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When Sales and Customer Service Collide

ShepHyken

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how sales and customer service combine to create an experience – hopefully a positive one. She created an experience for her customer. This is where sales and customer service collide. This is where sales and customer service collide. Here’s the short version.

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How Mobile Apps are Changing Travel in 2018

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Experts are predicting 2018 to be the year mobile technology officially takes over travel. Mobile technology creates a completely different experience at the airport, for both the customer and airline. A good mobile app adds to the customer experience, and creates brand loyalty.

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3 key customer service trends for 2018

Vonage

Three years ago, Gartner predicted that more than half of businesses would implement significant changes to improve customer experience by 2018. The estimated price tag of losing customers due to poor service has reached $1.6 according to Accenture’s Digital Disconnect in Customer Engagement report. trillion in the U.S.,

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Car-Shopping in 2018: Consumer Insight

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Buying a car used to be a rite of passage in an American’s life, but after seven straight years of growth in new vehicle sales, 2017 reported a decline of 1.8% , with 17.2 Even worse news for manufacturers, it’s predicted 2018’s number will drop to 16.8 million cars and trucks sold. million vehicles sold.

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Turning Your Contact Center into a Profit Center by Leveraging Chat

Speaker: Tony Medrano, CEO of RapportBoost.ai

Technology has allowed for more instant communications, creating a new opportunity for businesses to connect with customers. October 23th, 2018 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT. Live chat as a communication channel has significantly grown in recent years as the leading digital contact method, according to J.D

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2018 Beauty Trends

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billion, with skin-care sales growing by 9% and contributing to 45% of the industry’s total gains. Here are the trends that are taking the beauty industry by storm in 2018. Today, however, brands are moving towards gender neutral products for 2018. The beauty industry grew by 6% in 2017 , to reach $17.7 PERSONALIZATION.

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Blue Ocean Promotes Amy Bennet Roach to Vice President, Sales and Marketing

BlueOcean

Blue Ocean, an award-winning provider of customer care solutions, is delighted to announce the promotion of Amy Bennet Roach to Vice President, Sales and Marketing. In 2015, Amy was promoted to Director, Marketing and Communications, and then Director, Sales and Marketing in 2018.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.