Articles

  • All I Want for the Holidays

    A Wish List to My Favorite Retailers and Etailers

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    Here's a list of ways to personalize the holiday shopping experience that will delight customers and bring in extra sales from those of us who avoid Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
    Dec. 15, 2011
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  • RightNow Social Experience

    Monitoring, Analyzing, and Interacting in the Social Cloud

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    RightNow Social Experience is the social-service component of the RightNow CX suite. It delivers social listening and interaction capabilities and integrates seamlessly with the CX’s case, knowledge, and account management capabilities.
    Dec. 15, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Best Practices for Web Experience Management

    How to Identify the Right Strategy, Plans, Tactics, and Metrics to Achieve Business and Customer Goals

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    Web experience management involves strategy, plans, tactics, practices, and metrics for all customer digital interactions. Our three best practices will deliver better customer relationships and improved business results.
    Dec. 8, 2011
    Strategies
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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 3Q2011

    3Q2011 Was a Quiet Quarter for Customer Service

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    3Q2011 was quiet quarter for customer service. Customer growth was mixed but mostly down, mixed financial performance resulted, there were few product or company announcements. The biggest company news was Oracle’s acquisition of RightNow.
    Dec. 8, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Salesforce.com Service Cloud Winter '12

    Cross-Channel Case, Knowledge, Account, and Social Network Management

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    Salesforce Service Cloud Winter ’12 addresses customer service requirements for B2B and B2C organizations of all sizes across many industries in all geographies; if you’re already a Salesforce Sales Cloud user, Service Cloud could be your best fit.
    Dec. 1, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Turning Protests Into Realizable Visions

    URDT Institute Is Transforming Unemployed Youth Into Job Creators in Uganda

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    What if young people in poor villages could create prosperous businesses and careers in their home towns instead of flocking to cities to contribute to the overcrowding and unemployment? That’s the solution promulgated by the URDT Institute in Uganda.
    Dec. 1, 2011
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  • How Well Does Mint.com Help Me Keep Track of My Finances?

    Customer Experience Audit of Mint.com’s Free Online Application that Helps Customers Analyze and Manage their Personal Finance

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    How well does Mint.com, a free web-based personal financial management service, meet the scenario a 55 year old single working woman who wants to get a handle on her personal finances?
    Nov. 17, 2011
    Strategies
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  • Build Community Around "My Stuff"

    How Will Online Communities and Social Networks Evolve?

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    Online customer support communities and social networks need to be integrated into the tools that customers use to manage their stuff.
    Nov. 10, 2011
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  • How to Be a Great Customer

    Good Customers Have the Best Experiences

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    Relationships between company representatives and customers go both ways. In order to receive the very best customer experience, you should be the very best customer you can be. Here, we offer some guidelines for how to be a good customer.
    Nov. 3, 2011
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  • Success with Best Practices for Targeted Merchandising

    Unlocking the Power of Recommendation Engines

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    Recommendation technology has made targeted merchandising accessible to merchants of any size. We’ve identified three best practices for targeted merchandising, plus the eight principles that will guide you in applying the practices.
    Oct. 27, 2011
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  • Manage My Stuff and Coordinate Around Our Stuff

    What Tools and Information Do Customers Need and Value for Personal and Professional Use?

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    Customers want help keeping track of things. If you can help them manage and improve their use of your products and services to get things done, it’s a win/win. And they’ll keep doing business with you.
    Oct. 20, 2011
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  • Developing Applications to Improve Customer Experience

    Bridging the Arbitrary Product Line and Channel Silos that Drive Your Customers Crazy

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    Customers are annoyed when they don’t encounter a seamless experience as they interact across touchpoints or product lines. Learn how to approach developing applications that are seamless for customer, partners, and employees.
    Oct. 13, 2011
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  • Brand Loyalty

    The Direct Path to Customer Satisfaction, Referrals, and Revenue

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    The combination of great products and a great customer experience will keep customers loyal to your brand.
    Oct. 6, 2011
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  • Knova 8.0 from Consona

    Knowledge Management, Customer Service Process Support, and Analytic Functionality

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    Knova 8.0 is a strong customer service offering that provides case management and knowledge management capabilities across assisted-service, self-service, and social-service channels for on-premise or cloud deployment.
    Oct. 6, 2011
    Technologies
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  • How To Monitor Your Return on Customer Experience

    Develop and Use a Quality of Customer Experience (QCESM) Operational Scorecard

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    How do you measure a return on investment for your customer experience initiatives? Connect real-time operational execution on the things that matter most to customers to actual bottom-line impact. Here’s how.
    Sep. 29, 2011
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  • Recommendation Solution Evaluation Blank Matrix, Version 2

    Evaluating Recommendation Engines, Platforms or Services

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    Recommendations are hot, solving problems from order size to search to personalization. We identify the key criteria for selecting a recommendation solution.
    Sep. 22, 2011
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  • Engage Them Early, and They'll Be Customers for Life

    Targeting College Students for Free or Discounted Products and Services Can Be a Great Customer Relationship Strategy

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    Students are an excellent audience when prospecting for loyal customers. Engage them early with great products, great deals, and a great customer experience so that they turn to your company when they graduate and are ready to become loyal to a brand.
    Sep. 22, 2011
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  • Recommendation Evaluation Framework, Version 2

    Evaluating Solutions for Personalization and Recommendations

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    Recommendation solutions automate and personalize suggestions. Here are the key criteria you should use for selecting a recommendation solution.
    Sep. 22, 2011
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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 2Q2011

    A Mixed 2Q2011 for Customer Service

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    2Q2011 was a mixed quarter in customer service, mixed in customer growth, financial performance, products, and company activity.
    Sep. 15, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Customer (and Partner) Segment Advocates

    Patty's Dream Team: Roles and Responsibilities You'll Need for Your Customer-Centric Organization

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    One key to success in becoming a customer-centric organization is to have strong customer and partner advocates with clout. Here are some role models and suggested responsibilities that may help you build or refine these roles for your company.
    Sep. 13, 2011
    Strategies
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