SmartAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Two popular options are Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). IVR is often used as a first point of contact for customers and is designed to handle routine inquiries and provide information quickly. What is an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA)? Available 24/7. Available across multiple channels.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

When used in business, conversational artificial intelligence (AI) supports overall call center operations by providing self-service options, 24/7 availability, and real-time data and analytics – while lowering costs and increasing profits. Voice starts with the customer reaching your contact center platform.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This week we feature an article by Mansi Bhatia who looks at ways organizations can transform contact centers into a customer engagement center. I like the idea of a customer engagement center. – Shep Hyken. Earlier, businesses used to see contact centers as cost centers. Conclusion.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

AI-based call centers are revolutionizing how businesses interact with their customers. An AI-based call center utilizes artificial intelligence technologies to manage and improve customer interactions. An AI-based call center utilizes artificial intelligence technologies to manage and improve customer interactions.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

AI-based call centers are revolutionizing how businesses interact with their customers. An AI-based call center utilizes artificial intelligence technologies to manage and improve customer interactions. An AI-based call center utilizes artificial intelligence technologies to manage and improve customer interactions.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 21, 2022

When we do need or prefer to make a phone call to speak with someone, a bad experience is made worse by the knowledge that there are ways to make support calls less painful which many contact centers aren’t utilizing. completely replace human contact center agents. Do you intelligently route customers to the right agent?

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Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant—virtual assistants have transformed how we interact with technology and what we expect from it. The same holds true in the contact center. Multimodal Virtual Agents allow customers to tap, text and talk to get more done , with little effort. View Webinar.

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OctopusTech

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

This is where call center outsourcing plays a major role. Do you know that call center outsourcing services are one of the top choices of developing countries like Europe and America? The dedicated call centers handle day-to-day customer queries such as solving credit card issues, checkout process problems, and many more.

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Aspect

MAY 18, 2020

It’s a brave new world for contact centers in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. In a recent survey of contact centers by Aspect, we found that about 70% of agents were “work-from-home” as of April 16 , and a recent Gartner poll of CFOs indicates that 74% think telecommuting will become permanent.

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JustCall

APRIL 3, 2024

Let’s explore the top 10 tips high call volume call centers could use. High call volume refers to a scenario in which the number of incoming calls in a call center is exceptionally larger than it is accustomed to handling within a relatively short period. So, how do you manage call surges during unanticipated high-traffic periods?

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SmartAction

JUNE 9, 2023

Conversational AI has emerged as the bridge, enabling human-like conversations to help drive and solve customer queries. 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. Today, conversational AI is everywhere.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 6, 2021

These are some of top contact center pain points driving employee disengagement today. In our webinar, What Your Call Center Agents Rant About on Social Media , we went beyond the annual Voice of the Employee survey to explore how agents really view the contact centers they work in—and why they’re leaving at an alarming rate.

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Contact Center Self service Call Center Analytics 98

Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contact centers play a vital role in today’s modern businesses. They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028.

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VocalCom

JULY 2, 2020

The necessary acceleration of contact centers’ digitalization will bring to the fore the crucial value of the human touch. Digitalization is quickly sweeping through contact centers. However, this does not mean that agents will totally disappear from contact centers. The rise of the ‘Super-Agent’.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 15, 2021

COVID exacerbated a looming problem. How does conversational AI automation for the contact center fit into solving the issue of not having enough workers for all the demand? With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated. Those customer service reps have an assistant within the virtual agent.

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Expivia

JUNE 10, 2022

There are a lot of misconceptions about what working in a call center is like. If you’re thinking of becoming a call center agent, you should know what it’s really like. Here’s a true report on what a call center agent does, how easy or hard it is, and what you should keep in mind before you start working at a call center.

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JustCall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Call centers thrive on customer calls and requests, so they need better resource management and a system that reduces waiting times and boosts customer satisfaction rates. One of the most useful systems to have at a call center is the IVR number. For any call center, the IVR functionality is now a business necessity.

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Babelforce

MARCH 18, 2021

This is because it costs money to place the call, and because agents spend time contacting people who may not pick up or be interested in what they have to say. An inbound call is one made by a third-party to your contact center. Inbound calls and outbound calls are often made from separate contact centers.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That’s where the use of an AI-powered virtual agent comes in — for a fraction of the cost of a human agent, an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) is available to assist customers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Virtual agents can also handle spikes in call volume, making them a scalable solution to meet seasonal demands.

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Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. Today, as companies look past the pandemic, one thing remains certain: we now expect more from remote support centers than ever before. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 17, 2019

To relieve customers’ hard feelings about problems with some products or services, companies usually choose to improve the customer service skills of their agents. Not entirely, since to get to the point of using your agents’ skills, customers first need to contact your support. But does this work well? And they don’t always.

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Inbenta

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A call center experiencing higher than average call volume is stressful. High call volume happens when your call center is receiving more calls than it can accommodate over a sustained period of time. Understand why call volumes are high in call center. Open more support channels.

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bold360 Blog

JANUARY 2, 2020

That’s a bad model for technology and problem solving. The right approach is understanding what the problem is and finding the right solution set to solve it. Companies need to be very cautious about having tech becoming their scapegoat when it could be a data problem or a problem definition.

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Eckoh

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Has your company deployed a self-service app for customers — but your contact center is still getting a constant stream of calls? Our blog series on the Top 5 Customer Service Challenges has been getting under the skin of the big issues facing contact centers today. When this happens, there's only one thing to do.

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Avaya

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s the spookiest time of the year, and not just because contact centers like yours are about to head full bore into the holiday rush. Halloween is coming, and to get into the spirit, we’re here to help you overcome some common contact center terrors: WFH Agents. Maintenance and Upgrades.

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ViiBE Blog

MAY 20, 2021

Rather than meticulously explaining every action that needs to be undertaken, the remote expert can simply show the customer what to do to solve the issue. Despite the remoteness of the process, Augmented Reality virtual assistance allows for a more collaborative and interactive issue resolution from the beginning to the end.

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Noble Systems

JULY 15, 2019

Businesses wait for a customer to call into the contact center. The agent asks a series of questions to gather information needed in order to answer the customer’s question or solve their problem. In this blog, we’ll start by defining AI and its sub-fields — machine learning and natural language processing.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

TechStyle’s AI Virtual Assistant Solution. Now that all of those call types, chats and processes are now handled by SmartAction AI-powered virtual agents, live agents can focus on high-value conversations that only humans can do and finish the calls that were not able to be fully contained within automation. Beyond the Blog.

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Global Response

MARCH 27, 2023

Whether or not the problem is truly urgent, you don’t want to be on hold for 25 minutes or have to wait several days for an email response whenever you need a problem resolved from a company. If your support staff is fast, easy to contact and friendly, but they can’t solve the customer’s problem, that’s still a major problem.

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JustCall

AUGUST 1, 2021

So, here we bring all answers to your queries in this comprehensive blog post on text surveys. Virtual customer service surveys pay attention to the human factor and are incredibly valuable. You can accordingly prioritize which problems to focus on and ultimately solving them. What is a Text Survey? Post-Call Survey.

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ViiBE Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Customers typically contact call centers when they are unable to resolve a problem with a product or service on their own. The key to satisfying the customer in search of a solution is the call center experience. The call center experience is the overall interaction between the customer and the call center.

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Serenova

AUGUST 11, 2020

These call center agents serve at the frontlines for the business and have an outsized impact on customers’ perception of the organization at large. How important are call center agents on brand perception, you ask? This has further extended the role of the contact center agent and created new complexity for agents.

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delighted

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Customer touchpoints are the myriad of moments when a person comes into contact with your company or brand. For example, many people won’t bother contacting tech support if there’s a flaw in your online checkout process. Let’s dig in. What are customer touchpoints? Improving touchpoint experiences with surveys.

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ViiBE Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

ViiBE Blog How can live chat integration with co-browsing improve CX? While emails and calls cannot provide adequate and fast solutions to customer problems, live chats do it so well that 79% of customers tend to favor them over any other way to connect with an expert. Live chat looks like a pop-up chat window.

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Uniphore

JULY 21, 2021

Why are so many knowledge bases inefficient to use when contact centers invest so much money in them? See where your contact center makes its mark or could use a little improvement. Ultimately, VCA and other AI can offer yet another platform to engage with customers and solve problems.

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Noble Systems

MAY 11, 2021

In this blog, we’ll look at how speech recognition has evolved since it was first introduced. For contact centers, ASR is often the first point of interaction between a brand and its customers, and is fundamental to gaining consumer insights through conversation analytics. When used correctly. 5 benefits of ASR.

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aircall

MARCH 12, 2021

Call centers can enhance the customer experience— if your teams are performing well. It’s essential to track call center performance to gain insight into how your customers perceive your sales and support services, so you can improve and adapt to their needs. The key ingredients to improving call center performance?

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