VocalCom

MAY 21, 2018

The technologies used in modern contact centers are instrumental in delivering great customer experiences. However, when companies do not optimize the use of these tools, each interaction becomes unnecessarily complicated. Here are five ways to reduce customer effort through the efficient use of contact center technologies.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 24, 2019

In order to meet this demand, your team needs modern customer support tools that aid their efforts in providing the best customer experience possible. These tools prevent lost tickets, facilitate better communication, and ultimately make it possible for you to deliver the best customer experience you can.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 26, 2018

Let’s apply this concept to self-service support. In many ways, psychographic marketing is a form of direct customer engagement —an approach to gaining a deeper understanding about our customers. For example, we might know who is coming to us for self-service support, but do we really know why ?

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Nicereply

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Some 76% of businesses are unable to deliver a personalized experience across all channels due to the lack of correct data, necessary tools, and inefficient workflows. In this post, we share five tools to help you collect the necessary data and build efficient workflows to deliver a great customer experience and loyalty.

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VocalCom

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

According to a study by Corporate Executive Board, reducing customer effort is key to earning long-term loyalty. The Customer Effort Score, or CES, is an efficient way to measure customer satisfaction and is the KPI your company really needs to keep an eye on. So how can you reduce customer effort?

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CX Journey

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Image courtesy of Unsplash Does self-service reduce or increase effort? Not just for customers but also for your business? I wrote about technology and the customer experience a couple times last year; after all, that''s what self-service is all about: technology. Self-service is here to stay.

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TechSee

AUGUST 19, 2020

The retailer allows customers to scan the item’s QR code and return it via a kiosk, with no human contact necessary. Safety concerns create emotional effort. This demonstrates that technician visits can be a significant cause of high customer effort. Self-Service.

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TechSee

JULY 18, 2019

You’re satisfied with your purchase – not only because the product met your needs but also because the company provided you with a truly effortless customer experience. Customer effort matters. Wasted customer time – make sure customers never have to repeat themselves or sit idle during extended wait times.

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TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2020

The more information, tools and technologies available to the employee – and the more effortless it is for them to access and use them – the easier it is to provide standout customer service. How can MX create effortless experience for employees and customers? Improve self-service offerings.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Businesses around the world have adapted to the new normal of being unable to dispatch technicians to their customers’ sites, as well as to having their support staff located remotely at home. Towards this desired result, a wide range of predictive tools are available, such as. 6: Encourage self-service and automation.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Raghavendra Rao, Director of Customer Excellence at Sprinklr , outlines three steps to build a customer service strategy centered around self-service. Have you ever been in a situation where you were running late for a flight, and an airport self-service kiosk saved the day? It’s a win-win.

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JustCall

MAY 14, 2024

The best way to reduce attrition is to give agents all the tools they need to succeed. In most cases, an ideal solution is bringing in reliable tools that come with strong automation capabilities (like a more advanced outbound dialer). Implement self-service tools The best way to clear a call queue faster?

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Asking questions that you already have the answer to can hurt customer experience by increasing the customer effort required to resolve their issue. Which tools do agents regularly access to find information to help close tickets? There are many tools in the software space that can help you gather this context.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Here are five key drivers that are steering field service organizations towards introducing and building on their remote support offerings: Pandemic-driven need for safety. Growing focus on reducing customer effort. Advances in field services technology. Growing focus on reducing customer effort.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The ongoing shift to self-service has brought about many positive changes to the customer service field. Fewer customers now require assistance from live agents to pay bills or carry out other simple tasks. Helping customers resolve tricky issues puts pressure on the contact center in several ways.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Personal tastes vary in how individuals rank these elements in order of importance, but specifying them allows companies to deliberately improve their support setup over time – be it through tools, people, or organization. To be good, a customer support interaction needs to be…. Element #1: Fast. Element #7: Friendly.

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Inbenta

MAY 11, 2020

Customer interaction management to the rescue. Self-service tools such as chatbots, knowledge management, and search engines have become very common and most customers are now used to interacting with these online. Applied to customer interaction management solutions, NLP can do wonders.

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TechSee

MARCH 24, 2021

Visual engagement is way beyond just a tool to help you ‘see what your customer sees’ – it’s a centerpiece of the digital transformation. The next step of a Visual Transformation is where guided assistance walks a customer through the process of capturing specific images before speaking to a live representative.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 6, 2021

While self-service could relieve some of the pressure to agents, it couldn’t keep pace with the flood of complex calls. In fact, Gartner estimates that of the 70 percent of customers who attempt self-service during their resolution journey, only 9 percent of calls are resolved through that channel alone.

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Fonolo

MAY 16, 2023

By analyzing ASA data, call center managers can identify whether customers are waiting on hold for extended periods of time before an agent can pick-up. If wait-times are too long, managers will typically implement strategies to reduce hold times, like offering call-back options or other self-service tools like a well-constructed FAQ section.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 2, 2020

And that’s especially true today when in-person shopping is limited, and people mostly interact with service providers on digital platforms. Visual assistance technology is a powerful tool for technical support, but it can also help address other customer inquiries, deliberations, and bureaucratic issues.

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HGS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Today’s companies are challenged to meet everyday customer service pressures while also building for the future. They must provide optimized customer service across various digital channels while also using new tools to better understand customer demographics and preferences, to deliver more personalized service.

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Nicereply

JANUARY 4, 2023

Let’s go into 5 ways you can provide and maintain excellent customer service and reduce your support expenses at the same time. Get the most out of self-service and AI solutions. Pandemic-driven self-service and AI adoption continue to grow. For basic issues, most consumers would prefer self-service options.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The good news is contact centres from all parts of the world recognize the importance of agent wellbeing in meeting customer demands. The majority (80%) or more rank agent engagement scores as the top measurement metric of the future ahead of traditional customer-centric KPIs such as customer effort (81%) and average handle time (80%).

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TechSee

JANUARY 7, 2020

Verizon Up now allows customers to benefit from a range of perks in exchange for loyalty, including hardware upgrades, content, internet service and Fios. Customer analytics and insight tools predict customer behavior, enabling providers to strategize the best tactics to improve retention rates.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Personal tastes vary in how individuals rank these elements in order of importance, but specifying them allows companies to deliberately improve their support setup over time – be it through tools , people, or organization. To be good, a customer support interaction needs to be…. Element #1: Fast. Element #7: Friendly.

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Global Response

MARCH 27, 2023

These four elements are core to the customer experience—ensuring that you have them well-cemented will set your customer service up for success in the long-run. So first, focus on these four elements and the technology, tools and techniques that can help you improve these.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

If used correctly, AI and automation tools can add tremendous value to your CX strategy and prove convenient for your customer support team. For instance, 70% of customers now expect a self-service portal on websites. Allow agents to focus on more complex tasks by reducing the need to attend to every customer.

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Aspect

OCTOBER 15, 2019

We’ll be discussing Tools to Reduce Customer Effort and Maximize Engagement. Join me to learn how to make the customer experience highly personalized by using rich self-service, customer preferences, proactive engagement and past interactions to reduce customer effort and guide inquires.

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Tethr

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Whether that looks like call center agents working from home, a company-wide struggle to migrate quickly to digital tools, or even canceled or reduced services as customers tighten their belts, your operation probably encountered struggles this year that seemed unimaginable in the January of 2020. Self-Service Digital Channels.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Practical IA-Based Applications IA vendors are investing in traditional and generative AI technologies to improve the identification of customer intents, automate the summarization of conversations, assess agent soft skills (like professionalism or empathy), and predict customer satisfaction and propensities.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Contact centres around the world face the same major challenges of attracting and keeping the best talent while providing frontline staff with the flexibility and AI-driven tools to do their job. What is interesting is that AI is considered to be the most effective as a tool to help agents rather than customers.

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Mindtouch

JUNE 7, 2018

Regardless of what motivates the call for reducing customer effort —be it survival, a genuine interest in customer well-being, or some mixture of both—getting to know customers better requires more than empathy. Indicators of a high customer effort experience. Silos abound.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Deliver personalized, peculiar experiences that customers love. Eliminate customer effort through this sequential and systematic approach: defect elimination, self-service, automation, and support from an expert associate. Building up your self-service resources will help with the first point.

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Solvvy

DECEMBER 17, 2019

SeatGeek has been able to stay ahead of their competition by leveraging AI capabilities to create an effortless customer experience. 89% of customers say getting a quick response to their questions is important when making decisions about which companies to buy from.

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aircall

JULY 7, 2021

Call center analytics collects information from all your customer interactions, analyzes it, and turns it into actionable insights. You can also discover the most common issues with your product or service and take steps to improve upon these areas in the future. Self-Service Analytics. 6 Types of Call Center Analytics.

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Babelforce

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Frictionless experiences Companies that want to improve CSat levels, usually focus on “delighting” their customers or “exceeding expectations” But the latest research points to this being a bit of a red herring. According to Gartner, reducing customer effort can have a bigger effect on customer loyalty.

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