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Tweets of the Week - February 1-5, 2010

Every week it is our goal to share interesting articles that we feel can help our followers learn best practices and discover new trends to continually improve their organization’s customer service delivery and ensure a great customer experience.

To keep up to date with all these valuable links, simply follow us @Parature.

CRM & Customer Satisfaction: CRM implementations that improve your customer knowledge increase your customer satisfaction scores
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by Jim Henning at Vovici

The Perils of Treating Different Customers Differently
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by DonPeppers at Peppers & Rogers Group Read more »

Support Channel Survey by John Moore

We invite you to help our friend John Moore with his survey of customer support preferences and usage patterns. John will be running this survey – hosted on his blog Random Thoughts of a Boston-Based CTO: John Moore’s Weblog – through the end of March and will share his results once all the survey data is complete.

Please take the survey and invite your communities to do the same.

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Webinar: Getting Your Worst Customers to Love You

Most customer support teams are good at handling routine transactions. But what about a customer who is threatening to sue you? Or asks to have you fired? Or an employee who got so fed up with IT support that he smashed his laptop and then ran over it?

All of these are real situations that support professionals reported in a recent survey sponsored by Supportindustry.com and Parature. This interactive webinar, teaming communications skills expert and bestselling author Rich Gallagher with Parature’s VP of Marketing Gary McNeil, looks at how to handle situations like these and more. The open panel discussion format will examine the best practices, tools and technology behind handling your worst-case scenarios. Read more »

Tweets of the Week - January 18-22, 2010

Every week it is our goal to share interesting articles that we feel can help our followers learn best practices and discover new trends to continually improve their organization’s customer service delivery and ensure a great customer experience.

To keep up to date with all these valuable links, simply follow us @Parature.

Customer Experience is More Important Than Ever
http://bit.ly/6WhtoJ
by Valeria Maltoni at Conversation Agent Read more »

"Best Practices in Customer Service" Webinar Series

Delivered by the industry’s leading minds, this thought leadership series is designed to serve as a valuable resource to provide insight into customer service best practices and industry trends. The webinars in this series are ‘must attend’ events for any organization committed to improving the customer experience. We invite you to register for one or register for all depending on the topics that interest you.

Customer service industry experts, Robert Spector – bestselling author, Rich Gallagher of Point of Contact Group, Paige Newcombe of Coremetrics, John Ragsdale of Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA), Dr. Natalie Petouhoff of Forrester Research, Jay Topper of Rosetta Stone, Sahar Hashemi of Coffee Republic, Lorraine Grubbs-West of Lessons in Loyalty and Southwest Airlines, and Lisa Ford – customer service expert will focus on current industry technologies, best practices and trends that are key for organizations to improve their support processes to improve the customer experience. Read more »