Tue.Dec 12, 2023

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The Power of Proactive Analytics: Driving Smarter Customer Experiences

Blake Morgan

                                   In this week’s episode of the Modern Customer Podcast, Isabella Villani, a renowned customer experience expert and author, illustrates how proactive analytics revolutionizes customer experience (CX). Isabella begins by explaining how this innovative approach enables businesses to anticipate and effectively meet customer needs, thereby transforming the CX landscape.

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[Experience Action Podcast] 5 Must-Do’s to End the Year Strong

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Are you ready to end the year with gusto, and enter the next with a customer-centered game plan? This special episode will guide you through five essential actions every customer-focused leader must take to finish the year strong. Join me, Jeannie Walters, as we reflect on the highs, lows, and even the whimsical customer requests of the past year. We’ll discuss how to gather, categorize, and utilize feedback to identify areas of improvement and celebrate successes.

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Innovate or Stagnate: Top 4 Customer Service Trends for 2024

Comm100

We all know that the world of customer service and support is constantly on the move. While some aspects are enduring, each year brings new opportunities and challenges that shift the landscape. This blog will delve into the top four customer service trends that are expected to take center stage in 2024. This blog is written for you, the experienced customer service professionals, who are the driving force behind these changes that will improve CX and internal efficiencies.

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Vodafone advances its machine learning skills with AWS DeepRacer and Accenture

AWS Machine Learning

Vodafone is transitioning from a telecommunications company (telco) to a technology company (TechCo) by 2025, with objectives of innovating faster, reducing costs, improving security, and simplifying operations. Thousands of engineers are being onboarded to contribute to this transition. By 2025, Vodafone plans to have 50% of its global workforce actively involved in software development, with an objective to deliver 60% of digital services in-house.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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The Link Between Sales and Customer Experience

ShepHyken

Customer service and customer experience (CX) are more than what happens after the sale. It’s not just a department to call when there is a problem. It actually begins long before a customer ever makes a purchase. Then, there’s the experience during the sales process and what happens after the sale, which could include a typical customer support call and more.

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What is Round-Trip Time and How Does it Relate to Network Latency?

Cyara

Round-trip time (RTT) is an important metric that can indicate the quality of communications available between two end-points. It’s a metric that our team often discusses with customers because it directly relates to the service quality experienced. RTT can be impacted by a range of design decisions, especially concerning network topology. However, there is some confusion around what exactly RTT is, how it relates to latency, how it can impact your service, and how you can improve it.

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Frugality meets Accuracy: Cost-efficient training of GPT NeoX and Pythia models with AWS Trainium

AWS Machine Learning

Large language models (or LLMs) have become a topic of daily conversations. Their quick adoption is evident by the amount of time required to reach a 100 million users, which has gone from “4.5yrs by facebook” to an all-time low of mere “2 months by ChatGPT.” A generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) uses causal autoregressive updates to make prediction.

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Labs Talk: Recapping 2023

SAP Customer Experience

Join us for an journey down memory lane as we conclude the 2023 season of Labs Talk with a final epic live stream. Hosted by the duo, Andreas Neumeier and Sven Haiges, this special event is set to be a celebration of the year’s most memorable moments.

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Transforming CX: How Generative AI Transforms Omnichannel Solutions

Win the Customer

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the customer journey spans various touchpoints and channels. Businesses strive to deliver seamless experiences across these platforms, yet the challenge of maintaining consistency and personalization persists. Enter generative AI—a game-changer in revolutionizing customer experience across omnichannel environments.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Qualitative Feedback: Examples, Types & Analysis

Thematic

Qualitative feedback refers to insights gathered through open-ended responses, comments and opinions. This type of feedback provides a more nuanced understanding of customer experiences and needs. It differs from quantitative data which is statistical in nature. Qualitative feedback is important in understanding customer needs. It provides rich insights into the thoughts, emotions and perceptions of customers.

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Make every call count: 40 voicemail greeting examples to use

BirdEye

Phone tag — a term that refers to the all-too-familiar sequence of missed calls and voicemails — is much less fun than it sounds. This frustrating cycle can be a significant obstacle to efficient communication and productivity. Luckily, effective voicemail recordings can save the day. The right voicemail recording can reduce the frustrations of phone tag and ensure that your customers get the help they need quickly.

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Happy or Not Surveys: Using Smiley Buttons to Capture Customer Feedback????

Zonka Feedback

Many organizations rely on various types of surveys for collecting customer feedback to know how happy customers are about their experiences with their products and services. But many times, surveys become a boring and time-consuming task for the customers and therefore they tend to avoid responding to feedback surveys, which eventually leads to a low and inaccurate survey response.

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Release Announcement: Stay Current Programs for Developer & Business User role 2311 version

SAP Customer Experience

Hello everyone, I’m glad to announce the release of SAP Commerce Cloud Stay Current programs for Developer and Business User role. Passing the Stay Current assessment is mandatory, in order to keep your certification up-to-date, otherwise you have to take the certification exam again. What is a Stay Current program?

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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How Uplight Is Reducing Security Risks Amid Growing Threats to Energy IT Infrastructure

Uplight

Energy powers our lives and without it, we are literally in the dark–making it critical that we ensure our energy infrastructure is reliable and available. Like every other industry, the utility power industry has become digital, leveraging smart meter data to understand utilization and personal data to help engagement, behavior, and personalization.

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AI research separates hype from reality. Where do you fit?

Think Customers

Most companies are eager to implement AI solutions to improve customer experiences, but few have the data or technology ready to go to make it happen. Those are some of the insights gleaned from TTEC Digital’s State of AI in the Contact Center research report. The research was designed to define where the CX market is when it comes to AI adoption, and what’s holding them back.

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How to Use Website Embedded Feedback Surveys to Collect Data?

Zonka Feedback

With 63% of shopping journeys originating online, the significance of online customer experiences is paramount. While website surveys play a pivotal role, understanding their varied applications and targeted feedback goals is key to their efficacy.

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Sabio Group Helps ENGIE Achieve Cloud Migration Goals Ahead of Schedule

CSM Magazine

Sabio Group, the global digital experience transformation services specialist, has successfully migrated more than 4,600 contact centre agents across four entities for a major utilities company in France – two months ahead of schedule. In a recently published case study, the Genesys Cloud project with ENGIE was delivered two months ahead of the 12-month timeframe, exemplifying Sabio’s expertise in delivering rapid Genesys Cloud deployments.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Driving Business Growth Through Lead Generation Calls

Magellan Solutions

We all know how annoying it can be to receive a random call from someone offering a product or service we don’t need or want. Instead of being interested, we hang up or say, “No, thank you.” But what if you are on the other side of the phone? How do you make a good first impression, build rapport, and persuade them to take action? This is where lead generation comes in.

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8 Best Practices for Securing Customer Surveys

SurveySensum

Online surveys, telephonic surveys, paper surveys, etc., are all about exploring the minds of a mass of people. These survey forms help in knowing the likes, dislikes, characteristics, and expectations of people and help gather concrete and accurate results for making vital business decisions. Customer feedback surveys give you insights into understanding their needs and hence improve business products and services.

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Seamless Customer Experience with Omni Channel Support

Magellan Solutions

Imagine this: You’ve availed yourself of a product or a service but still have a lot of questions in mind. You’ve tried calling their hotline, but the wait time is too long. You’ve sent them an email but heard no response. You even checked their social media accounts and only ended up getting an automated response. Frustrated, right? What if there was a better way to communicate with the seller?

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7 Customer Segmentation Models: Unlock the Power of Precision Marketing 

Optimove

Take your customer segmentation to the next level with our advanced guide Download Now Why it Matters: Customer segmentation helps businesses target their audience with precision and tailor their strategies to meet specific customer needs. It is a crucial output from Customer-Led Marketing. The following 7 customer segmentation models can be leveraged to gain deeper insights into customer behavior and preferences, enhancing the customer experience and increasing Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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AWS’ Silent Nod To FinOps

Forrester's Customer Insights

Last week, Amazon.com VP and CTO Werner Vogels closed out re:Invent 2023 with his keynote address on “The Frugal Architect” This wasn’t the first time, Vogels introduced this topic. In fact, it was a theme he originally introduced in 2012 that revolves around architecting with cost in mind.

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Climbing The Ladder: A Guide to Customer Success Leadership

SmartKarrot

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the tech industry, the role of Customer Success (CS) has gained significant prominence. To delve deeper into the nuances of the Customer Success Career Path to Leadership, we bring you a compelling conversation between two industry experts, Bhumika Arora, Founder and Consulting Coach at Ruffday Coaching Services, and Rohan Sheth, Director of Growth at SmartKarrot Inc.

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Top Edge Computing And IoT Trends That Matter In 2023

Forrester's Customer Insights

Since this is an emerging category of technologies, there’s always new innovations and trends to keep track of. My colleagues and I got together to create a list of the most important trends to follow across edge and IoT.

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Customer Education and Community: The Scale Engines of Customer Success

Gainsight

The conventional wisdom at many SaaS companies is that they’re not ready for customer education or customer community. Many leaders say they’re focused on building (or just maintaining) their customer success teams. In this challenging economic environment, customer education and community are seen as nice-to-have extras for down the road. But what if customer success and customer education are actually part of the same revenue-building strategy?

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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Announcing The First-Ever Evaluative Research On Cybersecurity Skills And Training Platforms: The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Skills And Training Platforms, Q4 2023!

Forrester's Customer Insights

The emergence of CS&T platforms ushers in a new era of upskilling and training focused not on point-in-time test prep but on continual learning, where practitioners go up against the latest attacker techniques individually or as a team to test technical skills, refine documented processes, and improve communication. They’re also using these platforms to acquire emerging skills, like prompt engineering, which are offered by many of the platforms in this evaluation.

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Innovating IP management: Making FoundationIP even better

Clarivate

At Clarivate, we understand that IP professionals are under constant pressure to deliver more value to clients and stakeholders with greater speed and efficiency. That’s why we continue to invest in advanced tools that help IP attorneys, paralegals and legal operations teams work smarter, not harder. Case in point: FoundationIP , the first SaaS-based IP management solution, purpose built to increase IP team efficiency by leveraging automation and best in class country rules.

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Synchronize People, Processes, And Technologies To Lift Ad Creative’s Performance

Forrester's Customer Insights

My favorite holiday-themed ad is Hershey’s “Christmas Bells,” which debuted in 1989 thanks to the creativity of David Apicella at Ogilvy & Mather, among others. Since then, the ad has run every December. In a market crowded with viral creative like Spotify’s Wrapped, Hershey’s pithy ad continues to perform.