Rajiv Satyal is a comedian, host, and speaker based out of Los Angeles. You might know him from his viral video I Am Indian, or his journey to perform standup on all 7 continents, or maybe you recognize his voice from narrating Netflix's hit docuseries Indian Matchmaking. Rajiv initially came to Function1 looking for a design refresh to give...
Localization Matters: 6-Tips For Delivering Meaningful Global Customer Experiences
Localization drives market growth by reaching global customers by breaking down language and cultural barriers. But if delivering a brand-consistent, locally relevant experience sounds daunting, you’re not alone.
To help ease some of that anxiety, here are some things to consider in order to better prepare your team for its localization efforts.
1. Plan Ahead
“Going into translating support blindly isn’t a good idea for companies that are just starting to know multilingual customer support,” says Patricia Shipley, a marketer at...
3 Steps SMBs Can Take to Close the Customer Experience Gap
Customer experience (CX) is defined by Gartner as “the practice of designing and reacting to customer interactions to meet or exceed customer expectations and, thus, increase customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy.” Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s a term you’re probably pretty familiar with – and it’s even expected to surpass price and product as the key brand differentiator by 2020.
Most organizations understand the importance and ROI of delivering meaningful...
Minding the CX Gap in Healthcare
Patient expectations are outpacing experience and it's a lose-lose situation for consumers and healthcare organizations alike. Consumer-first, convenience-focused brands in other sectors like retail (Amazon) and travel (Airbnb) are continuing to raise the customer experience (CX) bar and the ...
Empowering Financial Services Marketers to Build a Better Customer Experience
With the steady rise of the "age of the customer," customer experience (CX) has become the new marketing battlefront. In fact, according to a Walker study, CX will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator by 2020.
Due to the increasing popularity of hyper-personalized, on-demand services like Lyft and Airbnb, consumers have become accustomed to and now expect seamless, high quality interactions and...
Function1 and Crafter Software Partner to Deliver Innovative Digital Experience Solutions
We're thrilled to announce we're joining the Crafter Software ecosystem as an expert consulting and systems integration partner! This partnership brings together two industry-leaders with the goal to deliver complete digital experience solutions throughout the customer journey. We look forward to working with Crafter Software to provide innovative solutions...
Hippo, getting underway with this animal
Acquired by BloomReach in late 2016, Hippo exists today as an open-sourced CMS over at onehippo.org. The community site over at onehippo is a great landing area for tutorials, documentation, and an active forum for discussions. Hippo can be seen as a viable open-source option for those shopping for choices; boasting a lasting and continuing development path, being java based, living now as an open-sourced...
Modern Customer Experiences: A Digital Conversation
When I began my career more than ten years ago, I used to think a successful project was deploying good code or executing all of the business requirements, but experience has since taught me that success is directly related to delivering the best possible customer service. Don’t get me wrong, writing good quality code and meeting business requirements are (and always should be) a priority, but delivering the best work with a poor experience to customers will unlikely have them calling for future opportunities.
I remember receiving training my first job at a Supermarket. We were...
Multi-site Implementations: Like Money...Mo Websites Mo Problems!
What is Multi-site?
Generally speaking, multi-site is a feature that allows for the sharing of web application resources among several websites on a single software installation and provides "easy-to-use" facilities for the creation, management, and maintenance of multiple websites.
Is Multi-site right for me?
Does your organization require the ability to launch new websites quickly?
Is your organization comprised of distinct brands with their own web identity and possibly web/IT staff?
Is business booming and now you need a site dedicated to incoming...
Deepica Mutyala, 'Tinted' Founder, Empowering Women Through Representation
Deepica Mutyala wants women (and girls) everywhere to know that we can all win. As a 16-year-old girl growing up in Texas, Deepica found herself with a frustrating problem: not being able to find makeup that was made for her skin tone. She'd leave the store feeling defeated and disheartened, having to settle for a purchase and mixing multiple shades in order to achieve the perfect tint. She vowed to one day create a beauty line for South Asian Women to address this need and ensure that other young girls wouldn't experience the same isolating feelings of exclusion.
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