Blake Morgan

DECEMBER 12, 2023

                                   In this week’s episode of the Modern Customer Podcast, Isabella Villani, a renowned customer experience expert and author, illustrates how proactive analytics revolutionizes customer experience (CX). Isabella begins by explaining how this innovative approach enables businesses to anticipate and effectively meet customer needs, thereby transforming the CX landscape.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Are you ready to end the year with gusto, and enter the next with a customer-centered game plan? This special episode will guide you through five essential actions every customer-focused leader must take to finish the year strong. Join me, Jeannie Walters, as we reflect on the highs, lows, and even the whimsical customer requests of the past year. We’ll discuss how to gather, categorize, and utilize feedback to identify areas of improvement and celebrate successes.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We all know that the world of customer service and support is constantly on the move. While some aspects are enduring, each year brings new opportunities and challenges that shift the landscape. This blog will delve into the top four customer service trends that are expected to take center stage in 2024. This blog is written for you, the experienced customer service professionals, who are the driving force behind these changes that will improve CX and internal efficiencies.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Vodafone is transitioning from a telecommunications company (telco) to a technology company (TechCo) by 2025, with objectives of innovating faster, reducing costs, improving security, and simplifying operations. Thousands of engineers are being onboarded to contribute to this transition. By 2025, Vodafone plans to have 50% of its global workforce actively involved in software development, with an objective to deliver 60% of digital services in-house.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Customer service and customer experience (CX) are more than what happens after the sale. It’s not just a department to call when there is a problem. It actually begins long before a customer ever makes a purchase. Then, there’s the experience during the sales process and what happens after the sale, which could include a typical customer support call and more.

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Cyara

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Round-trip time (RTT) is an important metric that can indicate the quality of communications available between two end-points. It’s a metric that our team often discusses with customers because it directly relates to the service quality experienced. RTT can be impacted by a range of design decisions, especially concerning network topology. However, there is some confusion around what exactly RTT is, how it relates to latency, how it can impact your service, and how you can improve it.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Large language models (or LLMs) have become a topic of daily conversations. Their quick adoption is evident by the amount of time required to reach a 100 million users, which has gone from “4.5yrs by facebook” to an all-time low of mere “2 months by ChatGPT.” A generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) uses causal autoregressive updates to make prediction.

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SAP Customer Experience

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Join us for an journey down memory lane as we conclude the 2023 season of Labs Talk with a final epic live stream. Hosted by the duo, Andreas Neumeier and Sven Haiges, this special event is set to be a celebration of the year’s most memorable moments.

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Win the Customer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the customer journey spans various touchpoints and channels. Businesses strive to deliver seamless experiences across these platforms, yet the challenge of maintaining consistency and personalization persists. Enter generative AI—a game-changer in revolutionizing customer experience across omnichannel environments.

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Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Thematic

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Qualitative feedback refers to insights gathered through open-ended responses, comments and opinions. This type of feedback provides a more nuanced understanding of customer experiences and needs. It differs from quantitative data which is statistical in nature. Qualitative feedback is important in understanding customer needs. It provides rich insights into the thoughts, emotions and perceptions of customers.

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BirdEye

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Phone tag — a term that refers to the all-too-familiar sequence of missed calls and voicemails — is much less fun than it sounds. This frustrating cycle can be a significant obstacle to efficient communication and productivity. Luckily, effective voicemail recordings can save the day. The right voicemail recording can reduce the frustrations of phone tag and ensure that your customers get the help they need quickly.

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Zonka Feedback

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Many organizations rely on various types of surveys for collecting customer feedback to know how happy customers are about their experiences with their products and services. But many times, surveys become a boring and time-consuming task for the customers and therefore they tend to avoid responding to feedback surveys, which eventually leads to a low and inaccurate survey response.

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Clarivate

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Clarivate, we understand that IP professionals are under constant pressure to deliver more value to clients and stakeholders with greater speed and efficiency. That’s why we continue to invest in advanced tools that help IP attorneys, paralegals and legal operations teams work smarter, not harder. Case in point: FoundationIP , the first SaaS-based IP management solution, purpose built to increase IP team efficiency by leveraging automation and best in class country rules.

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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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SAP Customer Experience

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Hello everyone, I’m glad to announce the release of SAP Commerce Cloud Stay Current programs for Developer and Business User role. Passing the Stay Current assessment is mandatory, in order to keep your certification up-to-date, otherwise you have to take the certification exam again. What is a Stay Current program?

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Uplight

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Energy powers our lives and without it, we are literally in the dark–making it critical that we ensure our energy infrastructure is reliable and available. Like every other industry, the utility power industry has become digital, leveraging smart meter data to understand utilization and personal data to help engagement, behavior, and personalization.

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Think Customers

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Most companies are eager to implement AI solutions to improve customer experiences, but few have the data or technology ready to go to make it happen. Those are some of the insights gleaned from TTEC Digital’s State of AI in the Contact Center research report. The research was designed to define where the CX market is when it comes to AI adoption, and what’s holding them back.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The conventional wisdom at many SaaS companies is that they’re not ready for customer education or customer community. Many leaders say they’re focused on building (or just maintaining) their customer success teams. In this challenging economic environment, customer education and community are seen as nice-to-have extras for down the road. But what if customer success and customer education are actually part of the same revenue-building strategy?

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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Zonka Feedback

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With 63% of shopping journeys originating online, the significance of online customer experiences is paramount. While website surveys play a pivotal role, understanding their varied applications and targeted feedback goals is key to their efficacy.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Sabio Group, the global digital experience transformation services specialist, has successfully migrated more than 4,600 contact centre agents across four entities for a major utilities company in France – two months ahead of schedule. In a recently published case study, the Genesys Cloud project with ENGIE was delivered two months ahead of the 12-month timeframe, exemplifying Sabio’s expertise in delivering rapid Genesys Cloud deployments.

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Magellan Solutions

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We all know how annoying it can be to receive a random call from someone offering a product or service we don’t need or want. Instead of being interested, we hang up or say, “No, thank you.” But what if you are on the other side of the phone? How do you make a good first impression, build rapport, and persuade them to take action? This is where lead generation comes in.

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SurveySensum

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Online surveys, telephonic surveys, paper surveys, etc., are all about exploring the minds of a mass of people. These survey forms help in knowing the likes, dislikes, characteristics, and expectations of people and help gather concrete and accurate results for making vital business decisions. Customer feedback surveys give you insights into understanding their needs and hence improve business products and services.

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Magellan Solutions

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Imagine this: You’ve availed yourself of a product or a service but still have a lot of questions in mind. You’ve tried calling their hotline, but the wait time is too long. You’ve sent them an email but heard no response. You even checked their social media accounts and only ended up getting an automated response. Frustrated, right? What if there was a better way to communicate with the seller?

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Optimove

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Take your customer segmentation to the next level with our advanced guide Download Now Why it Matters: Customer segmentation helps businesses target their audience with precision and tailor their strategies to meet specific customer needs. It is a crucial output from Customer-Led Marketing. The following 7 customer segmentation models can be leveraged to gain deeper insights into customer behavior and preferences, enhancing the customer experience and increasing Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).

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Forrester's Customer Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Last week, Amazon.com VP and CTO Werner Vogels closed out re:Invent 2023 with his keynote address on “The Frugal Architect” This wasn’t the first time, Vogels introduced this topic. In fact, it was a theme he originally introduced in 2012 that revolves around architecting with cost in mind.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the tech industry, the role of Customer Success (CS) has gained significant prominence. To delve deeper into the nuances of the Customer Success Career Path to Leadership, we bring you a compelling conversation between two industry experts, Bhumika Arora, Founder and Consulting Coach at Ruffday Coaching Services, and Rohan Sheth, Director of Growth at SmartKarrot Inc.

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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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Forrester's Customer Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since this is an emerging category of technologies, there’s always new innovations and trends to keep track of. My colleagues and I got together to create a list of the most important trends to follow across edge and IoT.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The emergence of CS&T platforms ushers in a new era of upskilling and training focused not on point-in-time test prep but on continual learning, where practitioners go up against the latest attacker techniques individually or as a team to test technical skills, refine documented processes, and improve communication. They’re also using these platforms to acquire emerging skills, like prompt engineering, which are offered by many of the platforms in this evaluation.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

My favorite holiday-themed ad is Hershey’s “Christmas Bells,” which debuted in 1989 thanks to the creativity of David Apicella at Ogilvy & Mather, among others. Since then, the ad has run every December. In a market crowded with viral creative like Spotify’s Wrapped, Hershey’s pithy ad continues to perform.

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