Introduction |
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The Web Was Made for Customer Service |
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The World Wide Web Grows from Infant to Toddler |
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The Participatory Web Site |
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Customer Service Online: The Early Days |
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Customer Service in General: The New Competitive Battlefield |
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Customer Service on the Web Grows Up |
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Customer Service Is the Next Wave on the World Wide Web |
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Deliver on the Promise---Or Get Left Behind |
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The Lifetime Value of a Customer |
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10 | (2) |
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Being Held Up to Ridicule |
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Web Ridicule as a Business |
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Customers Taking Up Lawyers |
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20 | (3) |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (3) |
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Customer Service in a Modern World |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (3) |
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Greater Access to Product Information |
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30 | (1) |
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Greater Access to Order Status Information |
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Greater Access to Specific Account Information |
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30 | (1) |
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Making It Easy to Do Business with You |
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Objects Are Closer than They Appear |
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Ease of Doing Business as a Competitive Edge |
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The Race Is Getting Vaster and the Pace Is Getting Faster |
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Living in a 24-Hour World |
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There's Money to Be Saved |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (2) |
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Seeing the World through Customer-Colored Glasses |
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42 | (1) |
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From the Beginning---Lend an Ear |
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What Are They Looking For? |
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43 | (2) |
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45 | (2) |
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Organizing Your Information---First Step: The FAQ |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (1) |
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53 | (3) |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (3) |
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60 | (2) |
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Shooting Trouble Right between the Eyes |
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Next Step---Let Them Search |
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69 | (1) |
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69 | (9) |
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78 | (3) |
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78 | (1) |
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The Perception of the Time It Takes |
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79 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (1) |
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Managing E-Mail: When Customers Come Calling |
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Warning---It's a Different Communication Tool |
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83 | (5) |
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Damned If You Don't in a Hurry |
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88 | (4) |
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Is Anybody Home Anywhere? |
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90 | (2) |
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92 | (2) |
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First Virtual Alleviates a Stilted Reply with Humor |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (1) |
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Directing Traffic---Who Gets the Mail? |
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The Webmaster May Not Be the Best Choice |
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Create a Blueprint for E-Mail Success |
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Get Your Customers to Direct the Traffic |
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98 | (4) |
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Management Tools to the Rescue |
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102 | (4) |
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Queuing and Routing Tools |
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104 | (1) |
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104 | (2) |
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106 | (2) |
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106 | (1) |
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What Can You Learn about Your Customers? |
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107 | (1) |
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Proactive Customer Service |
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108 | (1) |
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Automated Customer Outreach |
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108 | (1) |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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109 | (2) |
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Keep Your Communications Crystal Clear |
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111 | (6) |
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The Subject Line Is Your Friend |
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111 | (1) |
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The Answer, the Whole Answer, and Nothing but the Answer |
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112 | (2) |
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114 | (1) |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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E-Mail as a Legal Document |
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116 | (1) |
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High Touch Is Always More Important than High Tech |
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117 | (6) |
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119 | (2) |
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Suggest They Get Training |
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121 | (2) |
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123 | (2) |
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Encouraging Customer Conversations |
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An Unhappy Customer Is an Asset |
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125 | (2) |
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Customer Service in the Public Eye |
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127 | (10) |
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Learning from the Mistakes of Others---The Pentium Predicament |
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130 | (2) |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (3) |
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Understanding the Communication Imperative |
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136 | (1) |
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Hosting Your Own Newsgroup |
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137 | (13) |
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138 | (2) |
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Pay Attention or Pay the Price |
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140 | (3) |
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143 | (1) |
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Iron Fist or Velvet Glove? |
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Moderation in All Things---Social Skills |
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144 | (2) |
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Slander, Libel, and Litigation |
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146 | (1) |
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A Few Tips from the Trenches |
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147 | (1) |
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People Love to Talk about Themselves |
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148 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (1) |
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149 | (1) |
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Good Moderators Are Essential |
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150 | (2) |
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152 | (6) |
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Tracking the Public Lists |
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158 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (1) |
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From Introductions to All-Out Attack |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (1) |
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Private Conversations (When to Move Them to E-Mail) |
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161 | (1) |
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162 | (1) |
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Chatting It Up on the Web |
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163 | (7) |
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Chat's a Money Saver and Money Maker |
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164 | (3) |
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167 | (1) |
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Proactive Can Be Perilous |
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167 | (3) |
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170 | (4) |
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Do I Have to Draw You a Picture? |
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175 | (2) |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (2) |
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180 | (3) |
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Outsourcing Live Customer Service |
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181 | (2) |
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183 | (42) |
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Getting Them There in the First Place |
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184 | (5) |
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Nobody Calls an Unknown 800 Number |
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185 | (1) |
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Sun Microsystems Saves a Bundle and Wants You to Know about It |
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186 | (2) |
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188 | (1) |
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189 | (2) |
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New Subscribers and Unsubscribers |
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189 | (1) |
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Traffic Patterns on a List |
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190 | (1) |
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Delving into Your Server Log Files |
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191 | (15) |
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Location and Organization Evaluation |
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191 | (1) |
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Path Tracking for Usability Measurement |
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192 | (1) |
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Tracking Visits, Not People |
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193 | (9) |
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Industrial Strength Log Analysis Tools |
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202 | (4) |
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Count the Registrations and Interactions |
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206 | (1) |
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Count Your Accomplishments |
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206 | (2) |
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What Are They Looking For? |
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208 | (2) |
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What Are People Most Interested In? |
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208 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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How Do They Misuse the Search Tool? |
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209 | (1) |
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Are There Any Searches that Are Seasonal? Periodic? |
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209 | (1) |
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How Are People Responding to Current Events? |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (11) |
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What Are Your Competitors Up To? |
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Benchmarking for Prudence and Profit |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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Open the Door for Customer Comments |
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215 | (2) |
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217 | (2) |
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219 | (2) |
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221 | (4) |
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Knowing Your Customers as Individuals--Again |
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225 | (36) |
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Bringing Back the Intimacy |
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226 | (2) |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (1) |
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Seeing Customers Eye to Eye |
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228 | (1) |
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228 | (3) |
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229 | (1) |
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230 | (1) |
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Customer Bonding on the Web |
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231 | (1) |
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The Value of Customer-Centricity |
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231 | (1) |
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Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All about You |
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232 | (3) |
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Barriers to Competitive Entry |
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233 | (2) |
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235 | (9) |
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Making Customer Service Recommendations |
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237 | (2) |
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Profile Access---Password Required |
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239 | (2) |
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Explicit versus Implicit Information |
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Tracking the Wild Customer |
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242 | (1) |
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Getting Proactive---Anticipation Engines |
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243 | (1) |
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The Prickly Privacy Puzzle |
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244 | (5) |
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249 | (1) |
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Data Mining for Fun and Profit |
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249 | (3) |
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Tools That Make It Happen |
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252 | (6) |
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253 | (1) |
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Profile-Directed Answerbots |
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254 | (1) |
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255 | (3) |
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Personalization Is Leaking Offline |
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258 | (1) |
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Business-to-Business Personalization |
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259 | (2) |
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Extranets--Access to Live Information |
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261 | (28) |
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264 | (2) |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (1) |
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268 | (1) |
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268 | (3) |
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Pricing and Distributor Inventory |
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269 | (2) |
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271 | (2) |
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273 | (4) |
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Real Time: It's Not Just for Order Tracking Anymore |
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277 | (3) |
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Oracle's Visible Trouble Tickets |
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277 | (1) |
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278 | (1) |
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Home Depot's Visible Projects |
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279 | (1) |
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Chlor-Alkali's Visible Tanks |
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279 | (1) |
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280 | (1) |
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281 | (8) |
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Definition of Value Chain Integration |
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281 | (1) |
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282 | (1) |
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282 | (1) |
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Application Service Provider |
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283 | (6) |
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Customer Relationship Management |
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Bringing the Customer All the Way into the Picture |
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290 | (2) |
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292 | (4) |
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292 | (1) |
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Higher Customer Satisfaction |
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294 | (1) |
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296 | (5) |
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296 | (3) |
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299 | (2) |
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301 | (1) |
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Customers as Members of the Team |
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301 | (2) |
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303 | (2) |
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305 | (22) |
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Getting Down to Business---A Woman's Work Is Never Done |
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306 | (21) |
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327 | (10) |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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The Third-Party Infomediary |
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329 | (2) |
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331 | (4) |
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332 | (1) |
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Have Your Agent Call My Agent |
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333 | (2) |
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It's Still about Making People Feel Cared For |
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335 | (1) |
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Falling Behind in Real Time |
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335 | (2) |
Index |
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