Calabrio

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

With 2016 behind us, we’re wondering what we can glean from the flurry of predictions, prophecies and prognostications for 2017. According to Gartner’s annual CMO spend survey, as customer experience becomes the key to gaining a competitive advantage, CMOs will spend more on tech to support their CX goals.

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Alida

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Earlier this week, more than 400 professionals in marketing, customer experience, innovation and research gathered in Chicago for the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit. The two-day annual conference featured keynotes and presentations by some of the world’s leading customer-centric brands.

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BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Welcome to the experience economy, where a winning customer engagement strategy sets your business apart from your competition. 77% percent of American consumers say that the customer experience is a critical factor in their purchasing decision, even if they have a strong affinity to a brand or product. Boosting revenue.

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Kustomer

OCTOBER 28, 2022

With this in mind, brands now realize that customer service is directly tied to their revenue, and are modernizing applications. How Can You Provide Differentiated Customer Service? By ignoring customer service, brands are missing out on market share and revenue. 1) Take a True Omnichannel Approach to Modernize Customer Service.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In a global survey of executives by McKinsey that analyzed the level of investment in digital customer service, it has been found: “During the pandemic, consumers have moved dramatically toward online channels , and companies and industries have responded in turn. 70 per interaction. Live chat is at the core of this movement.

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ProProfs Chat

JULY 27, 2018

Customer engagement happens to be a very popular buzzword among most marketing and customer success teams these days. Be a part of any planning and strategy making discussion, and it’s almost impossible not to find a mention of phrases like customer service , customer engagement and customer experience.

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Comm100

JUNE 15, 2022

Digital customer engagement is always evolving. Just as live chat was a technological leap over telephone communication and is proving to be the most essential of all channels, chatbots are the latest technological milestone in customer support. Provide cost-effective 24/7 support to improve customer engagement.

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Amity

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Editor’s note: This is a living document, and our goal is to update it regularly with the best resources around customer success. The Best Customer Success Resources of 2016. Surely, you are staying up to date on the latest customer success trends – did someone say “customer marketing”?

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Alida

MARCH 10, 2017

In fact, customer needs should come before the demands of shareholders. Twitter, according to Solis, demonstrates what happens when you ignore customers. Instead, in 2016, the company launched live-streaming and “Moments” —features that were low on users’ wish lists. Twitter lost its way and CX suffered,” says Solis.

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Alida

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Many smart companies use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to measure how well they’re meeting the needs and expectations of their customers. Enterprise messaging software company Slack, for instance, treats NPS as a leading indicator of growth, using it to improve its interactions with customers and prospects.

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Calabrio

MAY 25, 2016

However, many of these bots have received lackluster reviews, further reinforcing the fact that companies should only embrace chat bots as an additional way for a brand and customer to communicate, and never as a replacement for human interaction. In fact, 51.7% The post To Bot or Not to Bot? appeared first on Calabrio.

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Lumoa

AUGUST 23, 2021

New ways of interacting with customers A recent study from CMO found that 84% of companies were using social media for brand building and more than 54% have used it for customer retention. Another trend to emerge throughout the increasing digital interactions has been the use of video.

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Kerry Bodine

JANUARY 4, 2017

IXDA Interaction 17. Center for Customer Engagement’s 2017 Summit on Customer Engagement. March 6 – 8, 2016. NICE’s Interactions 2017. And, as the title of this post implies, I’ll be keeping this list up to date on a rolling basis. Am I missing an upcoming event? Please let me know

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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

While these solutions will have the same ambition, CCaaS will focus on managing customer interactions intelligently by connecting to cloud-based applications that are chargeable on a monthly basis. Omnichannel also allows organizations to better understand their customers, thus prompting a greater investment in it on their part.

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Alida

MARCH 21, 2018

Similarly, customer experience (CX) and market researchers must look beyond just fixing individual transactions and in-the-moment interactions with consumers to effectively demonstrate the return-on-investment (ROI) of their research efforts to the executive suite. Relationships bring better customer experiences.

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TechSee

MAY 1, 2018

AI in utilities is also playing an increasingly central role in customer-facing interactions. While more than 90% of utility companies’ overall budget is dedicated to infrastructure and other operating costs, with less than 10% allocated towards customer service, the picture is very different when it comes to AI.

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OpinionLab

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

As I spoke with customers and analysts, and listened to the keynote presentations, I found emerging commonality across three main themes: 1) Mobile is a mainstay. One Forrester analyst coined the term “landmarks” to describe the critical moments that matter in the customer journey.

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Innovation Return on Investment Airlines Study 60

OpinionLab

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

As I spoke with customers and analysts, and listened to the keynote presentations, I found emerging commonality across three main themes: 1) Mobile is a mainstay. One Forrester analyst coined the term “landmarks” to describe the critical moments that matter in the customer journey.

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Innovation Return on Investment Airlines Study 60

Eptica

JANUARY 12, 2017

Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 What were the top customer service trends of 2016? To help we’ve analyzed all 100+ posts published on the Eptica blog in 2016, and picked a top ten, based on a combination of readership and industry feedback. Published on: January 12, 2017. What do the findings mean for companies?

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Eptica

JULY 1, 2016

Date: Friday, July 1, 2016 Building a Customer Engagement Hub. Published on: July 01, 2016. Author: Pauline Ashenden Delivering a seamless, high quality customer experience is extremely complex. Orchestrating this changing landscape requires a new approach.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Last month, Adobe Marketing VP, John Travis, shared insights from Adobe’s 2016 Digital Trends report, including which opportunities businesses are most excited about this year. Customer Experience. “In The number one response? In 2014, it emerged as a top priority for marketers. In 2015, it gained momentum.

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Comm100

JULY 11, 2019

The modern chatbot era began in 2010 with Apple’s Siri, and today they are more or less mainstream, with an Oracle report from 2016 stating that 80% of C-suite leaders and senior marketers have already implemented chatbots or plan to do so by 2020. Wire them up with AI, and now you’re into a whole new level of customer engagement.

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Contact Center Chatbots Effort Score Analytics 173

ClearAction

AUGUST 16, 2019

Is Your Customer Engagement Really Customer-Centric? Customer engagement can yield short-term or long-term rewards or penalties, depending on how customer-centric they are. Short-term rewards: uptick once or for one period — engagement value exceeded underlying value. What is customer engagement?

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Storyminers

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Most vendors I spoke with at this year’s show justified the existence of their product(s) with claims about how it improved the customer experience, saved money, and made business more efficient and/or more profitable. Fast forward to 2016. Now, sensing what customers want happens in faster cycles, sometimes in near real time.

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Tricia Morris

JUNE 17, 2016

Consumers today expect to engage with brands just as easily online and on their mobile devices as they do on the phone or in person (if not more so). Microsoft’s 2016 State of Global Customer Service Report shows that globally, 55% of consumers’ customer service interactions now begin online rather than on the phone or in person.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Date: Friday, October 7, 2016 7 key issues that are holding back digital transformation in insurance. Published on: October 07, 2016. To find out how they are performing, the 2016 Eptica Insurance Multichannel Customer Experience Study evaluated 100 U.S. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Uniphore

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Given the massive engagement between customers and a brand, creating a positive, and personal experience is essential. Where customer engagement happens. Uniphore’s Conversational Automation platform taps into the non-verbal part of these engagements, like facial expressions, using real-time audio and video analysis.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Since, according to the Institute of Customer Service (ICS), most customer complaints (62%) aren’t about products per se but rather about the way people treat customers during service interactions, investing time and money to, select, train and develop service talent creates a huge opportunity. Dumbfounded in amazement!

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Several years ago, the idea of customer engagement was much simpler. Merchants could interact with customers in-store or could send them marketing materials via post and email. Brand-customer interactions can now happen all the time. The smartphone has forever altered customer engagement.

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Ecrion

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

There are over 7000 Customer Engagement Manager jobs in the US alone posted on LinkedIn at the time of this writing and that should come as no surprise: customer engagement is a really hot topic these days! Take the first steps by learning the what, why and how of the job: What does a Customer Engagement Manager do?

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Natalie Petouhof

MARCH 3, 2016

Tweet Enterprise Connect 2016 is a leading conference and exhibition for enterprise communications and collaboration in North America. It is being held March 7-9th, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Genesys, a market leader in omni-channel customer experience (CX) and contact center solutions, will be particpating in the event.

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Verint

MARCH 22, 2018

I love to see new stats and research about the future of customer engagement. These provocative trends are what drive a lot of our thinking here at Verint, as we’re eager to learn if the future trends in these studies align with our experience, and that of our customers, too.

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Avaya

OCTOBER 7, 2016

While these channels provide customers with the information they need, the contact center remains a predominant channel for customers to seek support when they truly need something done. Despite playing such a crucial role in customer engagement, contact centers don’t always get the attention they deserve.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Contact Center Satisfaction Negatively Impacting the Customer Experience by Andrew Berger. Telecompetitor) Contact center satisfaction has worsened over the last two years despite investments in new customer engagement channels, according to new market research released by BoldChat. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken .

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OpinionLab

JUNE 8, 2017

A common reason is that for many organizations, customer listening efforts are limited to certain channels and not truly representative of the customer base. The result is low response rates and feedback that may not accurately represent customer perception. The polling for the 2016 U.S.

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Storyminers

MAY 16, 2016

[Originally published on APADMI Apr 20, 2016 – Advice & Guides, Blog as:]. Digital checklists can ensure that stores have a standard set of criteria to be “ready for customers”. mobile data will help you create more personal relationships with your customers increasing the chance of repeat custom.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

His best-selling book in 2016 is called: How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing. The upheaval that digital engagement and collaboration is having on business leadership and organizational communication. Flavio is the VP of Operations and Customer Support at DigiCert, Inc., Aimee Lucas.

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