April, 2013

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Phonetics vs. LVCSR: Under the Hood of Speech Analytics

Callminer

Two approaches to speech recognition are commonly used in conversational analytics solutions: phonetics and LVCSR, each with their own pros and cons.

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Awesome Infographic: Best Practices For Creating An Online Course

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To create an online course that engages and informs, you must remember that there are 3 important parts to a course. First comes the Introduction – where you introduce yourself and set the tone for the course. The second is the Instruction – here you present course overview and lay down detailed objectives and tasks to learners. Last but not the least, is the Conclusion – this is the time when you provide performance analysis and ask for learner feedback.

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Making Yourself the Captain of Customer Experience

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'Ultimately, any employee that has an interaction with a customer is responsible for some aspect of that customer''s experience. In great companies, a focus on the customer is something that everyone takes to heart, whether it''s a janitor, a receptionist, a contact center agent, or the CEO. Yesterday I was reminded of a heartwarming example of this from someone who strives to do right by the customer not because they''re told to or that it''s part of some corporate doctrine but because he simpl

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My Blue Blouse

Customer Service Training

I was in an outlet store in the USA, Banana Republic. I tried on what was the only shirt in the shop in a particular shade of blue.

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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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Video Tutorial: How to create online polls with ProProfs Poll Software

ProProfs

'ProProfs Polls is an easy-to-use, effective poll software, which can be accessed from anywhere at anytime; and supports powerfully simple features for creating online polls and gathering instant feedback. Educators, online marketers and HR managers can easily set up engaging and interactive online polls for gathering feedback from their learners, customers or employees using ProProfs Poll software.

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Breaking News: ProProfs crosses one million registered users – The Next Web

ProProfs

'The Next Web reported today that there are more than a million users building and sharing knowledge through ProProfs. We are amazed and humbled to share this special news with you and we thank all our users who have made this possible. We at ProProfs take great pride in being able to help our large user base teach and learn better. We’re looking ahead to working hard each day to bring our tools and online education platform to more across the world.

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Mobile Marketing: 5 Tips for Converting Attention Into Intention

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'Last week while attending the Inbound Marketing Summit in New York, I had the good fortune to sit in on some terrific presentations from a variety of industry thought leaders. One of them, Rick Bakas, the founder of Bakas Media, gave a great presentation on best practices for building a mobile-focused inbound marketing strategy. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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The Social Evolution of Customer Service

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'While social networks have been around since the now forgotten days of MySpace and Friendster, today''s most popular sites continue to gain momentum as social media evolves. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest have grown into engagement platforms that allow consumers to interact with their friends, family, and favorite brands regularly. But, as these social interactions begin to blossom, companies have begun to value and utilize social tools as part of their customer care efforts.

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Investing in Customer Loyalty

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'Customer loyalty is precious and highly sought by organizations. Business leaders know that loyal customers are not only going to come back to do business with that brand, but will also likely recommend that firm to their friends, family, and social media connections. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Updated: Scheduled Maintenance on May 3rd, 2013 from 9pm to 10pm EST – for 1 hour

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'We are conducting scheduled maintenance on May 3rd, 2013 from 9pm to 10pm EST – for 1 hour. ( Convert to your local time ) . The maintenance session is being undertaken to upgrade our internal servers and improve the grading of essay type questions. This will result in a quicker response and load time for your quizzes and courses. It will also offer you more options around open response questions such as feedback, grading etc.

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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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The Changing Role of the CMO

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'The success of marketers everywhere is increasingly tied to the use of analytics and Big Data, with the goal of correlating campaign success to real business results. No longer are marketing departments simply thought of as creative machines, as their responsibilities now reach a broadening scope of channels and tasks that range from tying social media success to business ROI and delivering mobile messaging where it matters most in the customer''s buying journey.

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Stop Watching the Stock Ticker and Start Improving Customer Experience

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'As an avid personal investor I''m often appalled by cable shows that report on the markets as if they were non-stop sporting events. Seriously, how many people care how the NASDAQ or the Dow are doing on any given minute of any given day? But apparently there are enough day traders out there that noon reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange are as compelling as half-time reports during the NFL playoffs.

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The Top 10 Financially Promising Brands

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'The best brands represent more than just a purchase to their customers. Instead, the most successful organizations are able to really connect with customers who understand what the brand really stands for. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Leveraging Tablets for Banking Needs

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'With different devices available, today''s customers are interacting with the brands they do business with in a multitude of ways. Further, devices are no longer used solely for a single purpose, but are many times having multiple uses. 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, and Terrence Sheflin

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.

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Connecting to the Mobile Connected Customer

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'As consumer mobile adoption continues to increase, people''s expectations of how companies should connect and engage with them have also changed. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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The 2013 Gartner & 1to1 Media CRM Excellence Winners to be Announced on May 1

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'Each year, the Gartner & 1to1 Media CRM Excellence Awards are given to end-user organizations that have implemented successful customer strategy and CRM initiatives. These awards spotlight excellence among organizations that take a customer-centric approach to improving their business performance and have proven results from doing so. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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The Rewards of Digital Loyalty

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More and more marketers today are incorporating their loyalty programs and campaigns as part of the overall customer experience. They're replacing "channel" with "customer," analyzing Big Data to drive individual loyalty programs that stick, and leveraging gaming mechanics to engage customers in new and innovative ways to drive loyalty. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Avoid the "All Listen And No Action" VoC Program Trap

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'Voice of the customer data is alluring. Once you start to collect customer feedback, there''s always something more you could be gathering. You think: What else can I learn? What else are customers saying and thinking? Where else are they saying it? You want to know more. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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You Asked, Forrester Answered: Questions About Customer Experience Design

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'Of the six disciplines in Forrester''s customer experience maturity model, design is probably the least understood. It''s is not taught in most business schools (although this is starting to change at institutions like Stanford and the University of Toronto). It''s also not widely practiced in most companies outside of specialized groups that focus on digital touchpoints.

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The Viability of Walmart's Customer Delivery Scheme

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Walmart is considering a relatively new approach to same-day package delivery for online customers to help it gain an edge on pure online retailers such as Amazon where store customers would serve as couriers to deliver items to the homes of online customers in return for store credits. Although the concept raises a host of legal, regulatory, and privacy issues, it wouldn't be the first time that a company used a crowdsourced delivery network.

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Follow me on Thursday for Tips on Data, Marketing, and Reaching the Perpetually Connected Customer

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'You know the importance of aggregating, analyzing, and acting on your voice of the customer data, but with continually emerging channels, VOC practices become increasingly challenging to carry out. An organization with cross-departmental ownership of VOC, sophisticated data collection and analytical methods in place, and the commitment from the C-suite to communicate the importance of acting on VOC must be in place for real results to occur.

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The Show(rooming) Must Go On!

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Though showrooming continues to draw much discontent from brick-and-mortar retailers across the board, many have conjured up their own ways to fight back. Just last week, one Reddit user posted an image (also below) from the window of an unnamed store. The sign warns customers that the store will begin charging anyone who enters the establishment a $5 fee.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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CRM Excellence Winners: Settting the Standards

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'Today we announce the winners of the 2013 Gartner & 1to1 Media CRM Excellence Awards. I''ve been with 1to1 Media since the inception of the awards and have seen it evolve into what it has become today: An international program that recognizes customer experience leaders--companies that have taken chances and have overcome adversity to advance their customer-centric practices forward.

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Do One-Day Promotions Build Lasting Loyalty?

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'Nobody likes writing that check to Uncle Sam, making April 15 an unpopular day with workers across America. Last Monday several organizations tried to bring some cheer into taxpayers'' day with a number of offers. Across the nation, Arby''s was giving away curly fries, while Cinnabon was offering two free bites. A list of offers featured on Forbes includes special tax day-themed cocktails, a New York restaurant that''s picking the tax on diners'' bills, and even special holiday packages.

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When Inconsistency Leads to Inconvenience

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'No matter where you choose to sit on a train, there will be a time when each seat goes backward or forward. But, just because every car''s situated in this fashion does not mean that the rail line''s policies and practices should be, too. When it comes to Amtrak''s ticketing procedures, some methods have taken off with great speed and determination, while others have stalled out at the station.

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Hoffman's Hot Seat: Matching Perceived Customer Behavior with Reality

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'1to1 Media''s Tom Hoffman speaks with Matthew Storm, Director, Innovation & Solutions at NICE Systems, about different ways that companies can verify customer behaviors such as an intent to recommend a company or their plans to stop doing business with an organization based on sentiment they may have expressed in a survey or in social media. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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How to Easily Navigate Crypto Accounting in the Web3 Era

Speaker: Aaron Jacob, VP of Accounting Solutions & Reagan Cook, GTM Lead

Are you struggling to navigate the complexities and challenges that come with crypto accounting? 🤔 This new webinar will cover everything businesses need to know to get started with crypto accounting after incorporating crypto into their business models! Industry experts Aaron Jacob and Reagan Cook of TaxBit will thoroughly explore the prevalent operational hurdles encountered by accounting teams when interacting with crypto on the books, and detail how software solutions can effectively