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Facing yet another year marked by economic uncertainty, brands need to forge connections by not just offering discounts. They also must authentically engage shoppers with exceptional product experiences and champion eco-conscious practices.

The concept of CRM evolving into a "customer personal assistant" is feasible and aligns with the broader trend of AI-driven personalization and automation. However, its success depends on various factors, including the organization's resources, technology infrastructure, and available data quality.

Applying AI to customer service as a test case does have some advantages. Customers are different from sales prospects. A prospect can ghost you, but a customer has a need to make things work both product-wise and throughout the relationship.

AI integration is rapidly enhancing the capabilities of CRM platforms and how businesses interact with customers while retaining loyalty. Many customer experience leaders see expanding into new technologies as a way to mitigate the threat of lost customers and falling sales. This growing expansion o...

Merchants must provide payment options to reach Gen Z in 2024 and beyond so they do not get left behind by a generation of consumers who take their business elsewhere.

2023 will go down as the year that ChatGPT and other large language model generative AI tools hit the ground running, which put most CRM vendors in a full sprint to catch the newest wave. It also put some of us into a tizzy about the future of human life.

In today's competitive market, adding a human touch to e-commerce buying is a strategic need. It shows a deeper awareness of changing consumer expectations beyond the obvious benefits of improving customer pleasure and loyalty.

In response to evolving customer experience trends, there's an increasing demand for advanced digital support, as AI and human interaction strive to balance in meeting modern consumer expectations and enhancing customer service efficiency.

Navigating the transition from CRM 2.0 to CRM 3.0 requires a focus on ethics and proactive problem-solving, paralleling trends in modern medicine. Some CRM vendors, like Salesforce, are trying to instill the idea.

E-commerce musical instrument supplier Sweetwater will not be singing a new tune under its newly-appointed CEO, Mike Clem. Instead, the company will be cranking up the volume to stay true to what it does best -- meeting its customers' needs.

Last week, I was all over Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) like a junkyard dog. In the quarter-mile race that is the software industry, I have to say that from a standing start, Oracle has done quite well.

Inaccurate product information sows confusion, undermines trust, and boosts return rates, costing retailers both revenue and credibility. Learn why smart retailers invest in product information systems.

A new report highlights merchants' shift towards customer retention, with a greater emphasis on technology and loyalty programs to combat increasing churn and drive long-term growth.

This is the year everything CRM changes, thanks to AI. It's going to take some time to absorb something as powerful and manifold as AI, and we shouldn't expect instant change. That's why I'm sticking my neck out to say that understanding AI might just be the work of a generation.