Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Happy Customer Service Week! Every year during the first full week of October we celebrate the importance of customer service and the people who serve and support customers around the globe. This post explores creating the right chat/service balance when supporting digital customers.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 12, 2021

Having innovation at the heart of our company culture at Creative Virtual has served the company well, but only because we innovate with the objective of delivering products and services that genuinely help our customers meet their goals in increasingly better ways.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 9, 2020

Recently customer service and experience expert Shep Hyken tweeted his thoughts on customer service, pointing out the fact that “customers are getting smarter and expecting more”: Some people claim that customer service is getting worse. Customers are getting smarter and expecting more.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 6, 2020

A direct quote of the explanatory theme for this Customer Service Week says: “The impact of events affecting the world today have changed the way in which companies and their employees engage with customers.” Cue the virtual agents, chatbots and virtual assistants.

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SmartAction

APRIL 1, 2020

SmartAction is responding to the current crisis with a Rapid Response Virtual Agent that intercepts callers with a seamless channel switching experience to answer commonly asked questions and even screen callers to create an escalation path (e.g. How a Rapid Response Virtual Agent Works. For a live demo, visit [link].

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Call Design

AUGUST 9, 2021

The advent of web interfaces, such as queries through chatbots or social media, means the focus is now on the entire business’ omnichannel experience. This has shown that humans and virtual agents can operate as co-workers helping to make the agents’ job more interesting.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It has certainly helped that we always considered our people our main asset and that everything we do focuses on people, be it our customers or the end-customer interacting with a virtual agent or chatbot. So, what are my thoughts for Customer Service Week?

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Creative Virtual

JULY 21, 2022

I started out by talking about conversational AI tools being thrust into the customer service spotlight in 2020 as businesses dealt with COVID-19 lockdowns, restrictions, and rapidly changing information. This created an increased adoption of, and preference for, digital self-service tools.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

There have been lots of predictions over the past several years about the impact artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbot technologies will have on customer service. However, AI-powered chatbots and virtual agents are changing the role of contact centres and human customer service agents.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 11, 2019

2019 was another busy and exciting year for Creative Virtual and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. We continued our five-year-long celebration of our Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation 2017 as we also celebrated the 15th anniversary of Creative Virtual. By Rachael Needham.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In 2020 there is an increased focus on automated technologies, such as chatbots and virtual agents, as companies face new customer service and experience challenges and customers alter the ways they engage with businesses.

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VocalCom

JULY 2, 2020

We are social creatures and the value interacting with another human being over a machine when dealing with a complex and emotional problem cannot be underestimated: humans offer a level of empathy that no chatbot or automated agent can currently provide. The rise of the ‘Super-Agent’. Dealing with Greater Complexity.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 8, 2018

According to Gartner, more than two-thirds of customers prefer to self-serve. On top of that, by 2020, it’s estimated that 85 percent of customer service experiences will be managed without a human. Conversational AI allows your customers to self-serve, while keeping your business current technology-wise.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 2, 2020

Yet even with these changes, customers still sometimes want or need to reach out to a human agent in the contact centre. While there’s been impressive advancements in the use of AI within the customer service space over the past several years, it’s certainly not at a point where it can completely replace all of your human agents.

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3CLogic

APRIL 6, 2021

In this 3CLogic Fireside Chat video, Observe.AI's Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer, Sharath Keshava Narayana , uncovers the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to reveal how organizations are using voice solutions to enable digital transformation and revolutionize the customer service experience.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 23, 2019

There is a constant battle with competitors as they try to outdo each other with a superior product or service, lower pricing and an easier customer experience. As customers, we are choosing the winners and the losers every day by deciding where to spend our money. The key is to be smart about this automation, though.

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3CLogic

MAY 26, 2022

Be sure to consider that your customers are savvier, your competitors are adapting, and your legacy system is holding you back. Customers Demand A Seamless Experience. During 2020 and 2021, customers rapidly moved to digital-first interactions, creating a permanent change in the ways companies approach customer experience.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Customer self-service refers to customer-initiated interaction technologies that enable customers to access information and perform routine tasks without requiring the assistance of a live customer service representative. Is it cost reduction?

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Fonolo

JANUARY 4, 2022

Customer service expectations continue to increase, and only the best businesses keep up. The statistics show that superior customer experiences generate more return customers, increased loyalty, and higher profits. Statistics that Demonstrate the Value of Good Customer Service. Source: Bain&Co.

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Fonolo

APRIL 4, 2023

Customer service expectations in the contact center continue to increase, and only the best businesses keep up. Customer service statistics show that superior CX generates more return customers, increases loyalty, and helps generate higher profits. Source: ArenaCX Customers are 5.1

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Netomi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Chatbots are used by 1.4 Companies are launching their best AI chatbots to carry on 1:1 conversations with customers and employees. AI powered chatbots are also capable of automating various tasks, including sales and marketing, customer service, and administrative and operational tasks. Multi-lingual.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 14, 2019

Do you know how to keep your customers satisfied? Customer service is a high-stakes game. Every company is competing for the same customers, and customer satisfaction is one of the main differentiators between success and failure. Latest Customer Experience Trends. What Customers Think of CX.

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Outsource Consultants

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“AI will replace human contact center interactions,” according to some CX experts in 2020. Nowhere is this more clear than in the retail industry, where customer preferences vary widely. Some shoppers seek efficiency and self-service through chatbots, while others crave the understanding and empathy only humans can offer.

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InGenius

JANUARY 31, 2020

As January comes to a close, we wanted to have a look at what 2020 has in store for the contact center. Being a progressive industry driven by innovation and new technology, we can expect to see several trends emerging this year that propel the industry forward and have a significant impact on customer experience and agent productivity.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 22, 2020

The closing of physical store and office locations, restrictions on in-person activities, new guidelines to keep contact centre agents safe, rapidly changing information – these challenges and disruptions to business-as-usual have forced organisations to adapt quickly and re-evaluate the needs of their customers.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2020

Emergent technologies have forever changed traditional customer service support. Lampton look at the state of customer service in the digital age. Rising customer expectations and increasing brand loyalty competition are driving the need to provide greater value-driven service to both consumers and stakeholders.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

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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REVE Chat Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Hence realigning the customer service experience has become a top priority for businesses. Contact center trends provide businesses a futuristic view of how digital transformation and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) would help their call centers to deliver an optimal customer service experience. 34% of U.S.

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JivoChat

JUNE 7, 2021

You might define customer interaction as any communication or interaction between a company and a consumer. Customer interaction comes in many forms. The interaction might come from a chatbot or live agent chat, welcome message, social media interaction, retention interaction, service call, or even another form.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 18, 2019

Plagued by long wait times, agents dealing with inadequate or incomplete access to information and a disconnect from digital channels, contact centres are struggling to meet customer service expectations. Chatbots are more than customer self-service tools.

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Interactions

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Voice search is up–50% of all searches will be voice searches by 2020, per comScore. These enterprises see value in offering voice services for general customer service inquiries and to guide customers to relevant products and offers, per the Oracle Impact of Emerging Technology on CX Excellence report.

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RichCall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

With the rise of technology that allows better customer service, customers are becoming more demanding – that’s why to satisfy and retain them, you need to develop your contact center in accordance with the worldwide trends. Shep Hyken , Customer Service and Experience expert – hyken.com. Self-service.

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Xaqt

JUNE 1, 2020

With the rapid adoption of Contact Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS) platforms, it's now easier than ever for companies to launch their own contact center rather than outsource the function. Amazon, Google, Microsoft) and well-funded start-ups are selling the value proposition of bots, virtual agents and AI to their enterprise customers.

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