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Seven CX Tips to Help Weather the 2021 Holiday Season ‘Everything Shortage’

CSM Magazine

Now more than any other time of year, e-Commerce becomes a more dominant force in companies’ sales, and subsequently, online customer experience. In fact, 2021 is forecast to be one of the most treacherous holiday seasons since the Great Recession of 2008-2009. Mike Myer, CEO and co-founder of Quiq looks at the challenges ahead.

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Fast and cost-effective LLaMA 2 fine-tuning with AWS Trainium

AWS Machine Learning

These models can be used for question answering, summarization, translation, and more in applications such as conversational agents for customer support, content creation for marketing, and coding assistants. He was a recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2009. Before joining the industry, he was the Charles E.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of August 7, 2023

ShepHyken

We kick off with an article that features a number of experts sharing their insights on how to spot and proactively manage problems, complaints, and anything the customer considers a “pain point.” remains unchanged since 2009 while inflation reached 6.2% as of 2023 and minimum federal wage of $7.25 in 2022 and 5.4%

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How to Improve Customer Service – A Complete Guide of Tools, Tech & Tips

Comm100

Today’s customers look for fast, convenient, and personalized support that allows them to connect with brands how, where, and when they want. 99% of customers now believe that companies need to improve their service and support. In 2021, this meant that 48% of organizations diversified the digital channels they support.

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Great Ideas in Customer Service

Helpware

So go public with your customer support team. When the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX was released, it wasn’t just a big leap in the world of e-readers, but customer service as well. The point is to make it s easy as possible for the customer to get help from your support team. Get Top Management Involved In Customer Service.

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Voice of Customer Maturity: Ultimate Guide

ClearAction

Voice of Customer Maturity Today Since the 2009 global economic downturn, companies have invested heavily in enterprise feedback management. B) Manager Participation Today Managers were very curious about evolving customer needs at the beginning of the global pandemic. Why not make this your target for THIS year?

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Conversations become markets: The rise of online marketplaces and monetization of digital content

Susan Abbott

The first web marketplaces democratized the ability to sell physical goods, such as E-Bay   (founded 1995) and Etsy (founded 2005).  Originally launched as a platform to support virtual work in 1999, ELance really took off when it launched the vendor management system, creating a marketplace.