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5 Technologies That Reduce Customer Effort

VocalCom

Many brands use IVR menus to serve their mobile customers, believing that the technology saves time. Only then can IVR menus truly serve customers well and save them time. Artificial intelligence enhances self-service while making customer experiences more personalized.

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Chatbots: The Smart Decision on Customer Service and Artificial Additives

Clarabridge

These will help you re-book a flight, buy a pair of shoes, or shop from Facebook Messenger, Skype, or Slack without any human interaction. Chatbots are a fusion of machine learning and natural language processing which are starting to be a factor in customer service. Right now, the hype around chatbots exceeds the reality.

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The State of the Bot Going Into 2018

Aspect

2016 saw an explosion of interest and investments in chatbots, as I wrote in my last annual recap. Much like in 2016, this year I’ve had countless conversations about chatbot needs with numerous customers, prospects, and partners around the globe, and it’s clear to me that as an industry we have made progress. Let’s have a look.

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Why Listening is a Key to Empathy in Customer Experiences

Natalie Petouhof

And it allows agents to build rapport and increase personalization. But nearly half of companies lack customer identification information during real-time digital and voice interactions. Imagine that a customer signs into a website, unsuccessfully searches for something and then engages the chatbot.

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How Artificial Intelligence Impacts the Contact Center

The Northridge Group

In an industry that places an emphasis on human contact, what role does AI play in the contact center and how can data gathered from it be used to improve the customer experience? All of this data provides some excellent context for each unique customer that can be used to create a personalized and differentiated experience.

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Customer Effort: Don’t Make Your Customers Work For You

VocalCom

Big data is another important resource for designing proactive customer experiences. IVR menus should be designed to reflect current company issues and events and always route customers to the most appropriate agents. Chatbots are excellent for responding to simple customer questions and assisting during purchase.

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Four Top Trends for Contact Centers

Taylor Reach Group

Interactive Voice Response systems (IVRs) leveraging algorithms to anticipate why a customer is contacting us have been around for more than 5 years. Self-learning email management platforms to recommend responses based on past responses to a set of keywords is similarly ’long in the tooth’. . .