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 Customer Strategy TV


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A different approach to CRM
Bryn Standrin, contact centre business consultant to Pegasystems explores how call centre technologies and processes can help organisations drive operational improvement.
How to improve customer experience
Paul Weald from RXP and Tim Aston of iQeQ discuss ways of improving customer experience  in your system projects.
Listening to your customers voice
Confirmit Senior Vice President  of Marketing Gary Schwartz discusses the importance of listening to your customers voice and acting on what you hear.
   
 Podcast The Boardroom Podcast
  
The opportunities and challenges of 2010
Will Beresford, director of strategy of Beyond Analysis, looks at some of the hurdles   and opportunities posed by the new decade.
Tune into Customer Strategy’s online TV
The Boardroom features in depth interviews with some of the names and personalities helping shape the future of the customer services industry.
Why customer service is making headlines.. Frea O'Brien of Customer First
shares her thoughts on why the issue of  customer services appears to be dominating the news more now than ever before.

 

 News

Banks losing out to retailers in customer loyalty battle

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Retailers are teaching traditional banks some lessons in customer service, with a survey conducted by uSwitch.com showing that M&S and Tesco top satisfaction surveys with a score of 89.4 per cent, while American Express has claimed the third spot.
MBNA is also a big winner compared to last year’s survey, improving from last place to eleventh in a poll of sixteen, with its satisfaction score rising to 74 per cent, a six point increase.

Worksmart launches Caresmart Enterprise

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Worksmart Solutions has launched Caresmart Enterprise – a new enterprise level complaints management system to manage feedback and resolve complaints for demanding and complex financial products.
The new system, developed from Worksmart’s widely used forms-based complaints system, has been specifically designed for major organisations to allow 1000’s of colleagues to interact in the feedback and complaints process whilst maintaining data security.

 Opinion

crm has sparked a debate which, in many cases, has shed more heat than light.

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In every industry there are certain buzz words or phrases de jour which solicit a mixture of emotions ranging from passionate zeal to one of derision and shoulder shrugging indifference
That appears to be the case with CRM...

 Features

The year when Customer Service Meets Marketing

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I often think about how executives in Industry and within the Public Sector feel about all the noise going on in the world of social media.
The desire to see it as a fad, or as something not relevant to their business must be very strong for some. Many will say, and I have heard it said “oh, that is something my kids waste time doing, I am a busy person, I don’t have time for that stuff”.

Increasing Customer Lifetime Value through technology

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Marketing has undergone something of a revolution in the past decade. Companies are no longer focusing on customer acquisition and are increasingly looking to maximise retention and drive Customer Lifetime Value.
However, to meet this objective, marketing and customer service strategies have undergone a complete about-turn.

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