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Virtual Agents in 2020: Usage Spikes and the Banking Sector

Creative Virtual

Back in April I took a look at the impressive spike in virtual agent traffic starting in late February and early March that surpassed anything Creative Virtual had seen in over 16 years of being in the industry. This is mostly due to a sustained increase of traffic through the rest of April and much of May.

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Virtual Agent Usage Spikes as Self-Service Rescues the Customer Experience

Creative Virtual

These organisations can ‘rescue’ the customer experience by guiding customers to the information they need online while at the same time relieving some of the pressure from their contact centre so agents can better serve customers with questions that need human support. It’s also interesting to break down the virtual agent traffic by region.

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Banking: 5 keys to supercharging your digital strategy

Talkdesk

Almost 17,500 US bank branches closed from the beginning of 2014 to the middle of June 2020. Bank branch closures create additional costs for local business owners, making it harder to manage cash flow, maintain productivity levels and contribute to the wider local economy. Impact on small businesses. Embrace the cloud.

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VISION 2020

DMG Consulting

VISION 2020. In 2020 we’re going to see new and continued investments that will finally allow companies to decrease the number of live agent resources needed in contact centers, which is the number-one goal for these people-intensive organizations. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website.

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Two Thumbs Up for Customer Service Week

Creative Virtual

2020 has brought new customer service challenges for companies and altered the way customers engage with businesses, perhaps forever. This three-part blog series explores the business value of using a chatbot or virtual agent to provide easy-to-use self-service, starting with supporting customers.

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5 Banking Customer Experience Predictions for 2020

CSM Magazine

John Ing, Principal Operations Lead for CX at ECS shares his CX Predictions for the banking industry in 2020. The death of voice as a contact channel for banking customers has been over-hyped. The expectation that customers would switch to mobile apps and online banking instead hasn’t happened.

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CSAT Score: Everything You Need To Know About Customer Satisfaction Scores (Updated March 2022)

Netomi

One of our clients, the Canadian airline WestJet , has seen an increase of 24% with its virtual agent Juliet resolving issues immediately on Facebook Messenger. CSAT Score Benchmarks for 2020 . Banks: 80% . All tickets – the simple and complex – are resolved faster. Personal care and cleaning products: 83% .