SmartAction

JUNE 30, 2023

When it comes to customer service, most people believe that good customer service means receiving timely assistance to resolve any issues that may arise with a product or service. This is the difference between good customer service and a great customer experience.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Who is helping your customers when they have questions and problems outside of business hours? According to Gartner’s 2018 Best Practices for Implementing Extreme Customer Self-Service Report , by 2022, 85% of customer service interactions will start with self-service, up from 48% today.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The caveat though, is that delivering a stellar customer experience – especially in retail, hospitality, and healthcare sectors – can be prohibitively expensive to scale. Virtual agents can also handle spikes in call volume, making them a scalable solution to meet seasonal demands. Customer Wait Time.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 7, 2022

Virtual agents. Some of you may remember the days when companies wanting to implement customer support on their website believed they had to make a decision: either a virtual agent or live chat; either automated self-service or human-assisted web chat. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The jump from traditional “press zero” to cutting-edge AI solutions presents both a thrilling opportunity and a daunting challenge in the customer service world. This vision is at the heart of SmartAction’s mission, where we’re not just about technology; we’re about transforming customer experiences.

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Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Not only are online retailers enjoying massive revenue from their customers (expected to be over $6 trillion in 2022 ), but the platforms themselves are also becoming increasingly sophisticated. Now, technologies such as AI and machine learning are driving highly personalized customer experiences.

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Solvvy

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Chances are, the last time you called a customer support number, you interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot. If the company had a great AI chatbot, the interaction might have been so natural that it took a while to realize that you weren’t actually talking to a human. What is a Chatbot Platform?

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

2023 was all about chatbots. FREE WEBINAR: Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR? With their narrow conversation flows and questions that often don’t lead to an answer – or an agent – chatbots don’t always seem all that revolutionary. If your chatbot seems like an IVR, are you doing something wrong? Join us Oct.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

His session was titled Smart Self-Help for a Seamless, Omnichannel Customer Experience and focused on delivering the right information on the right channel at the right time for customers. This hit right at the heart of the challenges faced by customer experience (CX) practitioners across the APAC region.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Designing Customer-Centric Order Management Automation Understanding Customer Needs To build an automated system that truly resonates with your customers, begin by conducting a thorough analysis of customer behavior and preferences. This allows virtual agents to provide personalized updates.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 10, 2020

Back in April I took a look at the impressive spike in virtual agent traffic starting in late February and early March that surpassed anything Creative Virtual had seen in over 16 years of being in the industry. I’m curious to continue to watch how virtual agent traffic fluctuates as coronavirus-related restrictions change.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Customer Service centers have placed high hopes on chatbots, investing large sums in the technology’s automated ability to help customers help themselves. With the right tools, chatbots can be transformed into superheroes that handle huge volumes of customer inquiries, while improving CX and reducing costs.

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SmartAction

MARCH 18, 2019

But with the evolution of conversational AI and delivery over the cloud, organizations are getting past the limitations of their IVR and automating more conversations than ever before without compromising the Customer Experience (CX). These omnichannel solutions are known as AI-powered virtual agents. Claim Management.

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Quiq

MARCH 6, 2023

Does your chatbot sound like a robot? Okay, chatbots are robots (hence the name), but they don’t have to sound like something out of a 70s sci-fi flick. Chatbots have come a long way and are getting better at understanding and mimicking human interactions. Here are some ways to make your chatbot sound more human.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

Customer service is a crucial aspect of any business, as it can affect customer satisfaction, retention, and loyalty. However, providing high-quality customer service can be challenging, especially in the era of digital transformation, where customers expect fast, personalized, and seamless interactions across multiple channels.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Personalization as a driver in customer service. These strategies are increasingly being explored with Gartner stating that by 2018, over 50% of companies will have redirected investments towards customer experience innovations. Examples of AI-Driven Personalized Customer Service. Virtual Assistants.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Happy Customer Service Week! Observed every year during the first full week of October, Customer Service Week is an international celebration of the importance of customer service and of the people who serve and support customers on a daily basis. The Generic ‘Chat Now’: Virtual Agent or Live Chat?

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Conversational chatbots are one of the top market disruptors in call center automation. However, in recent years their use has declined as businesses have learned how difficult it is to properly maintain a chatbot that actually helps customers to accomplish their goals. Why is it So Hard to Implement and Maintain a Chatbot?

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

When customers use your chatbot to self-serve, what kind of experience do you deliver? Does your chatbot need questions asked a particular way to return the correct response? Do your customers have to guess the correct keywords to enter or know specific terminology to locate the right information?

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Creative Virtual

JULY 8, 2021

This is most certainly true when it comes to creating chatbots for customer self-service, and too often organisations fall into the DIY trap. Some companies delegate their project solely to an inexperienced internal team because they underestimate the amount of expertise needed to build and deploy a working chatbot.

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Netomi

MARCH 21, 2023

From product recommendations to one-on-one personal shopping and customer support to order management, the use cases for ecommerce chatbot solutions are endless. The need for eCommerce chatbots has never been higher than it is today. What are the top use cases for eCommerce chatbots? Here are our favorite use cases: 1.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

For some time now, Chatbots have become famous in contact centers. It is an artificial intelligence tool that can be described as a virtual agent. Indeed, it can interact with customers via instant messaging, and exchanges are based on predetermined scripts and scenarios.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

While you probably have an SOP, conversational AI has unique features that require careful planning to create the optimal conversational design for your customer inquiries. It linked via API to internal data sources and current customer input to find a successful solution. Our virtual agents can solve 80% to 90% of customer problems.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving customer service landscape, businesses face a multitude of choices when it comes to interacting with their customers. The advent of digital communication channels such as chat, email, and social media has provided convenient alternatives for customer inquiries.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This year, one of the customer experience (CX) predictions for 2023 falling into that category is that ‘Personalization will get More Personal’. I like customer service expert Shep Hyken’s take on this in his blog post, Don’t Just Personalize the Customer’s Experience – Individualize It.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 6, 2020

CX Day and Customer Service Week this year, like everything else, is held with the dark cloud of the pandemic hanging over us. Customer experience has always been a key competitive differentiator, and this has never been more apparent than this year. By Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, customer self-service has become a pivotal aspect of delivering exceptional customer experiences. As we look towards 2024, the world of customer self-service is at a crossroads, with new challenges and opportunities on the horizon.

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JustCall

AUGUST 8, 2023

This ensures that customers are directed to the most suitable agent or department. This minimizes wait times and increases customer satisfaction. Virtual Agents AI chatbots can understand and respond to customer queries in real time. Thus, improving customer experience and ensuring a quick resolution.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As more and more businesses strive to compete and outcompete one another on customer service, the CX landscape will continue to change. With that in mind, below are some of the ways you can expect artificial intelligence to shape customer service in 2022 and beyond. Much More Proactive Service.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We’re not talking about the time-consuming interactive voice response (IVR) of the past that provided a less-than-optimal customer experience. The AI-powered voice assistants of today offer a seamless experience, reaching a virtual assistant, in seconds, that can answer customer intentions with just a few words.

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TechSee

MARCH 13, 2018

The customer service industry, in particular, pinned high hopes on AI, expecting that upon its introduction to the market, smart machines would truly transform the customer experience. However, while AI has not yet become the answer to all our customer service challenges, the technology is moving forward at a rapid pace.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2022

When it comes to the modern user experience, there are so many moving parts. Customer service has changed. There has been an increase in several ways that businesses should enhance their user and customer experience. If you aren’t using chatbots, now might be the time to give them a try. Location Services.

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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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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Happy Customer Service Week! It’s the first full week of October, and that means it is time once again for the annual week-long global celebration of the importance of customer service, the people who deliver that service, and the impact it has on business success. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Contact centers around the world are celebrating Customer Service Week this week, recognizing their agents who deliver service and support to customers all year long. They are missing a chatbot. Chatbots and virtual agents have become essential tools for providing 24/7 self-service to digital customers.

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Expivia

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The landscape of customer service is on the brink of a major transformation, thanks to the upcoming release from NICE CXone. This release is not just an update; it’s a leap into the future of AI-driven customer service. This is the next generation in the Generative AI Chatbot.

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Nicereply

JANUARY 4, 2023

Set up a customer service strategy that works and saves your costs. That will ultimately lead to customer service and support teams being pressured to ‘do more with less’ , as customer support is still seen as a cost center by many organizations. Why excelling at customer service is critical in 2023.

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