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Career and Job Hunting Advice
How Well Does Monster.com Help Prepare You for Your Job Hunt?
by Ronni MarshakCustomers often need preparation in order to value your offerings. We look at how Monster.com prepares members before they actively start searching for jobs. The lessons learned can apply to any organization. -
When and How to Embed Customer Co-Design into Your Projects
What Customer Co-Design Options Fit Your Purview?
by Patricia SeyboldWe have found at least six opportunities to embed customer co-design into the projects you’re already doing. Our recommendation? Use customer co-design early and often. -
Handling the Logistics of a Customer Scenario® Mapping Session
The New CSM Guidebook: Part 2: Logistics Check List
by Ronni MarshakPreparing a customer-facing engagement can be a logistics nightmare. Here is a checklist of the details required to run a successful Customer Scenario® Mapping session, which is a superset of all the logistics required for a great customer engagement. -
Social-Service Evaluation Framework
Products that Monitor Social Posts, Identify Customers’ Questions and Problems, and Help Deliver Answers and Solutions
by Mitchell KramerOur framework for evaluating social-service products that help organizations deliver customer service to the social web has four top-level criteria: customer service best fit, analytic functionality, customer service integration, and viability. -
How to Plan for a Customer Scenario® Mapping Session
The New CSM Guidebook: Part 1: The Eight Pre-Session Planning Activities
by Ronni MarshakTo get the most out of Customer Scenario® Mapping sessions, you need to plan carefully. Here, we provide an overview of the eight steps you’ll want to take before each event to ensure that your customer co-design sessions are successful and impactful! -
Facebook’s Timeline: Seductive and Dangerous?
Applications Integrated into Timeline Track Everything that You and Your Friends Do
by Patricia SeyboldFacebook’s new Timeline is much more than a new user interface. It’s a seductive forced march designed to lead us all into a marketers’ nirvana in which our activities and life events are tracked. -
Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 4Q2011
Quarterly Update of Vendors and Products: Mixed Results for 2011
by Mitchell KramerEach quarter, we provide a round-up of product and company activity for the top suppliers of customer service solutions: Astute Solutions, Attensity Group, Consona CRM, eGain, IntelliResponse, KANA, Moxie Software, Oracle, and Salesforce.com. Here’s the update as of Q4 2011. -
Customer Ecosystems: Meal Ordering Services
Creating Customer Ecosystems Around a Specific Service
by Ronni MarshakIf there’s “a job” that customers need to get done, it’s relatively easy to foster an ecosystem of business partners to fulfill customers’ goals. What take-aways for your business will you get from our comparison of three competing meal ordering services? -
Unintended Risks of Using Facebook
Pay Attention to What Information, and Whose Information, You Are Sharing with Whom!
by Patricia SeyboldBe a good steward of your privacy and the privacy of your friends and family members on Facebook. Learn how applications are mining and analyzing your and your friends’ Facebook behavior and what you should know about those practices. -
Attensity Analyze and Attensity Respond
Multi-Channel Monitoring, Analysis, and Interaction
by Mitchell KramerAttensity Analyze and Attensity Respond provide multi-channel (social web and internal channel) monitoring, analysis, and interaction. Powerful, patented text analytics are the offerings’ key characteristic, strength, and differentiator. -
Groupon's New Consumer Programs
How Do They Benefit Consumers? And What Do They Offer Merchants?
by Ronni MarshakGroupon is trying new programs to win the loyalty and wallets of existing and new customers. But do the programs offer enough to attract customers to join? And what’s in it for the merchants? -
How Does Google’s Privacy Policy Affect You?
It’s Time to Pay Attention to How Google Is Tracking Your Online Behavior
by Patricia SeyboldWhen Google announced a new unified Privacy Policy to go into effect on March 1, 2012, it caused people to stop and think about how much privacy they’re willing to trade for free search, email, YouTube, and other nifty services. -
Getting the Most Out of Customer Visits
How to Observe and Capture How Key Business Personas Make Decisions
by Ronni MarshakThere are valuable insights to gain when visiting customers and observing how people do their jobs. Here are some tips and techniques on how best to approach and maximize the value of visiting and studying customers. -
What's Your Customer Cloud Strategy?
Twelve Customer Requirements to Include as Your Firm Migrates to Cloud Computing
by Patricia SeyboldA “customer cloud” is the virtual project space where your customers can securely access, keep track of, and manage the assets they’ve bought from you as well as any related projects in which they’re engaged. -
Offshore Customer Service
Don’t Damage Your Brand by Allowing Inferior Service—No Matter Where It Is Provided
by Ronni MarshakDoes offshoring your call center impact your brand? It does if the quality of service goes down. Avoid the pitfalls of the most common offshore customer service offences. -
Salesforce Radian6
Social Network Monitoring, Analysis, and Interaction
by Mitchell KramerRadian6 is both a company—a division of Salesforce.com—and a social service platform that delivers social listening and interaction capabilities and, through the Radian6 Social Hub, integrates with Salesforce Service Cloud case and account management. -
Local Motors: Open Source Car Design and Local Manufacturing
Forging a Customer Ecosystem to Transform the Automobile Industry
by Patricia SeyboldCan you transform an industry from the outside? That’s what Local Motors is doing with the automobile industry with its customer ecosystem to design and produce great cars. -
Is Sears.com Strong Enough to Help Save Sears?
Customer Experience Audit of Sears.com’s Capabilities to Let Customers Find and Buy What They Want and Manage Their Relationships
by Ronni MarshakCustomer Experience Audit of Sears.com’s Capabilities to Let Customers Find and Buy What They Want and Manage Their Relationships -
The Next Big Thing: Customer Ecosystems
Six Secrets for Designing Business Networks Aligned To Help Customers Get Things Done
by Patricia SeyboldCustomer ecosystems are business networks that are aligned to help customers get things done—both the things they want to accomplish and the things they want to manage. We’ve found six keys to designing successful customer ecosystems. -
What Stands in the Way of Successful Customer-Centric Projects?
The Five “Gotcha’s” that Plague Most Initiatives
by Patricia Seybold, Ronni MarshakMost customer projects encounter five obstacles to success: lack of resources, lack of access to the right customers, no buy-in from execs, inadequate execution, and no tangible results. Here is advice on how to overcome these internal showstoppers.
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