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3 Essential Lessons Leaders Must Embrace to Transform Experience

Customer Bliss

I learned about humanity in business by watching my dad in his Buster Brown shoe store in Des Plaines, Illinois. With that in mind, I want to share three lessons that every leader must embrace to transform experience and earn the right to customer-driven growth. Honor your customers’ lives.

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Why We Think Things Are Good When They Are Bad

Beyond Philosophy

Many of the cult members were all in, leaving their spouses, selling all their possessions, and eventually turning up in a field in rural Illinois to wait for the Rapture. The messages told her that the aliens were coming to take them, the “true believers,” away in their spaceship on a specific date.

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6 Trends Shaping the Future of Shopper Marketing

Customer Think

In 1929 a Kroger store manager living in southern Illinois named Michael Cullen envisioned a fresh take on grocery retailing when he declared “What would happen if we turned the shop around and let people collect all the items they wanted themselves?”

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The 20 most inspirational quotes of Andrew Tate

The Customer Service Blog

The son of chess master Emory Tate, Andrew was born in 1986, in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Luton, England. Andrew Tate is an American-British former kickboxer, who is now a hugely successful businessman and internet personality.

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Leading Your Customer to the Right Choice

Beyond Philosophy

We discussed this concept in more detail on our Intuitive Customer podcast when we had a special guest, Dr. Jeff Parker, PhD, the Assistant Professor of Marketing from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Dr. Parker has published many research articles on the psychological principles behind menu design.

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The role of AI in making CX more accessible and inclusive

Zendesk

The Big Five tech companies recently announced a partnership with the University of Illinois on the Speech Accessibility Project , but AI company Voiceitt already has a beta app. Voice AI for real-time translation: Imagine being able to speak with any customer in their own language—or even their own dialect.

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Drive to 15 – How Minimum Wage Increases Will Impact Businessess & Contact Centers

Taylor Reach Group

As many of you have heard, Illinois, Ontario have announced anticipated minimum wage increases to $15/hour. If you look at this from a business perspective, specifically small business, it is a substantial increase on a percentage basis – Ontario:32% and Illinois 36%, to be exact. Impact on Small Business.