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How to set expectations with customer service reps

Inside Customer Service

I love the movie, Office Space. It's a comedy set in a soul-sucking office. There's a famous scene where an employee named Peter is scolded for not putting the new cover sheet on his TPS report. It’s hilariously awkward. It also highlights a problem with expectation setting. Bill, Peter’s boss, relied on a memo to set the new cover sheet expectation.

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How to get 2.7mln ‘Mom & Pop’ stores to adopt a new distributive trade platform – Interview with Prashaant Huria of Unilever

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Prashaant Huria, who is the Chief Technology Officer for Unilever’s Digital Distributive Trade business. Prashaant and I connected after he spoke at […] The post How to get 2.7mln ‘Mom & Pop’ stores to adopt a new distributive trade platform – Interview with Prashaant Huria of Unilever first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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The Ticket: Unlocking customer service’s strategic potential with AI

Intercom

With AI taking over more manual tasks and freeing teams up to focus on more meaningful work, customer service roles are becoming increasingly strategic. For too long, many businesses have viewed customer service as a cost center. But now, with AI and automation increasingly handling transactional queries, customer service teams are evolving into strategic value drivers with the ability to provide more consultative guidance, deliver key insights, and directly impact customer adoption and retentio

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Digital Marketing Statistics 2023: How Your Strategy Measures Up

NGDATA

Digital marketing has seen substantial growth, with ad spending projected to increase from $522.5 billion in 2021 to $835.2 billion by 2026. Mobile marketing, a significant component, is expected to grow from 13.7% to 16.9% of marketing budgets in the US by 2023. Social media advertising, a key driver, is predicted to double its global spending to $262 billion by 2028.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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You control your customer experience, not AI

Intercom

Fearing a loss of control is a common theme that comes up when we talk to customer service leaders about their AI implementation strategy. Plenty of folks are curious about AI and eager to put it to the test. Many leaders are largely convinced about the efficiency gains it’ll bring, but some don’t trust that an AI Agent can deliver the same quality service that a human can.

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Fast Simon Launches Personalization AI Embeddings to Further Improve Conversion

Customer Think

Personalization AI Embeddings and Sophisticated AI Models Significantly Improve Conversion for Recommendations, Search and Collections on ECommerce Sites

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Movable Ink Expands Da Vinci AI Product Offerings and Introduces Creative IQ, Messaging IQ, and Performance IQ

Customer Think

Curating content for each customer to generate revenue lift and deliver deeper customer relationships

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Experts Say Composable Banking Builds Better Digital Customer Experiences

NGDATA

Composable banking enhances digital customer experiences by utilizing modular components rather than monolithic systems, allowing financial institutions to quickly adapt to market changes and integrate new services seamlessly. This approach improves operational efficiency, customer engagement, and supports innovation. Examples of successful implementation include Varo Bank and MoneyLion, which have leveraged composable banking to offer personalized financial products, demonstrating the practical

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4 Powerful Ways to Promote Your Customer Academy & Inspire Long-term Learning

Gainsight

People naturally harbor a sense of caution toward the unknown. Microwaves. Emails. Cryptocurrency. The potential gains, like drastically reducing cooking times, don’t matter at first. Instead, there’s a healthy dose of skepticism, with most people waiting for broader adoption before incorporating these new things —however outlandish they may seem at the time—into their lives.

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Five reasons why identity resolution will replace third-party cookies

NGDATA

With the phase-out of third-party cookies by 2025, marketers are adopting identity resolution, which uses first- and zero-party data to identify users. This method leverages behavioral data for personalized marketing, enhances revenue through targeted follow-ups, boosts mailing list growth, and improves performance marketing by converting anonymous traffic into known users.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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4 golden tickets to capture CX ROI

1 to 1

This article was written as part of a partnership between 1to1 Media and the European Customer Experience Organization. Talk to someone like Lynn Hunsaker and she’ll tell you there’s some 24 metrics to convey the value of the customer experience. She’s dissected and painstakingly diagrammed each one. When all the Venns, funnels, PowerPoints, histograms, flowcharts, and scatter plots are set aside, however, something remarkable becomes evident: While there are two dozen CX ROI metrics to track, c

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Legacy banks should utilise digital transformation to stay competitive

NGDATA

Legacy banks are under pressure from digital-first neobanks that offer convenience and modern services. To stay competitive, traditional banks must embrace digital transformation by adopting AI and mobile-first strategies. This shift is crucial to meet evolving customer expectations and capitalize on the growth of digital banking. However, they face challenges like integrating new technologies with legacy systems and high costs.

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Unlocking Success in Manufacturing through Customer Experience Trends: Insights from aheadCRM’s Report

SugarCRM

What we'll Cover: Key to Success in the Manufacturing Industries: Insights from the AHEADCRM Report The manufacturing industry is undergoing a significant transformation driven by rapid technological advancements, evolving customer expectations, and emerging customer experience trends. In a collaborative effort to shed light on the evolving dynamics of the manufacturing sector, SugarCRM has partnered with aheadCRM to produce an in-depth report exploring the industry’s latest trends and c

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A Massive Effect On Decision-Making is the Mood You Are In, Here’s Why A Master Class: Unlocking The Psychology of Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: How you feel in a moment, or your overall mood significantly influences decision-making. Today, we dig into moods and motivational biases that influence experience outcomes. More than one thing happens in a customer experience , from individual heuristics (i.e., shortcuts in our thinking) to biases or other psychological concepts.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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The rebrand is dead. Welcome to the age of the brand ‘refresh’

NGDATA

Companies are moving from complete rebrands to brand refreshes to avoid high costs and risks. Minor updates, such as changes in color or typography, are marketed as significant refreshes, helping maintain consumer trust while keeping the brand relevant. This approach is seen as an evolution rather than a drastic change, as illustrated by Tropicana’s costly rebranding failure.

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