SmartAction

MARCH 18, 2019

But with the evolution of conversational AI and delivery over the cloud, organizations are getting past the limitations of their IVR and automating more conversations than ever before without compromising the Customer Experience (CX). These omnichannel solutions are known as AI-powered virtual agents. Claim Management.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Every year this not-for-profit organisation holds the HKCCA Symposium and the HKCCA Award Presentation and Gala Ceremony as part of their mission of advancing the contact centre industry. It shortens the time they need to search for information so they can provide a better in-person service experience for customers.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Happy Customer Service Week! Today we kick off the annual week-long international celebration of the importance of customer service, the people who deliver that service and the impact it has on successful business practices. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Beginning of a Transformation Alex’s journey began with a simple yet powerful idea: automating routine tasks with conversational AI virtual agents. The once overburdened agents found themselves focusing on more complex, engaging tasks. It was a game-changer.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This week we feature an article by Mansi Bhatia who looks at ways organizations can transform contact centers into a customer engagement center. I like the idea of a customer engagement center. – Shep Hyken. Customer service has the power to make or break a company. It is important to make the customer feel valued.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving customer service landscape, businesses face a multitude of choices when it comes to interacting with their customers. The advent of digital communication channels such as chat, email, and social media has provided convenient alternatives for customer inquiries.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Here you’ll learn best practices in building order management automation, while drawing insights from industry leaders like TechStyle and DSW. This involves: Gathering Data : Utilize customer service logs, feedback surveys, and website analytics to understand your most frequent inquiries.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Happy Customer Service Week! It’s the first full week of October, and that means it is time once again for the annual week-long global celebration of the importance of customer service, the people who deliver that service, and the impact it has on business success. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 11, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) via call center automation. Leaders should focus more on the actual ways in which AI-powered customer service can provide practical solutions to specific CX-related challenges. Limited voice automation choices.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

When it comes to customer service, businesses have a variety of tools at their disposal to make the process as smooth and efficient as possible. Two popular options are Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Can be a frustrating customer experience. Available 24/7. Higher containment.

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Expivia

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The landscape of customer service is on the brink of a major transformation, thanks to the upcoming release from NICE CXone. This release is not just an update; it’s a leap into the future of AI-driven customer service.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 14, 2019

Do you know how to keep your customers satisfied? Customer service is a high-stakes game. Every company is competing for the same customers, and customer satisfaction is one of the main differentiators between success and failure. Latest Customer Experience Trends. What Customers Think of CX.

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SmartAction

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s the next level of conversation – what AI industry leaders are calling “Complex Voice” interactions – that they aren’t able to engage. Nowhere is this new AI-fueled reality more evident than in the customer service experience. Virtual agents have now achieved Complex Voice capabilities.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Conversational AI can be used in any industry for various use cases, including billing and payments, collection, authentication, claims, order management, scheduling, and reservations. It linked via API to internal data sources and current customer input to find a successful solution. So it’s wise to consider those in advance.

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Liveops

DECEMBER 27, 2018

12 customer service resources that CX leaders need to review before 2019. When it comes to running or working with a contact center in 2019, there is a lot leaders can learn from what experts had to say about the state of customer service in 2018. Here’s what the experts said about customer service in 2018: 1.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Conversational AI is making the contact center and customer service industries better than ever. Having a good understanding of how this happens will help those in the industry to best leverage that technology for their companies. Speech recognition is identifying the words that a customer says. GET IN TOUCH.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Happy Customer Service Week! Every year during the first full week of October we celebrate the importance of customer service and the people who serve and support customers around the globe. Virtual Moron-Idiot!”: Here are four tips to help you deliver a custom support experience for your customers.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

AI-based call centers are revolutionizing how businesses interact with their customers. The customer service you provide will either make or break your brand. From improving response times to personalizing interactions, artificial intelligence is now setting new standards in customer service efficiency and effectiveness.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Not for the first time, I found myself telling people that at Creative Virtual we were doing for years what the industry now saw as the latest trend in Bot Building. So, after the event I meant to write a blog post about how we add a human touch to the way machines interact with humans.

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Stafford Communications

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How Call Center Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Industry. Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a major impact in many industries, including call centers. While many fear that AI will soon replace live agents on the other end of the phone, nothing can substitute the human touch a live agent can provide.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

AI-based call centers are revolutionizing how businesses interact with their customers. The customer service you provide will either make or break your brand. From improving response times to personalizing interactions, artificial intelligence is now setting new standards in customer service efficiency and effectiveness.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 13, 2019

Not only are they still a customer today, but they also became the first on a long list of brands our team would work with in the financial services industry. Over the years, we’ve developed an expertise in creating, implementing and maintaining chatbot, virtual agent and live chat solutions for major financial organisations.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As the end of 2022 draws near, it is time once again for Creative Virtual’s annual year in review blog post. Every year we take this opportunity to reflect on the hard work of our team, our contributions to the conversational AI industry, and a few of our company’s biggest highlights from the past 12 months.

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SmartAction

JULY 29, 2021

Myth #1: Customers don’t use the phone for customer service anymore. Customer service can come in many different forms, thanks to our modernized world: email, online chat, social media, in-person, text. Virtual agents are made to take over the calls that require quick resolution with minimum human effort.

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Babelforce

AUGUST 2, 2023

This blog was originally published by our friends at Ultimate over on the Ultimate blog. By partnering with our friends at Ultimate, we’re able to provide automation solutions to our enterprise customers that extend across all voice and text-based channels. Omnichannel is getting more and more important.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Customer experience has been on a path of transformation since the days of "Press 1 for." pay my loan, check my balance, or transfer funds," which became the new way to start a customer service conversation through traditional speech IVRs around 2016. The virtual agent can then assist the customer with the utmost accuracy.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2019

I started building virtual agents and chatbots for customer service more than 12 years ago. I talked about some of the changes in my Meet the Team interview a couple of years ago, but the industry has continued to evolved since then. Simple chatbot implementations are no longer enough to meet customer expectations.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This is the seventh time I’ve done this annual year in review blog post, but never have I had to review a year that was like 2020. I don’t need to tell you that not everything went as planned, but there were still some bright spots for us and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 21, 2022

42% of Americans would rather clean a toilet and 46% would rather go to the dentist than call customer support. These stats, just two of many in the 2022 Achieving Customer Amazement Study , likely have you nodding in agreement thinking about your own painful customer service experiences.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Welcome to Creative Virtual’s annual year in review blog post for 2021! That time when we reflect on the highlights of the year for our company and celebrate the latest developments in the conversational AI industry. They also discussed the findings of ISG’s research and current successful virtual agent implementations.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This blog post is co-written with Bruno Mateus, Jonathan Diedrich and Crispim Tribuna at Talkdesk. Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots.

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Stafford Communications

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How Call Center Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Industry Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a major impact in many industries, including call centers. While many fear that AI will soon replace live agents on the other end of the phone, nothing can substitute the human touch a live agent can provide.

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Liveops

DECEMBER 27, 2018

12 customer service resources that CX leaders need to review before 2019. When it comes to running or working with a contact center in 2019, there is a lot leaders can learn from what experts had to say about the state of customer service in 2018. Here’s what the experts said about customer service in 2018: 1.

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SmartAction

MARCH 7, 2023

Any business that wants to stay competitive, reduce operational costs, and take its customer service to the next level should take note. Perhaps most prominently, it helps companies provide a better customer service experience by providing greater – and faster – understanding of why a customer is reaching out and at what frequency.

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3CLogic

JANUARY 24, 2024

Is your organization looking to better understand customer sentiment and responses, hoping to gain better knowledge of customer intent while also improving agent performance? AI in customer service does have its limitations. Potential AI Limitations and Pitfalls Let's address the elephant in the room.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 15, 2021

With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated. Customers are greeted with “How can I help you today?” to self-service for over 100 types of interactions, from the most common to the most nuanced. A live agent deals with anything handled outside of self-service.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

Cisco Webex Contact Center CCaaS honored for improving customer service technology and customer experience. I’m excited to announce that Webex Contact Center was among the 2020 Contact Center Technology Award winners, presented by CUSTOMER Magazine this month. Award Winner Second Year in a Row. Cloud Agility.

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