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How to Read the Forrester Wave for Text Analytics: A Guide for Buyers

InMoment XI

With the increased adoption of AI in business across all industries, there has also been a rise in text mining and analytics. This software, which exists as an extension of AI and natural language processing (NLP), is used to gather insights from unstructured text data in order to make informed business decisions. If your business has reached the need to purchase text analysis software , you are more than likely comparing third-party evaluations as part of your research process.

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What’s Everyone Talking About in Customer Experience?

BlueOcean

The contact center is ever evolving to meet the shifting expectations and habits of today’s customers. That’s why we like to regularly tune in to experts from the world of customer experience to find out what’s new. We checked in with some of the top thought leaders for their most recent thoughts about customer experience trends. Read on! What Happens to CX When the Whole Company Is Aligned Customer experience is a front-and-center topic for the contact center… but excellent CX depends on the en

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Transforming CX: How Mystery Shopping, Feedback Survey, and Reputation Management Work Together

IntouchInsight

It's a common misconception that Mystery Shopping, Customer Feedback Surveys, and Reputation Management all deliver the same insights into the customer journey. This belief can result in overlooking important aspects of the customer experience.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Cybersecurity and CX

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Can transparency and authenticity safeguard your customer relationships during a cybersecurity crisis? In this episode, Jeannie Walters shares insights into managing customer experience amid significant cybersecurity incidents. We’ll explore the necessity of open, honest communication and how to maintain customer trust even when service disruptions occur.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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The Rule of Three QUI TAKEAWAYS to Deliver the World’s Best Customer Experience

Bill Quiseng

The “World’s Best” experience is not as “the world” sees it, but as one customer personally FEELS it. Customers pay for their experience. And they seek the best value in their experience for the price you are asking them to pay. So, a person living in Detroit, MI who has a five-figure salary feels the best value isn’t a luxury plane to the Alps, but rather a four-hour drive UpNorth to Boyne Mountain.

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Diversity, Equity, and Belonging in Customer Experience: A Conversation with Sean Mohammed

BlueOcean

Our podcast team had the pleasure of sitting down with Sean Mohammed, Senior Manager of HR and leader of Blue Ocean’s Diversity, Equity, and Belonging Initiatives. With Pride Month in full swing around the world, this the perfect time to explore how companies in the customer experience industry are creating inclusive workplaces and fostering a sense of belonging for all employees.

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CX Tech Top-ups: IntouchCheck® Updates and New Templates!

IntouchInsight

This June, we're excited to announce two new updates designed to enhance the IntouchCheck® user experience. These updates focus on improving the efficiency and usability of managing follow-ups and editing checklists. Additionally, we are introducing four new IntouchCheck® Templates to help streamline your operations.

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The Double Agents of CX: Who are they and what do they do?

ECXO

The Double Agents of CX: Who are they and what do they do? For Customer Experience to thrive in an organization, it’s important to have a very well-trained team of double agents. “But what are you talking about?”, you might be asking, well, let me explain to you better. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the definition of a double agent is “a person employed by a government to discover secret information about enemy countries, but who is really working for one of these enemy countries”.

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What’s Next in B2B CX?

Daniel Group

What’s Next In B2B CX? Video Transcript: Welcome. I wanted to try something different this month. So rather than writing a blog, I am recording a video of a blog. So I hope you like it. Let me know what you think. At the end of the video, there’s my contact information, so feel free to let me know. I wanna spend some time today just talking about where we see CX in the marketplace, how it’s standing with with the clients we’re working with, and some of the trends we see.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Economic Decision Making Revealed; It’s Not As Logical As You Think It Is A Master Class: Unlocking The Psychology of Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: When it comes to experiences and the influences psychology has on them, there is never one thing happening at any one time. There are typically several things happening. I mention this because, on the podcast, we have been doing a masterclass about Unlocking the Psychology of Customer Experience.

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Implement exact match with Amazon Lex QnAIntent

AWS Machine Learning

This post is a continuation of Creating Natural Conversations with Amazon Lex QnAIntent and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base. In summary, we explored new capabilities available through Amazon Lex QnAIntent, powered by Amazon Bedrock , that enable you to harness natural language understanding and your own knowledge repositories to provide real-time, conversational experiences.

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How AI Optimizes the Omnichannel CX Journey

Upstream Works

Our latest blog post outlines three practical applications of AI that will improve the agent experience and, in turn, improve CX. The post How AI Optimizes the Omnichannel CX Journey appeared first on Upstream Works.

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Effective Bank Customer Retention Strategies

Genroe

Discover effective bank customer retention strategies tailored to each stage of the customer life-cycle. Learn how to leverage customer feedback and personalization to keep your banking customers engaged, loyal, and satisfied. Explore the secrets of successful customer retention in the competitive world of banking. The post Effective Bank Customer Retention Strategies appeared first on Genroe | Customer Experience | Net Promoter Score.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Seamless Audience Syndication: Your 90-Day CDP Roadmap

Blueshift

Audience syndication and CDPs go together like birthday parties and pizza. Like sandy beaches and soft towels. Like tea and your favorite mug. The right CDP implementation just makes audience syndication better. Admittedly, setting up a CDP isn’t always as fun as a day at the shore, but it doesn’t have to be daunting. We’ve created a sample timeline to show how easy it can be to onboard a CDP and get started with audience syndication.

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The Surprising Truth About Economic Decision-Making: Why Your Logic Might be Flawed. Masterclass Part 5: Unlocking the Psychology of Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Regarding Customer Experiences and the behavioral sciences, there is seldom only one thing happening at a time. There are usually a lot of things happening at once. This masterclass episode, the fifth in a series of eight, explores economic biases and how they create flaws in our decision-making logic. For example, one key bias discussed is the Sunken Cost Fallacy, where people need help to walk away from investments, leading to subsequent mistakes.

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AI21 Labs Jamba-Instruct model is now available in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning

We are excited to announce the availability of the Jamba-Instruct large language model (LLM) in Amazon Bedrock. Jamba-Instruct is built by AI21 Labs, and most notably supports a 256,000-token context window, making it especially useful for processing large documents and complex Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. What is Jamba-Instruct Jamba-Instruct is an instruction-tuned version of the Jamba base model, previously open sourced by AI21 Labs, which combines a production grade-mod

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The Secrets to AGCO’s CX Success

Heart of the Customer

The Secrets to AGCO’s Positive Customer Experience Success Courtney Warford leads an inspiring program at AGCO. She has done a marvelous job of connecting customer experience to operations, creating outsized influence throughout the company. In return, AGCO has invested to become even more customer-focused with the growth of Courtney’s CX practitioner team over the last […] The post The Secrets to AGCO’s CX Success appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Shaping the AI Future: Key Trends and Insights from the AI & Big Data Expo’24

Helpware

The AI and Big Data Expo Conference, held annually in Santa Clara, California, has become a landmark event in the industry, drawing professionals from diverse sectors to explore the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and big data. This year's conference, which took place on June 05-06, 2024, was the second one I attended, and I was eager to witness the evolution and progress that had occurred since the 2023 edition.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of June 24, 2024

ShepHyken

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comments about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Customer Experience Gets Worse. Again. by Katie Deighton (The Wall Street Journal) The average customer experience rating of U.S. companies hits a new low amid inflation and fallible customer-service chatbots.

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Decoding Surge Pricing: Will Customers Embrace or Reject It?

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Surge pricing is a form of dynamic pricing. However, sometimes customers don’t see it this way. Depending on your perspective, surge pricing can feel like price discrimination. Surge Pricing takes advantage of peak demand.

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eSentire delivers private and secure generative AI interactions to customers with Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

eSentire is an industry-leading provider of Managed Detection & Response (MDR) services protecting users, data, and applications of over 2,000 organizations globally across more than 35 industries. These security services help their customers anticipate, withstand, and recover from sophisticated cyber threats, prevent disruption from malicious attacks, and improve their security posture.

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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The role of artificial intelligence or machine learning in conducting systematic literature reviews now and in future

Clarivate

AI and systematic literature reviews: potential benefits and use cases Good quality evidence is the hallmark of any successful roadmap to access. Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) and meta-analysis are generally considered to be among the most robust forms of evidence; their adherence to strict methodological guidelines helps negate the inherent bias of researchers.

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10 Golden Rules of Customer Service in 2024

Helpware

An honest “thank you” coming from a client has never been harder to get. Rules of customer service are being redefined by the minute. Requests, queries, and expectations mutate so rapidly that some companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), struggle to reach financial and branding goals while solving the needs of their customer base.

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How To Use Generative AI in Customer Support

Help Scout

Discover how you can integrate generative AI into your customer support strategy for improved operational efficiency and an elevated customer and agent experience.

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How artificial intelligence in task management can transform the customer and employee experiences

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Brianna Van Zanten, Customer Success Manager at InCheq In my experience, many business leaders are intimidated by the idea of […] The post How artificial intelligence in task management can transform the customer and employee experiences first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints? With customer experience automation, organizations can leverage AI and automation to make it faster and cheaper to provide a superior customer experience acro

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Manage Amazon SageMaker JumpStart foundation model access with private hubs

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a machine learning (ML) hub offering pre-trained models and pre-built solutions. It provides access to hundreds of foundation models (FMs). A private hub is a feature in SageMaker JumpStart that allows an organization to share their models and notebooks so as to centralize model artifacts, facilitate discoverability, and increase the reuse within the organization.

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7 Tips to Keep Sports Bettors Engaged Following Their Favorite Team’s Elimination 

Optimove

Re-engage your churned customers with this guide Download Now Why it Matters: Keeping sports bettors engaged after their favorite team is eliminated helps maintain player loyalty and drive continuous interaction. By leveraging bettors’ emotional connections to teams and players, marketers can create targeted strategies to keep engagement high, ensuring bettors remain active and interested.

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8 HIPAA-compliant texting solutions for better patient experience 

BirdEye

Retaining patients and ensuring they choose you again is not just about your service. It also includes how accessible your service is, how easy communication is, and how valued your patients feel. And for a busy target audience, online booking and HIPAA-compliant texting solutions can do wonders. The time to ditch SMS was yesterday. Healthcare providers that don’t implement HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant texting risk losing patients, accruing fines, and fac