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Why is (micro-) Segmentation the Most Critical Ingredient in Retaining Your Customers?

Optimove

and this is where we say that, actually, scaling segmentation isn’t such a headache, if you got the right technology, ahem ahem). In his 2004 famous Ted Talk, Choice, Happiness and Spaghetti Sauce , Malcolm Gladwell talked about cluster analysis in marketing and helped to popularize the notion that marketing SHOULD be personalized.

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Customer Service of the Future: 3 Most Important Customer Experience Trends

LiveChat

But then, in the 60’s, forward-thinking companies started to see an opportunity in technology. Facebook was invented in 2004, and although it was just a network back then, many businesses adopted it as an additional customer support channel. Trend #1: Cross-channel CRM integrations. That’s about 10 years. Next was live chat.

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Brand Move Roundup – October 2, 2020

C Space

In another sign of online commerce’s ascendancy, CRM leader Salesforce forecasts that ecommerce’s footprint will double this holiday season, accounting for 30% of all U.S. Despite the rise of ecommerce, the cloud-based software company anticipates overall U.S. retail sales, up from 14% last year.

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