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The Complete Guide to Visual IVR

Fonolo

Visual IVR – now known as Fonolo’s Web Call-Backs – was one of the first self-service technologies to have a hugely positive impact on the customer experience. Read on for a crash course! What is Visual IVR? The original interactive voice response system (IVR) might be better known to customers as a phone menu.

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Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR?

Fonolo

FREE WEBINAR: Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR? You wouldn’t be the first customer service professional to ask themselves if a chatbot is really any different than an IVR. If your chatbot seems like an IVR, are you doing something wrong? Of course, this conversation is evolving quickly as technology changes.

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Our guide to the best IVR testing strategies to boost your CX game

Spearline

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology is a widely used, highly effective means of automating customer contact services. It is a game changer for call centers, freeing up human agents by routing and deflecting calls, providing recorded responses to FAQs, and even providing account information and accepting payments.

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3 Tips to Reduce Cost Per Contact in the Call Center

Fonolo

Read on for a crash course! Cost per contact is exactly as it sounds; it’s the amount that any interaction with a customer costs your company over a specific period of time. The best way to know if your cost per contact is on track is to monitor it on a bi-weekly basis over the course of a few months. Unfamiliar with this term?

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How to Write an After-Call Survey Script

Fonolo

An after-call survey is a series of questions requesting customer feedback right after an interaction. The value is in the timing—customers will give the most accurate accounts of their service experiences shortly after they’ve happened. Of course, you should still use other KPIs to improve your call center. Keep that in mind.

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The Score: Good Customer Service 1 Technology 0

Aspect

I was doing some research and had a few questions that required me to go to F1’s website because of an issue with my account. I called the 1-800 number on their website and immediately found myself face-to-face with an IVR monster. At this point I memorized the IVR system, so I was connected to a live agent within seconds.

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Three Ways Call Centers Can Reduce Average Wait Time

JustCall

Usually, because there aren’t enough agents to deal with the volume of calls, the IVR system isn’t optimal, agents are spending too much time on repetitive queries, or there are training and workflow bottlenecks. Unlike AWT, ASA doesn’t include IVR time. So why does AWT go up at call centers? Help customers help themselves.