CSM Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Poor customer service and perseverance in long waiting loops – what we have begrudgingly accepted as the norm can be changed with the help of modern AI software. Cognigy , an internationally successful pioneer in customer service automation, offers one of the leading Conversational AI platforms (think voice- and chatbots).

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

With the COVID-19 crisis causing a significant increase in customer inquiries, more businesses are turning to Conversational AI to sustain and improve customer and employee communications. Customer service teams and contact centers have specific needs when considering new technology solutions.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 31, 2022

Voice is the fastest form of human communication and has long been the backbone of the customer service industry. In this article, we will discuss the basics of voicebot technology and how it is changing the customer service industry. What is the difference between a voicebot and a chatbot? What is a voicebot?

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Critical Thinking—The Most Needed Skill, And the Most Lacking 97% of consumers agree that customer service interactions have a direct impact on brand loyalty—which directly correlates to brand revenue. Just 49% of managers believe that remote workers are meeting productivity expectations today, which is 24% lower than in 2020.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aviad Abiri of NICE examines how service organizations will need to incorporate agility in their functioning to succeed in a constantly changing world. Striking a balance between efficiency and customer experience has been a staple of good contact center strategy. This is what we call an agile digital workforce.

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InGenius

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Contact Center Productivity: Transforming the omni-channel customer experience. All companies are shaped by their customers. And the means by which our customers communicate with us has a profound and direct impact on their perception of us, not to mention their willingness to do business with us.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

What if your employees had to work from home and you had to close your contact centers indefinitely? From fixed to fluid – wider issues in customer service. Gig customer service is on the rise, with the added bonus that these workers can provide customer service from anywhere in the world.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Training and contact center leaders receive a Simulation Scorecard certifying agents to take live calls. “AI Coach is the first human-centered AI solution focused on helping people perform their best through conversation simulation versus replacing their role,” said Brian Tuite, founder of Zenarate.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

In 2018 it was predicted that voice would soon be dead and chatbots would be controlling the customer experience. However, this prediction missed one critical factor: the customer. With this in mind, here are 10 top trends for contact centers and the customer experience in 2019.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Customer Service & Experience USA 2020 (November 17-18th) brings together an unrivalled list of senior customer service leaders from the world’s most powerful and innovative brands. In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we are bringing our most senior line-up yet.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 1, 2018

In industries where companies depend on customer service excellence, success is driven by the right people, processes, and a cultural commitment to customer satisfaction. . Increasingly we see companies turning to artificial intelligence tools in order to, enable and drive an effective and friendly customer service operation.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Each year brings new ideas and new challenges to the customer service department. An interactive discussion featuring customer service leaders from the Boston Red Sox, HP, Intuit and UL on: 2019 a year in review, we’ll recap how changing customer expectations and new tech have changed our approaches to support.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Zenarate leads the learning transformation to develop top-performing contact center agents. Zenarate , the leading AI Simulation Training solution for customer-facing agents, today announced strong customer growth despite the headwinds experienced by many tech companies. Canada, Mexico, Philippines, India, and Europe.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

You can’t physically fulfill a backorder for a customer who’s been waiting days, weeks or even months for a product to show up at the door. But, there’s a lot we can say as customer service professionals to lessen frustrations and even enhance a buyer’s loyalty. Tip #5: Take Advantage of Technology.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what’s going on in the AI market, when just last month some commentators were questioning chatbot sector momentum – particularly with Amazon stripping costs and people out of its Alexa team? How can ChatGPT help contact centres? How could contact center agents take advantage of ChatGPT? Question 3.:

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CSM Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

It reminds me of a relay race where one of the runners is a chatbot and passes the ‘experience baton’ onto an agent to complete the final leg and win the race. We can all recite horror stories where chatbots send us around in infinite loops with seemingly no ability or interest in actually helping us with even the simplest tasks.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

With a self-service mindset, when customers have a problem with a product or service, their first idea is to go online and to find the necessary answers with FAQs, articles, manuals, videos, chatbots, and virtual assistants. How can customer relationships be improved with knowledge management?

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

Facilitating customer self-service using automated contact channels, such as IVR and chatbots is a recognised method of reducing strain on contact centers during spikes in demand. Here are 5 ways specialist service bots can play a winning role in your organization’s customer retention strategy: 1.

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VocalCom

JANUARY 28, 2019

Companies are realizing that, in order to embrace a customer-centric approach, a team effort is absolutely necessary. From the executive branch to the customer service representatives, every employee must be on board and work together to deliver the best customer experiences possible. A need for the human touch.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Figures from Ofgem have revealed that the average number of complaints received by the leading utility companies per 100,000 customer accounts had decreased from 3,510 in Q1 2013 to 2,233 in Q1 2018, but the average number of complaints resolved by the suppliers by end of the next working day dropped from 81 percent to 60 percent in the same period.

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VocalCom

JULY 9, 2018

Chatbots Magazine states that 67% of people expect to use messaging apps when engaging with a brand. When implementing any kind of technology, always ask if it will serve the customer well. Your chatbots should be able to answer questions promptly or complete a purchase without difficulty.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Chatbots and virtual assistants are at the epicenter of the customer service revolution. So, what has caused the rapid takeover of chatbots? And it’s clear that customers are open to these emerging technologies to help make that happen. How is AI Transforming the Chatbot? . Expectations have shifted.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

With the capacity to drastically change our entire world, early adopters are already experimenting with the lucrative functions of AI, especially within the contact center world. Here are five ways AI harnesses the power to revolutionize the customer experience: Delivers proactive customer experiences.

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Vistio

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I mean, this is around the time of the millennium, when so many companies were moving off to India, whether it was contact centers or IT development. Specifically the technology used to aid in customer service. . The book did really well.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

The customer service department is too often referred to as “just a cost center”. As experience overtakes price and product as a key brand differentiator, customer service is being recognized as the face of, and driver for, organization-wide strategy. The board includes: EVP, Global Customer Care, Mastercard.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Zenarate partnered with Execs In The Know to gather current consumer preferences and perceptions related to customer service and customer experience channels. CX leaders can use the report to better understand what consumers value most, where to focus their agent training efforts, and how to win over customers and prospects.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Businesses will be on the lookout for processes that can be streamlined and improved through AI, from chatbots handling routine queries to predictive analytics guiding decision-making. Contact centres will increasingly use AI-driven tools to personalise interactions, anticipate customer needs, and resolve issues swiftly.

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Talkdesk

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This post was originally written by Mikhail Naumov, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer at DigitalGenius, for Talkdesk’s Opentalk Magazine. We live in a world where customers expect exceptional service in an instant and customer service has become a continual process.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Frontier’s decision to go fully digital and drop its customer service phone lines may, on the face of it, seem like a company moving with the times. Indeed, our research revealed that 67% of UK consumers prefer customer service via phone; eliminating such methods comes with the potential risk of alienating customers.

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Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 3, 2020

This may involve the customer service team regularly communicating with the engineering department to report any issues with the product, customers are regularly complaining about, or it could be the marketing department staying in contact with IT to work through digital marketing campaigns.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Re-think what AHT means If service is measured by how quickly agents can get customers off the phone or finish a web chat conversation, chances are they are not really listening to the customer. Think from the outside in, factoring into the AHT equation the human elements that support satisfying customer conversations.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Customer service leaders come in all shapes and sizes. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. At Netomi, we deeply care about improving the customer experience. Adrian Swinscoe.

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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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CSM Magazine

MARCH 31, 2020

Sarah Al-Hussaini, Co-Founder and COO of Ultimate.ai, explains why chatbots must be part of the customer journey if their full potential is to be realized. When it comes to chatbots, there are generally two types of sentiment in the market amongst customer service leaders. Which it needn’t be.).

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Poly , formerly Plantronics and Polycom have announced the additions of the EncorePro 300 headset and MDA 500QD series audio processor to its industry-leading portfolio of devices for the modern-day contact center. The MDA 500QD Series is designed for organizations moving their contact center to the cloud.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

This reality puts the spotlight firmly on customer-facing teams and the ability to re-evaluate everything they do from the people they hire to the technology they deploy. For more information on what customer experience intelligence means to your contact center, business, customers and employees visit www.teleopti.com and www.calabrio.com.

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Netomi

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A virtual contact center is one in which agents respond to incoming phone calls, emails, social media requests and other customer service tickets remotely, not from a centralized location. This is a change from more traditional, brick-and-mortar call centers in which agents work from the same location. .

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