Articles

  • Identifying the Problems in Your Cross-Channel Customer Experience

    Borrowing the “Mystery Shopper” Model from Retail

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    We recommend taking a cue from retailers—employ “mystery shoppers” who give your customer experience people and processes a thorough test drive!!
    Dec. 10, 2009
    Strategies
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  • IBM's Enterprise Content Management Strategy: Bigger than ERP?

    Broader and Deeper; Redefines Both Content and Management

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    IBM's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) strategy is big—very big. And that’s good news for customers.
    Nov. 25, 2009
    Technologies
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  • Innovation in Education: School Children Improve Their Families' Livelihoods

    At URDT, It Takes a Child to Raise a Village

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    Why not educate children to become masterful in envisioning and creating a better life for themselves and their families? That’s the innovative approach to education that URDT has been practicing for almost a decade.
    Nov. 25, 2009
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  • Lithium Social CRM Suite

    On-Demand Platform for Supporting Customer Communities

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    Lithium Technologies’ Social CRM platform is an impressive set of SaaS applications interconnected via search, ratings and rankings, and many other integrated components. If your customer base is sizable enough, we recommend Lithium for your short list.
    Nov. 19, 2009
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  • Do's and Don'ts of Phone Support

    Making It Easy to Navigate through IVR Hell!

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    Are your customers stuck in the infinite loop of IVR hell? These do's and don'ts can help you create an effective phone support channel that can improve relationships instead of frustrating customers.
    Nov. 5, 2009
    Strategies
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  • An Unexpected Customer Experience with the Registry of Motor Vehicles

    A Great Customer Experience Story

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    The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles provides an excellent customer experience when renewing your driver's license online. Obviously, whoever designed the site thought through the customer’s point of view!
    Nov. 5, 2009
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  • Google Android vs. Apple iPhone

    Whose Application Ecosystem Will Win?

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    Google Android vs. Apple iPhone: Which mobile phone platform and ecosystem will attract more customers and applications? What should your company’s strategy be?
    Oct. 30, 2009
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  • Local Motors

    Reinventing the Car Industry from the Outside In

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    Local Motors is a new American car company with an innovative approach: get customers to design cars, manufacture them locally, and let customers help assemble their own cars Build-A-Bear style!
    Oct. 23, 2009
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  • Comparing Deployment Options for CX Apps

    On-Premise, Hosted Single-Tenant, and Hosted Multi-Tenant

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    Hosted multi-tenant deployments offer huge advantages and benefits over on-premise and hosted single-tenant deployments for CX apps. Read this report to understand how you can capture those advantages and benefits for your CX.
    Oct. 22, 2009
    Strategies
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  • Enticed by Discounts; Impressed by Customer Experience

    Providing a Great and Personal Experience Brings Customers Back for More

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    A restaurant used discounts to bring the customers in. But the excellent service makes sure that customers will come back.
    Oct. 22, 2009
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  • Let Your Customers Be Part of the Solution

    Work Together to Solve Problems, and Bond in the Process

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    Don’t try to hide problems from customers—that never works. And don’t just tell them there is a problem without seeking their help in finding a work-around or an outright solution.
    Oct. 5, 2009
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  • Nature Reinvents Textbooks

    Scitable: A NextGen Ecosystem for Learning & Teaching Science

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    Nature Education has an innovative replacement for college textbooks. It’s an online resource and classroom with a network of subject matter experts. And it’s free to students and faculty.
    Oct. 1, 2009
    Strategies
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  • Customer Service Company and Product Update 2Q2009

    KM-based Customer Service Rebounds in 2Q2009

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    KM-based customer service rebounded in 2Q2009. Customer growth and financial performance improved over 1Q2009. Several suppliers made significant product announcements. Two suppliers did some M&A.
    Sep. 17, 2009
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  • Want Customer-Contributed Content?

    Make It Easy for Your Customers to Multi-Post

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    Do you want customers to contribute content to your Web site? Customers are more likely to post or curate content in an environment that will "automagically" syndicate that comment or posting out to several other sites.
    Sep. 1, 2009
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  • The Customers.com Evaluation Framework for Campaign Management Applications

    Speed and Simplify Your Selection of This Critical Customer Experience Component

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    Campaigns are a critical customer experience component. The Customers.com Evaluation Framework for Campaign Management Applications will speed and simplify your selection of the campaign management offering best for your organization.
    Aug. 27, 2009
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  • How Well Do E-Tailers Handle Gift Giving?

    A Customer Experience Framework and Customer Experience Test Drives

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    Customers are clear about the gift-giving features they want on e-tailing sites. We evaluate five sites, Amazon.com, Gifts.com, Lowes.com, MagicCabin.com, and Cafepress.com, against these criteria.
    Aug. 12, 2009
    Strategies
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  • How Citrix Evolved Its Online Community of Customer Advisors

    How to Recruit and Manage a Private Customer Community—Patty’s Visionaries' Interviews' Series

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    Andrea Davidowitz tells the story of how and why she launched a private B2B online community of advisors in 2007 and what she has learned about running and managing a private customer community. Andrea manages strategic customer programs at Citrix.
    Aug. 6, 2009
    Strategies
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  • Self-Service CX Performance

    Response Time and Availability for Key Customer Self-Service Activities

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    From the customers’ standpoint, the most critical performance metrics are response time and availability at the customer user interface (UI). If you can’t respond within their timeframes, then they’re going to abandon you for the competition.
    Jul. 30, 2009
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  • Do Rewards Programs Foster Loyalty?

    Only If You Address Customer Scenarios

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    Loyalty programs have to do more than just offer discounts, or else customers will simply play “find the bargain.”
    Jul. 9, 2009
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  • Who "Owns" Your Medical Records

    Whose Data Is It?

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    An organization called Health Data Rights has published five principles for the basic human right to access and to understand your own healthcare data and information.
    Jul. 8, 2009
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