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Walked Right into That One: How Location Technologies Revolutionize Customer Engagement

Optimove

Beacon Technology Using beacon technology – small, battery-powered devices (beacons) that communicate with nearby mobile devices through Bluetooth low energy (BLE) signals – is a relatively quick and low-investment way for brands to connect with customers in their brick-and-mortar locations. Jump in, and start planning!

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A Shopping Checklist to Find the Best Live Chat Providers for Government Websites

Comm100

It’s unarguable that live chat can help improve communication between government and citizens. The real-time and accessible nature of live chat caters perfectly to today’s consumer expectations, while providing government agencies with an efficient and cost-effective channel. Zendesk Chat .

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Live Chat for Higher Education – The Ultimate 101 Guide

Comm100

Benefits of live chat in higher ed Higher education live chat use cases Best live chat for higher education Live chat for higher education is a tool that sits on websites that lets students communicate in real-time with support agents using a chat window similar to messaging apps. of blended learners and 90.4% of blended learners and 9.6%

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Customer Satisfaction is Declining in the UK. Is the US Next?

Beyond Philosophy

The UK CSI measures what’s relevant to consumers and customers in five different areas: Professionalism: How helpful and knowledgeable are the people or websites I visit? She believes this decline has to do with many aspects: Consumers are more challenging and more demanding because of fewer resources and higher expectations. .

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Too Big To Care? Why Mega-Mergers Threaten Us

Beyond Philosophy

The Communications Workers of America, the union for telecom workers, predicts a loss of 20,000 U.S. Former Federal Communications Commissions’ chairman Tom Wheeler credits the four-carrier model in the U.S. I founded my global Customer Experience consultancy in 2002. Now there are but a few major players in each industry.

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11 Companies That Outsource Sales and Why Should You Too

Magellan Solutions

Verizon Communications is one of the most prominent telecommunications companies in the world. Procter & Gamble, or P&G, is one of the world’s biggest consumer goods corporations. It was founded in 2002 in California, where its headquarters are located to this day. Procter & Gamble.

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Was a Gender-Neutral Doll the Right Move for Mattel?

Chadwick Martin Bailey

It was 2002. Here is a major toymaker refusing to communicate an expectation that “boys will be boys” and “girls will be girls.” Did I ever tell you about my dissertation…? Wait, don’t go! I promise it’s interesting. My advisor and I had been studying gender stereotypes, which we found were still depressingly pervasive. This is huge.

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