Call Center Management Research
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Is it time to reevaluate your workforce management tools?
Sponsored by: TechTarget Business AnalyticsWorkforce management (WFM) tools are no longer a nice-to-have. In order to be successful in today's mobile, global market you need WFM practices that keep your business running smoothly. Access this e-guide to discover why legacy WFM tools are falling short and learn key factors to consider when upgrading your WFM system.
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Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine: Issue 3
Sponsored by: TechTarget Customer ExperienceIn 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%.
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SIP contact centers: Key benefits and potential challenges
Sponsored by: TechTarget SecurityLearn how Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), unified communications (UC) and contact centers fit hand in hand in this e-guide from SearchUnifiedCommunications.com.
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Overhauling a Legacy Contact Center: Starting Steps
Sponsored by: Five9Overhauling legacy contact center technology is often costly and time-consuming, but it doesn't have to be. This expert e-guide offers advice on deciding when it's time to upgrade your contact center, making the business case for an overhaul, and important change management considerations.
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Cost-Saving Tips for Contact Centers
Sponsored by: Five9For service organizations looking to cut costs, the contact center is the go-to department, seeing as it often has high staffing counts within the company. Check out this expert e-guide to learn how you can effectively identify opportunities and decrease spending in your contact center, without sacrificing customer experience.
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3-2-1 Contact the Call Center
Sponsored by: TechTarget Customer ExperienceContact centers can't live in the past. This three-part handbook offers insight into how contact centers can modernize an agent's tools to meet the demands and needs of customers whose mobile and social empowerment has put companies in the virtual hot seat.
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How Mobile Devices are Driving Innovations in Contact Centers
Sponsored by: AvayaFailing 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.
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Getting Sales Dialed In: Improving Process Efficiencies and Increasing Sales Using RingCentral
Sponsored by: RingCentralThis presentation transcript explores how cloud-based telephony can help increase call efficiency, improve manageability, and ensure that a sales opportunity is never missed.
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Benchmarking in the contact center: Tips for managing what you measure
Sponsored by: AvayaBenchmarking projects are a great way for contact center organizations to improve their operations in order to reconcile competing demands from customers and the business. Read this white paper to learn best practices for executing a successful contact center benchmarking project.
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Customer Care in a Social World: Are We There Yet?
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis paper explores and explains why the contact center is a key strategic focal point for customer engagement via social channels.
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Is Social Media Transforming Your Business?
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationIt'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.
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Why a Call Centric CRM?
Sponsored by: CallPro CRMIs your current customer relationship management (CRM) software negatively impacting your selling potential? Many of the CRM software options today have lost focus on their primary users – sales professionals – and are actually decreasing sales activity. Read on to learn how a call-centric CRM strategy can alleviate this challenge.
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Mobile Devices: Changing the Way You'll Service Your Customers
Sponsored by: Interactive Intelligence, Inc.Discover how you can take advantage of the mobile revolution to deliver an improved and expanded service experience for your mobile device wielding users.
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Six Best Practices for Agent Knowledge Management
Sponsored by: KANAKnowledge management can be a useful tool for improving the quality and efficiency of your contact center operations. This paper outlines a series of best practices to help you achieve maximum results from knowledge management within the contact center that will ultimately lead to better customer service, and higher revenues.
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Social channels changing contact center certification
Sponsored by: Salesforce.comIn 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.
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8 contact center best practices
Sponsored by: Salesforce.comRead 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.
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A more social contact center
Sponsored by: Salesforce.comIn 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.
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Cloud Cover for the Call Center: Meeting Demands Intelligently and Efficiently
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis 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.
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Apply the power of CRM to build customer loyalty
Sponsored by: Infor CRMThis tip guide comes straight from Paul R. Timm's book, 'Technology and Customer Service: Profitable Relationship Building.' Read on to learn how to utilize today's technologies for enhancing customer relationship management (CRM) strategies.
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The power of Call Centers and Customer Loyalty
Sponsored by: Infor CRMRead this e-guide from our award-winning editorial team to learn strategies for how to utilize innovative technologies to improve your customer experiences, retain customers and gain loyalty.
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Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine Issue 2
Sponsored by: TechTarget Customer ExperienceThis 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.
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Making WFM Work: Best Practices and ROI Model
Sponsored by: Calabrio, Inc.There has been tremendous innovation in contact center workforce management (WFM) over the past three years, with new vendors and offerings entering the scene. Find out how the new generation of WFM solutions are easier to use, improve agent satisfaction, enhance customer experience and cut costs.
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Pros and cons of WFM in the call center
Sponsored by: Infor WFM WorkbrainThe market for workforce management (WFM) software in the contact center saw double-digit growth last year, but the technology still needs work, according to experts. In this e-guide you’ll explore the pros and cons of WFM.
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Six Solutions for What's Keeping Executives Up at Night
Sponsored by: Citrix Online- GoToAssistThis comprehensive white paper highlights six solutions to the issues support executives face on a daily basis.
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How Does your Service Measure Up? Getting to Grips with Metrics
Sponsored by: GoToAssistThis quick guide will identify some of the most popular metrics that you should be measuring, look at ways in which you can measure them, and how to utilize these measures to improve your service delivery.
