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Guest Post: When You Need to Scale Up Customer Service… But Your AI Just Doesn’t Quite Cut it Yet

ShepHyken

An “unsupervised” AI bot has led businesses to receive sudden surges in negative feedback, bad reviews, and increased churn. Every customer in the world, including myself, will always choose “talk to a person” or “connect to a representative” as the first choice over a call. Despite the hype, commercial AI is still maturing.

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How to Become a Customer Service Expert in 30 Days

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In late 2008 Malcom Gladwell published his book Outliers: The Story of Success. Great customer service agents are able to understand when these unusual situations arise and are quick to come up with workarounds or other creative ways to still provide a great customer experience. Remember, this is only temporary.

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International Contact Centre Operations Tips & Best Practices

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A 2008 report by CFI group explained that when customer service professionals are perceived to converse softly and clearly, they resolve customer issues 88% of the time. Let your operations team handle real-time management. The team leader has to manage the overall performance of the agent.