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Customer experience management in the age of agentic AI

Martech

This is in pilot right now, it will be available to our customers in an early calendar quarter in 2025. On the one hand, the aim of automating the customer experience (including automating the work of service reps) seemed very ambitious. And is customer experience really reducible to the service (or support or success) experience?

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Marketing automation vendor Act-On acquired for $53 million

Martech

While Marketo and Pardot were acquired by enterprise vendors Adobe bought Marketo in 2008 and Salesforce bought Pardot in 2013 Act-On focused on delivering sophisticated yet affordbale marketing automation capabilities to mid-market customers at an affordable price. Well-known Act-On customers include Best Buy, Hitachi and Autozone.

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Customer Happiness | 4 Tips to Measure What Truly Matters

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Do you want happy customers? . No business wants unhappy customers. Repeat business isn’t necessarily a sign of happiness, as proved by the concept of customers as hostages (when customers don’t want to buy from you, but feel like they don’t have a choice.) . They can’t tell you how the customer is feeling.

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Canva acquires genAI startup Leonardo.AI

Martech

It allows users to enter simple prompts, sketch new images with AI and custom-train models for specific projects. The company made a concerted effort in recent years to grow B2B customers among enterprises and SMBs. Canva currently has over 190 million active users and, as of March, had 16 million paying users.

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The social media landscape is being upended: Don’t wait to make a move

Sprout Social

If a social marketer told you their brands strategy was built around Vine, youd probably assume you teleported back to 2013 (#DoItForTheVine). Your customers are eager to interact with your brand in a variety of spaces. Betting on emerging platforms What works today wont be the ticket to relevance tomorrow.

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How to Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2013 and 2016 [Video Tutorial Included]

Hubspot Marketing

You could use the VLOOKUP formula to transfer revenue data from a separate spreadsheet and match it with the appropriate customer based on a common identifier like customer ID or email address. In this example, VLOOKUP enables you to easily see revenue by customer without searching, copying, and pasting for each individual cell.

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How One Organisation is Becoming More Customer-Focused – and How You Can Too

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The key difference between those low-cost airlines and RyanAir, however, has always been their customer service – or complete lack thereof. Indeed, a few Google searches will reveal many examples of their marketing antics over the years – and a barrage of customer complaints. Perhaps in was the September 2013 drop in share price.

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