Posts Tagged ‘omnichannel’

This is a three-part blog post series, digging deep into the area of Community for nonprofit hospitals and healthcare systems. In this first post, I explore the current status and identify strategies for stickiness with a healthcare omnichannel presence. Hospitals operating as nonprofit organizations provide a number benefits to their local communities, in the form […]

Consumers are digitally savvy, well informed, and more demanding than ever. Not investing in resources that digitally transform customer care will become a competitive disadvantage. This series explores six technology trends for delivering smarter and more strategic customer care. Trend #5: Omnichannel Experiences Amplify Customer Loyalty The thought of calling customer service might be off-putting. Regardless of […]

Facial recognition technology is quickly advancing and going beyond the ever-popular security use cases. Now retailers can use it to deliver an omnichannel shopping experience. This is significant considering a 2018 Customer Experience/Unified Commerce Survey of top North American retailers found that 73% of customers expect order tracking across all touch points, but only 7% […]

It’s the beginning of the year and there is no shortage of “Top Digital Trends” articles describing all the ways organizations need to be heads up to the next big thing in digital if they don’t want their expenses to increase and profits shrink. These articles are full of valuable information. Some of it may […]

Delivering seamless, consistent, and engaging experiences starts with a customer-centered digital strategy. This ongoing series explores the characteristics that make up a great digital strategy and how to deliver powerful brand moments that solidify customer loyalty and drive differentiation for your organization. Frictionless service means never getting in the way of the moments that serve […]

Come meet our experts Jim Butz, MicroStrategy Practice General Manager, and Kevin Bauer, Digital Marketing Practice Director, as they showcase demos and retail expertise at NRF 2019 next week. Demos will be held at the MicroStrategy booth (#1955) and will highlight augmented analytics, chatbots, voice, natural language technology, digital intelligence, digital marketing analytics, and data-driven omnichannel experience. […]

Customers may not be fully aware of all the moving parts and pieces that combine to form their retail experience, but they do notice when the journey is disjointed across a retailer’s various channels. Whether a customer is shopping online, skimming through a brand’s social media, or visiting a brick-and-mortar store, the customer experience should […]

  In what may be a first and only example of Tech meeting mainline music publication, I reference a Rolling Stone Article about How Grand Theft Auto is Changing the Way the World Experiences Music. Here’s the summary: GTA V and its multiplayer GTA Online mode has already proven itself a thriving game and money […]

Total Retail recently released its annual ranking of the top 100 publicly traded retailers, and athletic wear company Lids Sports Group found themselves in the #1 position. We are thrilled for our client Lids on this recognition, and for its commitment to continuously transforming itself to compete, win, and differentiate in an increasingly sophisticated omnichannel […]

What You Missed in Salesforce News — April 16, 2018 Salesforce Acquires Mulesoft and Announces Integration Cloud Think About the “Who”: Tips for Using Change Management for a Successful Transition to Lightning The Need for a Seamless Shopping Experience Dealing with the Disengaged: Transforming Unhappy Staff into Productive and Engaged Employees Pardot Introduces Emoji 8 […]

The recent release of Engagement Cloud introduced Omnichannel framework, which provides automatic, real-time agent assignment of communication channels used by Service processes. An omnichannel customer experience requires gathering context and information across all engagement channels throughout the entire customer journey so your agents can view every interaction, from the first website visit to ongoing engagement on social […]

Lloyds Banking Group, a company with 30 million customers under several brands including Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, and Halifax, has put forth additional cost-saving measures to help the company weather poor economic conditions and better meet customer expectations. On top of the 9,000 jobs and 200 retail branches the bank outlined to eliminate in […]