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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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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[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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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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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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Creating a Custom Zendesk IVR Integration for a Multinational Communications Corporation: A Case Study

BlueOcean

By developing a custom Zendesk IVR integration for a global communications leader, Blue Ocean eliminated manual data entry, reducing average handle time by 53 seconds and boosting customer satisfaction ratings by 34%. This seamless connection between phone and ticketing systems demonstrates how strategic contact center technology can simultaneously improve operational efficiency and customer experience.

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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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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Why smarter WEM solutions matter: Calabrio’s view on the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CCaaS

Calabrio

Analytics Why smarter WEM solutions matter: Calabrio’s view on the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CCaaS Share In Gartners 2024 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) , a key message is clear: contact centers need modern, advanced tools to navigate todays challenges and keep their competitive edge. Yet, as Gartners findings reveal, some of the biggest providers still fall short in delivering the level of reporting detail and workforce engagement management (WEM) solutions t

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Reduce AI Complexity & Keep Humans in the Middle [Video]

Upstream Works

Discover how to reduce AI complexity while enhancing CX with a balanced approach in part two of our AI Revolution series. The post Reduce AI Complexity & Keep Humans in the Middle [Video] appeared first on Upstream Works.

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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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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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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Navigating rising retail costs with Workforce Engagement Management: A strategic approach for the festive season

Calabrio

Analytics Navigating rising retail costs with Workforce Engagement Management: A strategic approach for the festive season Share Retailers across the UK are gearing up for the busiest shopping season of the year while simultaneously contending with rising costs and regulatory changes that will take effect in April 2025. In response to the recent Budget, Helen Dickinson, Chief Executive of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), highlighted the sectors growing financial pressures , including over 2.

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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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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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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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2024 State of Customer Education Report

Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.

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Protecting customers from seasonal fraud: Using WEM to strengthen financial services contact centres

Calabrio

Analytics Protecting customers from seasonal fraud: Using WEM to strengthen financial services contact centres Share Fraud prevention is critical for financial services contact centres, especially during the festive season when transaction volumes rise sharply. This time of year brings a high risk of fraud attempts like account takeovers and phishing scams, as fraudsters exploit the rush and heightened activity.

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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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Governing the ML lifecycle at scale, Part 3: Setting up data governance at scale

AWS Machine Learning

This post is part of an ongoing series about governing the machine learning (ML) lifecycle at scale. To view this series from the beginning, start with Part 1. This post dives deep into how to set up data governance at scale using Amazon DataZone for the data mesh. The data mesh is a modern approach to data management that decentralizes data ownership and treats data as a product.

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Marketing Operations Efficiency: The Essential Checklist

As marketing becomes more tech-driven, the role of marketing operations (MOps) is getting more complex. Today, the discipline is increasingly interwoven with other vital go-to-market motions — including sales and customer support — and is responsible for all business elements associated with marketing, including the tech stack. In this eBook, we’ll show you how marketing operations can create efficiencies in your tech stack, reporting, and budget that will not just improve internal processes, bu

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Warum smarte WEM-Lösungen wichtig sind: Calabrio’s Meinung zum Gartner Magic Quadrant 2024 für CCaaS

Calabrio

Analytics Warum smarte WEM-Lsungen wichtig sind: Calabrio’s Meinung zum Gartner Magic Quadrant 2024 fr CCaaS Vorsprung Share In Gartners Magic Quadrant 2024 fr Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) wird eine Kernaussage deutlich: Contact Center brauchen moderne, fortschrittliche Tools, um die heutigen Herausforderungen zu meistern und ihren Wettbewerbsvorteil zu behalten.

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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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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.