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10 Hot Retail Trends in 2019

Oracle

At NRF 2019 , we asked retail leaders, “What are the top retail trends in 2019?” So, leveraging machine learning and science to understand consumer behavior, to understand mind patterns, is definitely going to give a competitive advantage to any retailer that is willing to jump into the science and machine learning world.”

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of March 25, 2019

ShepHyken

This article dives into the importance of the simple experience and how it can give a company a competitive advantage. Survey: Customer experience trends 2019 by Lynne Capozzi. ClickZ) Per a recent survey, 66% of consumers globally said: “I don’t remember when a brand experience exceeded my expectations.”

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Market Research Uncovers First Mover Opportunities

NetBase

Identifying a new category is exciting, particularly when market research uncovers a first mover opportunity and your brand is ready to capture it. Let’s see how consumer and market intelligence reveals these instances, and a few brands that have been nimble enough to take advantage of key insight.

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Guest Post: Customer Experience: Expectation vs. Reality

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Tanya Ahmed, a Digital Marketer of Vantage Circle , a cloud-based employee engagement platform. Consumers today expect speedier access to services than ever before. Estimations show that about 78% of consumers on a transaction did not choose to make an intended sale. .

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4 Energizing Revelations for the Utilities Industry

North Highland

In North Highland’s annual Beacon survey , seven percent of utilities are expecting a decline in revenue during 2019, four percent higher than other industries surveyed: Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, Healthcare – Payor, Healthcare – Life Sciences, Energy, Media, Entertainment & Communications, and Financial Services.

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Utility Customer Experience: Why Suppliers Need to Make it Effortless

TechSee

No longer dominated by monopolies, utilities have largely become commoditized, with very few competitive advantages to differentiate themselves in the marketplace. Customers are also more aware of the choices available to them and are fully capable of using this to their advantage. The opportunity is massive.

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New Partnership between Synergy and Customer Service Action

CSM Magazine

Synergy delivers advanced customer experience solutions through its 700 seat contact centre based in South Africa, solving the challenges of culture-fit, affordability and performance for a global market including brands such as Octopus energy, The White Company, Ovo Energy and 02. About the Author.