Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I like customer service expert Shep Hyken’s take on this in his blog post, Don’t Just Personalize the Customer’s Experience – Individualize It. engagement with the customer. This can be applied to marketing, sales, and customer support.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

When customers use your chatbot to self-serve, what kind of experience do you deliver? Does your chatbot need questions asked a particular way to return the correct response? Do your customers have to guess the correct keywords to enter or know specific terminology to locate the right information?

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Underpinned by state-of-the-art technology, you can now have a conversation with virtual agents who will understand customer needs and address them quickly. AI-Powered Chatbots AI-driven chatbots have evolved into sophisticated virtual assistants.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We’re talking elite customer service solutions here: Omnichannel self-service via voice , chat , and SMS Integration not only with your contact center but also with your business apps Deliver 24/7 personalized customer support An average of 66% operational savings How It Works Conversational AI works with voice, SMS, and chat.

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SmartAction

JUNE 9, 2023

Some notable examples include: Chatbots : Chatbots are AI-powered virtual agents, built in-house or by third-party vendors , that engage in text-based conversations with users. They are widely used in customer support, providing 24/7 assistance.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2018

They are missing a chatbot. Chatbots and virtual agents have become essential tools for providing 24/7 self-service to digital customers. Contact centers require a great deal of investment – from recruiting and training staff to putting the necessary tools in place for agents.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This week we are showing love for the efforts of everyone involved with delivering customer service – employees helping customers face-to-face in brick-and-mortar locations; contact centre agents delivering support over the phone, live chat, and social media; team members working behind the scenes to build and maintain customer service tools.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 16, 2020

The product owner of the virtual agent also works closely with their live chat department, enabling the bank to fully optimise their virtual agent content based on their live chat agents’ feedback. Our stats show a high customer satisfaction on these virtual agent answers.

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bold360 Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Live Chat and Chatbots: They Work Best Together. Because both include the word “chat,” there’s often confusion about the difference between live chat and chatbots. Whether customer interaction happens via live chat or chatbot, the user experience is much the same. CX + EX Success: Blending Chatbots + Live Chat.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today we kick off the annual week-long international celebration of the importance of customer service, the people who deliver that service and the impact it has on successful business practices. 2020 has brought new customer service challenges for companies and altered the way customers engage with businesses, perhaps forever.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Around this time every December, I put cursor to page and fingers to keyboard to take a look back over the last 12 months and reflect on some of the highlights of the year for Creative Virtual. This is the seventh time I’ve done this annual year in review blog post, but never have I had to review a year that was like 2020.

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Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Conversational AI is a browser-based messaging service that connects customers with the platforms they use. Typically, you would see this in the form of a ‘Live Chat’ pop-up that provides automated responses to customer queries. To go further, modern chatbots are now pre-empting the moments when customers require their assistance.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 4, 2022

If your organisation already has a conversational AI project, then you don’t need me to wax on about the importance of digital customer support. I started my project with an inexperienced start-up that isn’t able to provide the technology updates and support I need from my conversational AI vendor. You get it.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Getting that coveted stamp of approval from customers and employees that comes from a successful customer service strategy has been harder than ever. This is my sixth year creating a blog post roundup to kick off Creative Virtual’s celebration of Customer Service Week.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 22, 2020

Today I’m proud to be sharing Creative Virtual’s introduction of the Neutrino release of V-Person , our innovative virtual agent and chatbot technology. When I first founded Creative Virtual in late 2003, chatbot and virtual agent technology was still very new in the customer service space.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The same is true with customers – not every customer wants to self-serve and not every customer issue or question is best resolved with self-service. A successful digital customer experience strategy never leaves out the human touch completely. This is why your self-service options can’t be standalone tools.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 25, 2021

However, when it comes to areas like customer support, using a trial-and-error approach can have a devastating effect on your customer experience. And it is no secret that poor experiences can lead directly to customer churn and lost revenue. It drives your customers away.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 12, 2021

Organisations already using V-Person solutions from Creative Virtual had a distinct advantage in meeting the challenges of customer support during the pandemic. Many customer experience (CX) predictions for 2021 foresee conversational self-service becoming more integral to customer support strategies.

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Nicereply

JANUARY 4, 2023

That will ultimately lead to customer service and support teams being pressured to ‘do more with less’ , as customer support is still seen as a cost center by many organizations. Here’s how your business can deliver and maintain a consistently high level of customer service while also reducing your support costs.

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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. It’s always difficult to condense a whole year into one blog post, so here are just a few of the highlights. Three Cheers for Customer Service Week – By Mandy Reed.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Here’s our annual blog post roundup of trends, tips and stats to help you consistently deliver a five-star customer service experience: Top Tips for Implementing a Chatbot or Virtual Agent in 2019 – These eight tips address the most important items organisations should consider when evaluating and deploying chatbot or virtual agent technology.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Cue the virtual agents, chatbots and virtual assistants. Let’s give the machines space to help, freedom to work whilst the humans that are healthy can spend time not only speaking to customers who truly need a human but also to check in from time to time on the accuracy of the responses of the virtual agent.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 2, 2020

Advancements over the past several years in conversational AI technologies, including chatbots and virtual agents, have made them a go-to solution for providing cost-effective and easy-to-use support on digital channels.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Leveraging Telephony for Enhanced Customer Engagement So, what do customers truly desire? Speed, simplicity, and the ability to express their needs fluently without the hassles of navigating chatbots or sifting through help articles. This is where the transformative potential of conversational AI in the voice channel shines.

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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 20, 2020

The first success story tells how an international financial services group’s V-Person virtual agent is rising to the challenges of customer support during the pandemic. The organisation discovered that their virtual agent was the best way to keep up with rapid changes and deliver accurate information to customers.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 27, 2021

Recently I’ve come across some articles claiming customers, who are increasingly turning to digital channels, hate using chatbots and just want to talk to a human. This highlights a failure in both the development of these chatbot solutions and their implementation as part of a synchronised support strategy.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 24, 2019

My session, titled Smart Self-Help for a Seamless, Omnichannel Customer Experience , will take a look at the top trends impacting APAC CX practitioners and the challenge of delivering the right information on the right channel at the right time for customers.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. BPOs offer a comprehensive range of services, including but not limited to customer support and sales. As per a report , the customer care BPO market is estimated to rise from US$22,598.82 million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

According to Aarde Cosseboom, TechStyle’s Director of Global Member Services Technology and Product, “We now have one central, open cloud platform that allows all of the agents to support our multiple global brands.” Some have turned to AI to power virtual agents, chatbots and other self-service channels.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It’s more important than ever for organisations in Asia Pacific to connect with digital customers and create a convenient, efficient and seamless customer experience. This will be my fourth year presenting on the symposium theme, which this year is ‘Customer Intimacy Through Artificial Intelligence’.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 2, 2020

The combination of humans and AI makes for an improved customer support experience. One way in which companies can support their live agents is with AI-enhanced virtual agents and chatbots.

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Global Response

APRIL 17, 2023

That depends on your needs and goals, but in general you should look for: advanced IVR and call routing capabilities automation and AI tools chatbots or virtual agents self-service solutions omnichannel support and robust CRM solutions Remember: modern solutions are often powered by modern technology.

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Call Experts

MAY 8, 2019

AI offers support for functions like: Natural language processing to understand conversations and interpret vital statistics with actionable recommendations. Chatbots or virtual agents can address a wide range of features and questions to provide relevant analysis and efficient protocol. More Blogs Menu.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 17, 2019

However different these opinions get, they have a common root: customers don’t fully realize the scope of customer support activities. Creating a self-service customer portal helps to avoid such situations. And, if your tool is capable enough, you can leverage AI-suggested replies and even AI-powered chatbots.

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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. What is an AI chatbot?

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 14, 2020

We can always clearly see social patterns and trends being reflected in the usage of our virtual agents. In the last 4 weeks, on average, the traffic of our banking virtual agents has doubled. Within a few days, one of the banking virtual agents I look after had more than 3,000 recorded user queries around the crisis.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This post will walk you through 10 such prolific ways in which tech is playing a significant role in affecting the future of customer service. Chatbots to the rescue. It is no surprise that the usage of chatbots in customer service is taking a notch up. This enables the customers to interact via multiple devices.

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