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5 Ways to Leverage OpenAI for Customer Experience

Customer Think

Back in 2017 when we served on the AI Advisory Committee for Execs In the Know, we wrote an article about the role of artificial intelligence in the future of business. Our article called out, rather presciently, the need for governance, standards, and.

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The beauty (and challenges) of European cultural differences in CX

eglobalis

The beauty (and challenges) of European cultural differences in CX The post The beauty (and challenges) of European cultural differences in CX appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Too much data, too few skills. To achieve personalization, there is another way

Adrian Swinscoe

Braze, the customer engagement software platform provider, recently released their third annual Global Customer Engagement Review. The research, by surveying 1,500 marketing executives across 14 markets, […] The post Too much data, too few skills. To achieve personalization, there is another way first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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How experience guarantees can help you win more customers

Inside Customer Service

Why are customers loyal to certain companies? People buy from Amazon because is it consistently solves one problem quickly and conveniently: "I need to buy __." You can fill in the blank with nearly every product imaginable. Whatever it is, Amazon has made it as easy as possible to get it fast. Starbucks has legions of loyal customers because it offers the most convenient way to get a caffeinated coffee drink.

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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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Reframing the B2B Engagement Journey – CX On ECXO Executive Sessions

ECXO

ECXO Executives sessions1 In partnership with SAS, the European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) presents Reframing the B2B Engagement Journey. We are excited to invite you to join our live conversation with Amir Sohrabi, Emma, and Carlos on April 26th at 2 PM CET or 1 PM GMT. Digital and Human engagement are where your company experience starts; let’s learn from the best companies how to do that right with your company flavor.

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The Discipline of Listening

Customer Think

Our brains make it difficult, if not impossible, to fully or accurately comprehend what our Communication Partners wish to convey.

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Friendly Fraud: How Everyday Fraudsters Pose a Threat to eCommerce

Execs In The Know

As eCommerce grows, so too does its vulnerability to friendly fraud. Underneath the glowing possibility of introducing your product or service to a much wider audience, there lies an underbelly – one populated by clever, tech-savvy fraudsters who use complex schemes and strategies to exploit businesses, often with massive consequences. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at what exactly friendly fraud is, how it happens, and why you should be especially aware of it as a CX leader i

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The Cross-Cultural Conundrum: Embracing European Diversity and Complexity in Customer Experience

ECXO

Navigating the Complexities of Customer Experience Across European Cultures Article source here : CX maturity models in Europe vary from country to country. Some have barely started or are still in the early stages of development. Others are more advanced in adopting, implementing and optimising customer-centric strategies. The reasons why some countries are accelerating at a different pace are as rich and varied as the continent.

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A Formula For A Winning Digital Transformation Journey in 2023

Customer Think

Depending on the industry, “digital transformation” might signify many things. Delivering customer-facing mobile experiences may be a priority for certain businesses as they modernize their core systems to increase efficiency. A digital transformation journey, however, is a complex procedure with a beginning and an end.

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Every company needs to be thinking about generative AI–here’s why

Zendesk

Even if you’re not familiar with generative AI or large language models (LLMs), you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT, the remarkably human chatbot that can generate surprisingly conversational answers, passable college essays—even dad jokes. While generative AI and LLMs aren’t exactly new, the excitement around ChatGPT has catapulted them to the forefront of global consciousness, launched an R&D “space race,” and sparked frenzied discussion about their potential impacts on information discovery

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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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Customer Support Software: The Easy Path To SLA Management

TeamSupport

Any customer support team receives a range of customer requests throughout the day. These can include requests for adding new users, “how-to” questions, password retrieval, and more. The requests are often recurring, and a technology-based customer support tool is needed to implement an agent workflow that allows easy and efficient management of each customer request.

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Customer Service Escalation: When Human Service is Most Valuable

CSAT.AI

Omnichannel options, automation and self-service have made it possible for brands like yours to serve more customers in less time. That’s good news for your budgets and your customers. However, it’s important to effectively escalate the customer issues that need more attention. Whether from self-serve to your agents or from your agent to a manager or other department, a plan for customer service escalation is an important part of your successful support strategy.

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Why delivering meaningful value is key to winning over B2B buyers

Customer Think

With the average B2B purchasing journey taking approximately 350 days, it’s no wonder it is synonymous with being both long and laborious. But it doesn’t need to be. And the complexities that may at first seem like bumps in the road, should instead be viewed as opportunities to create a better experience.

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Experience the future of Zendesk AI at Relate

Zendesk

Designing the best customer experiences and providing customer service is a day-in and day-out job. Building relationships, practicing patience, righting a wrong, and figuring out how to streamline operations all represent the hard work that our customers do again and again with their customers. (This remains true with the advent of ChatGPT and generative AI.

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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.

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Queue Management Best Practices for Contact Centers

Fonolo

Looking for ways to optimize your call center queue management and improve customer satisfaction? If not, you probably should be! Customers hate waiting on hold. PRWeb reports that 32% of customers are not willing to wait on hold at all. Eighty per cent say they want quicker responses from companies. And 69% of customers say they’ve abandoned a brand after a single bad customer service experience.

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Product News – March 2023

Lumoa

Lumoa Product News for March 2023 ???? Hey everyone! Lovely seeing you again, back with more exciting Lumoa updates! We have had a doozy of a month, with lots of features that we think will make Lumoa better for you. Let’s get started! A new way to invite others to Lumoa Lumoa just made it easier to bring in your colleagues, and have them start taking actions on the voice of your customers.

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What’s in a Name? Three Tips for Setting a Powerful Customer Advisory Board Theme

Customer Think

When creating and designing a customer advisory board (CAB) initiative, one aspect that tends to get overlooked or undervalued by CAB managers and executive sponsors is the creation of the program theme.

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FOMO is a Powerful Marketing Tool. Are You Making the Most of It?

Beyond Philosophy

FOMO, or fear of missing out, is a powerful marketing tool. The acronym denotes how we do things because we are worried about regretting not doing them later. In addition to being the subject of several research projects in psychology, it’s also a powerful marketing tool—if you know how to leverage it. I witnessed the ubiquity of FOMO while watching the latest Avatar movie.

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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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Customer Service Life Updates – April 2022

Customer Service Life

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay One of my favorite things about writing and speaking about customer experience, customer service, and contact centers is the opportunity to connect with others in the industry and talk about topics that are near and dear to my heart. In this post, I’ll share a quick rundown of some of these recent conversations along with a handful of articles I’ve had the privilege of contributing to.

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114: How Leaders Can Be Better Storytellers

The DiJulius Group

Capturing an audience’s attention can be tricky, particularly in a corporate setting. If you can master the art of storytelling, delivering your message becomes more enjoyable for everyone. If you’re a fan of movies or TV shows, you’ll recognize good storytelling as soon as you hear it. They’re captivating. In a corporate setting, as a. Read Full Article The post 114: How Leaders Can Be Better Storytellers appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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How Automating Contact Centers Promotes Growth While Cutting Costs

Customer Think

Decades-high inflation and concerns of a recession have business leaders looking for ways to pursue cost-efficient growth in 2023. AI-driven automation can be a solution. Specifically, utilizing AI automation platforms in contact centers can drive down costs and improve customer experiences.

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30 Customer Experience Survey Question Examples for Better Business Results

cxservice360

Creating a successful business requires a deep understanding of your customers’ needs and experiences. One way to do this is through customer experience research, which The post 30 Customer Experience Survey Question Examples for Better Business Results appeared first on CXService360.

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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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Comm100 Queue Management – The Solution to Long Wait Times & Frustrated Customers

Comm100

In today’s fast-paced world, customers demand quick and efficient service. They want to interact with businesses on their own terms and get their queries resolved as soon as possible. Long wait times and uncertainty in the queueing process can quickly turn a positive customer experience into a negative one. This is where Comm100 Queue Management comes in, helping support teams to streamline their queueing process and enhance customer satisfaction.

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World Class CX Organizations Remove Personal Interpretations

The DiJulius Group

“We are a customer-first organization” “Treat customers the way you want to be treated” “Exceed customer’s expectations” “Going above and beyond is our standard” “We deliver genuine hospitality” Leaders love to throw around platitudes when it comes to customer experience, and all of these are great mantras. By themselves, however, they are just platitudes and.

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[Research Round-Up] B2B Highlights From “The CMO Survey” – March 2023

Customer Think

Source: "The CMO Survey" (Christine Moorman, 2023) (This month's Research Round-Up is devoted entirely to the March 2023 edition of "The CMO Survey." This research has been conducted semi-annually since 2008, and it consistently provides.

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Brand Integrity and Your Ideal Customer

ClearAction

Brand Integrity and Your Ideal Customer Lynn Hunsaker Ideal Customer Profiles can be your key to sales velocity, retention, recurring revenue, and CAGR (compound average growth rate). Have you also considered ICPs as your key to cost containment as well as EPS (earnings per share) growth? Selling to the right type of customers makes everything better.

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.

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Do More With Less: 3 Effective Strategies to Maximize Your Contact Center’s Potential

Myra Golden Media

A whopping one-third of contact centers have laid off employees in the last 12 months, reducing their headcount by about 33%. Despite fewer resources and fewer employees, contact centers are expected to achieve the same or better results. With customer expectations rising and budgets tightening, contact centers are under pressure to deliver excellent service while reducing costs.

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Behavioral economics expert Melina Palmer on unlocking the science of consumer behavior

Intercom

The majority of our purchasing decisions are made by the subconscious brain. Do you know how to communicate with it? For many years, economics followed the tenet of the economic man – a theory that assumes individuals are rational in their decision-making and make logical choices based on cost-benefit analyses. That, of course, turned out not to be the case.

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Customer Experience Maturity: Part I

Customer Think

Customer Experience (CX) is not a “switch” that companies simply flip to the “on” position. This is not a binary condition, where a firm either is or is not customer-centric.

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What is the Meaning of Quality to Customers?

Experience Investigators

Quality is an interesting word. We toss it around when discussing products, describing them as “high quality” or lacking it altogether. But what really is the meaning of quality? According to the dictionary, here is the definition. character with respect to fineness, or grade of excellence: food of poor quality; silks of fine quality.” OR “high grade; superiority; excellence: wood grain of quality.” OR “native excellence or superiority.” Where does quali

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.