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16 Tactics To Retain Customers While Using A Self-Service Option

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Many businesses are using self-serve customer service options that make their customers more happy and feel empowered enough to keep returning to those businesses. The self-serve option helps customers personalize their wants and makes it easier for them by simply doing it themselves. Jami Sharp, Champion 2.

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Are Automation and AI the Same Thing in the Contact Center?

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Where AI can help your self-service option is by learning from customer inquiries as you go. This level of sophistication enables personalized customer interactions and predictive insights, enhancing the overall customer experience. Let’s take modern chatbots for example. This is an example of static data.

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Serve the Customer as They Want to be Served!

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Most organizations support customers in multiple generations, each with their own preferred way of obtaining assistance - from traditional voice calls, to chat, and even self service options. This is especially true when dealing with personal health information and credit card numbers or other financial data.

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ROBUST KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CAN CUT COSTS

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The drive toward self-service is a reality and with good reason, as customers want self-service. When the customer finally gets a hold of a live person, the agent needs to calm down the frustrated customer before they can help them. This can add another 30 to 45 seconds to the call.

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Customer Service Isn’t the Cost You Want to Cut

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Customers want empathetic customer experiences – to be heard and have their issues resolved (either through self-service or other means). When they do need to speak, text, or email with someone, they want that person to have the skills and know-how to resolve their issue.

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Building a Better Bot

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Answer - Bots have the ability to unlock knowledge, to recommend answers to complex customer requests via self-service options. Based in Memphis TN, contact center industry veteran Bob Furniss serves as a CCNG Academy member, working as a leader in Slalom’s Global Salesforce Practice, focused on all-things related to contact centers.

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Agent Experience (AX): The Next Frontier for Elevating the Customer Experience (CX)

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While self service is getting better and better through the use of artificial in­telligence (AI) of varying degrees of sophistication, many questions continue to end up with agents, either because the customer couldn’t find the answer through self ser­vice, or the customer simply doesn’t like self service op­tions.