article thumbnail

Remaining Competitive in Retail: How to Optimize Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

According to Gartner, by the end of this year 85% of customer service interactions will start with self-service. The best field service solutions will include consumer portals that can make scheduling service visits easy for customers by offering control over their experience. About the Author.

article thumbnail

Calls Are Taking Longer, and That’s a Good Thing

Fonolo

It’s hard to get clear, objective data about the overall state of self-service technology. They report a 62% increase in service call duration since 2004. The net impact of self-service is to take simpler transactions off the plate of the call center agent. Optimize Your Self-Service Channels.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Engage Your Workforce and Improve the Bottom Line

Call Design

Bliss 2004), you can see why turnover, or minimising it, is so important. Technology has enabled contact centres to deflect simple calls from agents to self-service for years, and this trend continues in the current environment. A big problem for all contact centres has been how to retain staff and reduce attrition.

article thumbnail

Calls Are Taking Longer, and That’s a Good Thing

Fonolo

It’s hard to get clear, objective data about the overall state of self-service technology. They report a 62% increase in service call duration since 2004. The net impact of self-service is to take simpler transactions off the plate of the call center agent. Optimize Your Self-Service Channels.

article thumbnail

Contact Centers Can Thrive in the Worker Shortage

SmartAction

The decline continued but stabilized around 2004 until the Great Recession of 2008 hit, which severely affected the labor participation rate. 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.

article thumbnail

Conversational AI is Here to Stay, But What Exactly is it?

Babelforce

You can use it to enable self-service , route calls more effectively, or gather caller intent. Scotland’s pollen index is an early example of the tech from way back in 2004. It’s good for data input, solving simple self-service help queries, and routing callers to the most appropriate agent. Conversational IVR.

article thumbnail

Le CNED : un cas d’école en matière de gestion d’un pic d’activité

Eptica

Nous utilisions déjà la solution de gestion des emails d’Eptica depuis 2004. You might also be interested in these posts: The state of UK customer service 2020 - struggling to improve. What will customer self-service look like in 2025? Nous avons ainsi pu connecter jusqu’à 80 agents. Share this page on: Tweet.