customer experience
Build or Buy? What to Consider When Investing in AI Translation
By 1440, Inc. |
Reading Time: 3 minutes
Modern customers expect to engage with brands in their own language. Whether browsing a knowledge base, reading product reviews, or messaging a service team, language access is now a core part of the customer experience. According to Salesforce’s State of the Connected Customer, 88% of consumers say the experience a company provides is as important…
How Consumers Use TikTok Throughout the Purchase Journey – and How Brands Can Start Managing it More Effectively
By Faith Hinz |
Reading Time: 8 minutes
A customer’s path to purchase is rarely as linear as those textbook sales funnel graphics would have you believe. Instead, the purchase journey is often full of twists and turns. And there are endless factors that influence what action a shopper takes next. Today, one of those key factors is social media. In fact, as…
Why the Smartest Brands Are Responding to Instagram DMs Inside Salesforce in 2025
By Jennifer Jessup |
Reading Time: 3 minutes
How BYOC + Agentforce unlock scalable, multilingual engagement—without leaving Service Cloud In 2025, Instagram DMs aren’t just a social inbox—they’re one of the fastest-growing service and commerce channels for global brands. But handling them outside your CRM? That’s a thing of the past. As a Salesforce-native ISV, we believe customer messaging—especially Instagram DMs—belongs inside Salesforce…
AI-Powered Translation in 2025: 4 Ways It’s Supercharging Enterprise Customer Service
By Jennifer Jessup |
Reading Time: 3 minutes
In the wake of generative AI’s rapid evolution, real-time translation has become a mission-critical capability—not just for global brands, but for any enterprise striving to deliver connected, consistent, and inclusive customer experiences. In 2025, machine translation is no longer just a nice-to-have; it’s a core enabler of multilingual service, revenue expansion, and workforce efficiency. According…
Connected Conversations, Frictionless Journeys: How Modern Brands Are Winning in 2025
By Jennifer Jessup |
Reading Time: 4 minutes
In today’s digital economy, customer journeys are no longer linear—or even predictable. A customer might search for store hours on Google, discover a product through an Instagram DM, leave a review on a retailer’s website, and contact support via WhatsApp—all in a single day. This is the new reality of customer engagement in 2025: cross-platform,…
1440’s Guide to Future-Ready Contact Centers
By Jennifer Jessup |
Reading Time: 3 minutes
Insights from Salesforce’s “State of Service” and Gartner’s 2024 CCaaS Magic Quadrant As technology continues to evolve, contact centers are undergoing a profound transformation. Insights from Gartner’s 2024 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) and Salesforce’s latest State of Service report highlight the ongoing transition from on-premises systems to cloud-based contact centers….
The Real ROI of Conversational Commerce
By 1440, Inc. |
Reading Time: 6 minutes
Winning and retaining customers is no easy feat. Modern consumers have countless options across all product and service categories. And many aren’t afraid to ditch a once-beloved brand when something better comes along. In fact, in the last year alone, nearly three-quarters (71%) of consumers say they’ve switched brands at least once. There are a…
How Conversational Commerce Empowers Brands to Drive Customer Acquisition and Retention
By Jennifer Jessup |
Reading Time: 6 minutes
We’re just going to come out and say it: it’s not an easy time to be a consumer-facing brand. For one, there’s a ton of competition in just about any product or service category. Of course, there are the legacy brands you must contend with. But then there are also the digital-native brands that seem…
How Conversational Commerce is Transforming Industries
By Faith Hinz |
Reading Time: 6 minutes
In today’s world, consumers are always “on.” And there’s plenty of data to back that claim. A report from Asurion found that on average, US consumers check their phones an average of 352 times a day. When a notification comes in, 75% look at it within five minutes. So it’s probably not surprising that consumers…