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12 Best Strategies for Building Customer Loyalty

Helpware

As customers are expecting more than ever, the competition is getting tougher, whether you're running a physical store or an online business. Brands, therefore, need to pull out all the stops to find ways to improve customer loyalty and nurture each relationship.

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Get Ahead of the White House’s “Time Is Money” Mandate – Key Consumer Pain Points And How to Address Them Through Your CX Program

InMoment XI

Delivering exceptional customer experiences is a fundamental and necessary business practice that also can significantly impact your bottom line – but up until this point, it wasn’t a requirement. The recent “Time is Money” White House initiative, launched just last week, represents a significant escalation of onus on businesses to address subpar customer experiences and comply with these new directives.

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Fine tune a generative AI application for Amazon Bedrock using Amazon SageMaker Pipeline decorators

AWS Machine Learning

Building a deployment pipeline for generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications at scale is a formidable challenge because of the complexities and unique requirements of these systems. Generative AI models are constantly evolving, with new versions and updates released frequently. This makes managing and deploying these updates across a large-scale deployment pipeline while providing consistency and minimizing downtime a significant undertaking.

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Send Your Transactional Surveys Using Retently’s Zapier Integration

Retently

A great advantage of the Net Promoter System, aside from its simplicity and insightfulness, is that it works with any business models, such as B2C or B2B , and any business type and industry. Originally, the NPS surveys were sent at standard intervals, such as every quarter, once every six months and so on. This surveying model is known as Relationship NPS, which measures how your customers’ satisfaction changes over time.

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How To Drive Retail Results With Integrated Tech And UX Design

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

Navigating the complexities of e-commerce requires more than just the right technology - It demands a holistic strategy that aligns platform capabilities with customer- centric design and marketing. This webinar will provide a roadmap for building a robust e-commerce strategy, guiding you through key decisions from platform selection to creating user experiences that convert, and leverage digital marketing to reach and retail customers.

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The Opportunities & Pitfalls Of Fusing Human And AI-Powered Experiences

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 85,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has some excellent applications in Customer Experience , applications that can transform the processes in customer interactions. However, after all the sci-fi we have grown up watching, it is natural to wonder what the entrance of AI will mean for the humans involved.

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How You Can Create Agent Schedules In A Few Minutes With A Custom GPT

MiaRec

As a contact center manager, you know that manually creating agent schedules is tedious and time-consuming. The alternative is to automate using a Workforce Management (WFM) solution, which can be cost-prohibitive if you aren't using it to its full capacity. Having been a contact center manager myself in my previous career, I have spent countless hours pouring over Excel sheets to ensure that I not only accommodate all the scheduling restraints of the contact centers, but also give every agent f

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Smile, You’re in an AI Photo

Help Scout

We all have an idea of what great service means. Respect, speed, accuracy, helpfulness. But cultural differences can affect the way the service is delivered and how it is received. As AI takes on some support work, will it be culturally competent?

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Choosing the right IP software provider: Key considerations beyond the technology

Clarivate

You’ve selected an IP management system (IPMS) that surpasses your current provider, but you’re uncertain about the migration process. While finding the best IPMS for your requirements is a crucial first step, it’s only the beginning. A smooth and successful implementation is often overlooked in the procurement process. In this blog, we explore key considerations to ensure a seamless transition.

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How utilities can ensure compliance for IIJA Department of Energy GRIP grants

West Monroe

Federal funding awards introduce several net-new activities relative to a utility’s traditional project deployment model. Projects supported by federal funds are tied to specific agency requirements with contractually bound milestones and timelines put in place to ensure funds are deployed in a responsible and diligent manner. For many utilities, this means defining new processes, activities, and stakeholder engagement strategies to ensure an awardee can provide the appropriate reporting c

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The State of Digital Customer Experience Report 2024

This comprehensive report explores the evolving landscape of customer and business expectations, with five key trends that will help you understand your customers and stay ahead of the competition. Discover how your peers are implementing AI to improve customer experience with granular insights into their CX investments and specific AI use cases. For the first time, customers prefer digital channels when interacting with a business.

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Hotel Shangri-La Tops Singapore’s Customer Service Rankings

CSM Magazine

Shangri-La has been ranked as Singapore’s top customer service provider in a new survey conducted by The Straits Times and Statista. The survey evaluated customer service across various sectors, with over 5,500 respondents participating. Premium hotels, amusement parks, and high-end restaurants continued to excel in customer service, outperforming other categories.

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BPO for Startups: How Business can Leverage BPO at early stage for Growth

Advantage Communications

As startups strive to establish themselves in the competitive business landscape, they often face resource constraints and the need to optimize their operations. To overcome these obstacles and achieve sustainable growth, many startups have turned to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). BPO helps startups streamline their work, cut costs, and focus on what's most important.

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Customer Service Apprenticeship Program Celebrates Sustained Achievement

CSM Magazine

Middlesbrough College, Northern Skills, and Sage have partnered to create an award-winning apprenticeship program with a core focus on refining customer service skills. Following its success at the NECCA, this pioneering program brought forth a slew of outstanding results, showcasing apprentices’ aptitude for resolving issues promptly, with a staggering 90.1% rate of success on the first try.

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Safeguard Patient Data with Top 6 HIPAA-Compliant Survey Tools

SurveySensum

Did you know that 93% of healthcare companies have suffered data breaches in the past three years? Shocking, right? In this digital world where scams are increasing day by day, ensuring data privacy and security is not just an additional matter, it is essential. For businesses gathering private data from their patients via surveys in the healthcare sector, ensuring HIPAA compliance is not just a legal obligation anymore – it’s essential for protecting patient’s trust and maintaining

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a

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Shangri-La Tops Singapore’s Customer Service Rankings in New Survey

CSM Magazine

Shangri-La has been ranked as Singapore’s top customer service provider in a new survey conducted by The Straits Times and Statista. The survey evaluated customer service across various sectors, with over 5,500 respondents participating. Premium hotels, amusement parks, and high-end restaurants continued to excel in customer service, outperforming other categories.

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Start Building your IT Strategy at T&I Summit 2024

Forrester's Customer Insights

The days of creating an IT strategy in a vacuum are long gone. With technology embedded ever deeper in the business, strategy conversations between business and IT organizations must stay fluent and on point. Fortunately, Forrester provides a blueprint of the steps needed to rapidly create a tech strategy outlined in our recently published research on how to Build Your IT Strategy.

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Employee Engagement Strategies for the Modern Workplace

CSM Magazine

With today’s current business world being more competitive and complex, employee engagement cannot be taken lightly. In essence, employee engagement positively affects employees’ job performance, levels of satisfaction and organisational commitment. When existing traditional full-service work models have shifted to a remote and hybrid work environment, engaging the employees became a challenge.

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Your Personas Are Outdated: It’s Time To Evolve Your Approach

Forrester's Customer Insights

Personas are a seemingly foundational and simple tool, yet deceptively challenging. At Forrester, we’ve fielded numerous client requests to better understand how to create, evolve, and operationalize personas.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.

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How Behavioral Interviewing Improves Customer Support Hiring

CSM Magazine

Customer support representatives are vital resources for businesses focused on customer satisfaction because this role directly affects customer experiences, loyalty, and success. That’s why companies are increasingly using behavioral interviewing to select the best candidates. This technique assesses how candidates have handled past situations to predict future performance.

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How India’s National Stock Exchange Builds Its Critical IT Infrastructure

Forrester's Customer Insights

Technology leaders are often drawn into addressing the quintessential organizational needs of reliability, availability, scalability, and security among other critical features in their IT infrastructure and applications. While these challenges are prevalent across various industries, evolving business imperatives can shift the emphasis on industry-specific requirements.

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Snowflake Arctic models are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning

This post is co-written with Matt Marzillo from Snowflake. Today, we are excited to announce that the Snowflake Arctic Instruct model is available through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to deploy and run inference. Snowflake Arctic is a family of enterprise-grade large language models (LLMs) built by Snowflake to cater to the needs of enterprise users, exhibiting exceptional capabilities (as shown in the following benchmarks ) in SQL querying, coding, and accurately following instructions.

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Budget Planning Guide 2025 for APAC Tech Leaders: Where to Invest, Cut and Experiment?

Forrester's Customer Insights

As CIOs gear up for 2025, the landscape is more uncertain than ever. While inflation has eased in many parts of the world, APAC’s unique economic dynamics—ranging from commodity price exposure to varying fiscal policies—will keep inflation higher compared to the U.S. or Europe.

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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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Unleashing the power of generative AI: Verisk’s Discovery Navigator revolutionizes medical record review

AWS Machine Learning

This post is co-written with Sneha Godbole and Kate Riordan from Verisk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry. It empowers its customers to strengthen operating efficiency, improve underwriting and claims outcomes, combat fraud, and make informed decisions about global risks, including climate change, extreme events, sustainability, and political issues.

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Beyond the Single Channel: Why Multichannel Marketing Pays 

Optimove

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Build private and secure enterprise generative AI applications with Amazon Q Business using IAM Federation

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Q Business is a conversational assistant powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances workforce productivity by answering questions and completing tasks based on information in your enterprise systems, which each user is authorized to access. In an earlier post, we discussed how you can build private and secure enterprise generative AI applications with Amazon Q Business and AWS IAM Identity Center.

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Index your Atlassian Confluence Cloud contents using the Amazon Q Confluence Cloud connector for Amazon Q Business

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Q Business is a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant designed to enhance enterprise operations. It’s a fully managed service that helps provide accurate answers to users’ questions while honoring the security and access restrictions of the content. It can be tailored to your specific business needs by connecting to your company’s information and enterprise systems using built-in connectors to a variety of enterprise data sources.

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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!