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The Remarkable Effect Facial Recognition Can Have on Your CX

Beyond Philosophy

We develop emotional intelligence as children once we understand how other people feel. Based on the behavior of a few of our fellow humans, some of us more than others. Now, machines are developing emotional intelligence as well. The latest developments in this field are changing the way we can measure authentic customer emotions in real time. We discussed how technology and facial recognition are changing how to measure authentic customer emotions in real time on our latest podcast.

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Moments that Matter: Your Journey Mapping Questions Answered

IntouchInsight

Journey mapping expert, Jim Tincher, explains how to drive action from journey maps, the importance of involving the entire organization in the process, and how anyone can get started by focusing on the key moments that matter in the customer journey.

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5 Key Success Factors in a Multi-Unit CX Program

ServiceDock

Managing customer experience in a multi-unit business is more difficult than it is in most single point of contact businesses. The volume of people involved in these businesses and the geographically distributed nature of business units (i.e. stores, restaurants etc) makes training, monitoring and communicating much more challenging. And that makes implementing a Customer Experience (CX) program more difficult.

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Enrich Your Omnichannel CX Plan With Social Media

GetFeedback

When you’re running a business or you’re a part of a company, you need to be aware of the importance of the omnichannel customer experience (CX). This means, knowing what your customers want, how they feel, and providing them with the best possible experience with your brand or company. Customer experience techniques and strategies have evolved over time, making it possible for everyone to improve their customers’ overall experience.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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4 Digital Customer Experience Strategy Tips for 2019

Oracle

The digital customer experience evolves rapidly. With every new smartphone release and operating system update comes room for improvement with how consumers experience your brand. Smart CX strategies focus on not simply implementing new ideas for a quality experience, but also improving upon how customers currently interact with the overall digital presence.

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When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein (a One Win Book Review)

Customers That Stick

In this One Win Book Review, we take a look at When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein. Check out the video below to hear Adam’s one win that you can take away from When Genius Failed to improve your organization’s customer experience and customer service. About When Genius Failed. FROM THE PUBLISHER: In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis—Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride of the Gre

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The 2019 State of Social Report

NetBase

Carefully cultivating a social presence online is no longer a quirky extra for a brand to offer, if it ever was. And any brands still devoting half-hearted efforts to their digital marketing really need to read The 2019 State of Social Report , as it offers game-changing insight for (and from) small, challenger and top-performing businesses. Making It Matter.

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Are Chatbots Actually Automating People?

Inbenta

Automation is pretty cool. It shields us from mundanity, and gives us back time and resources we could better spend on more fun or productive things (or perhaps just things that we haven’t figured out how to automate yet). Because of the allure of automation, bots are sometimes perceived as a threat to humans, particularly their employment. Saving time?

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Driving Growth Through Customer Experience

Integrity Solutions

The truth is, now more than ever, everyone plays a part in delivering a superior customer experience. Who’s responsible for creating an exceptional customer experience in your organization? Customer Service? Sales? Client Relationship Managers? Marketing? Product Development? IT? Leadership? Don’t worry — it’s a trick question. The truth is, now more than ever, everyone plays a part in delivering a superior customer experience.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Are Chatbots Actually Automating People?

Inbenta

Automation is pretty cool. It shields us from mundanity, and gives us back time and resources we could better spend on more fun or productive things (or perhaps just things that we haven’t figured out how to automate yet). Because of the allure of automation, bots are sometimes perceived as a threat to humans, particularly their employment. Saving time?

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What Companies Get Wrong About the Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

Your customers are the ones that shape your growth, define your offerings, and pay the bills. But are you getting the customer experience wrong? Steve Jobs said 20 years ago, “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and then try to figure out how to sell it.” Yet, to this day, most companies don’t adhere to this philosophy.

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Commercializing AI research: Lessons learned and Thematic’s journey

Thematic

– “Hey, aren’t you the creator of Maui?”– A few months ago, someone I didn’t know approached me at O’Reilly’s AI conference. – “Yes, I am”, I said, excited that someone still remembered my project, and a little sad too… It’s been almost 10 years since I’ve published Maui’s open-source code repository at the end of my PhD, and approximately 5 years since I stopped participating in its community forum.

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Introducing Solvvy Assist: Instant Resolutions for Subscription E-Commerce Companies

Solvvy

An intelligent platform that instantly resolves your customers’ most common subscription order issues through automation and guided resolutions. Creating effortless customer experiences ensures strong loyalty and high retention, and Solvvy makes this possible with our newest product. Today we’re launching Solvvy Assist, an intelligent automation solution that instantly resolves your customers’ most common questions and issues.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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Closed-Loop Customer Feedback

Andrew Mcfarland

In a previous post I wrote about a NPS Success Story and committed to explaining how we used closed-loop feedback to improve the customer experience. Read on to learn more. The main elements of our closed-loop system are these: Respond.

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For Actionable Customer Intelligence, Try Small Data

Think Customers

Does more data lead to better decision making? Not necessarily, according to a recent CMO Council report, Bringing a Human Voice to Customer Choice. In the drive to harness data to scale and enhance customer relationships, companies are beginning to question whether the customer has been lost along the way. Instead of truly listening to the voice of the customer, respondents say they often face data paralysis and resort to making decisions based on assumptions.

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How to Calculate the True Financial Cost of Contact Center Downtime

Talkdesk

The financial cost of a contact center outage can have a devastating impact on an organization. From lost productivity to customer recovery efforts, it’s important to understand and measure the costs of downtime. In today’s blog, we’ll define the various financial costs that are associated with outages and provide guidance on how to measure each in your contact center.

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Five Steps to Establish a Successful Knowledge Transfer Between Sales and Customer Success

ClientSuccess

It’s essential that all teams across your organization work together to ensure the customer is successful. Customer success should make up the DNA of your company culture , no matter the department. Customer success begins to be measured the minute the deal is signed. Your sales and customer success teams must ensure your new customers receive the promised value and results.

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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Boosting Your Healthcare Reputation in Less Time and with More Patients

Happy or Not

by Sarah Hitt Throughout the course of our “Influencing Patient Experience” blog series, together we have explored: “New Technologies and the Customer Experience” – our first blog recapped […]. The post Boosting Your Healthcare Reputation in Less Time and with More Patients appeared first on HappyOrNot.

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Customer Self-Service: The Increasing Use of Tech Tools to Drive Customer Satisfaction

Forcivity Salesforce

Self-service is defined as the use of technology tools, which empower customers to address their own needs and help themselves, without interacting with a live agent. These tools are two-way communication-focused, enabling such things as website interactions with FAQs and knowledge bases, chats with chatbots and/or live agents.

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Three Travel and Hospitality Customer Journey Tracking Examples

Kitewheel

Travel and hospitality companies have a difficult job. There is huge market pressure to make great deals. Enormous budget airline brands and luxury hotel chains alike are seeing increased competition. Top-rated airlines like JetBlue have managed to combine reasonable prices with quality service and experience. But even these leading travel brands can do better.

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Are your business calls being mislabeled as “Fraud” and “Scam”?

NobelBiz

Christian Montes | Executive Director of Sales at NobelBiz | Contact Center Technology Company Published on February 26, 2019 Is your business a Certified Entity in the call labeling and blocking ecosystem? A Certified Entity is a Brand/Business that is certified as a known entity in the Call Labeling and Blocking ecosystem. Why should you care? [ ] The post Are your business calls being mislabeled as “Fraud” and “Scam”?

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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AI IRL Podcast Episode 9: How an AI App Will Get You Retirement Riches

Bold360

Subscribe via iTunes , Spotify and more. If you’re like most people, planning for your retirement is right up there with do-it-yourself root canal surgery. What if there was a way to make your retirement planning as easy as ordering an Uber? Once you linked your various accounts to it, this app would look at where you are in life, your location, your employer’s retirement options, your daily spending habits, and would devise a simple, automatic retirement plan.

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Here’s What’s New from February 2019 | Kommunicate Product Updates

kommunicate

For the previous version of Kommunicate Product Updates, head here. In the February version of the Product Updates, we have come up with some important feature releases, design and UX improvements, and a few bug fixes to improve your overall experience with Kommunicate. Web App Pipedrive integration Pipedrive, a leading sales CRM, can now be [.]. The post Here’s What’s New from February 2019 | Kommunicate Product Updates appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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This week in CX: Clean Energy, Microsoft & Tesla

MyCustomer

4th Mar 2019. T. Customer Experience Rockstar, James Dodkins, gives us his weekly round-up of the past seven day’s happenings in the wonderful world of. By. James Dodkins. Customer Experience Rockstar.

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Tech Titans Google And Microsoft Are Transforming Cybersecurity

Forrester's Customer Insights

Last April, we outlined how the “Tech Titans” (Amazon, Google, and Microsoft) were poised to change the cybersecurity landscape by introducing a new model for enterprises to consume cyber security solutions. Security has long been delivered as siloed solutions located on-premise. These solutions were hard to buy, hard to use, and existed in siloes. Security […].

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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Putting the taxpayers first: how great customer experience drives us forward

Qualtrics

As a part of the government, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has a unique set of customers: taxpayers and other government agencies. GSA helps manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies by supplying products and communications for U.S. government offices, providing transportation and office space to federal employees, and developing government-wide cost-minimizing policies.

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Mobile World Congress Offers Food For Thought

Forrester's Customer Insights

Food Tech figured prominently on the menu at Mobile World Congress 2019. Mobile operators, network equipment providers, device manufacturers and solution providers address challenges from farm, field, fishery or factory to fork, - and beyond. Venture investment has increased significantly. And, if Mobile World Congress is any indication, companies large and small are eager to get a place at the table.

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The Ultimate Guide To Adding Local Search and Marketing Services To Your Web Design Agency

Grade.us

Your web design agency (especially if you have local small business clients) has an opportunity to expand your business by offering XYZ services. Typically, if this is you, your agency is highly technical and incredibly talented. But you're also a specialist. Maybe you don't have local search marketing experience. Isn't it unethical then, to offer local search and marketing services if your agency isn't already skilled in this area?