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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 8, 2021

ShepHyken

Fast Company) As we witnessed in the 2009 downturn, if companies react quickly and organize themselves well, there are many opportunities to be gained from this crisis. Next generation is the new generation in customer experience by Carlos Lopez-Abadia.

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5 Ways to Apply AI and Win Back Business

CSM Magazine

Facilitating customer self-service using automated contact channels, such as IVR and chatbots is a recognised method of reducing strain on contact centers during spikes in demand. Here are 5 ways specialist service bots can play a winning role in your organization’s customer retention strategy: 1.

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What Elephants and Customer Experiences Have in Common

CSM Magazine

Unleash the chatbot! We saw this in the last big recession spanning 2007-2009. From an operational point of view, speech analytics help to identify self-service containment opportunities or agent knowledge gaps. Change the mindset from self-service OR human-assisted to a more realistic blended one.

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11 Contact Center Technologies to Boost Customer Satisfaction

TechSee

Its intelligent knowledge base/self-service platform is powered by artificial intelligence, unified search, rich analytics, and machine learning. The Canadian-based Coveo increases self-service success and case deflection by making search core to the self-service experience.

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A Complete Guide to Omnichannel Customer Service

Comm100

67% of consumers used social media for service-related needs in 2020, and this is growing. Chatbots: With a well-trained AI chatbot, organizations can automate up to 80% of their frontline customer support. Integrating a chatbot with omnichannel support also creates new ways to engage international applicants.

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SmartAction Responds to Aggressive Adoption of its AI Virtual Assistant Solution for Call Centers, Appoints Brian Morin as Chief Marketing Officer

SmartAction

While some organizations are dabbling with do-it-yourself chatbots to help customers self-serve via automation, they ultimately create silos that cannot be scaled to voice, where more than half of customer engagements take place. SmartAction is transforming customer self-service with Artificial Intelligence.

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What’s the Deal with Air Canada?

Fonolo

In 1999, it implemented the country’s first self-service express check-in kiosks. Air Canada has led its home country and continent in these innovations. In 2007, it was the first in North America to introduce mobile check-in with electronic boarding passes.