SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides an unprecedented opportunity to revolutionize the call center experience for the 59% of your customers who prefer telephone communication. We’re not talking about the time-consuming interactive voice response (IVR) of the past that provided a less-than-optimal customer experience.

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CX Accelerator

JULY 1, 2020

Business leaders will benefit from reflecting on how these changes – shutdowns, communication changes, and working from home – have impacted their relationships with their consumers and consider how this season has improved or harmed business continuity. This article will cover the following: · Business Continuity. Changing Expectations.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This year, one of the customer experience (CX) predictions for 2023 falling into that category is that ‘Personalization will get More Personal’. I like customer service expert Shep Hyken’s take on this in his blog post, Don’t Just Personalize the Customer’s Experience – Individualize It. Absolutely!

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SmartAction

JUNE 30, 2023

When it comes to customer service, most people believe that good customer service means receiving timely assistance to resolve any issues that may arise with a product or service. However, there is a deeper definition of customer service that many people fail to consider, and that is the overall customer experience.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This was where Alex, a visionary contact center manager, worked tirelessly to improve efficiency and customer satisfaction. The Beginning of a Transformation Alex’s journey began with a simple yet powerful idea: automating routine tasks with conversational AI virtual agents. It was a game-changer.

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SmartAction

JUNE 27, 2023

In today’s fast-paced world, delivering efficient and effective support while maintaining high customer satisfaction levels is crucial. Let’s address the common objections and show you how to overcome them with conversational AI and virtual agents. So, why are some contact centers still hesitant to implement AI?

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Virtual voice agents can be a blessing or a curse for your customers. Done right, they provide a rich, natural, personalized experience that soothes frazzled nerves and either swiftly provides a relevant automated answer or directs them to a live agent who can help. Reaching a human can be nearly impossible.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Businesses who thrive at building robust, complete customer journeys harness the power of automation to build self-service solutions in their order management strategy. This involves: Gathering Data : Utilize customer service logs, feedback surveys, and website analytics to understand your most frequent inquiries.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, customer self-service has become a pivotal aspect of delivering exceptional customer experiences. As we look towards 2024, the world of customer self-service is at a crossroads, with new challenges and opportunities on the horizon. Key Trends in Customer Self-Service 1.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There are many areas where emerging applications are poised to make a big impact during 2023, both for improving the agent experience (AX) and for making the customer experience (CX) smarter. AI applications can recognize these distractions and supress them so agents can better focus on their customers.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Conversational AI is making the contact center and customer service industries better than ever. The ability of conversational AI technology to detect and understand speech are two of the biggest challenges faced by the Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Speech Detection vs. Recognition: Understanding What the Customer is Saying.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service. It represents a holistic approach that is aimed at transforming call center functions into a streamlined, customer-focused powerhouse.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 2, 2024

Are customers becoming more and more demanding with time? With the growing customer expectations, enterprises are under great pressure to deliver exceptional service. Geared towards smaller-scale operations with fewer agents and lower call volumes. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business? The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Insurance companies have always had the challenge of delivering personalized support for their customers. From selecting coverage and understanding benefits to confirming payments and filing claims, both policyholders and agents need information that is customized to them. Improve agent experience and boost productivity.

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TeamSupport

JUNE 20, 2023

Compounding these hurdles is the fact that providing excellent customer support is facing its own set of challenges. As customer support demand continues to increase by 11% per year, reduced staffing levels is causing 75% of customer service agents to face a serious risk of burnout.

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd.

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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. Two of the things we are proudest of at Creative Virtual are our experienced, dedicated team and the unique expertise we provide to our customers and partners.

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SmartAction

JUNE 9, 2023

Expectations from customers to be available 24/7 on a variety of channels from voice to social media have driven communication with businesses to evolve beyond traditional interactions. Conversational AI has emerged as the bridge, enabling human-like conversations to help drive and solve customer queries.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 31, 2023

As 2023 unfolds, a key theme for contact center leaders to watch is reinforcing the connection between customer experience (CX) and agent experience (AX). CX must always remain the primary focus for the contact center –this recent blog post identified two 2023 trends that will have a major impact on CX.

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SmartAction

JUNE 29, 2021

Customers prefer to handle things themselves. Customers also expect their needs to be dealt with immediately as they arise. 75% of customers say the most critical part of customer experience is fast response time. Virtual agents have proven to reduce hold times by 50% or more.

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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. This tool significantly reduces after-call work, allowing agents to devote more time to customer engagement.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Happy Customer Service Week! Observed every year during the first full week of October, Customer Service Week is an international celebration of the importance of customer service and of the people who serve and support customers on a daily basis. They are available to their customers on the channels they prefer.

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JustCall

APRIL 3, 2024

It shows more customers are interested in your product or service. But, it also leads to chaotic calls and handling long call queues for customer support and sales teams. It can further lead to a dip in customer experience and a shrinking ROI. It can further lead to a dip in customer experience and a shrinking ROI.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The experience for customers and agents is seamless, and the solution can integrate with your current contact center platform, telephony setup, and data systems. Voice starts with the customer reaching your contact center platform. Our virtual agents can solve 80% to 90% of customer problems.

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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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JustCall

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the rapidly evolving realm of e-commerce, businesses are continually searching for innovative ways to provide exceptional customer experiences. The impact of Conversational AI is so profound that Deloitte research predicts that chatbots and intelligent virtual assistants are expected to grow at a CAGR of 30.2%

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NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

While there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to address all operational and customer-related challenges for businesses, Customer Experience Automation (CXA) has emerged as a compelling strategy for a lot of businesses these days. Table of Contents What Is Customer Experience Automation (CXA)?

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Comm100

MAY 23, 2023

Wherever you look, automation is popping up across customer service teams as organizations look to improve efficiency, reduce support costs, and scale their business. While we read about the many benefits of automation in customer service, it can be difficult to know how exactly to introduce this into your own organization.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

There were too many different customer needs and too many inconsistencies. There were too many different customer needs and too many inconsistencies. The contact center agent’s life was not easy, and we saw it just getting more and more complicated. ” And that’s where you’ll find the soul of your company.

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SmartAction

APRIL 1, 2021

Whether it’s reporting an outage or making a payment, customers want the least amount of interaction friction, and in the past, calling into a customer service line has been anything but. And the way to show the understanding that a customer’s time is precious is by enhancing their customer experience.

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TeleDirect

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Anyone who has been in customer service understands that the human connection is impossible to replace. At TeleDirect, we consider our agents the backbone of our company. These abilities provide call centers with tremendous opportunities to improve customer support. The more it listens, the more it learns.

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Hodusoft

APRIL 26, 2023

Metrics to Measure the Performance of Your Virtual Call Center “A useful metric is both accurate and aligned with your goals. Managing a virtual call center is not easy. Drucker said “What’s measured improves.” In this blog post, we discuss the metrics you must use to measure your call center’s performance.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 4, 2021

Over the course of history, humans have always looked for ways to improve efficiency and productivity. Innovation drives progress, but that progress doesn’t innately mean a better experience or quality of life for everyone. Businesses see this as an opportunity to improve efficiency and productivity – and it is.

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Noble Systems

MAY 4, 2021

Noble Systems has been helping companies manage customer contacts and provide a better customer experience for over 30 years. In that time, we’ve seen a lot of changes – in technology, in customer behaviors, and even in employee expectations. Like its name says, a contact center supports customer contacts.

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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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