June, 2013

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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

'Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). Price was $600 million, which is roughly in line with the 8x revenue paid for ExactTarget and Eloqua recently. (Neolane announced $58 million revenue in 2012 and has been growing around 40% per year, which would yield about $80 million 2013 revenue.

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ProProfs Wins 2013 Academics’ Choice Smart Media Award For Mind-Building Excellence

ProProfs

'ProProfs Training Maker recently won the Academics’ Choice Smart Media Award 2013 for excellence in online education and training. The coveted award is an insignia of eminence, in providing quality education through mind building media and toys, granted by the Advisory Board of Academics’ Choice comprising of academicians from prestigious institutes such as Princeton and Harvard.

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A Recipe for Targeted Customer Service

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'Plato said knowledge is the food of the soul. For companies aiming to engage intelligently with their customers, knowledge is the appetizer, main course, and dessert. Without knowledge about their customers, companies can''t understand their needs, preferences, or buying histories and therefore are unable to deliver the most optimal service strategies as a result of that deficit.

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My Take: Salesforce Acquires ExactTarget, Continues Marketing Automation Industry Consolidation

Customer Experience Matrix

'I''ve been in meetings all day and just emerged to hear that Salesforce.com purchased ExactTarget. Having a had a few moments to digest the news (and some lunch), here are a few thoughts: - Good move for Salesforce. They have been lacking large-scale email capability, which all types of sales and marketing departments require. So this fills a gap in their core product offerings.

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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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SAP Buys hybris e-commerce Software to Build Its Version of Real Time Customer Management

Customer Experience Matrix

'Fresh on the heels of yesterday''s blockbuster ExactTarget / Salesforce.com deal , SAP today announced acquisition of e-commerce vendor hybris software. Since Salesforce said yesterday that other companies also wanted to buy ExactTarget, it seemed possible that SAP had lost the deal and purchased hybris as a second choice. After listening to the analyst conference call (available at (303) 590-3030 passcode 4623918), I still can''t say.

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Mintigo InterestBase Harvests Web and Social Data for Marketing and Sales

Customer Experience Matrix

'Every marketer recognizes that the Web and social media could be rich sources of information about customers and prospects. But harvesting that data has been frustratingly difficult. Doing it yourself takes multiple tools to gather different kinds of information, and then patching the result together into personal profiles. Most tools do little more than keyword searches, which only capture a fraction of the potential information and only cover keywords that marketers know in advance are import

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New: Create quizzes with optional or mandatory questions

ProProfs

'A while back we introduced the skip and go back feature , using which you can allow learners to skip a certain quiz question or go back to a previous one. Building on it we have released yet another feature – Optional Questions, which provides you greater flexibility while creating a quiz. With the new “Optional Questions” feature you can exercise greater control while creating quiz questions by either making all the questions optional or mandatory for learners to answer, dur

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GetApp: #1 Cloud Apps Marketplace Gives ProProfs A Rave Review

ProProfs

'We are delighted that ProProfs Reviews have been pouring from all corners of the web. The recent one is from Get App – “the #1 independent Cloud Apps Marketplace that helps businesses to discover, compare, review and purchase the best B2B apps” We would like to share this awesome review of our online training software with you and would love it if you could share your ProProfs experience by commenting on the article.

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Sharing your feedback for essay questions is a few clicks away

ProProfs

'We recently added a new feature which helps you provide valuable feedback to the essay answers of your students. Now, you can make a personalized comment to the essay answers of students, which helps them improve their understanding of a particular topic. Earlier we had introduced the essay grading feature, which allowed you to easily assign points to essay question types.

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Celebrating Customer Champions

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'Sometimes employees do stupid things that negatively affect the customer experience. And sometimes the leadership of those companies can flip a potential disaster into a positive public relations coup, gaining positive customer sentiment as a result. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Preparing Your Culture and Network for BYOD

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'Last year had experts calling BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend, "the hottest trend of 2012." This year as companies start to embrace this ever-growing culture, they''re now figuring out how to manage the BYOD''s security and application delivery, as well as employee productivity. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Social Customer Care Means Putting People First

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'Just as brands need consumers to purchase their goods and services to stay afloat in today''s competitive market, social networks would be nothing more than online ghost towns without the people who populate these pages with their thoughts and experiences. But, while social media offers consumers an outlet for their opinions, such channels also open up the opportunity to build relationships that exist beyond the company''s traditional offerings and cultivate the strong trust and loyalty behind

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Personalizing the Mobile Customer Experience - Think customers.

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Customer Experience Innovation From The Outside In

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'Firms crave differentiation. But the truth is that even companies with dedicated time and budget for customer experience innovation focus most of their efforts on two things - whatever their competitors are doing and whatever the latest technology enables them to do. When companies blindly add shiny new features or trendy technologies to their mix of customer experiences, they''re innovating just for innovation''s sake.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Hilton's Investment in Customer Passion

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'Way back in January I spoke at the Luxury FirstLook conference put on by Luxury Daily in New York (a terrific event, by the way). Several of the other speakers intrigued me. One, in particular, gave a speech that I immediately wanted to bring to attendees at our own Customer Experience Forum: John T. A. Vanderslice, the global head of luxury and lifestyle brands at Hilton (those brands being Waldorf Astoria and Conrad).

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Why We Can't Sit Still

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'Marketers and IT professionals constantly express their concern over Big Data, yet they neglect to realize that consumers are being bombarded by information, as well. From Facebook and Twitter, to email and text messages, the average human cannot seem to escape the ever-present flow of words and images. Whether we''re reading articles or watching YouTube videos, one bit of content usually trickles into another until we have distanced ourselves so far from our initial intent that we cannot even

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Porsche Invests in Customer Satisfaction - Think customers: The.

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Make Social Part of the Overall Strategy

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'Social media has changed the way we communicate. It has also altered the way we get information from our peers rather than the more official channels. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Hoffman's Hot Seat: The Business Value of Word of Mouth Index

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'1to1 Media''s Tom Hoffman speaks with Larry Freed, President and CEO of ForeSee, about the company''s impetus for developing the Word of Mouth Index and the business benefits it can provide to companies that use it. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Facebook's Influence on Interactive Loyalty - Think customers: The.

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Investing in OmniCommerce

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'Customers'' buying journeys have changed from the linear ones of the past. Instead, many customers are hopping from on channel to another while considering a purchase. In fact, it has become very common for a customer to start the buying journey online, researching a product or service and making a shortlist of companies he is interested in doing business with.

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Forrester's Harley Manning: Audi of America Revs Up the Customer Experience

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'When I talk to people at automotive companies, they''re always interested in what Audi is doing. In part, because Audi is Volkswagen Group''s (VW Group''s) main profit driver, contributing about 40 percent to VW Group earnings. And in part it''s because when you talk to Audi owners -- like John Vanderslice, global head of Hilton''s luxury and lifestyle brands -- you get an earful of how much they love the brand.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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Take the Network out of Social Network to Build Real Relationships

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'I spent the past two days at the Corporate Social Media Summit in New York City, hearing from companies like Dunkin'' Donuts, Chobani, Adobe, General Mills and others about how they have built and continue to build their social media strategies. While every speaker provided insight on how to maximize each social channel- what made my heart skip a tweet was Adobe Director of Strategy Jeff Feldman''s concept that social doesn''t equal social networks.

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Having the Guts to Take Risks, and the Willingness to Invent on Behalf of Customers

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'I recently came across an interview with Amazon Chairman and CEO Jeff Bezos, in which he was quoted this: "What''s dangerous is not to evolve.You have to have a willingness to fail. It''s not enough to just listen to customers; you have to invent on their behalf.". There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Hoffman's Hot Seat: Bracing for the "Customerpocalypse"

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'1to1 Media''s Tom Hoffman speaks with Alan Trefler, the founder and CEO of Pegasystems about his forthcoming book entitled "Customerpocalypse" where Trefler describes an emerging generation of customers who want to control the conversation with companies and how the empowered customer poses a real threat to the future viability of many organizations.

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Building Brand Advocacy and Customer Contentment

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'Though many companies are product or service driven, customers remain at the heart of every operation. In most instances, consumers have numerous options when it comes to the companies they interact with, and in today''s increasingly competitive market, price no longer reigns as the deciding factor--customer service trumps all. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.