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Second Annual "Users Choice Awards" Program - Call for User Judges!

Stamford CT, June 15, 2000 -- All users of customer relationship products and services are invited to vote in the Second Annual Users Choice Awards program and automatically be entered to win a $500 American Express Gift Certificate. The Awards program is sponsored by Customer Support Management and RealMarket. The Users Choice Awards is a best-in-class recognition program for customer management products and services, based on the judgments of people who use them.

Users of customer relationship products and services can register their votes at www.userschoiceawards.com by evaluating products and services in five major categories, including:
  • Customer Interaction (External) - Customer Interaction Management (for enterprise and mid-market), E-Mail Management, Field Service, Knowledge Management, Self-Service and Web Callback/Assisted.
  • Customer Interaction (Internal) - Help Desk/Service Desk (for enterprise and mid-market), Infrastructure Management, and Technical Support Tools.
  • Call Center - ACD, Alert & Display, Call Center Communications/CTI, Call Center Simulation/Testing, Call Monitoring, Handsets/Headsets, Speech and Voice, Unified Messaging and Workforce Management/Scheduling.
  • Sales and Marketing - Configuration, Contact Management, Database Marketing/CRM Information, Marketing Automation, Online Sales Productivity, Sales Automation (enterprise and mid-market) and Web Sales and Personalization.
  • Services - Hosted Customer Management Application Services (ASPs), Integration/Implementation, Outsourcing, Training.
Users evaluating products will be eligible to win a $500 American Express Gift Certificate just for taking a few moments to vote for their favorite CRM product or service. The best CRM products and services will be presented at Key3Media Events' CRM and Support Services Conference & Expo, October 22-26 in San Francisco.

Customer Support Management's Editorial Director, Katherine Grayson comments, "The Users Choice Awards definitively identify the systems, software, and resources that users think are best, based on their 'in-the-trenches' evaluations at customer relationship management organizations."

Gary Lemke, President of RealMarket, added, "given the complexity of most customer management solutions, a test environment cannot be as comprehensive as the actual user installations. With the Users Choice Awards, users are able to share how well the solutions have met expectations and helped improve customer interaction.

"The Awards are a benchmark for customer support and service professionals who are looking for solutions, and need to make the right choice the first time," Lemke continued. "With customer management running at internet speed, there's virtually no room for trial and error."

About RealMarket
RealMarket (www.realmarket.com) is a market research and intelligence firm dedicated to helping advance the Customer Relationship Management market through research and education. The company publishes RealMarket Today!, a daily email that covers news and financial information for the CRM industry and reaches over 30,000 readers daily. Additionally, RealMarket produces RealMarket Live!, a weekly webcast “talkshow” featuring discussions with industry leaders on driving topics in customer management. RealMarket Research is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

About Customer Support Management
Customer Support Mangement is the only management solutions publication written exclusively for customer service and support executives and managers at Fortune 1000 companies, the top 5,000 call/contact centers, eCommerce companies, and other mid-sized to large companies. Customer Support Management is An Intertec®/ Primedia publication.

Editorial Contacts:

Kathleen Lombardo
Customer Support Management
Phone: 203.358.4306
Fax: 203.358.5832
Kathleen_Lombardo@intertec.com

Jeff Chamberlain
RealMarket
Phone: 317.816.0677
Fax: 317.816.0578
jchamberlain@realmarket.com

Contact:
Jeff Chamberlain, Awards Program Manager
Phone: 317.816.0677;   Fax: 317.816.0578
jchamberlain@userschoiceawards.com
 

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