Etech GS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

When customers call customer service or initiate a chat, the wait time is longer without the help of artificial intelligence. Bots can at least begin the greeting process while customers wait for an available agent. Artificial intelligence also reduces the pressure on contact centers to schedule more agents to work at nights.

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Outsource Consultants

JULY 10, 2018

An article by Dan Miller raises an interesting point: Implementing virtual agents into your contact center isn’t staying ahead of the curve, it’s common. This AI has been used in a variety of ways, including through Facebook messenger bots, which broadens the scope of reach in a big way due to smartphone accessibility.

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JustCall

AUGUST 12, 2022

In this blog, we’ll go through how auto-reply messages work, how to line them up, and give you some suggestions and samples to get you going. An auto-reply is an automatic SMS delivered when a trigger happens, such as a missed call or a query. An efficient way to do the same is to set up an SMS bot. What are SMS Bots?

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

The primary goal of contact center businesses revolves around improving customer experience. Empowering your contact center business with automated solutions can take your customer interactions to new heights of success. What is Contact Center Automation? Here are some advanced contact center automation tools used today: 1.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

Customer-facing AI technologies are especially relevant to assisting in customer identification, call classification/routing, chatbots and predictive personalization. As biometrics become more reliable and cost-effective, more companies can be expected to take advantage of their benefits. Call Classification / routing.

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Expivia

MAY 2, 2021

Is AI overtaking your contact center right now? Is your call center ready to integrate artificial intelligence? But, we’ll try to show you how you can use AI to your advantage at your contact center. Find out what types of AI software is commercially available, and how you can use it effectively.

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Expivia

MAY 4, 2021

Is AI overtaking your contact center right now? Is your call center ready to integrate artificial intelligence? But, we’ll try to show you how you can use AI to your advantage at your contact center. Find out what types of AI software is commercially available, and how you can use it effectively.

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JustCall

MARCH 26, 2020

On G2, you can find CRMs, contact center infrastructure, sales software, marketing software, and a host of other tools and services. . JustCall has been rated highly for the following features as a Contact Center Infrastructure: . Multiple team members can leverage the call and SMS features- be it incoming or outgoing calls or SMS.

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Liveops

JANUARY 6, 2020

According to the Harvard Business Review , 96% of workers seek flexible schedules and locations in their jobs, though only 47% actually have it. In 2018, 36% of the workforce engaged in remote jobs, compared to just 15.8% It seems that there are more jobs than candidates, and job-seekers are being picky.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Organizations relying on call center support were forced to transition to digital channels during lockdowns. In this blog, we’ll look at the top customer service trends to expect in 2022 so you can build a team of customer experience excellence. With expanding expectations comes expanding channels.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We got a lot of feedback on last week’s blog , both in private and in public (see this thread on LinkedIn, for example). The title of last week’s post was “AI is Not Reducing Call Center Agent Employment”. But, in effect, they were answering a different question. Calling in Some Backup. Both things can be true.

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Balto

AUGUST 3, 2022

As the global economy shows signs of recession, the Conversation Excellence Lab wanted to understand how executives are planning to shift their contact center budgets, and how they view the future of the contact center as a whole. Is the contact center a drain on resources, a necessary expense to manage customer needs?

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Nicereply

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This behavioral economics theory is called Prospect Theory. It also avoids humans being treated like a bot. On the other hand, if your customers are talking to a bot – that’s cool too. However, as most of us will agree, trying to pass off a bot as a human makes chatting really frustrating. Let’s just call a bot a bot.

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JustCall

AUGUST 8, 2023

They may write blogs during their downtime (if they’re lucky). JustCall: AI for Driving Call Center Excellence JustCall is an all-in-one communication platform that integrates unique AI capabilities such as SMS AI, call summary, and transcription as integral parts of the core platform.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 15, 2019

This goes for contact center managers and agents as well; for them, January is certainly “reach for the stars and crush your goals” month (as is every month!). Yes, we all know this is a tale as old as the call center, and we also know the importance of the customer experience. 2018 saw breakthrough developments in AI.

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Outsource Consultants

AUGUST 28, 2018

Contact center agents are not immune to this reality. Subramaniam also notes that traditional training isn’t always effective with younger generations. The solution to this dilemma, according to the article, is to provide real-time guidance to agents when they’re on customer service calls. We can help!

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Organizations relying on call center support were forced to transition to digital channels during lockdowns. In this blog, we’ll look at the top customer service trends to expect in 2022 so you can build a team of customer experience excellence. With expanding expectations comes expanding channels.

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Etech GS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Managing call center operations can be a challenging role in today’s highly social and digital environment. Unfortunately, most traditional call center operations are not equipped to handle the growing and evolving criticisms from social media platforms and networks. Easy Customer Interaction. Mobile Capabilities.

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Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

UPDATED FEBRUARY 2020: The call center is an extremely stressful work environment. Simply knowing how to run a call center isn’t enough for success. Below we look into some of the things call center managers must do every day to be successful, along with tips on how to execute them.

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Vistio

JUNE 10, 2022

Do I have your permission to record this call for quality assurance? . I’ve been in the contact center consulting space for almost my entire career, which is now, I hate to say it, about 30 years. Further Reading: The Key to Contact Center Success in 2022: Focus on Process. And he does an amazing job in all aspects.

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bold360 Blog

JANUARY 10, 2019

While customer experience is front and center these days, the experience of the customer service agent often gets overlooked. With the rise of what analysts call the “empathy economy ,” it’s increasingly important that brands address customers’ pain points effectively, and make them feel that their needs and concerns matter.

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teleopti

AUGUST 23, 2019

This is the amount of time that agents spend on call-related activities such as talk time, hold time and wrap-up time. It’s time to get the balance right to maintain a happy, healthy workforce that delivers outstanding levels of customer service efficiently and cost-effectively. 5 ways to strike the right balance with WFM.

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Vistio

APRIL 2, 2022

She is an expert in the design and continuous improvement of the remote working model for contact centers, support functions, and enterprise, both in-sourced and outsourced. I just have to ask, do I have your permission to record this call for quality assurance? Listen to the full episode here: Welcome to the pod, Michele. Absolutely.

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Vistio

JULY 11, 2022

Welcome Steven, can I record this call for quality assurance? What a fun job that you being able to get that time to really research and stay on the cutting edge of what’s occurring in the industry or what’s occurring even outside of our industry that can be implemented into the CX world. Absolutely Hailey. Yeah, exactly.

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teleopti

JANUARY 22, 2019

For instance, if today’s multi-channel customer engagement centers had not morphed from simple call centers to something much broader, many companies could have lost the majority of their customers and gone out of business a long time ago. It’s a sobering thought. Contextualize customer interactions.

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Kayako

MARCH 21, 2017

Trusting customer support to be there and be helpful doesn’t come from a good product or an amazing blog post, it comes from being there with answers when your customers need you most, not once or twice, but 10 times, 20 times.” Now, even if it’s a support call or a billing call, he always contacts me directly to sort it out.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 11, 2023

That’s why in this blog post, we’ll dive into the differences between conversation intelligence and conversational intelligence, shedding light on their different uses and applications. Conversation intelligence platforms can automatically record, transcribe, and analyze hours of sales calls.

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Enghouse Interactive

APRIL 28, 2019

Today, we’d like to give you some insight into the ways omni-channel recording and quality management in the contact center can save your organization money. Call Recording for Cost Savings – How? Process Flow: One of the most important operating principles in contact centers is the adherence to communication scripting and workflow.

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Enghouse Interactive

MAY 21, 2019

Today, we’d like to give you some insight into the ways omni-channel recording and quality management in the contact center can save your organization money. Call Recording for Cost Savings – How? Process Flow: One of the most important operating principles in contact centers is the adherence to communication scripting and workflow.

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Global Response

MARCH 27, 2023

AI can help speed up many backend operations when it comes to call centers, ensuring that your agents reduce call handle time and thus speed up operations overall. As opposed to a voice call, most agents can handle a number of separate chats at the same time, allowing customers to get help more quickly. Outsourcing.

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Playvox

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s face it — no one contacts your contact center to tell the person who answers the phone, text, or chat to tell your organization that they love your brand, service, or product. Most interactions that contact center agents have daily are to solve a problem or issue, adjust a payment, or ask a clarifying question.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Andrew Yang, founder of “Venture for America” (and a long-shot candidate for president in 2020) said “Google recently demonstrated software that can do the job of an average call center worker … that’s going to result in hundreds of thousands of jobs lost”. Are the Robots Going to Take All the Jobs?

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Operating a successful contact center demands attention to a wide range of factors, from investing in your agents’ well-being and training to implementing the right tools and technology. Revolutionize Your Customer Support Center Productivity: 10 Proven Strategies 1.

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REVE Chat Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Some of the successful chatbot examples and case studies implemented by big brands show that customers are willing to interact with bots if done correctly. Hence following a right bot strategy and tailoring your chatbot to meet your use case plays an important role in overall customer experience.

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This is a guest blog from Pratik Salia, product manager at Knowmax , a Talkdesk® AppConnect ™ partner. Today, agents can no longer give a shout across the room to a subject matter expert (SME) and supervisors can’t just walk down the aisle to assist agents with the right knowledge while they’re on a call.

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AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

This blog post is co-written with Dr. Ebtesam Almazrouei, Executive Director–Acting Chief AI Researcher of the AI-Cross Center Unit and Project Lead for LLM Projects at TII. TII is a leading global research center dedicated to pushing the frontiers of knowledge. 24xlarge instances, cumulating in 384 NVIDIA A100 GPUs.

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OctopusTech

AUGUST 10, 2022

Call center technologies are developing rapidly in this ever-growing digital era. Various call center technology trends such as Artificial intelligence, virtual agents, and cloud communications are all part of the future of call centers. But which technology can enhance and support your call center?

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