The December 2004 Issue of Connections Magazine, covering call centers and the teleservice industry

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• Buyer’s Guide (updated annually)
• From the Publisher: A Different Perspective on Health Insurance
• Health Savings Accounts
• How HSAs Work
• How to Control Call Center Stress
• Pre-Employment Assessments: Tips on Doing it Right
• Protecting Your Data
• Sealing the Deal Over the Business Meal
• 2004 ASTAA Convention
• 2004 CAM-X Convention

[Connections Magazine is proudly published by Peter DeHaan Publishing Inc, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD editor.]

The November 2004 Issue of Connections Magazine, covering call centers and the teleservice industry

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• 2004 CAM-X Awards
• Automating Workforce Management
• Book Review: Business School Essentials for Call Center Managers
• Building Entrepreneurial Enterprises
• Effective Questioning Skills
• Emerging Trends in the Teleservices Industry
• From the Publisher: Are You In or Out?
• Multisite Operations: A Competitive Advantage
• Unified Messaging
• Workforce Management in an IP World
• Workforce Management Software

[Connections Magazine is proudly published by Peter DeHaan Publishing Inc, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD editor.]

The October 2004 Issue of Connections Magazine, covering call centers and the teleservice industry

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• Answering the Call for Hurricane Charley
• Battling Agent Burnout
• Case Study: Workforce Optimization Increases Profitability
• Community Involvement – Community Recognition: A Winning Combination
• From the Publisher: Beam Me Up Scotty
• Escalated but Satisfied 
• Interview with ATSI President Gary Tedrick
• My eLearning Memoirs
• People Are Like Icebergs – Don’t Be The Titanic!
• Smile, It May Be Your Boss
• TTY/TDD Service
• TTYs in Today’s Call Center

[Connections Magazine is proudly published by Peter DeHaan Publishing Inc, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD editor.]

The September 2004 Issue of Connections Magazine, covering call centers and the teleservice industry

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• Customer Care in Your Call Center
• Communication Servers
• DNC Compliance: It’s Not an Easy Thing
• From the Publisher: My Response to Spam
• Service Industry Now Top Seller
• Support Center Site Certification
• Voice Loggers: From Then to Now
• Voice Mail Has Come a Long Way
• Watch That Tone of Voice

[Connections Magazine is proudly published by Peter DeHaan Publishing Inc, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD editor.]

The July/August 2004 Issue of Connections Magazine, covering call centers and the teleservice industry

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• 2004 ATSI Convention and Expo
• Can PayPal Be Your Pal?
• The Changing Face of Workforce Management
• Communicating with Seniors
• From the Publisher: Call Center Shrinkage
• Hospital Answering Services Could Be Risky
• Improving Listening Skills
• Interview with Dr. Jon Anton
• Make Retention Your Supervisor’s Job!
• Scripted Call Processing Software
• Training and ROI

[Connections Magazine is proudly published by Peter DeHaan Publishing Inc, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD editor.]

The June 2004 Issue of Connections Magazine, covering call centers and the teleservice industry

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• PeopleSoft Case Study: The Quest Consistency
• It’s Not My Fault
• It’s Time for a Monitoring Makeover
• LCR and Disaster Recovery for Toll Free Numbers
• Maximizing your Business: Business Improvement Groups
• The Modern Voice Logger
• The Nanosecond World of IM
• From the Publisher: My Career in Broadcasting
• The Six Touch Points of Communications
• Uses of Voice Loggers
• Voice Logging Considerations
• Voice Logging: Luxury or Necessity?
• VoIP Case Study: An Untapped Resource
• Wireless Number Portability: The Compliance Conundrum

[Connections Magazine is proudly published by Peter DeHaan Publishing Inc, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD editor.]

The May 2004 Issue of Connections Magazine, covering call centers and the teleservice industry

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• Agent Hiring and Training
• Call Center Site Certification: An Interview with Chris Bell
• From the Publisher: Service Sold It
• External Performance Metrics
• How to Handle Accented Callers
• Maximizing your Business: Benchmarking
• Outbound Compliance Checklist: A Survival Necessity
• Seven Secrets of Minimizing Agent Turnover
• Simon Says: Open or Closed?
• Vendor Profile: TASbiller

[Connections Magazine is proudly published by Peter DeHaan Publishing Inc, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD editor.]

The April 2004 Issue of Connections Magazine, covering call centers and the teleservice industry

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• Cultivating the Contact Center
• Customer Service and the Human Experience
• Diversity: Celebrate Difference, Strengthen Performance
• From the Publisher: Al Gore and the Internet
• Resources for Medical Call Centers
• Resolving Workplace Conflict
• Simon Says: Keep It Positive
• Telephone Triage

[Connections Magazine is proudly published by Peter DeHaan Publishing Inc, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD editor.]

The March 2004 Issue of Connections Magazine, covering call centers and the teleservice industry

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• The 10 Immutable Laws of Sales Success
• Back to Basics
• Beyond the Looking-Glass: Telemarketing 2004
• Case Study: Sitel Improves Recruiting and Retention
• From the Publisher: A Matter of Perspective
• Is There a CLEC in Your Future?
• The Power of One
• Simon Says: Don’t Stress
• Speech Recognition
• Wireless Text Messaging, Part 2

[Connections Magazine is proudly published by Peter DeHaan Publishing Inc, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD editor.]

The January/February 2004 Issue of Connections Magazine, covering call centers and the teleservice industry

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• Are Remote Agents in Your Staffing Future?
• Words to the Wise
• Call Monitoring Isn’t Enough
• From the Publisher: A Conscious Decision
• Employing Persons with Disabilities
• The Future of Telemessaging
• Simon Says: A Smile Is Contagious
• Telemessaging Systems
• Wireless Text Messaging, Part 1

[Connections Magazine is proudly published by Peter DeHaan Publishing Inc, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD editor.]