Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Customer Stories. Experience Recovery. These are a handful of the topics discussed at this week’s Customer Experience for Financial Services (CXFS) Conference, organized by Worldwide Business Research in Charlotte, NC. This enables firms to mine and analyze the data to inform customer-centric innovation.

Customer Experience 100

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. Study after study confirms the importance of providing personalized, integrated experiences for satisfaction and retention of financial services customers. Opportunity #1: When opening a new account.

Customer Experience 72

Customer Experience Retail San Diego Study 72

PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Retailers are dutifully speaking with their payment service providers (PSPs) and industry partners to adhere to these shifts, but they must also keep their customers’ experiences in mind. retailer trade group, Retail Industry Leaders Association ( RILA ), told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

United States 131

United States Retail Customer Experience Data 131

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Fraud protection specialist Kount and Philadelphia-based payments platform FreedomPay are teaming up to offer “an integrated, complete solution to enable international expansion with fraud-free payments and frictionless customer” experiences. Before, they were limited to one or two areas. Today, they’re pretty much everywhere.”.

Fraud 174

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

It can be argued that some of the toughest buyers to keep in mind when planning out retail strategies are teenagers. While one day a teen may be into shopping strictly online, another day may see an offline preferred experience or a mixture of both, and retailers must be at the ready to transform engagement efforts at any given time.

Retail 127

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Before the dawn of 3D smartphone technology, it wasn’t easy for startups to create a customized product — and market it to a consumer. When the founders of King Children wanted to create eyewear to fit the custom needs of shoppers, for instance, they faced several challenges. For starters, customized products can be expensive.

Customer Experience 139

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

No longer are retailers working with marketers to figure out a way to mass market products and services. With the advent of connected devices in the palm of almost every consumer’s hand, the retail ecosystem has certainly seen a shift.

Retail 137

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

It can be argued that some of the toughest buyers to keep in mind when planning out retail strategies are teenagers. While one day a teen may be into shopping strictly online, another day may see an offline preferred experience or a mixture of both, and retailers must be at the ready to transform engagement efforts at any given time.

Retail 114

Retail social media Online Mobile 114

Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. Study after study confirms the importance of providing personalized, integrated experiences for satisfaction and retention of financial services customers. Opportunity #1: When opening a new account.

Customer Experience 48

Customer Experience Retail San Diego Study 48

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Carrboro, North Carolina-based chain has used its technology-first strategy to get, keep and grow its customer base – even while its stores were shut down early in the pandemic. Even now that its stores are open, the retailer has discovered that its eCommerce, curbside pickup and virtual fitting services remain popular with customers.

Technology 131

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Pinterest has rebranded its third-party partner program Marketing Partners into Pinterest Partners to facilitate a greater number of shopping experiences on its platform, according to a report by Retail Dive. It’s also teaming up with PixelYourSite and Tealium to keep an eye on the measurement of conversions and sales.

social media 115

social media Study Retail Customer Experience 115

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

We all know — and keep hearing almost ad nauseam — all about how the rise of online shopping is changing the very face of the retail industry and consumer habits. But what is that “changing face of retail” actually going to look like in a few years? How influential will mobile and social media be to their purchasing habits?

Retail 100

Retail social media Branding Online 100

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

With so many retailers hustling to capture the digital shift, it’s easy to let the details suffer. Unanswered customer complaints is one common example, particularly for companies that are new to amplifying their online channels. “At Lexus, we have always held guest experience as our top priority.

Online 151

Online Management social media Branding 151

NCR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Customer experience and the relationships consumers have with their banks have never been more important. They also offer a genuine alternative to established financial institutions, which must respond by showing they are not being left behind in the customer experience stakes.

Customer Experience 80

Customer Experience Data Branding social media 80

PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2017

To say that the retail industry is going through a minor transformation right now would be an understatement. While several store closings and bankruptcy filings have been reported over the past year, the retail news cycle hasn’t exactly painted an inspiring image for the future of retail.

social media 195

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

The digital retail revolution is well underway. Fusing technology into in-store experiences has officially gone mainstream, and retailers are looking for ways to go beyond the traditional mobile app. How much has AI affected the digital retail revolution and what’s next for it?

Retail 212

Retail Customer Experience Study Online 212

Perficient

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

What information is easily obtainable via social media, making it less useful for KYC and security purposes? Latency kills the customer experience, and many banks’ mobile apps are not fully optimized for mobile devices, with rich content slowing them down. How integrated are marketing and digital?

social media 309

social media Customer Experience Knowledge Base Mobile 309

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

According to a report in Fintech Futures , HSBC started the beta test with 15 retailers in Hong Kong. They can now accept payments from customers that use HSBC’s eWallet. In the early part of 2017, HSBC announced the new payment app, geared toward millennials in Hong Kong who also wanted social media built in.

social media 178

social media Millennials Fintech Retail 178

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But the challenge for retailers now is deciding what to do next, Amazon Pay Chief Marketing Officer Kelly Wenzel told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. Wenzel told Webster that what retailers need to think about is those things that actually aren’t going to change in an environment where it feels like everything is changing.

Branding 220

Branding Online Retail social media 220

PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

Brands are finding new ways to get in front of their customers as standard outlets like news and social media are loaded with misinformation and just plain disturbing news. Sponsorships, perhaps more than any other marketing area, have been turned on their collective heads. “If championships. That’s a lot of clutter.

social media 141

social media Branding Examples Marketing 141

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

And several of them are affecting the retail industry. And judging from the continuing proliferation of videos on social media, the ability for retailers to enforce even the minimum safety standards of mask-wearing is risky business for employees. That’s not to say the stock market isn’t important.

New York City 148

New York City Los Angeles Retail San Francisco 148

PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Online marketplaces for everything from retail goods to travel services to hospitality need to ensure a quick and easy way for both buyers and sellers to transact with each other— or risk losing both sides to a waiting host of competitors. In other markets, the rise of marketplaces is giving old organizations new perspective.

Millennials 165

Millennials Trends Meeting social media 165

Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In fact, working with healthcare organizations across the country, I hear from leadership over and over again: I want to create the Amazon experience! They feel the threat of Amazon and other retail giants moving into their space, and they want to fight back. And how can marketing build toward it? They’re highly regulated.

social media 294

social media System Retail Online 294

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This year, they expect more customer experience improvements, a boost from the Golden State and an effort to keep a new generation of wine connoisseurs engaged. And the wine retailer of the year? The 2019 wine retailer of the year was online – specifically, it was a good year for Wine.com.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Millennials Oakland Customer Experience 150

PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2016

The term “ Internet of Things ” has become a big buzzword in business lately, but what exactly is it and why might it shape the future of the retail industry? It also offers tons of opportunities for retailers who know how to take advantage of it. But the rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT) is changing that.

Retail 100

Retail Industry social media Data 100

Banking 2020

APRIL 28, 2015

Tech savvy banking customers are not only comparing their digital experience with that of other banks, but also with their digital experiences in the non-banking world, like retail or telecom. This digital experience is vital, as it determines whether they should stay or move to different banks for better service.

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience Digital Banking social media Millennials 40

PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

We think those brands – those with an authentic history and story to tell – are going to be the winners in this changing retail environment.”. And that customer base, Conn noted, is probably more diverse than most people would assume. I think we see brick-and-mortar survive in a different format,” he said.

Branding 101

Branding Retail New York Groups 101

PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. The challenge for the last year has just been educating our customer base. According to Dasilva, the past decade-plus has brought three major payments revolutions, each of which shook the retail industry.

Retail 100

Retail Apple Fraud Online 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

The launch follows the release of the company’s Omnichannel Analytics Cloud solution in February, which enables marketers to identify the digital channels driving inbound phone calls, informing how media spend should be allocated across site, search, social media, display and video accordingly.

Analytics 134

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

There are brands that claim to take the customer experience to the max — and then there are brands that redefine what exactly the max means. Chubbies takes its customer community seriously, and it makes it very clear that this is well beyond a marketing ploy. Chubbies is among the latter. As a result, the 5.5

Branding 107

Branding social media San Francisco Community 107

PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

In fact, the data shows that the more customers experience commerce in context, the more they like it and the more they spend. Among the “committed” category of contextual commerce shoppers (those who make more than 10 purchases a year through some contextual guiding), 82 percent report a positive experience.

social media 111

social media Branding Survey Community 111

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Then when we started launching ads on social media and started really hearing from our customers. Earlier this month the company released its first market-ready version of its checkout solution, for which it received $20 million in funding in March. Enter Fast checkout.

Company 175

Company Innovation social media Retail 175

PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. That is the most organic growth of any automotive retailer ever in the U.S. This year we expect another year of market-leading growth. Our cohort growth was broad based with many markets crossing key milestones.”. New Markets. In 2019, we increased GPU by $750.

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BankInovation

MAY 7, 2020

After years of banks trying to connect with customers through Twitter and Facebook, it seems the crown jewel for their social media presence may actually be Pinterest.

social media 69

social media Strategy Marketing Customer Experience 69

PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

The pop-up store , in an era where retail is resetting rapidly all around, has become a popular option for all types of businesses, including eTailers looking to put feelers out into physical commerce without a big commitment, or even physical retailers trying to test-drive an expansion into a new market. 2 and will end on Aug.

social media 103

social media New York City New York Metro 103

PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2018

Now, Home Depot is helping Pinterest identify products in pins — whether they’re from the home remodeling chain or not — “to help that customer experience go from inspiration to discovery to sale in one experience,” said Melanie Babcock, senior director of agile marketing and social media at Home Depot. “In

Tools 110

Tools social media Customer Experience Strategy 110

PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Keepsake’s target market, Weiss noted, is anyone who has an interest in either gifting or decorating with photos. Like many companies, Keepsake reaches its market through social media.

Mobile 141

Mobile social media United States Cards 141