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Guest Post: Five Ways to Create First-class Experiences for Customers

ShepHyken

Today’s consumers tend to turn to the likes of Google, YouTube, or Twitter as the first point of contact when trying to reach customer services. As a result, businesses need to be able to extend their ability to service customers beyond the boundaries of their channels to provide the customer with the experience they deserve. .

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Customer Service Dream Team

Select VoiceCom Blog

Any company looking to retain customers needs to have good customer service. Customer service is fundamental for business success as it impacts customer satisfaction, loyalty, and revenue. These statistics highlight the significance of building a top-notch customer service dream team.

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Helping AI Help Agents: A Better Way to Use AI Applications in the Contact Center

Upstream Works

If we could make an agent’s life just a little bit better, then we could make customer service a little bit better – that was our mission then, and it remains our mission now. To use technology to help simplify, streamline and improve the agent experience and, by extension, the customer experience.

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Why Call Center Retention Matters

Fonolo

Knowledgeable, experienced agents can become brand ambassadors. Skilled agents offer higher quality customer service. Happy agents = happy customers. You can use chatbots to answer simple queries. In fact, IBM predicts that 80% of routine customer queries can be answered by AI-enabled chatbots.

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Study: The Health of the Contact Center

What does it take to engage agents in this customer-centric era? Download our study of 1,000 contact center agents in the US and UK to find out what major challenges are facing contact center agents today – and what your company can do about it.

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New Year, New Agents: How AI is Breathing New Life into Customer Service

bold360 Blog

I’ve already provided my overall predictions around AI in 2019 , but another area I think we’ll see a dramatic shift away from the status quo is in how customer service teams work overall and, fundamentally, how they approach and grow in their careers. Here’s why: Chatbots will handle the grunt work.

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Guest blog: 5 Customer Experience Trends for Financial Institutions in 2023

Comm100

To humanize your digital customer experience, you need to map your client’s journey. Customers typically engage with your brand on different touchpoints. Some will want their issues addressed on other channels, from chatbots, social media, voice calls, or video calls. that can help answer customers’ questions.

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The Health of the Contact Center: Are You Ready for 2019?

A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era. This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019.