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Routing is a fundamental component of your customer experience strategy. True omnichannel routing breaks down channel silos and gathers intelligence upfront through context and data to deliver the personalized, seamless engagement your customers now expect. Learn how you can move beyond single interactions with true omnichannel routing: • Dynamically match customers from any touchpoint, over any channel, to the agent with the optimal insights, skill set and proficiency • Enable seamless transitions between digital self-service and live employee contact • Replace single, random interactions with thoughtfully designed and optimized customer journeys

Customers today expect their customer service to be as connected as they are. If you can’t deliver a seamless omnichannel customer experience or easily add digital channels such as mobile, social media and web, you risk being left behind. Some companies try to deliver omnichannel with dated technology, a tangle of point solutions, bolted together with duct tape. But you don’t have to. Read this ebook and see: Why force-fitting more channels into an aging infrastructure is not the right approach How to create a future-ready customer experience How an integrated approach improves your metrics and reduces operating costs

Customers today expect their customer service to be as connected as they are. If you can’t deliver a seamless omnichannel customer experience or easily add digital channels such as mobile, social media and web, you risk being left behind. Some companies try to deliver omnichannel with dated technology, a tangle of point solutions, bolted together with duct tape. But you don’t have to. Read this ebook and see: Why force-fitting more channels into an aging infrastructure is not the right approach How to create a future-ready customer experience How an integrated approach improves your metrics and reduces operating costs

Many retailers have responded with a largely outdated omnichannel approach, focusing on integrating the physical and digital channels they use to interact with customers, when the problem is actually inside the business. Today's customers will remain loyal only if a brand offers them transparency and superior quality products while actively engaging with them to build a relationship they value. Meeting those needs has nothing to do with offering another physical, digital, or mobile channel and everything to do with running the business in a way that is customer-first and customer-centric.

Your door is always open, regardless of your business or support hours. Today’s customers ask questions at any time of the day or night and will wait for you to respond (but not for long). This poses a challenge to most businesses: How can you anticipate which channels a customer will need or want, and how can you determine whether these channels will be efficient for your organization? The short answer is: you do. Customers want the ability to contact businesses in more than one way, and they expect each brand interaction to be consistent with the one before and after. Learn how with Zendesk's Omnichannel solution.

Consumer engagement is always top of mind for retailers, however brands are learning the best way to engage omnichannel shoppers at store-level is through its most knowledgable, motivated employees. Taking a lesson from their own consumer engagement strategies, innovative brands are turning to employee engagement initiatives designed to motivate associates, drive productivity, cultivate career paths, and most importantly, create more committed employees eager to drive customer satisfaction.

A new way to collaborate As the digital revolution continues, a linear approach to supply chain planning is gradually giving way to ecosystem thinking. Consumers buy in an entirely new way. Goodbye Sears catalog, hello one-click checkout. To keep up, companies need the ability to plan accurately in real-time. Introducing digital demand management with the Anaplan platform: a collaborative approach that can keep up with omnichannel demand. What’s inside this paper from Supply Chain Brain: What digital demand management means in today’s market The benefits of a connected approach to demand management

A new way to collaborate As the digital revolution continues, a linear approach to supply chain planning is gradually giving way to ecosystem thinking. Consumers buy in an entirely new way. Goodbye Sears catalog, hello one-click checkout. To keep up, companies need the ability to plan accurately in real-time. Introducing digital demand management with the Anaplan platform: a collaborative approach that can keep up with omnichannel demand. What’s inside this paper from Supply Chain Brain: · What digital demand management means in today’s market · The benefits of a connected approach to demand management

A new way to collaborate As the digital revolution continues, a linear approach to supply chain planning is gradually giving way to ecosystem thinking. Consumers buy in an entirely new way. Goodbye Sears catalog, hello one-click checkout. To keep up, companies need the ability to plan accurately in real-time. Introducing digital demand management with the Anaplan platform: a collaborative approach that can keep up with omnichannel demand. What’s inside this paper from Supply Chain Brain: · What digital demand management means in today’s market · The benefits of a connected approach to demand management

As the digital revolution continues, a linear approach to supply chain planning is gradually giving way to ecosystem thinking. Consumers buy in an entirely new way. Goodbye Sears catalog, hello one-click checkout. To keep up, companies need the ability to plan accurately in real-time. Introducing digital demand management with the Anaplan platform: a collaborative approach that can keep up with omnichannel demand. What’s inside this paper from Supply Chain Brain: What digital demand management means in today’s market The benefits of a connected approach to demand management

Learn the best strategies to stand out from your competition and increase purchase frequency, recency, spend and customer lifetime value.

For many years, the Magento ecommerce platform has been the retail inudtry go-to running an enterprise online store. However, when most businesses first made Magento their solution of choice, it was the only viable option out there. Today, Magento is no longer the only option in the mid-market and enterprise retail sectors. SaaS platforms like BigCommerce have disrupted this market, allowing for deep customization, unlimited prodcuts, industry-leading average uptime of 99.99% and 100% during Cyber Week, 24/7 support, one-click application integration, and seamless product updates. All for a fraction of the cost. Learn the five more critical differences between the two leading platforms in this white paper.

The General Data Protection Regulation – or GDPR – is a European Union (EU) law that protects the rights of individuals with respect to their data. Adopted as an EU law in April 2016, organizations that hold data about any resident of the EU must be compliant by May 2018. With attention-grabbing fines of €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover, GDPR commands attention at the highest levels. And despite the “legalese” that compliance suggests brands utilize, the brands that balance legal compliance with a human approach will turn GDPR to their advantage. This white paper provides a series of actions you can take to make the most of GDPR to both enhance your customer relationships and mitigate risk.

Among all the trends and buzzwords currently shaking up the marketing industry, one concept is emerging as the one to watch: customer experience (CX). Providing individual customers with the best possible experience is becoming the top priority at the moment, even to the point where experience outshines product quality(!) as the main differentiator. This is confirmed by a recent Gartner1 survey, in which 86 percent of participating companies listed customer experience as the main factor for gaining a competitive advantage, compared with merely 36 percent in 2012.

20% of customers will be responsible for 80% of profit – or so says The Pareto Principle, also known as the “rule of the vital few.” So, while marketers are trying hard to increase market share, they should be equally (or even more) concerned about nurturing the customer relationships they already have. That means finding ways to strengthen bonds with your best customers and figuring out how to turn good customers into better ones. Personalization, truly helpful support, data-driven contextual marketing, re-engagement strategies, gamification… There’s an almost overwhelming number of options out there, each touted as your golden key to an enduring bond with your users. In the pages that follow, you’ll learn about five strategies to drive engagement and retention with actionable tips from Selligent clients – top brands that are at the forefront of creating and sustaining customer loyalty.

To be successful in the current landscape, retail marketers must adapt their marketing messages to match the specific format, time and methods of consumers. Download this whitepaper to learn how retailers are boosting their CEM strategies.

With more competition, strong customer scrutiny, and a growing number of marketing channels to leverage, retailers are going toward Real-time Messaging to boost their Customer Experience Marketing to remain relevant and keep customers engaged.

An omnichannel customer experience is more important than ever before. However, this new customer-centric approach requires accurate data in order to be successful. Find out how organizations approach data quality in the changing retail environment.

Download Aspect’s newsletter, “Serving and Engaging the Digital Consumer - from Self-Service to Agent-Assisted” for insights on how the cloud, omni-channel communications and mobility are revitalizing customer self-service. Included is a complete copy of the latest Gartner Marketscope for IVR Systems and Enterprise Voice Portals, which provides insights on the state of the market and top vendors. Download to learn more!

This white paper takes shows how the right payment processing and POS technology can help merchants overcome friction points and focus on growing their business.

While most companies today support multi-channel customer service, they typically manage individual channels in silos, resulting in a fragmented customer experience. Moving to an omnichannel contact center solution will not only provide a substantial competitive advantage, it will also improve the overall experience and satisfaction of both agents and customers. Download this tip sheet to learn eleven metrics for building your business case for omnichannel customer service including: • 50% reduction in processing of duplicate messages across channels • Over 20% increase in First Contact Resolution • 15% increase in CSAT

This report, based on a survey of more than 2,000 digital marketers and ecommerce professionals in Asia Pacific, Europe and the US, explores the extent to which organisations are stepping up to the customer-centric approach.

In the retail and eCommerce world, data can be your differentiator...or your downfall. To stand out, marketers are increasingly turning to first-party declared data to fuel their strategies. Learn how retailers are using mobile attention to collect and activate declared data for: Qualified lead acquisition and direct response Relevant remarketing with custom audiences and retargeting 1-to-1 email personalization Audience building and profiling

As marketers, we use data at every level, from determining Facebook targeting to timing a major product launch. But how often do we take a look under the hood at the quality and usefulness of our data? In this playbook, we’ll cover the strengths and weaknesses of third-party, second-party, and first-party data and where declared data fits into the current data landscape. You’ll learn plays for activating declared data for: Qualified lead generation 1-to-1 email personalization Custom audiences and personalized retargeting Audience building and profiling In this section, we’ll cover the definitions, sources, and strengths and weaknesses of third-, second-, and first-party data.

Omnichannel, in its most complete definition, means taking into account individual customer needs and perspectives to create seamless customer experience within and across multiple channels. The customer is in control, which creates amazing customer experiences and reduces friction for users and the business. With a true omnichannel experience, each conversation is a continuation from the last and customers don’t have to reiterate their problems multiple times to multiple people. It provides better insights into a customer’s next action, and it enables more personalized product recommendations and proactive outreach. Through technology and analytics, brands can improve their operational efficiency, optimize their channel mix, and take advantage of lower-cost channels, all while enabling a better experience for their customers.