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How Retailers Can Use AI to Improve Customer Experience and Build Trust

Retail TouchPoints

Consumers are only one click away from retailers at all times. While this certainly makes online shopping easier, it also means that consumers expect fast, first-contact resolutions during customer service interactions — and unfortunately, retailers can struggle to meet this demand.

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ESW Joins Adobe Technology Partner Program As Gold Partner

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Specialization enables ESW to expand its reach in unlocking global direct-to-consumer ecommerce growth for merchants New York, NY—November 16, 2023—ESW, a global direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce company, today announced it is now a Gold Partner in Adobe’s Technology Partner Program.

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AI Steps into the Retail Arena

Retail TouchPoints

2023 was a period of experimentation for retailers, and many thoroughly assessed where this new technology could have the biggest impact. Retailers must move quickly to deploy transformative technologies or risk putting relevancy and their brand experience at risk. Now is not the time to be in analysis paralysis.

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How Retailers Can Satisfy Demand for Instant Gratification

Retail TouchPoints

During the COVID-19 pandemic, homebound consumers became digital-first natives as they turned to self-service channels to manage their lives and satisfy their shopping needs. Consumer expectations have taken a quantum leap as more and more customers turn to ecommerce in lieu of brick-and-mortar locations.

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The Customer is Always Right: Why Programmable Voice is a Key Component of Digital Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Vonage’s latest global research shows voice calls are a top-two preferred communication channel by consumers when connecting with brands, and this is likely to increase in the coming year. However, when considering voice as a channel, it’s not just about making phone calls.

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Google Cloud’s Carrie Tharp: Forget Omnichannel, Retail Needs to be ‘Channel-less’

Retail TouchPoints

Carrie Tharp, VP, Retail & Consumer, Google Cloud. These retailers are using the Cloud to unlock digital potential across their business — both online and in stores — and Carrie Tharp, Google Cloud’s VP of Retail and Consumer, is helping them do it. Now more than ever, “omni” is the focus.

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Encourage Your Customers to Call Again. Here’s How.

Retail TouchPoints

Phone-based customer service, or voice, is well established as the most commonly used and the most tightly managed customer service channel. It may be exactly what contact centers need to not just move on from deflection, but have the confidence to once again encourage customers to call. What the voice channel needs is an AI Agent.

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