Creative Virtual

MAY 4, 2021

Over the course of history, humans have always looked for ways to improve efficiency and productivity. Forrester analyst, William McKeon-White writes about this as part of his research on help desk chatbots. If users don’t have a good experience with the chatbot, they won’t keep using it.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Over the course of 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) became mainstream for contact centers. AI applications will access the relevant pieces from a customer’s history – chat threads, previous orders, unresolved issues – and pull them up on the virtual agent desktop so everything is in one place. Virtual Agent.

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Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

To go further, modern chatbots are now pre-empting the moments when customers require their assistance. A simple message will do the trick, such as “ Hey, I’m [chatbot name], may I help you with your shopping today? ”. Another great idea to explore is offering a digital sales agent that is voice-enabled. Lack of human empathy.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is my sixth year creating a blog post roundup to kick off Creative Virtual’s celebration of Customer Service Week. It’s a post I look forward to writing every year even though it’s always difficult to narrow down a year’s worth of informative blog posts into just a couple handfuls to include.

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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 5, 2021

Deploying conversational AI solutions like chatbots and virtual agents can be risky but doesn’t have to be. Over the course of this three-part blog series, I’ll outline three steps for minimizing risk and maximizing benefits of conversational AI projects.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 6, 2020

As the CEO of Creative Virtual, I’ve been on two sides on this equation during these tough times: supporting our customers and being a customer myself. Creative Virtual is fortunate to have many long-term customers: one of our first customers has been with us since the formation of the company (nearly 17 years ago!).

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 17, 2021

As virtual agent and chatbot expert, Peter Studd explains in a conversational AI guide : “It’s very important to be aware of your users’ technology when you’re implementing a virtual agent to ensure it will be compatible. Old internal systems don’t need to destroy your conversational AI dream.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2020

So, after the event I meant to write a blog post about how we add a human touch to the way machines interact with humans. Tools to bridge the gap are very important of course, but they are just tools, which must be used to connect people. So, what are my thoughts for Customer Service Week?

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That is all fine and important of course, but customer communication, however, is about people talking to people. They interact with virtual agents and chatbots in a technical sense, but they certainly do not converse with them. Having this in mind makes an important shift of focus in the virtual agent design.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 9, 2020

They should, of course, learn from past successes and failures and pay attention to the feedback from both customers and employees. Just as each company is unique, so should be their chatbot, virtual agent and live chat strategy – there’s no one-size-fits-all approach that guarantees success.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 30, 2023

Powered by Amazon Lex , the QnABot on AWS solution is an open-source, multi-channel, multi-language conversational chatbot. This includes automatically generating accurate answers from existing company documents and knowledge bases, and making their self-service chatbots more conversational.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 27, 2021

Creating your overall strategy is similar to writing a musical score – you have to pay attention not only to the performance of each individual component but also how they interact with each other over the course of the journey. Rachel F Freeman, a conversational AI expert, started working with chatbots and virtual agents in 2000.

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Interactions

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Of course, cell phones 10 years ago were ubiquitous. Chatbots passed through the Great Filter. If 2018 was the year of chatbots, then 2019 was the year when chatbots had to prove their worth and usability. The novelty around chatbots was over by the middle of 2019. Many failed to live up to customer expectations.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 7, 2020

Being recognised for our innovation and thought leadership in the extremely fast-paced chatbot, virtual agent and live chat market is also important for the company. This validates the market of course, but also creates a lot of confusion and makes it more difficult to cut through all the noise.

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VocalCom

JULY 2, 2020

The benefits, for both agents and customers, are numerous and include, notably, a 24/7 support, an omnichannel relationship, a more intuitive experience, enhancing both customer loyalty and agent satisfaction, a reduced time for resolutions and high positive contact rate, and, of course, reduced costs.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Some have turned to AI to power virtual agents, chatbots and other self-service channels. The strategic and practical value of the virtual agent is its ability to address calls when there are wait times. Decreased average handle time by 10 percent. Improved average speed of answer by over 50 percent at peak times.

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Global Response

MARCH 30, 2023

Of course, customer service makes a big impact on the overall customer experience, and can impact many stages of the customer journey. Of course, in order to do so, you not only need the right tools (see above) but also the right data that enables you to understand each customer individually.

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Global Response

APRIL 17, 2023

At Global Response, our agents are the best of the best, whether you decide to onshore, offshore or nearshore your call center. Of course, that’s how we’re able to deepen brand loyalty, improve brand reputation and strengthen customer relationships for our clients. How much focus do they place on agent training and experience?

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REVE Chat Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You can respond to your customers faster with AI enabled chatbots. You can use chatbots as the first point of contact for 24×7 customer engagement and filtering the complex conversations. The chat is handed over to the human agent to deliver comprehensive support. virtual agents. 34% of U.S. FAQ pages .

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Uniphore

JULY 21, 2021

Virtual Customer Assistants A virtual customer assistant (VCA) can help direct customers to the knowledge they need, rather than forcing them to navigate the site on their own. Other similar tools to consider include chatbots and smart speakers.

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OctopusTech

AUGUST 10, 2022

Various call center technology trends such as Artificial intelligence, virtual agents, and cloud communications are all part of the future of call centers. It is important for your contact centers that your users find the solution to their queries without even contacting your agent.

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RichCall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Here are the experts: @Jon Arnold , an independent research analyst with a great blog. Of course, it took about 20 years for CRM to become an overnight success. Customers have begun to use, and in some cases even prefer, non-agented interactions. Teresa Cottam , Chief Strategist, MVNOpro. @Al Al Hopper , cofounder of DoLabSATX.

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