidly changing demands, customer experience management (CEM) can be a tricky craft within your organization's processes. Customer Experience Exchange is a brand new bi-monthly e-zine focused on CEM tips, best practices and techniques. Check out the first ever issue now, exclusively here.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 29 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: Read this exclusive e-guide to get an executive-level, 360-degree view on which CRM approaches are best for different business scenarios -- from winning strategies for mobile users to social CRM tools to best practices for multi-channel customer experiences.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 23 Nov 2011

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, we find out how mainframe technology that was meant to be dead and buried is finding innovative new applications. We analyse the challenges facing the government's largest deployment of agile software development, and our Buyer's Guide highlights the firms making the most of social media. Download the new issue now.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 11 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper highlights six solutions to the issues support executives face on a daily basis.

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 | Published: 06 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: This SearchCRM.com expert E-Guide explores effective strategies for helping establish sales management processes before deploying new CRM tools.

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 | Published: 11 Aug 2011