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  • The Power of Email Personalisation: Unlocking Engagement and Conversions

    The Power of Email Personalisation: Unlocking Engagement and Conversions

    Introduction


    In today’s digital world, where inboxes are flooded with countless emails, capturing the attention of recipients and driving engagement is more challenging than ever. Email personalization has emerged as a powerful strategy to cut through the noise and connect with your audience on a deeper level. In this blog post, we will explore the significance of email personalization and provide actionable tips to help you leverage its potential for driving higher engagement, conversions, and customer loyalty.

    1. Understand Your Audience:
      To personalize your emails effectively, you need a deep understanding of your audience. Segment your email list based on demographic data, behavior, preferences, and past interactions. This segmentation allows you to tailor your messaging and offers to specific groups, ensuring relevance and resonating with recipients.
    2. Dynamic Content and Personalized Recommendations:
      Employ dynamic content and personalized recommendations in your emails to deliver tailored experiences. Use customer data, such as purchase history or browsing behavior, to showcase products or content that align with each recipient’s interests. This level of personalization enhances engagement and drives higher click-through and conversion rates.
    3. Personalized Subject Lines:
      Crafting personalized subject lines is a proven tactic for capturing attention and increasing email open rates. Incorporate the recipient’s name or reference their recent interaction or purchase to make the subject line more relevant and enticing. A well-crafted subject line can entice recipients to open your email and explore its content further.
    4. Behavioral Triggers and Automated Workflows:
      Implement automated email workflows based on specific user behaviors or actions. For example, send a personalized welcome email to new subscribers, trigger abandoned cart reminders, or follow up with customers after a purchase. By automating these workflows, you can deliver timely, relevant, and personalized messages to nurture leads and drive conversions.
    5. Personalized Greetings and Salutations:
      Start your emails with personalized greetings to create an immediate connection with the recipient. Address them by their name or use personalized phrases that reflect their relationship with your brand. This small touch adds a personal touch and shows that you value their individuality.
    6. Use Social Proof and Recommendations:
      Incorporate social proof elements, such as customer testimonials or reviews, into your emails. Highlight positive feedback related to the recipient’s interests or recent interactions with your brand. Additionally, include personalized recommendations based on similar customers’ preferences to spark interest and increase the likelihood of conversion.
    7. A/B Testing and Optimization:
      Continuously test and optimize your personalized email campaigns. Experiment with different personalization elements, subject lines, content formats, and calls-to-action to identify what resonates best with your audience. A/B testing allows you to refine your personalization strategies and maximize engagement and conversions over time.
    8. Privacy and Consent:
      Respect privacy regulations and obtain proper consent from your subscribers. Clearly communicate how you will use their data to personalize emails and offer an easy way for recipients to manage their preferences or unsubscribe. Maintaining trust and transparency is vital for long-term relationships with your audience.

    Conclusion


    Email personalization is a game-changer in today’s competitive marketing landscape. By leveraging personalization strategies, you can connect with your audience on a deeper level, drive engagement, and boost conversions. Understanding your audience, incorporating dynamic content, personalizing subject lines, leveraging behavioral triggers, using personalized greetings, incorporating social proof, and continuously optimizing your campaigns are key steps to unlock the full potential of email personalization. Embrace the power of personalization to create meaningful connections and deliver remarkable email experiences that resonate with your recipients.

  • This week in CX: UK marketers are struggling with generative AI and customer connection

    Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we’re looking at how marketers in eCommerce are missing that vital customer connection, and how they may be lacking behind now we have generative AI at hand. We’re also learning what are the top motivators in customer service teams, and what…
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  • Webinar – Debunking Myths and Unleashing the Power of GPT in Customer Experience

    Whether you admit it or not, GPT really changed the way everyone works. Question though, will that answer ALL your business problems? In 5 days, we will be “Debunking Myths and Unleashing the Power of GPT in Customer Experience” that is on May 16th at 15:00 EEST, where industry experts Carlos Del Corral, Co-founder & CEO of Lumoa, and Craig Stoss, Director of CX Services at Partner Hero, will discuss the myths and opportunities surrounding GPT implementation in customer experience initiatives. During this 30 mins fireside chat, Craig and Carlos will discuss: Common misconceptions about Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT The limitations of GPT and the importance of relying on platforms that use these models How to talk about LLMs inside the company The role of human expertise in identifying use cases for LLMs Reserve your spot, join us, and learn more about this controversial topic: https://app.livestorm.co/lumoa-1/debunking-gpt-in-customer-experience?type=detailed submitted by /u/CXLumoa [link] [comments]

  • Useful assumptions for teachers

    Not simply in the classroom, but anywhere we hope to inform, inspire or educate:

    Assume enrollment. Either someone is committed to learning or they’re not. While many situations place people into a spot where they are compelled to show up (exhibit A: learning arithmetic in grade school), it’s almost impossible to teach well if people don’t care. If folks aren’t enrolled, then the first job is to change that. If you’re worried that they’ll click away or drift off, it’s difficult to do good work.

    Assume good intent. This is a cousin of enrollment. If you’re worried that someone is going to use an AI to write an essay, it’s easy to spend all your time building walls instead of bridges.

    Assume fear. Learning creates change, and change is scary. In addition, we’re briefly incompetent just before we understand… we know that something can be done, but we don’t know how to do it (yet). When in doubt, look for the fear.

    Assume a lack of context. The reason you ‘know’ something is because you know it. You understand what came before, what’s next to it, how it works, what the language of your field is (both words and concepts). If you’re teaching something new, you can’t be sure that’s true for them. More time on context and less time on tips and bullet points creates the conditions for understanding.

    Assume connection. Some would like to believe that learning can be done alone, in a tower, with a laptop. But in fact, until we interact with other people or systems, all we’ve done is absorb, we haven’t yet understood.

  • Skipping the good days

    Part of the luxury of living near the ocean or the mountains is that you can be picky. If the surf or the powder isn’t great, leave it for the tourists. Good is insufficient, wait for the great moments…

    When we’re young, or the project is going really well, it’s easy to waste the good days. After all, there will be another one tomorrow.

    What becomes clear, though, is that good days are precious. When you’re feeling even a little creative, don’t wait. Write it down, roll tape, speak up. When you’re feeling reasonably healthy, go for a walk.

    They’re all good days, if we choose.

  • Leading Contact Center Conferences and Events

    Attending contact center conferences and live events is an excellent way to keep up with technology and best practices in this rapidly changing industry. Consider attending an industry event if you’d like to sharpen your management and customer service skills. You’ll be glad you did! They’re fun, inspiring, and an excellent chance to learn something new while building new relationships.
    Call Center and Customer Service Conferences
    If you’re wondering what contact center or customer service industry conferences to attend in 2023, we’ve got you covered! Our conferences and events page offers a comprehensive listing – and in this blog, we’ll take a closer look at three noteworthy events happening in 2023.
    3 Notable Contact Center Conferences and Events
    Healthcare Contact Center Times Conference, June 7-9
    Atlanta, Georgia
    Looking to embrace a new era and elevate your contact center to new heights? The Healthcare Contact Center Times Conference will share insights into the latest technologies, leadership strategies, and offer a chance to discuss the lessons learned from the past few years. You can connect with old friends and expand your network by meeting new colleagues who share your passion for excellence.
    This conference is designed to leave you energized and motivated to lead your team to success. You’ll walk away with hands-on tactics you can put to work immediately. You’ll also have the chance to explore the latest features, services, and information technology from vendors and exhibitors, all aimed at helping guide your contact center to success in the future.
    This three-day professional gathering will feature cutting-edge topics that directly relate to the call and contact center spaces in healthcare. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to network with your peers, both formally and informally, as you discover strategies that ensure your contact center’s future success.
    Visit Fonolo at Booth # 15 to learn how call-backs can improve your RCM!
    Avaya Engage, June 18-21
    Orlando, Florida
    Avaya Engage is contact center professionals looking to discover what’s next in customer experience technologies. The conference offers the opportunity to understand Avaya’s newest features and discover how the centerpiece of Avaya cloud solutions –  the Avaya Experience Platform – is changing.
    The Keynote Speaker series is led by award-winning chef, restauranteur and humanitarian, Jose Andres. Andres is known for his ground-breaking approach to cuisine and for his advocacy of food and hunger issues. The main stage will feature other remarkable professionals who are redefining the future of work and elevating the customer experience through innovation.
    Attendees will choose from over 80 breakout sessions to learn from the top minds in the industry. The diverse topics covered include: innovations in workforce engagement, Avaya’s roadmap for the future of CX and discussions about the merits of SIP technology.
    Visit Fonolo at Booth #275 and discover how easily Fonolo Call-Backs deploy on the Avaya platform!
    Call Center and Customer Service Conferences
    CCW, June 19-22
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    In 2023, Customer Contact Week celebrates 25 years of bringing together industry executives to share insights and ideas while building relationships. The conference has evolved along with the industry and is now widely regarded as an innnovator, incubator of disruptive ideas and the most important event in the industry for customer experience and contact center executives.
    This year’s program themes include generative AI and emerging tech; omnichannel and self-service; operations and efficiency and a host of other essential topics. Join 3000 industry professionals to participate in these and other essential discussions.
    Two-time Olympic gold medallist and FIFA champion soccer legend Abby Wambach leads an impressive line-up of keynote speakers with a talk about bringing people together to unleash personal power and change the game.
    Expect unparalleled networking opportunities, strategic insights from thought leaders and game-changing innovations that can advance your contact center and your career.
    Visit Fonolo at Booth #428 to learn how call-backs can do more for your contact center!The post Leading Contact Center Conferences and Events first appeared on Fonolo.

  • What is digital fingerprinting and should I be worried about it?

    Unless you’ve been burying your head in the sand or avoiding technology like the plague, you’re probably aware that every move you make online is being tracked by data collection companies. This normally involves setting cookies on your browser or sweeping the internet for information you may have volunteered in the past, both of which…
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  • Choosing your pacemaker

    Roger Bannister ran a four-minute mile by having a relay race of pace runners next to him. If he could keep up with his pacer, he’d finish the run in record time.

    If you work in an office where people are regularly shipping breakthrough work, it’s likely your work will ship as well. If you’re in an industry or a zip code where entrepreneurs regularly build and fund businesses of scale, it’s more likely you will too.

    The pacing team isn’t an accident. It’s a choice.

    Just because it’s slow (or too fast, or too brutal, or too senseless) around here doesn’t mean it has to stay that way. Or that you have to stay around here.

  • How has social media enhanced the customer experience?

    Social media has changed the way we interact not just with each other but with businesses too. Businesses that used to be reachable only via a phone call can now be contacted anytime, anywhere, with your smartphone. But just how much has social media changed today’s customer experience? There’s no understating it, social media completely…
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  • What comes after trust?

    Walk into a bank with a stocking on your head and you’re probably going to get arrested.

    Civil society as we know it is dependent on identity and responsibility. A person does something and owns the consequences. This requirement of identity leads to the dynamic of the free market that we call trust.

    Even companies, which aren’t people but lately have been given many of their privileges, occasionally have to pay the price for abusing our trust.

    But what happens when the email, the essay, the voice, the interactions–aren’t from a person, but from a swarm of bots? Is that really Donny Osmond singing us Happy Birthday or a clever AI construction?

    [On the other hand, people are really making good use of the free AI on this blog–and so far, it’s pretty trustworthy.]

    When the internet began to chip away at our interpersonal relationships, we relied on brand names or clues to figure out what was real. We invented captchas and filters to figure out who or what was truthworthy.

    A certain kind of trust is no longer useful. Selfish hustlers are going to be one of the first big winners in the AI race, abusing systems that were built on traditional ideas of identity and responsibility.

    Then what?

    This is a fine moment to start taking the question seriously.