Customer Service Best Practices Reports

EGUIDE: Forward-thinking organizations recognize the improving the customer experience can provide a significant competitive edge, but implementing effective customer experience management (CEM) processes can be difficult. Review this expert guide to learn 10 simple, inexpensive ways to improve the customer experience today.

Posted: 04 Sep 2012 | Published: 01 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: Research shows that 90% of customer service decision-makers believe delivering quality service is paramount to success. But with tight budgets, businesses today need cost-effective ways of achieving higher service levels. Read on to learn how collaboration in your contact center can keep costs low while increasing service levels.

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Failing to adopt a customer service strategy for mobile devices could put your business at a serious disadvantage. Gartner research suggests that 80% of companies will suffer revenue loss from the lack of customer support on mobile devices by 2013. Read this paper to learn how to utilize the opportunities mobility offers customer service.

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 | Published: 29 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: It's no secret that social media has changed consumer behaviors – but most companies are struggling to capitalize on the unique opportunities it has to offer. Review this resource to learn how incorporating social media into knowledge management, contact centers, and the Web can substantially enhance your customer's experience.  

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: It's critical that your ERP software is integrated and can talk to other business applications and systems. Those who embrace ERP integration will reap lower operation costs, increased customer satisfaction, and a lot of saved time. Read this paper to learn how integrating your ERP software will impact your company's operations and work flow.

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Customer data integration helps companies grow and thrive, but businesses still have a long way to go to implement customer relationship management (CRM) in a meaningful way. Check out what over 300 companies said about cloud, their CRM platforms, and customer data integration in this survey.

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 | Published: 20 Aug 2012

EBOOK: Read this expert e-book to uncover why customer experience management (CEM) technology is the key to improving customer satisfaction and learn how to provide a consistent customer experience across all communication channels through a comprehensive CEM strategy.

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 Aug 2012

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