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Customer Service/Call Centers/Contact Centers

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) helps organizations deliver exceptional customer service and support. Good CRM tools and strategies enable call centers, contact centers, and customer support teams to be their most effective and ensure that all customer inquiries end with the best possible customer experience. Explore our latest news, analysis, and advice for customer service professionals at all levels.

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The Best CRM Software, Solutions, and Innovators: The 2025 CRM Industry Awards

Our 24th annual awards recognize the vendors and innovators that shone the brightest in the past year.

The Best CRM Software and Solutions: The 2025 CRM Industry Leader Awards

Our top five picks in 11 categories point the way forward with the best products and capabilities hitting the market in customer service, marketing, and sales.

Six Top Innovating CRM Companies for 2025: The CRM Conversation Starters

These vendors kept the industry abuzz with products, services, and integrations that add up to innovation in sales, marketing, and customer service.

The Best Enterprise CRM Suite: The 2025 CRM Industry Leader Awards

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Succeeding with a Multigenerational Contact Center Workforce

Leaders must embrace flexible, inclusive strategies that leverage generational strengths, prioritize well-being, and foster a shared sense of purpose.

Is ‘I Thought YOU Were Handling That!’ Costing Your Team?

These moments waste your team's time, damage customer relationships, and slowly erode the trust that keeps your organization functioning.

How to Avoid the Customer Experience Cliff

When automation displaces so many human roles, CX quality takes a nosedive. The key is to define clear, human-centric strategies for implementing AI.

How Agentic AI Creates More Space for Human Connection in Sales

Curiosity, empathy, and active listening have always been at the heart of great customer experiences. Now, they matter more than ever.

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Will AI Replace Contact Center Agents?

The notion of using technology to shrink contact centers has come up repeatedly through the years.

How CRM Plus CX Platforms Are Shaping the Future of CX

These two tools are better together.

Watermelon Metrics and Other BPO Pitfalls

Don't let short-term savings chip away at the experiences that keep customers loyal.

Meet the New (Customer) Bot, (Not) the Same as the Old Bot

Companies will need a way to verify that a bot is acting with consent.

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