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Revolutionizing Consumer Engagement: The Power of Conversational Commerce
AI Technology PJ Santoro AI Technology PJ Santoro

Revolutionizing Consumer Engagement: The Power of Conversational Commerce

All meaningful relationships start with a conversation, just like when you walk into your local coffee shop and the barista greets you with, “Hi, welcome in! How are you? What can I get for you today?” Now, imagine that conversation happening digitally where an AI agent can have the same intelligent, even audible exchange with the customer—that’s conversational commerce…

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Embracing AI for Consumer Engagement
Commentary, Announcements, Strategy PJ Santoro Commentary, Announcements, Strategy PJ Santoro

Embracing AI for Consumer Engagement

Today’s post is an announcement; not because of any carefully laid marketing or business development strategy, but by virtue of finding ourselves immersed in something proving to be too important, too pivotal, and enormously powerful in creating durable consumer engagement and business growth for our client's brands. So, today it's time to share that C[IQ] Strategies is all-in on artificial intelligence applications for a new level of infinitely scalable consumer engagement…

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Evolving to Hyper-Relevant Engagement
Strategy, CRM PJ Santoro Strategy, CRM PJ Santoro

Evolving to Hyper-Relevant Engagement

Clearly, generic mass marketing is no longer sufficient. Personalization has become standard practice for marketers today. However, the next horizon is individualization—treating each customer as an individual with unique interests, needs, and preferences…

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Influencing Purchasing Choices in Your Favor
Strategy, strategic planning PJ Santoro Strategy, strategic planning PJ Santoro

Influencing Purchasing Choices in Your Favor

The consumer decides. Always. If they purchase, when they purchase, where they purchase, how much they purchase, and how frequently they purchase - no matter how you look at it, the consumer always decides. So what can you do as a brand to ensure the consumer is always choosing you? Do five things well, and you can tilt the scales in your favor when that purchasing decision is being made…

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Resync Your Data; Save Your Customer
PJ Santoro PJ Santoro

Resync Your Data; Save Your Customer

Trigger eMails should be fire and forget -- that's true if all use cases are contemplated during implementation. My mantra...always walk in the customer's shoes. Brands can avoid customer experience failures by doing so. These two eMail mishaps could have easily been avoided.

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My Life as a Chief Consumer Engagement Strategist: How I Do What I Do

My Life as a Chief Consumer Engagement Strategist: How I Do What I Do

Here’s a short post reflecting on what I’m doing these days. Having just wrapped up a major engagement that has had me more-or-less heads-down for nearly 2-years, I was recently asked, “What exactly do you do as a Chief Customer Engagement Strategist?”  That’s a fair question and a perfect opportunity to reflect on what I’ve been doing…

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