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A History of Customer Support Technology

Team Support

Companies started using customer relationship management (CRM) software to manage customer information and interactions. Customer interactions expanded to email and web-based platforms: Companies began using email for customer communication, and websites provided self-service options and FAQs.

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How Utilities Can Use Digital Communication to Fix a Fractured CX

CSM Magazine

Thanks to their interactions with service providers in other industries, people expect their utilities to provide the same seamless experience they encounter elsewhere. When it comes to providing that kind of experience, the best place to start is with customer communications. Interaction where, when and how they want.

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How to Connect Your Employees to Your Customers and Company Mission

Customer Bliss

When Lisa started working at Netspend in 2006, the company was relatively small and was in an industry that didn’t really exist before the company itself existed. She had support from her C-Suite leaders, as the president saw the value of leading their external and internal facing communications with CX.

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Innovation doesn’t always need to be radical: an example in diabetes

Clarivate

Most clients we work with are keen to communicate that their product is innovative. The first GLP-1 RA used for diabetes (short-acting exenatide) became available in 2005 (US)/2006 (Europe) and required twice-daily injection. Of course they are. Innovation is important, right? Well, it is, but only if it benefits patients.

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How to Identify Weaknesses in Your Customer Journey Map

GetFeedback

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly explained in a 2006 blog post : Open seating has allowed us to build a highly efficient operation by keeping the time our aircraft are sitting at our gate to a minimum. Well, one approach is to look for ways to make each interaction go a little bit better or faster. Customer touchpoints vs. journeys.

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John Oechsle: How Do You Spell CRM Evolution? With 4 C’s

Bill Quiseng

, the first to market customer relationship management software solution that pioneered the space 30 years ago and is still innovating today, so he has a bit of a unique perspective on how customer communication has evolved and where it’s heading. Just imagine—in four more years, some Americans would begin communicating via SMS text.

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MiFID II: What Do You Need to Know?

Avaya

Sheila McGee-Smith is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant with a proven track record in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for customer care solutions and services. million for their inaccuracies between 2006 and 2008. Barclays’ fines totaled £2.45