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Redefining retail: why focusing on CX will maximise potential of big data and AI

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Artificial intelligence (AI) enhances an online retailer’s ability to engage with customers, says Peter Thomas. The technology that is now redefining retail enables algorithms to make the same complex decisions a human could, sifting through the data, but much faster and at volume. It means the customer experience (CX) becomes more tailored and personalised; the customer journey more comfortable. When used well, the tech helps both retailer and consumer.

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Time for a chat – real-time messaging must strike the right tone

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Are you using a real-time conversational channel – the live chat facility – for your visitor’s journey through your website? Marie Sagarzazu discusses when to use it for best effect and how it can enhance or hinder the customer experience. Make sure you can spot the difference and act accordingly.

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Leverage marketing automation to build a high performance marketing plan: eBook

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In the modern marketer’s world, you need to leverage marketing automation to chart the ever-changing course of the buyer’s journey. With so much access to information, detail and choice, marketers must have a clear plan in place in order to reach their buyers at every stage of their journey. This eBook discusses a marketing strategy that truly focuses on the customer.

The GMA has teamed with Demand Exchange to bring this eBook from Act-On to help you discover:

  • The High Performance Marketing Plan
  • The marketer’s opportunity at each stage of the buyer’s journey
  • The four tenets of effective campaign themes
  • How to map your content to the customer lifecycle stages
  • Key components to a successful marketing technology landscape

 

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Revealed! The 7 secrets of the optimal customer experience are . . .

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We live in an era when commercial success depends on a strong customer experience and high customer engagement throughout their user journey.optimal customer experience And the best way to understand why customers engage with your business, why they convert at checkout or even why they leave your site is, simply, to ask them!

Your customers are more than numbers, accounts, carts or cookies – don’t forget that they are people! While technology helps you better understand what they are doing, actually reaching out and creating one-to-one relationships with those people breaks down barriers and delights your customers. So, find out how to deliver the optimal customer experience!

This paper is based on seven years of experience, hundreds of successful implementations and millions of customer interactions. Download it now! Your GMA has partnered with Demand Exchange and Medallia to discover how to:

  • Add context to your analytics and increase conversion.
  • Collect feedback across each touchpoint to understand roadblocks that prevent your sales completion.
  • Use different feedback forms for different interactions.
  • Expedite responses to feedback from your most valuable customers, to keep them engaged and moving towards conversion.
  • Use feedback to boost your social media.
  • Ask the right questions to learn why your customers aren’t checking out.
  • Look for both quick wins and long-term big opportunities.

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Jet set for the ideal customer journey: joining up traveller data

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How can airlines and airports, together with associated retailers, boost the customer experience and also benefit from sharing traveller data? Strategist Jon Reay examines upgrades, discounts and rewards and the possibility of a single mobile app offering opportunities for co-operating brands at airports. He shows how small improvements to the customer journey through the airport – literally and digitally – could have a significant commercial impact for all.

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Ultimate user experience guide: 9 things your website better provide, or you will lose visitors pronto!

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There’s been a major shift in how businesses grow, how buyers purchase and how businesses build meaningful conversations and customer relationships. Companies that align their mission, strategies, action plans and tools with the way buyers think, discover and purchase will have a huge competitive advantage, says Todd Hockenberry. So, take a long look – is your website truly your best-ever and most enticing shop window? Here’s how to make sure it is, and that it deals with changes in buyer behaviour in order to stay ahead of the curve. Check out this expert user experience guide.

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Video marketing formula: magnify emotion, magnify your brand voice

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Engage your audience more effectively by harnessing emotional drivers and motivators: careful video storytelling can communicate a powerful message, connecting your customers to your brand. In this article, Jon Mowat examines the science – the chemistry – of storytelling and shares his video marketing formula to help you successfully resonate with your target audience.

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Leader of the pack: great customer experience beats price, so here’s how to get it right

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Researchers have been analysing how easily UK consumers can get in touch with retailers via their preferred channel and they have identified a ‘dutiful dozen’ retailers that are ticking all the boxes. With 81% of consumers taking their business elsewhere if their queries aren’t answered quickly and effectively by a company, it is critical that retailers are offering a great customer experience and as many customer service touchpoints as possible. Chris Robinson explores the evidence.

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Enhance marketers’ performance, skyrocket creativity – leverage AI

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Modern marketers can clear their desks of mundane details and the time-consuming minutiae of their jobs and instead concentrate on personalising data, perfecting the customer experience and thus propelling their brands and businesses, says Alex Vaidya. How? They should enhance creativity – leverage AI. Here’s how it works:

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Ethical design in online retail: let’s leave dark UX patterns behind

For long-term business profitability, e-retailers aim to encourage repeat custom by providing visitors to their websites with a simple and efficient user experience (UX). But not all online strategies are completely ethical, says Hilary Stephenson – some deploy psychological persuasion techniques, such as scarcity ‘offers’ or unclear signposting. She cites e-commerce research that reveals some larger organisations – such as fashion brands – have used ‘dark UX’ website design patterns to prompt ‘fear of missing out’ impulse buys. It’s not a good look for the e-retailer, she says, and explains why.

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