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		<title>Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Adoption</title>
		<link>http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2009/12/07/customer-experience-drives-online-retail-adoption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Musico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “official” start to the holiday shopping season on Black Friday has not left us without myriad statistics regarding shopping preferences. According to a recent holiday survey of more than 2,300 consumers by Prospectiv, an online performance marketing firm specializing in connecting women to brands, found:

25 percent will use coupons more often    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GUEST-BLOG: Is Customer Feedback on Your Holiday Wish List?</title>
		<link>http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2009/12/02/guest-blog-is-customer-feedback-on-your-holiday-wish-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Redekop, director, customer experience management solutions, Telus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holidays can be as stressful as they are wonderful. To avoid being a Grinch this year, make sure you're delivering the best customer experience.]]></description>
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		<title>How Macroeconomics Affect the Contact Center</title>
		<link>http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2009/08/24/how-macroeconomics-affect-the-contact-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Musico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there has been some news of the economy beginning to stabilize, macroeconomic trends are still helping to shape how contact center practice leaders must proceed. Here at the first day of CRM Evolution 2009 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in the heart of Manhattan, Art Hall, manager of customer relations at Alvarez and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Customer Experience Costs Billions</title>
		<link>http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2009/08/14/poor-customer-experience-costs-billions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Musico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get the chance to write quite a bit about the topic of customer experience &#8212; how companies are measuring it, trying to implement it, and figure out what it actually is. Oftentimes, my focus is on North American-based companies, but new research conducted by Greenfield Online (in full disclosure, also sponsored by Genesys Telecommunications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support as a Career Destination, Not a Journey</title>
		<link>http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2009/08/10/support-as-a-career-destination-not-a-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Musico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
[Editors’ Note: The next chapter in this case study appeared in our August edition of CRM magazine.]
There is a common misnomer that customer service representatives (CSRs) are either poorly trained or just taking the position to make ends meet. Combine that with an advanced degree from an institution of higher education, and you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experimenting with Customer Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2009/08/06/experimenting-with-customer-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Musico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who says innovation has to cost gobs of money?
I just had a conversation with a couple of members of Vertex North America’s management team – John Hall, managing director, and Kurt Thearling, head of decision sciences. Vertex North America is a facet of Vertex, a United Kingdom–based business process and customer management outsourcing group.
Amidst talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Going Green Improve Sales?</title>
		<link>http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2009/07/24/can-going-green-improve-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Musico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in late June, I wrote a story for our Web site, www.destinationCRM.com, about Interaction Process Automation (IPA), the latest offering from Interactive Intelligence.
Shortly thereafter, I was able to catch up with Geoff Calhoun, director of information technology at AccuQuote, since his company will be implementing IPA. Here are his thoughts on why his company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Maturity Model: The Social Work of Community Service</title>
		<link>http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2009/06/13/social-media-maturity-model-the-social-work-of-community-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Jacobs, senior analyst, Datamonitor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ian Jacobs, senior analyst, Datamonitor. The ambitious nature of the model itself makes dissecting it a daunting prospect. As Christopher Carfi alluded to in his June 3rd post, any one of the throughlines in this model could form the basis of 30 days of meaningful discussion. I'm going to try to tackle a reasonably small segment of the model: some of the ways that customer service might change that are not explicitly detailed in the model.

I have two main areas to expand on: social media–focused service as a driver of improved product development and community-assisted service or user-collaborative service.]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Breaths</title>
		<link>http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2009/05/21/deep-breaths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 12:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Musico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I attended SAP and the Americas&#8217; SAP User Group&#8217;s (ASUG) user conference, SAPPHIRE, in the friendly and extremely hot confines of Orlando, Fla. While I blogged, live tweeted, and wrote for the Web site about some of the key takeaways from the conference, there was a not-so-subtle lesson about customer service that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shore-ing Up Votes at Home?</title>
		<link>http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2009/05/08/shore-ing-up-votes-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 13:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Musico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent news of President Barack Obama calling for curbing offshore tax havens and corporate tax breaks is just the latest in several initiatives to push jobs back to the United States to try and stem rising unemployment.
This time, Obama wants to go after companies that have operations or subsidiaries in tax havens like the [...]]]></description>
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