How a Leading Telco Increased Call Deflection by 24% with AI-Powered Language Experiments
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How a Leading Telco Increased Call Deflection by 24% with AI-Powered Language Experiments

Telco providers facing a rapid spike in calls to their contact centers have an underused and powerful tool they can use to relieve pressure on agents and increase digital self-service—the most effective words.  That’s what a European telecommunications provider found when it leveraged AI and machine learning to fine-tune voice digital assistant (IVR) language and…

Language That’s Working Now: How COVID-19 Changed the Way We Communicate
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Language That’s Working Now: How COVID-19 Changed the Way We Communicate

When it comes to customer-centric messaging in the age of COVID-19, the name of the game is balancing empathy and performance. No brand wants to come off as opportunistic and tone-deaf when customers are struggling. Yet businesses depend on sales and cash flow to function and pay their employees.  What’s impactful now is less attention-grabbing…

Mindful Messaging: How Persado is Adapting its Language Architecture to a Post-COVID-19 World
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Mindful Messaging: How Persado is Adapting its Language Architecture to a Post-COVID-19 World

Never before has digital content and brand messaging been under such an intense microscope – truly.  I can’t think of another time when promotional emails and branded social media posts were the target of New York Times articles, viral tweets and widely shared memes with such frequency and an overall agreement that at a time…

2020 Marketing Trends During the Coronavirus Crisis: What’s Changed and What’s Next
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2020 Marketing Trends During the Coronavirus Crisis: What’s Changed and What’s Next

The CMO.com 2020 marketing trends outlined in December of last year no longer apply. Or do they?  Persado President Jason Heller and Adobe Vice President of Marketing and Customer Insights John Copeland collaborated to deliver a virtual and updated Adobe Summit session that adapted the five marketing trends they predicted for 2020 to the current…

Lessons in Making AI Work: A Conversation with Ben Blake from Hotels.com
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Lessons in Making AI Work: A Conversation with Ben Blake from Hotels.com

Budgets grow, but creative remains highly subjective and returns remain poor. CMOs have much to say about their products and services, but they message mostly with guesswork, or “gut marketing.” That’s according to Nielsen’s 2018 CMO Report. And they invest 20% of their marketing budgets on creative, as AdAge notes. This must change, according to…

AI and Creativity Are Key Trends to Watch, Says CMO Survey
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AI and Creativity Are Key Trends to Watch, Says CMO Survey

Marketers are doubling down on their commitments to both creativity and technology, according to the Marketing Trends of the Decade report released by the team at the CMO Survey. The report commemorates the Survey’s ten-year anniversary. It highlights 15 of the most prominent trends picked up by the survey since its inception and points to…

Learn How AI Makes Marketing More Human: Top August Articles
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Learn How AI Makes Marketing More Human: Top August Articles

Scan the headlines on any given day and it is easy to find news articles highlighting the myriad ways in which AI is becoming pivotal to work and society. As common are the thought pieces examining AI’s unknown negative impact on humans as it relates to jobs, privacy, bias.  More recently, however, there is another…