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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of February 26, 2024

ShepHyken

4 Reasons Why Your Customer Service Is About to Get a Whole Lot Better in 2024 by Mike Murchison (Entrepreneur) When it comes to AI and customer service, we’re going to see a virtuous cycle in 2024. I love the first topic, which is how customers have been frustrated with getting caught in the phone menu.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of October 2, 2023

ShepHyken

My Comment: For those in the customer support world, this article is for you. AHT, as in average handle time, is a metric used to measure the average length of time for a customer support call. What an honor. Thank you, Chalmers Brown, for including me.

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Protecting Your Contact Center Agents’ Emotional Well-Being

Playvox

Not only are they bad for business, but they’re also bad for customer support center employees themselves. Dealing with customers in this mental state will be as draining as handling customers who are angry, creating more opportunities for mental burnout.

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5 Insurance Chatbot Use Cases Along the Customer Journey

Inbenta

This is where an AI chatbot comes into its own, by supporting customer service teams with illlimited availability and responding quickly to customers, cutting waiting times. Top benefits for your business: Complement other tools like online chat to avoid customer service teams being overwhelmed.

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Generative AI is Shaping The Future of Contact Centers in 2024

Balto

For example, if you want to know what your agents’ AHT (Average Handling Time) is in real time, you can just ask “What is the average handling time today?” At the same time, you’re not frustrating your customers by making them feel like they’re talking to a cheaply built piece of software.

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Top 5 Best Practices to Reduce Truck Roll in 2021

ViiBE Blog

billion by 2024. The time to invest is now. However, what exactly is remote assistance AR, and how does it boost a company’s productivity and customer satisfaction while reducing avoidable friction? With wide-ranging remote assistance implications, the field of augmented reality is estimated to grow from USD 10.7

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10 Ways to Succeed With Omnichannel Customer Service in 2021

JivoChat

Improves customer satisfaction. Businesses that have a strong omnichannel strategy have 89% higher customer satisfaction rates than those that don’t. Customers are more likely to stick to a company when they know what to expect from it, aka. Increases customer loyalty. Increases revenue. The result?