Customer services

How do I hold onto my best customers? How do I get more out of them? Does CRM work? Whatever your business, customer service has to be a priority. Find out how others are keeping their customers happy and boosting their profits.

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Guides:

Understanding your customers

Cover of Understanding your customers guide

By looking at the experience of one company, this brochure shows how you can gather, interpret and use information about your customers to improve customer service and market your business more effectively. URN: 04/1724


Technology, customers and suppliers

This brochure covers business processes from development to final delivery and advises on how to improve each process by closer collaboration with supply chain partners. URN: 04/816


Electronic Data Interchange

A guide to implementing EDI from scratch, or if you’re already using it to automate order processing and invoicing, find out how to roll it out to other areas of your business. URN: 04/1736


Extranets

This factsheet looks at the range of technical options available – and the choices that other businesses have made. It will help you identify the right type of extranet for your business. URN: 04/1728


Building an e-commerce website

E-commerce is about using the internet to buy and sell goods and services online. This brochure shows you how you can use the internet to sell more. Find out whether an e-commerce website is right for your business, what options are available and how to build one. URN: 04/926


Contact management software

The better your business manages its information, the better it performs. This factsheet runs through the various contact management solutions available and the benefits of using them.

Case studies:

Discover Travel

Travel agent Discover Travel uses a Virtual Private Network to open its systems to customers, suppliers and employees.


Escape Business Technologies

Broadband has been the backbone of Escape Business Technologies' effort to improve customer service and operating efficiency.


The Everyman Theatre

Using broadband, The Everyman Theatre has been able to integrate its marketing and booking system through its website.


Irishwear

An uninterrupted, fast connection enables online retailer Irishwear.net to improve customer service and gain major internal operating efficiencies.

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Capitalising on convergence

The Capitalising on convergence workbook is a practical guide on using digital media to focus on your customers. It includes 28 in-depth case studies.


National Customer Service Week 2004

Every year, during the first week in October, National Customer Service Week aims to recognise the crucial role played by customer service professionals everywhere.


National Customer Service Awards

These annual awards promote excellence, best practice and innovation in customer service and consumer affairs.


Institute of Customer Service

The independent professional body for customer service.

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