Wed.Jan 02, 2019

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3 Ways You Can Improve CX This Year, By Focusing on Yourself

InMoment XI

Last New Year’s, I wrote a blog post entitled, “All Your Customers Want for the New Year is a Good Customer Experience”. In the post, I retold my experience trying out Amazon Prime for the first time as well as a terrible experience with a website theme company. My main point was that you shouldn’t. View Article.

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Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: What’s the Difference?

Oracle

After decades of popular culture exposure, most people are familiar with virtual reality (VR) technology. Put on a headset or get pulled into a video game, and you can interact with a digital world. Science fiction films like TRON and The Matrix have been promising immersive VR experiences for decades, and while it doesn’t look exactly as predicted back then, new technologies have made VR experiences easy to create and inexpensive enough for average consumers to enjoy.

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10 ways AI has supercharged customer experience

Qualtrics

It’s become very clear that AI’s growth in business is being driven by Customer Experience (CX). In fact, Gartner says that CX will represent the majority of AI business value through 2020. And with AI business value estimated at $1.2 trillion in 2018, we’re talking about huge sums of money. CX practitioners have been early adopters of AI, seeing its opportunities before many others and using the technology to better serve customers.

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CES 2019 – Don’t miss the latest innovations and thinking in the Smart Home realm

TechSee

If you’re in the Smart Home or Smart City business, CES 2019 is a must visit. A gathering place for the world’s top business leaders and pioneering thinkers, this year’s event focuses on n an important theme: resilience. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) – owner and producer of the show that attracts over 180,000 attendees – defines resilience as “the place where technologies are going to help keep the world healthy, safe, warm, powered, fed and secure,” making this year’s event es

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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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Is CX Dying? 7 Ways to Save Customer Experience at Your Organization

Beyond Philosophy

I am concerned. I recently read two pieces of research about Customer Experience that worried me. The first was from Nunwood , a UK-based research company with a Customer Experience index, and it showed that improvements in Customer Experience were not happening. The second was from Forrester , and it said the same thing: no increases in Customer Experience improvements.

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What #CX Professionals Wanted to Know in 2018

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay What was on the minds of CX professionals in 2018? And, most importantly, what does it mean for 2019? That has yet to be determined, but "execution" and "results" are two words I'd like to see more of this year! It 's fun to see what was interesting for you - my audience - to read in 2018. I shared 58 blog posts (that includes a few posts from guest authors) in 2018; here are the top eight (because 18 would be way too many!

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121 Amazing Social Media Statistics and Facts

Brandwatch CX

It is a fact of the internet that every click, every view and every sign-up is recorded somewhere. Depending on your view, this is either very creepy or fantastically interesting. As we’re data nerds here at Brandwatch we fall firmly in the second camp. We come across all sorts of interesting stats about social media sites and users, so we’ve collated the best of them in this bumper facts list.

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Top Six Data Management Trends for 2019

datastax

Data management had a stellar 2018—with hybrid and multi-cloud taking front and center stage and continuing to dominate the data concerns of most enterprises. With another year starting, now is probably a good time to take a look at what’s to come in the world of data management for 2019 and beyond. Here are the top six data management trends for 2019: Analytics, analytics, analytics .

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Amazing customer experience begins with engaged leaders

Thematic

Providing amazing customer experience and customer service is not as hard as we make it seem. However, it takes commitment, diligence and lots of effort to do it well. In the simplest form, excellent service is the result of treating customers with courtesy and respect. Treat them like people first, with an empathetic and sympathetic approach, and you are on the path towards success.

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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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Digital Disruption – How is Your Company Responding?

Beyond the Arc

Are you and your company prepared to address digital disruption? Whether you’re ready to lead the charge or are lagging behind, digital disruption is likely to affect your business. What is digital disruption? To begin, what is digital or technology disruption? Savoy Stewart describes it as “Technology that displaces an established technology and shakes up.

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Heading Off a Social Media Influencer Crisis

NetBase

Influencer marketing is a major component for all brands with a social media presence, but it’s still a fairly new practice. As this tactic becomes more deeply entrenched, brands must be mindful of the potential for rogue influencers to cause a crisis. Here are some steps to avoid them. Know What Your Influencers Are About. It’s exciting to think of someone like Kylie Jenner or Taylor Swift sharing about your brand – especially knowing how many fans they have on social.

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Five New Year Resolutions for Your Contact Center

Talkdesk

As 2018 comes to a close and we prepare for a new year, three main themes will dominate the reader’s list for 2019: becoming a customer experience hero, improving both customer AND agent experience and improving operational efficiency. With that context, here are five suggested resolutions for contact center leaders in 2019. 1. Ditch your legacy on-prem system.

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Crowdsourcing a Review of Black Mirror:Bandersnatch

Brandwatch CX

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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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2018: The Year that CX Made Headlines

Confirmit

For an industry that’s been growing and evolving for years now, I think it’s fair to say that 2018 was the year when the world of Customer Experience was really recognized as a game-changer. CX professionals and providers of services and solutions that support the customer experience have known this for years, of course, but something has changed.

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What Every Enterprise Can Learn from European Entrepreneurs

NetBase

‘Going global’ is something every entrepreneur aspires to these days – at least those entrepreneurs planning to build a business that grows! And there are quite a few European entrepreneurs offering exceptional insight to inform that growth in any vertical, from billionaires to soon-to-be-success stories. We’ll explore a few here. The consumer market is booming in Europe, of course, as well as the United States, China, Japan and other lucrative, niche areas – so globalization is really any

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You’ve Still Got Mail

Forrester's Customer Insights

It has been more than two decades since AOL popularized email with the catchy “you’ve got mail” greeting. So ubiquitous was it in its heyday that it was the title of a romcom starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Since then, however, the way that people use the internet to communicate has evolved significantly. AOL […].

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Interview: Hootsuite’s Mark Abrami Shares 3 New Year’s Resolutions for Social Teams

Brandwatch CX

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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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Could these be your "Customer Experience" New Year's Resolutions?

Innovative CX

1. Small Steps. Don’t ‘boil the ocean’ when it comes to your CX initiatives. Instead, work on very focused actions that can have immediate impact like changing a policy or improving a process. 2. Listen. Commit to calling 5 customers a month. No need for an expensive and lengthy survey – pick up the phone and call them. Imagine their surprise when you tell them you’re following up on an order or checking on their satisfaction.

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RapportBoosting Tip – Fear & Worry

RapportBoost

Hi everyone! Dani Apgar here with your RapportBoosting tip which are bits of wisdom gleaned from our platform analyzing millions of chat & SMS conversations for brands. My tip for you today is on Fear and worry – these are strong emotions and can generate instinctive, possibly irrational or illogical reactions. Chat agents need to be alert to visitors subtle concerns and address them by being reassuring and building rapport.

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Ovum Market Radar: AI-Powered Marketing and Sales

Optimove

The Future of Martech. is Artificial Intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling marketing and sales organizations to engage customers with relevancy never before possible. Download this Ovum Market Radar report to learn more about the AI and machine learning revolution in marketing, and how it is “quickly and quietly reshaping the way marketers work and how they engage with prospects and customers.” Some of the key messages discussed in this report are: What AI-powered ma

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QA Software Features You Need To Be Shopping

Playvox

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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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The Best-Managed Contact Centers: #5 – They Have an Established, Collaborative Planning Process

Brad Cleveland Blog

Effective planning is a central theme in the best contact centers. A major objective of good planning is to get the right number of skilled people and supporting resources in place at the right times, doing the right things. But systematic planning accomplishes more than that.

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A look at wins from government customer experience in 2018 and forward to struggles in 2019

Qualtrics

All in all, 2018 was a pretty good year for federal agencies working to advance the customer agenda. It was packed with new learning events, new thought leadership, and the launch of government CX centers of excellence, for example. Other important influences either found footing, gained momentum, or added depth to the CX conversation. That’s all good for citizens, as agencies do more to understand expectations and learn the practices and techniques that lead to better experiences.

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The Best-Managed Contact Centers: #5 – They Have an Established, Collaborative Planning Process

Brad Cleveland Blog

Effective planning is a central theme in the best contact centers. A major objective of good planning is to get the right number of skilled people and supporting resources in place at the right times, doing the right things. But systematic planning accomplishes more than that.

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Workforce Profitability retains Customers

One Millimeter Mindset

A solid workforce profitability strategy ultimately retains customers. Does your organization or association even consider the value of this strategy? I didn’t think so. At least not yet. The majority of organizations view the individuals within their workforce as a group of individual, unrelated, often competitive departmental cost centers, rather than an interactive and collaborative group of revenue generators.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program