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Key Strategies For Embracing CX in Your Organization
Understanding and Embracing CX Across the Organization The Past Year Has Been a Wake-Up Call About the Vital Need to Invest in a ... read more

New Feature Announcement: Promotion Support Digital Worker
Automate Over 90% of Promotions Related Support Inquiries With the New Linc 'Promotion Support Digital Worker' With the ... read more

Are You Getting a 360 Degree View of Your Customer?
What is a 360-Degree Customer View? "A 360-degree customer view often called a single customer view is an aggregation ... read more

Retailers Keep Up With Shopper Expectations With Omnichannel Fulfillment
Nearly everything about the retail shopping experience has changed since the pandemic. One of the biggest differences is the ... read more

How to Supercharge Your Chatbot With Omnichannel AI
Advances in Chatbot Technology Have Engaged Consumers and Transformed the Shopping Experience. Combined With Omnichannel AI, ... read more

4 Ways Customers and Retailers Win Big With Live Chat
Retailers are Suffering From Long Wait Times and Decreased Sales During the Pandemic. Using Live Chat Can Help Close the Communication ... read more

Omnichannel AI Customer Service: The Key to Survival in The Evolution of Retail
Retailers and Brands That Innovated and Pivoted Early, Embracing Omnichannel AI to Power Their Customer Service Weathered the Storm ... read more

4 Planning Mistakes Retailers Must Avoid This Holiday Season | 2020
Just as Important as Taking the Right Steps This Holiday Season is Avoiding the Wrong Ones. In such a unique year, the risk of ... read more

How Retailers Can Adapt To A New Holiday Reality in 2020
How Can Retailers Take the Customer Experience Lessons of 2020 and Apply them to the coming Holiday Season? To date, the effects of ... read more

Customer Experience Offerings Essential for Apparel Brands in 2020
In 2020 Apparel Brands Need to Deliver an Incredible Customer Experience that Includes Offerings to Increase Brand Loyalty As ... read more

The Future of AI Powered Customer Service
Customer Service Automation Through Conversational AI Has Become More Crucial Than Ever Before COVID-19 has upended the way ... read more

How To Choose a Customer Experience (CX) Platform
With Many Emerging Technologies Available, How Do You Choose which Customer Experience (CX) Platform is Right for You? If we have ... read more

3 Ways to Automate the Customer Experience Right Now
The Need for Many Leading Brands to Provide a Differentiated Customer Experience Will be the Key to Success the Remainder of This Year ... read more

How Luxury Brands Can Deliver 1:1 Customer Experiences at Scale
Luxury brands are moving with the times at last. But in the rush to appeal to a new generation of buyers, it’s essential to maintain ... read more

Retailers Can Thrive Post Covid-19 With CX Automation
There is No Segment of the Retail Industry That Remains Untouched by COVID-19. CX Automation is a Necessity for Retailers and Brands to read more

The New Normal: Building Brand Loyalty and Trust Long-Term
Even when businesses reopen fully and shoppers are able to browse the aisles once again, the need for online customer support won’t ... read more

Differentiate the Beauty Customer Experience To Build Lasting Loyalty
Customer Experience (CX) Is a Vital Component of Building Lasting Brand Loyalty in Competitive Online Retail Landscapes The beauty ... read more

Your CX Playbook: How to Build an Automation First CX Strategy
We believe automation holds the key to differentiating those brands that are truly serious about customer experience (CX) from those ... read more

Go Beyond Live Chat to Stimulate Buying as Restrictions Ease
As difficult as it’s been for retailers to pivot to online-only sales and limited fulfillment options, they may face an equally steep ... read more

How To Scope An Automation-First CX Strategy
Developing a winning automation-first CX strategy might sound daunting, but the process doesn’t have to be if you approach it with an ... read more

Building the Business Case for CX Automation First
There comes a time in every industry’s life cycle when it can no longer avoid grappling with the influence and impact of technology on ... read more

Prioritize Customer Service Automation to Navigate the Recovery
One-to-One Customer Care is Critical Not Just in a Crisis, but for Rebuilding Sales and Earning Long-Term Loyalty As retailers ... read more

Stimulate Buying When We Start Coming Out Of This
When we start coming out of this, consumer uncertainty is going to lead many brands to need to find ways to alleviate stress and help ... read more

Be More Responsive and Protect Your Brand In These Trying Times
Your business is no doubt going through trying times. Whether YouTube needed to reduce your call center staff thus creating ... read more

eTail 2020: Direct Customer Conversations Drive High Organic Revenue Growth
eTail 2020 Conference We Covered Direct Customer Conversations and Their Value in Driving High Organic Revenue Growth We attended ... read more

How Conversational AI Makes Human Agents More Efficient
For most retailers, customer care AI offers the ability to provide streamlined bespoke experiences at a scale that human agents simply ... read more

Take Advantage of Bespoke Customer Experience for Your Brand
Learn How Your Brand Can Deliver Stellar Shopping Experiences With Bespoke Customer Service When you hear the word “bespoke,” what read more

The Quality of AI Will Make Or Break Brands This Year – 2020 Trends
As pressure mounts to differentiate with swift and superb service via interactive channels, more and more brands are turning to ... read more

Conversational Commerce is a Must Have After This Holiday Season
If early 2019 holiday results are any indication, the time is fast approaching when mobile will dominate the peak season online. To ... read more

2019 Conversational AI Recap
Conversational commerce is on the rise, and 2019 saw key developments laying the groundwork for one-to-one customer experiences to ... read more

New Feature: FAQ Curator for Conversational AI and Post-Purchase Engagement
With Chatbots and Conversational AI leading the charge for digital innovation and customer experience, businesses are swiftly learning ... read more

5 Reasons Why Retailers Should Optimize For Live Chat
With a plethora of channels demanding attention, aggressive revenue targets to hit and customer expectations growing by the day, why ... read more

Conversational Commerce Demo: Voice Assistant Return & Re-order
https://vimeo.com/276075465 Branded Conversational Commerce Demonstration With Linc AI Voice Assistance Integrated with ... read more

2020 Trends in Customer Experience: Two-Way Conversations Flourish
The Internet has not only increased the importance of customer service as a differentiator; it’s changed altogether the way shoppers ... read more

2020 CX Trends: AI Customer Service is the Secret Sauce
Over nearly three decades, Internet shopping has ushered in many changes to the retail landscape -- one of which is that a growing ... read more

2019 Holiday Survival Kit: Use Holiday Service as a Loyalty Builder
The bar is moving higher for what constitutes standout service. Self-service content and smooth interactions across touchpoints are ... read more

2019 Holiday Survival Kit: Perfect Blended Human/AI Capabilities
As shoppers increasingly rely on digital assistants such as Siri and Alexa, and as merchants use AI to deliver personalized service for read more

Omnichannel Transitions for Stellar Customer Experience | 2019
Stellar holiday customer experience now requires that merchants orchestrate offerings across multiple boundaries. Not only must ... read more

2019 Holiday Planning | Content Preparation
As merchants prepare to navigate holiday sales spikes, they should focus on proactive triage. By addressing common questions and ... read more

2019 Holiday Prep Survival Kit
Heading into the 2019 holiday season, perfecting the customer experience is more important and more challenging than ever. Omnichannel read more

Your Data Won’t Get Results Without Context
As featured in Forbes In our digital world, customer centricity, the customer experience and personalization separate the winners from read more

Best Practices for Setting up a Referral Marketing Program
Guest Post from our Partners at Talkable People naturally trust other people. For example, imagine your friend sends you a link to a read more

How to Evaluate an Automated Shopper Assistance Platform
Cultivating potential loyal customers over one-time purchasers is the key driver for reimagining the retail CX relationship between ... read more

Automated Shopper Assistance: What It Is and What It Means for Retailers
What is Automated Shopper Assistance and What Does it Mean For You as a Retailer? Simply put, automated shopper assistance ... read more

Multi-Channel Customer Journeys Are The New Reality
The linear customer journey a straight line from research to engagement to purchase where everything hinges on conversion and where the read more

Best Practices for Increasing Shopper Opt-In Rates
Shopper opt-ins are the secret sauce to marketing your products and services to your future and current customers. With the heavy ... read more

The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Reshaping the Customer Experience
AI has marked its importance across various sectors. With cheaper programming and enhanced algorithms, AI has successfully been able to read more

Building Your Conversational Commerce Technology Stack
Do you go it alone or outsource? This is a big decision, and a lot of money stands to be spent or saved, earned or lost. Do you go ... read more

New Feature Alert: Intelligent Promotion Botlet
How do you promote products without large advertising budgets and over-saturating email inboxes? This is a common problem many ... read more

Designing a Customer Experience Strategy for Conversational Commerce
When you master conversational commerce, you’ll deliver experiences that make your customers feel as if you hired a personal assistant ... read more

How the New Silo-Less Organization is Creating a CX Evolution
As Featured in Total Retail The customer experience (CX) doesn’t start when the customer arrives. Internal processes, methods and read more

New Feature Alert: Automated Assistance for BOPIS
As today’s savvy consumer becomes more demanding for the personalized customer experience, one thing is clear, buy online, pick-up in ... read more

New Feature Alert: Content Inspiration Botlet
We have all heard the mantra “content is king,” but are brands truly utilizing this and taking advantage of all the different ways they read more

6 Costly Misunderstandings about Chatbots and Amazon Alexa
Retailers are facing a raft of challenges this quarter. Amazon capturing more than half of total online retail growth, customers ... read more

2019 Omni-Channel Tech Journey
“Hey Google, how do I perfect an omnichannel journey?” “Sorry, I don’t know how to help with that yet.” Ok, so it’s not that easy read more

4 Steps for Integrating Customer Care Automation Into Your Marketing Strategy
As featured in Destination CRM The era of noreply@brand.com is over and the time for automated, conversational communications has ... read more

Customer Experience as the New Competitive Battleground
Buying and selling online began in earnest in the ‘90s. In 1995, the year Amazon and eBay both started, the internet existed as 120,000 read more

Conversational Commerce is the Future and the Present
Chris Messina, who helped to popularize the term and is the Developer Experience Lead at Uber, declared “2016 will be the year of ... read more

Press Release | CUTS Clothing Automates the Customer Experience
Through Linc’s platform, CUTS Clothing now offers automated solutions for anywhere, anytime customer care and engagement SUNNYVALE, ... read more

Deploy Customer Care Automation: Complement Existing Post-Purchase Solutions
The rules of customer engagement have changed. There is greater expectation on timeliness of resolution, personalization of service, ... read more

New Feature Alert: Consultative Buying Botlet
The evolution of automated customer care goes well beyond the post-purchase experience. Automated customer service is more than just read more

Using Enriched Data to Enhance Automation, Marketing, eCommerce and Operations Programs
As the customer’s preferences and means of communication change, so does the amount data and tracking we have about customers ... read more

The Evolution of Customer Care Automation
Since the first checkouts appeared online more than 20 years ago, the best-in-class standards in customer experience have changed ... read more

Customer Success: PacSun Differentiates the Customer Experience
Leveraging Linc Global’s Customer Care Automation Platform, PacSun offers proactive SMS notifications on order status and automates ... read more

How to Make a ChatBot Smarter
Chat Bot Intelligence - Current State A simple chat bot can answer simple queries about - “How is the weather?”, “How are you ... read more

The Challenges of Optimizing Post-Purchase in a Silo
As executives realize the need to reach customers on the channels they prefer, the post-purchase is the easiest and most common first ... read more

New Feature: Automated Web Chat and How It Will Change Customer Engagement Benchmarks
Your brand image depends on the customer service you provide. A once-unsatisfied customer is unlikely to visit your site ... read more

New Feature: Organic Marketing Opt-In
As brands are quickly learning, today’s customer wants to interact on the channel they want to use and at the time they want. Though read more

Customer Highlight: How Lamps Plus Delivers an Innovative Customer Experience
Angela Hsu, SVP Marketing and Ecommerce at Lamps Plus, the United States’ largest lighting retailer, recognized a need to take action ... read more

Six Challenges You Need To Conquer To Effectively Deliver Automated Customer Care
In my day-to-day work partnering with leading brands and retailers to solve customer challenges, I’ve often heard the statement, “We ... read more