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Social Support: The Emperor Has No Clothes? When the Board Doesn't See Your Value

June 29, 2011 by Orhan Ertughrul
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We often expect our efforts in social support to be lauded throughout the company when they appear to us to be successful, but how is success measured? More often than not in customer care, cost reduction is the KPI of choice. So how does Social CRM measure up? [read more]

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What I Know About Customers I Learned from a Kangaroo or “Competitive Advantage through Caring”

November 5, 2010 by Margot Heiligman
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Caring as Competitive Differentiator in Customer Service and Customer Support for ROI [read more]

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Customer Communities: Your Task Force for more than just Support

September 22, 2010 by Paul Gilliham
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Something that has become abundantly clear to me in the 15 years I have been working with customers online, is that even though you design and build cutting edge products, your customers quite often know more about using them that you. How can you harness that knowledge... [read more]

Social CRM: Huge opportunity for IT, BPO Companies

May 2, 2010 by Harish Kotadia
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In my previous post titled Rise of Social CRM and how IT & BPO Companies can Profit from it, I have emphasized the importance of Social CRM and how IT and BPO Service Providers can leverage this opportunity. In this post, I want to share statistics that highlight the sheer size of this opportunity. According to a recent survey by... [read more]

Ideas come from everyone. How well are you listening?

April 23, 2010 by John Moore
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As I noted in yesterday's post about the power of Social Support Communities, I recently chatted with Todd Sierer, Product Manager for LabVIEW, about their Social Support Community (SSC) efforts.  I also, however, discussed their recent efforts with customer co-creation leveraging the ideation platform from Lithium... [read more]

12 Tips to Improve Customer Support Calls

April 22, 2010 by Tim Sanchez
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I've answered my fair share of customer support calls in the six years of my work at ABIS Consulting Group. Throughout those years, I've learned a lot about customer service and how to conduct myself when answering a support call. While the following list is molded by my own experiences in the enterprise software industry, most of the... [read more]

Social Media Channels for Tech Support — from a person who knows it!

April 11, 2010 by Tatyana Kanzaveli
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This week Bay Area Executives meetup members we were thrilled to listen to a person who knows Technical Support space inside-out: John Ragsdale is the vice president of technology research for the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA). Previously he served as the vice president of technology research for AFSMI, SSPA, and TPSA... [read more]

Guest Post: MindTouch CEO Aaron Fulkerson, on Collaborative CRM

April 3, 2010 by Mitch Lieberman
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This is a Guest post and a cross post (with permission) by Martin Schneider CRM takes on many faces, and encompasses a lot of different technologies.  We would be ridiculously arrogant, and wrong, to assume that our solution was the only way to manage a CRM initiative.  When at the optimal stage, CRM systems are hitting on... [read more]

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