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Microsoft Wins in 2016 CRM Magazine Service Leader Awards

Tricia Morris

At Microsoft, and most absolutely with our customer service technology, we take these words to heart as we continue our consistent growth and progress among a steady stream of early 2016 award wins which now includes the 2016 CRM Magazine Service Leader Awards. ———-.

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A History of Customer Support Technology

Team Support

1980s-1990s: The Dawn of CRM Software The next two decades saw the adoption of computerized systems for customer support. Companies started using customer relationship management (CRM) software to manage customer information and interactions. One of the early pioneers in CRM software was ACT!,

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Small Business Guide to Live Chat in 2021

Comm100

In 2016 the global live chat software market was valued at US $590 million – a conversative estimate says that by 2023 this will rise to almost US $1bn. Live chat software is a tool used to offer real-time support to website visitors. Live chat is typically used by sales, marketing, and customer support. Increase sales.

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Menu monster: the IVR that devoured customer experience

Vonage

In 2016, Bain & Co. All these things impose costs – the cost of lost sales and lost customers, the cost of replacing agents, the cost of rebuilding your reputation in order to compete. Some contact center software vendors today make a selling point out of technology that makes is easier to build IVRs.

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2018: New Ways Cloud Will Enhance Customer Care

NICE inContact

For example, many companies are seeing the benefits of deploying cloud contact center integrated with cloud CRM solutions to inside sales staff. How will companies that have embraced the cloud for the contact center and sales applications across their businesses continue to benefit in 2018 and beyond? So, what comes next?

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Build Revenue with These Proven Customer Retention Strategies

Joe Rawlinson

Forbes reports that most businesses find 20 percent of their most loyal customers actually make up 80 percent of their sales. Dig into your marketing and sales data to determine when customers are buying and when they’re leaving your sales cycle altogether. Take a look at your most loyal customers. Data-driven Strategies.

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The ‘Always On’ Enterprise

Storyminers

I had the opportunity to peek at the future when I attended the CRM 2016 event produced by SAPInsider at the Las Vegas Convention Center in March as an analyst (no fee, no favors). Their challenge was that the distribution centers used a functional structure whereas the sales departments used a matrix structure.