FICO

MAY 19, 2016

In my last post, I discussed the eight disciplines critical for companies looking to improve their maturity in managing customer experience. The eight disciplines are contained within the large gray box with a key input coming from a company’s business and brand strategies. Please register here and join me.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2016

If you’re a retailer or a brand, it seems as though eCommerce and the rise of smartphones and mobile shopping have made your customers more cost-savvy and price-aware than ever before. Well, the rise of eCommerce and mobile shopping doesn’t have to mean doom and gloom for luxury brands or retailers.

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Cisco

MAY 5, 2021

Before 2020, traditional financial enterprises were already focusing on digital transformation initiatives—both as an effort to improve customer experiences and a need to adapt to survive. Meeting customers where they are has been a common phrase and goal that customers share with us. Real-time SMS communications.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In the latest “Monetizing Payments” podcast with Karen Webster, Bob Butler, president of Payrix , offered up that example to show just how far we’ve come in terms of customer expectations, and how payments fit into the equation of delivering a seamless commerce experience.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

With nearly three decades of experience directing commercial lending, corporate finance, and insurance for leading brands, Perficient’s Insurance Principal, Brian Bell, stands at the forefront of our financial services practice. Join our team and experience a culture that challenges, champions, and celebrates our people.    

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

That’s just an expression, of course. Shopping apps are blowing up as the biggest name in retailing and brand marketing turn mobile commerce into customer experience gold. There are plans to make and things to buy, and in summer 2020, people are buying online like it’s going out of business.

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Perficient

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Financial firms cannot singlehandedly control inflation, of course, but they can position themselves as knowledgeable partners that customers can depend on to be in their corner. Here are four ways financial institutions can better support struggling customers during periods of high inflation: 1.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Customers will migrate to the merged Virgin Money over the course of three years, and while the company will initially have an estimated 9,500 employees, CYBG said it plans to remove about one-sixth of that headcount. banking, with a clear ambition to provide customers with the best service in the U.K.,”

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Perficient

MARCH 8, 2023

The program has 10 courses in topics including business finance, digital marketing, and innovation strategy. Gone are the days when a company could just add some (traditionally) feminine branding and call its efforts toward gender inclusivity sufficient.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

A poor customer experience can cause FIs and enterprises to lose customers, of course. And for the customers, there’s the rabbit hole of trying to prove that the bad guys co-opted their names, social security numbers and other data.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There were cheap sofas in abundance on the planet — and of course extremely expensive options out there. The marketing tool that ended up working best for the brand was opening a physical store — and giving customers a chance to interact with their line of couches. That, he noted, seemed to be the donut hole in the market.

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Perficient

MAY 21, 2021

While she completed the prep course in Python coding from Bright Paths, she was never exposed to computers apart from emails. This FinTech app allows users to invest in a portfolio in their favorite brands or companies (DoorDash, Lululemon, Target, Costco, Amazon, etc.) She was inspired to try her hand at it and improve.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

The goods for sale, despite the LEGO branding, aren’t building sets or toys, but a line of streetwear themed around LEGO in general – and, specifically, around the new LEGO movie. LEGO, of course, is best known for toys, but the company does a lot more. And the virtual LEGO DJ was particularly popular.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

The trouble with direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands is that the name belies how hard it actually is to reach and recruit the consumer. This is particularly hard for unknown emerging brands — and it gets exponentially harder the more crowded the field gets with competitors.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There really is no magic formula, and brands are spending serious money on strategies before truly answering this question. What makes a consumer loyal may not be the things brands expect. Customers must first know, then grow to like, and ultimately trust a brand before joining its loyalty program. The Toolkit.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Instead of trying to “Wow” your customer, in this article, we present the “time-on-task metric” (and its companion, the Customer Effort Score (CES) framework) and detail not only why it matters but why it can change the course of your bank. The Problem with Focusing on Customer Service.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

“Keep an eye out for multiple accounts being created with the same email address or phone number [and] reach out to the customer for clarification and more information or terminate the loyalty account, depending on what the best course of action is for your business. It puts us in a bind.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

There is real value for us in being a brand that uses Afterpay,” Weinstock said. It is a value that Bombas has been looking to extend — as Afterpay is a beginning to the changes it hopes to make to its checkout experience specifically, and its eCommerce experience in general. That effort starts with the data, he said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2017

Part of the dual-concept upgrade is aesthetic, offering what the company refers to as a more “contemporary look” for its retail space — complete with the high ceilings and modern tile floors that have become something of a design favorite for the brand. As of last quarter, the brand saw comparable sales up 3.2

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Creating better real-time customer experiences based on conversational interfaces. At the least, the chatbot can be utilized for rudimentary customer support inquiries, but smart brands will also build unique and fun branded content experiences.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There were cheap sofas in abundance on the planet – and of course extremely expensive options out there. The marketing tool that ended up working best for the brand was opening a physical store – and giving customers a change interact with their line of couches. For me, the collaboration was a natural next step.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

As Pizza Hut stumbles financially and Domino’s races ahead, the commitment to the customer experience is under a microscope, and home delivery is a critical element of that experience. Restaurants need to meet guests where they are – and remain on-brand throughout the experience.

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Insights on Business

MAY 12, 2017

To further complicate the landscape, customer expectations continue to evolve, as they anticipate seamless service and experience across brand touchpoints. In an industry, where the never-ending battle is for customer experience, loyalty, and top talent, what are the ways in which incumbent firms can reinvent their businesses?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

The company was best known to the public as a nice, safe, legacy brand most famous for its catalog business from the ’80s and ’90s. By 2017, of course, Lands’ End was well down the road from its catalog-dependent early days — but the company wasn’t being run that way. And they aren’t already regular customers. Full stop.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It’s not just about stealing products from shelves, of course. Though many consumers have yet to shift focus onto the season (Halloween is next on their agenda, after the rush of back-to-school shopping), retail preparations, of course, are well underway. Gift cards and loyalty programs, too, present attractive targets for criminals.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. Innovation labs and technology and business incubators are nothing new, of course, but the rise of eCommerce, omnichannel retail, digital payments and other such efforts has provided fresh fuel and motivation to that trend. In other words, PepsiCo Inc.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

Credit unions — along with most FIs — also have something else at stake when it comes to loyalty and rewards programs: branding. But bigger banks also have an advantage there, of course, as their marketing gives them presence in more locations than credit unions. “As Customer Experience. Easier said than done, right?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

And 26 percent of that population has avoided getting help for the problem due to high cost and a demeaning customer experience. A growing direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand aims to fix the stigma around hearing loss as well as the equipment issue that hinders its treatment. They have tested, and they deliver a great experience.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

PSD2 and open banking have led to something of a paradigm shift for banks, shedding light on an emerging and crucial problem: The legacy FIs that must share data can no longer trust that consumers will access bank products through their own branded offerings.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

Traditional hotels and motels have the benefit of consistency: One knows what they are getting end-to-end when they check into a Hilton or Marriott , as sameness of experience is critical to those brands. And, of course, hotel rooms can be rather small and confining – particularly when staying in them for more than a night or two.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Not to mention, all those late nights desperately striving to absorb all the information we should have learned over the course of weeks instead of hours, had we the good sense to keep pace with the work. We all remember cramming — all that coffee and/or soda, all those books, notes and ink stains. Digital Progress.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2018

The goal for all retailers is, of course, to deliver an excellent experience, both online and in stores, and to find ways for those disparate experiences to mesh seamlessly with one another. That is, with its labyrinth of a showroom floor and its iconic Swedish meatballs, IKEA has always delivered a unique customer experience.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This conference is crucial because it provides insight into small business banking and has a good mix of essential banking-focused topics with a heavy emphasis on the customer experience. Other banks focused on the customer experience, while others looked at technology that enhanced cross-selling.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

It adds a layer of confusion, frustration and, of course, cost for online shoppers that compromises a retailers’ effort to offer a seamless experience to buyers anywhere. “It provides certainty to the consumer,” said Sheley, “and it gives tools to the issuers to create some really unique customer experiences.”

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Social Assurance

APRIL 13, 2021

For most financial brands, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Banking are still concepts and buzz words that we hear at a conference or read in an industry-related article (not like this one you’re currently reading) that leaves you more intimidated than empowered. How can financial brands use AI? Net Income.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In the latest installment of The Matchmaker Is In, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster and David Evans sat down (virtually, of course) to discuss the ways companies can sell across several marketplaces online with RevCascade CEO Josh Wexler. But it is the retailer, said Wexler, “who remains in total control” of the customer experience.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

“Turning away a good order is so damaging,” Rich Stupp y, chief customer experience officer at Kount, told PYMNTS. Not only does your business lose the revenue, but you can drive a frustrated customer to your competitor — even worse, the customer might share [his or her] negative experience with others, damaging brand reputation.”.

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