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Commentary: Contact Centers Can Use Social Networking Sites to Improve Customer Service

The following is a commentary from Aphrodite Brinsmead, customer interaction technologies analyst at Datamonitor, on the opportunity for contact centers to use social media to improve customer service. This material was syndicated with permission from Retailer Daily. Twitter and Google as customer   [...]

LL Bean: Best Customer Service Across All Formats

For providing great customer service, LL Bean is once again hailed as the No. 1 in retail, according to the fourth annual NRF Foundation/American Express Customers' Choice survey, conducted by BIGresearch, writes Retailer Daily. Surveyed shopper  [...]

Back to Basics for Targeting CXOs

B2BMarketingBiz: How to Impress C-Level Executives with Guerilla Online Marketing MarketingSherpa published another useful case study. It details the efforts of CRM consultants Iunctura.com to reach senior executives. I was struck in particular by this observation:"Regular executives (outside of CIOs) don't spend a lot of time surfing web sites. They are primarily information gatherers, foraging here and there fo  [...]

SiteCatalyst Does Wonders for MyFamily

MediaPost: Case Study: MyFamily.com Finds Marketing Accountability Let's just put aside the fact that this is going to sound like an ad for SiteCatalyst, OK? When Leo Burnett Technology Group went out of business in 2001 and all of us found ourselves out on the street, one enterprising art director set up a MyFamily page for us all to keep up to date and to network. Well, mostly, it was a place for us to just bitch about pa  [...]

How Cisco Uses Email as a Personal Sales Tool

ClickZ: Leveraging One-to-One E-Mail Marketing I've been paying attention to email marketing for a long time, and most companies do a really crap job of it. The direct marketing approach to email is so tired and futile in the face of spam. For a while now, I've been yammering that the true killer app for email is CRM. This case study is a brilliant example of that. Cisco, working with   [...]

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Auto-Replenishment Secret to Some Etailers' Success

NYT: E-tailers Lock In Repeat Orders A small but growing number of online retailers are rolling out so-called auto-replenishment programs, in which customers sign up for periodic shipments of everything from pet food and steaks to diapers and acne medicine. The programs require a fair amount of finesse on the part of retailers, as they determine exactly how many razor blades a typical man uses in a mo  [...]

How Schwab Reduces Costs and Increased Profit With Email

eCRMGuide: Targeted E-mail: A Case in Point MarketingFix reader Cezanne Huq wrote to complain that too much of our email coverage is about spam and not enough about best practices. So here you are, a great case study of how Charles Schwab has used email to reduce call center costs and increase customer profitability by over 30%. The piece extensively quotes Jim Nail, senior analyst for Forrester Research, and   [...]