Sat.Nov 16, 2024 - Fri.Nov 22, 2024

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May the Customer Experience (CX) Force be with you!

ECXO

May the CX Force be with you! The Star Wars saga transcends its status as a beloved space opera, emerging as a rich source of insights and lessons that businesses can leverage to enhance customer experience. With its unforgettable characters, intricate plots, and immersive storytelling, Star Wars encapsulates timeless wisdom that companies can apply to cultivate customer loyalty and satisfaction.

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7 Strategies for Creating Superfans and Transforming Customer Loyalty

Blake Morgan

                                                                                   Creating loyal customers isn’t just about great products—it’s about delivering experiences so remarkable that customers can’t help but come back for more. Brittany Hodak, a CX keynote speaker and author of Creating Superfans , breaks down exactly how businesses can transform everyday customers into passionate advocates.

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To Raise the Quality of Your CX, Start With Your Communications Infrastructure

CSM Magazine

A fresh wave of enterprise-grade tools are helping businesses keep customers happy. Scott Yelton, senior director of product development for Windstream Enterprise, takes a closer look. Not long ago, analysts at PwC provided their simple formula for businesses to grow revenue and build loyalty with customers: “ Experience is everything. Get it right. ” While they may understand that formula, plenty of companies across a broad range of industries don’t appear to be following it.

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The Symbiosis of Algorithms, CX and Experimentation: Redefining Tech and Biotech B2B Design

eglobalis

The companies that thrive today aren’t just adopting AI; they’re embedding it into their DNA to design groundbreaking technologies and solutions that deliver unmatched value to customers. From healthcare breakthroughs to cutting-edge industrial systems, algorithmic experimentation empowers organizations to test, iterate, and refine their approaches rapidly, driving faster innovation and reduced risk.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Mission and Vision in CX Strategy

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

If you have an organizational mission statement, do you need an organizational vision statement? What about a customer experience mission statement or a customer experience strategy statement? Craft a customer experience (CX) mission that truly aligns with your organization’s vision and mission and puts a focus on the customer! In this episode, Jeannie Walters shares her insights on transforming organizational goals into actionable CX strategies.

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DCX # 127 | 7 Psychological Hacks to Boost CX and Build Loyalty

DCX

Weekly inspiration, education, and coaching for customer-obsessed leaders. Thank you! A huge shoutout to my Premium subscribers, who generously support the DCX Newsletter. I’m humbled that many are expensing it through their companies as a valuable educational resource. If you want to do the same, this email template gives your manager all the info you’ll need.

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Voice of Customer Analysis to Improve Customer Loyalty and Retention

InMoment XI

Customers are increasingly likely to switch brands if they don’t feel satisfied. 83% of customers agree they feel more loyal to companies that respond to and resolve their complaints. Loyal customers are likely to spend more and advocate for your brand. As a result, businesses must double down on efforts to understand their customers’ goals and pain points to drive loyalty.

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The Power of Customer Behavior Analysis

InMoment XI

Did you know that social media is the number one discovery channel for products? Furthermore, when researching a brand or product, most consumers prefer to do their own research rather than speak to a human. Knowing these consumer behaviors and how they relate to your business can significantly impact your overall business performance. To capitalize on those behaviors, you need to be able to perform customer behavior analysis.

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Contact Center Automations you can implement to improve your call center operations

NobelBiz

The customer service world is evolving rapidly alongside advancements in technology. Contact centers are now tasked with handling more calls per hour while delivering a seamless customer experience, optimizing costs, and maintaining quality. The secret weapon? Automation. By implementing automation, contact centers can simplify complex workflows, streamline tasks for both agents and customers, and create a more efficient and enjoyable experience for everyone.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®

What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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Emotion-Driven Design: Unlocking the Key to Unstoppable Customer Adoption

ECXO

Emotion-Driven Design: Unlocking the Key to Unstoppable Customer Adoption Introduction In the fast-evolving technology landscape, emotional design has emerged as a critical factor influencing adoption rates. Design leaders play an instrumental role in guiding products beyond functionality to create a connection that resonates on a personal level with users.

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Delivering the Brand Promise with Laura Richard

ShepHyken

This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more:    What is a brand promise? What is the role of branding in enhancing the customer experience? How can businesses define their brand to impact customer relationships meaningfully? How does empowering employees align with a company’s brand promise?

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User Feedback for SaaS: Best Practices & Tools for Business Success

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) is crucial to SaaS business success. Companies that focus on CX initiatives witness an 80% increase in revenue, highlighting the value of user feedback. With intense competition and changing customer preferences, businesses must better understand their users to stay ahead. Collecting user feedback for SaaS companies is a powerful step in this direction.

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Using responsible AI principles with Amazon Bedrock Batch Inference

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI. The recent announcement of batch inference in Amazon Bedrock enables organizations to process large volumes of data efficiently at 50% less cost comp

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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How To Start Using AI-Powered Sentiment Analysis

Thematic

AI sentiment analysis helps you decode the human emotion in text. It enables you to connect with customers on a deeper level than ever before, and discover what they truly like and dislike about your brand. Organizations are fast realizing the power of including their customers’ opinions in their operations, product roadmaps, and strategic business decisions.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of November 18, 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. ‘Good Experience Builds Loyalty’: Chewy’s CEO on Meeting Customer Demand by Robert Safian (Fast Company) As artificial intelligence transforms customer service and workplace tools, many companies still struggle to capture that elusive human connection.

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Addressing AI Hallucinations for Improved Business Performance

InMoment XI

Think about the last time you asked ChatGPT a fairly simple question but got an unexpected response. Perhaps it provided a factually incorrect statement or just misunderstood your prompt. The result is described as a “hallucination”, a growing concern for businesses using AI systems. What is an AI hallucination? An AI hallucination occurs when an AI system produces false or misleading results as facts.

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Amazon Bedrock Flows is now generally available with enhanced safety and traceability

AWS Machine Learning

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Flows (previously known as Prompt Flows). With Bedrock Flows, you can quickly build and execute complex generative AI workflows without writing code. Key benefits include: Simplified generative AI workflow development with an intuitive visual interface. Seamless integration of latest foundation models (FMs), Prompts, Agents, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, and other AWS services.

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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The Empathy Edge: Humanizing Customer Interactions in a Digital World

Win the Customer

In an era dominated by artificial intelligence and automation, it’s easy to overlook the power of human connection. As businesses increasingly rely on digital channels to interact with customers, the importance of empathy in customer service has never been greater. By prioritizing empathy, companies can foster stronger relationships, improve customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive business growth.

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How to get Customers to Want to Leave Reviews Copy

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Companies spend $80 billion to $90 billion each year on marketing, but only $8 billion annually on customer service. How much can bad customer service cost your business? It could cost you your business. Only one out of every 26 customers who have a complaint will let you know. Instead, they will tell everybody else. The best marketing you can have involves your customer walking out the door after an amazing experience, and talking about you with everyone else.

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Driving customer success forward with Unison

Totango

In a world where customer expectations are sky-high and data complexity is ever-increasing, Totango Unison is the game-changer that customer success and post-sales teams have been waiting for. Imagine a tool that not only predicts customer churn with laser precision but also unlocks new avenues for growth, ensuring your business thrives in today’s competitive landscape.

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Enhance speech synthesis and video generation models with RLHF using audio and video segmentation in Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

As generative AI models advance in creating multimedia content, the difference between good and great output often lies in the details that only human feedback can capture. Audio and video segmentation provides a structured way to gather this detailed feedback, allowing models to learn through reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and supervised fine-tuning (SFT).

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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DCX Links | November 17, 2024

DCX

Exclusive Newsletter for Premium Subscribers Weekly inspiration, education, and coaching for customer-obsessed leaders. FREE FOR NOVEMBER: Try Before You Subscribe: This Month’s DCX Links Are on the House! Premium Subscribers usually get exclusive access to DCX Links, but this month, it’s open to all. Explore the insights that keep CX leaders informed and inspired.

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Understanding the Rapidly Evolving Landscape of Conversational AI Solutions with Interactions

Interactions

The Conversational AI (CAI) landscape is transforming at lightning speed, driven by advancements in Generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs). As enterprises seek new ways to automate processes, enhance customer interactions, and optimize employee productivity, conversational AI solutions have become essential to achieving these goals. However, in a crowded and competitive market, finding the right CAI partner that aligns with your organization’s objectives can be challenging.

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12 best social media AI tools: Find the right one for you

BirdEye

Managing social media requires juggling content creation, scheduling, analytics, and engagement – tasks that can overwhelm even experienced marketers. AI tools for social media transform this complex process into a streamlined operation, helping you boost engagement while saving hours each week. This guide breaks down the essential AI tools you need and shows you exactly how to use them.

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Automate emails for task management using Amazon Bedrock Agents, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

AWS Machine Learning

In this post, we demonstrate how to create an automated email response solution using Amazon Bedrock and its features, including Amazon Bedrock Agents , Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases , and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that makes foundation models (FMs) from leading AI startups and Amazon Web Services available through an API, so you can choose from a wide range of FMs to find the model that is best suited for your use case.

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Case Study: Key Insights on Wait Times and Customer Service

Faster response times mean happier customers Are your customers on hold too long? Nearly half of consumers find hold times unacceptable, and a quarter will leave your brand because of it. Our latest report reveals how companies are affected by wait times and the impact on customer satisfaction. Read the report to get insights into the impact of long hold times and areas for opportunities.

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Eye Strain and Your Team: Tips for Customer Service Managers

CSM Magazine

As a customer service manager, you know just how crucial it is to take good care of your team. Employee wellbeing equates to happier and more productive representatives who provide better customer service, and it also means you can keep working with top talent for longer. That’s why it’s important to ensure they work in comfortable environments and stay in good physical health.

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How to Improve Customer Service: Quick Wins and Long-Term Strategies

InteractionMetrics

Improving customer service is more crucial than ever in 2024. Research shows that customers are 2.4 times more likely to stick with a brand when their issues are resolved quickly, yet over half will abandon companies that fail to anticipate their needs. This blog will explore how to improve customer service, common pitfalls to avoid, and metrics that ensure your efforts are on the right track.

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The GenAI revolution in multi-location dental practice: A practical guide

BirdEye

Managing a multi-location dental practice requires your teams to juggle patient care, staff coordination, reputation , appointments, and communications daily. As you scale across locations, these challenges grow exponentially, requiring innovative solutions. That’s where Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) comes in. AI is revolutionizing dental practice operations, with a high adoption rate.