The State Of The Metaverse: Look Beyond The Hype

Forrester’s data and research consistently show how companies that focus resources and strategy on delivering value to customers outperform their competitors on several business measures. Ensuring that B2B customers receive the best postsale experience requires proactive engagement through customer success and customer marketing, as well as personalized and effective reactive engagement whenever they encounter a problem or need support. However, once OpenAI released GPT-4, everything everyone thought they knew about great customer service strategy and execution got turned on its head. Customer service and support teams have the most to gain — or change — through the use of generative, predictive, and agentic AI.Please join Laura Ramos, VP and principal analyst at Forrester, as she explores the latest trends impacting B2B customer service and how generative, predictive, and agentic AI stand to redefine the purpose, role, and results of teams that support B2B customers postsale.Key takeaways: Learn what’s unique about B2B customer service and the changing opportunities that Forrester sees for clients in this space.Discover the top challenges that B2B customers face when delivering effective, differentiating support that truly impacts the customer’s experience.Explore how AI will help solve those challenges while also permanently changing the role and scope of customer service for companies that sell highly considered products and services.Target audience level: intermediate

Laura Ramos

 

Every B2B sales rep wants professional development, but no one wants to take time from selling to participate in learning. For years, both HR and sales leaders defaulted to traditional learning management systems to provide sales training for reps, only to see invitations ignored and attendance embarrassingly low.In this webinar, learn how HR-owned LMS tools differ from revenue enablement platforms and how the latter better suit real-time training delivery to improve your sellers' competencies most effectively.Key takeaways: Learn how to reverse-engineer your sales training technology environment to suit learner needs.Discover what high-performing B2B sales organizations do to optimize learning participation and adoption.Identify which best practices in adult learning are best supported by properly integrated technologies.Target audience level: intermediate

Peter Ostrow

 

Banks create value by winning customers and then serving them in ways that deepen the relationship and drive retention. Forrester’s new Total Experience Score reveals that US banks’ brand promises aren’t resonating and CX has declined. What’s going wrong, and which banks are getting it right?Key takeaways: Get an overview of Forrester’s US banking Total Experience Score, which measures how well a brand’s promise resonates with both customers and noncustomers ֫— via Forrester’s Brand Experience Index (BX Index™) — and how customers feel about their actual interactions with the brand — through Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™).Learn which US direct and multichannel banks are providing the best brand and customer experience and earning the most trust.Discover the keys to total experience leadership for US banks to win over prospects and to better serve and retain existing customers.Target audience level: all levels

Alyson Clarke

 

B2B buyers are rapidly adopting AI-powered search as one of their primary sources of information. Providers will have to shift their marketing strategy to engage buyers in zero-click environments before they arrive at their sites.This webinar looks at how buyers are using AI-powered search, how zero-click search is impacting the revenue engine, and how to coordinate activity across portfolio marketing, content, communications, and digital to engage buyers in this new environment.Key takeaways: Understand how to adjust your marketing goals and strategies for zero-click search.Learn how to measure your performance on zero-click search.Discover digital, content, and messaging techniques for reaching buyers through zero-click search.Target audience level: intermediate

John Buten

 

B2B revenue leaders are challenged with the conundrum of delivering crucial sales training to their team: Training both amplifies their reps’ competencies and yet draws precious time away from customer-facing activities. Often delivered at an inopportune time, leveraging unpopular modalities, and lacking adult learning best practices, sales training remains ineffective unless delivered as part of a comprehensive and permanent sales talent lifecycle management strategy. In this webinar, we highlight the “what, when, how, and who” behind optimal everboarding for your quota-bearing individual contributors.Key takeaways: Learn the best (and worst) learning modalities for your B2B sales reps.Understand how to time learning delivery so it's sticky.Discover how to engage your first-line sales managers to amplify ongoing sales learning and development.Target audience level: intermediate

Peter Ostrow

 

B2B buyers have always been changing and adapting to evolving markets, technologies, and economic turmoil. Are sellers equally tuned in to the same elements? This webinar looks at these elements from the perspective of both buyers and sellers.Key takeaways: Learn how to identify and react to alarming negative sentiment expressed by B2B buyers, even after successfully making a purchase.Learn how to stop signaling that your sales team members are "coin-operated" with coach-like management techniques.Discover how to leverage generative AI capabilities for revenue enablement — that you're probably already paying for.Target audience level: intermediate

Peter Ostrow