Creative Virtual

MAY 28, 2020

Do you have a chatbot or virtual agent on your roadmap? Do you need to upgrade a poor performing self-service tool? Are you curious about successful use cases for AI-enhanced virtual agents? Questions to ask when selecting a chatbot or virtual agent solution.

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LiveVox

AUGUST 28, 2023

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the higher education lending sector is completely transforming the way education lenders engage with customers, streamline operations, and enhance customer experience.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Recent headlines, like the issues faced by Air Canada with its website chatbots, spotlight a critical junction in this journey: the choice of a self-service provider. 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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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Gartner’s Four Best Practices for Implementing Extreme Customer Self-Service. Who is helping your customers when they have questions and problems outside of business hours? AI-powered conversational assistants, or “virtual agents”, can quickly deliver the answers and outcomes over voice-enabled channels.

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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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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots. is a global cloud contact center leader for customer-obsessed companies.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When it comes to conversing with artificial intelligence, we tend to mold our replies in a way that allows a voice bot or chatbot the ability to interpret what we mean while sacrificing the way we would typically speak. Say goodbye to the days of speaking to an AI virtual agent that doesn’t comprehend in natural language!

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

Amazon Lex provides advanced conversational artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to enable self-service support for your organization’s contact center. With Amazon Lex, you can implement an omnichannel strategy where customers engage via phone, websites, and messaging platforms. This is the second post of a two-part series.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport). What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents? Intelligence Is a Matter of Features.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport). What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents? Intelligence Is a Matter of Features.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 25, 2021

However, when it comes to areas like customer support, using a trial-and-error approach can have a devastating effect on your customer experience. And it is no secret that poor experiences can lead directly to customer churn and lost revenue. If that grace period did exist, it is now long over!

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SmartAction

APRIL 24, 2019

This is the second of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. Read Part 1 here >> Gartner predicts that customers soon will prefer using speech-driven interfaces to other forms of self-service when given a choice.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 22, 2020

While it may not be the right time to book your next beach getaway or send out invitations for your extended family reunion, smart companies should be looking towards the future impacts of customer experience (CX) developments and consumer expectations.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2021

Having innovation at the heart of our company culture at Creative Virtual has served the company well, but only because we innovate with the objective of delivering products and services that genuinely help our customers meet their goals in increasingly better ways.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There are many areas where emerging applications are poised to make a big impact during 2023, both for improving the agent experience (AX) and for making the customer experience (CX) smarter. This use case can take many forms, with self-service automation often coming to mind right away. Virtual Agent.

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Interactions

AUGUST 13, 2020

Imagine yourself on a busy day trying to cancel an appointment and you keep getting put on hold waiting for a live agent. You know your task can be completed through self-service–it’s just a simple cancellation. You want to speak to a live agent to explain your situation and bypass business rules.

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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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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Chatbots and virtual agents have proven themselves to be quality self-service solutions, being increasingly implemented by smart organisations to provide support and being increasingly preferred by customers and employees for quick, easy access to information. By Mandy Reed, Marketing Manager (Global).

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I’ll help myself, thanks: Called the Do-It-Yourself Generation, Millennials love self-service. Support the DIY culture: Focus on consumer enablement and empowerment through self-service. Focus on messaging apps: If messaging is your customers’ favorite method of communication, you should excel at it.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 30, 2023

Powered by Amazon Lex , the QnABot on AWS solution is an open-source, multi-channel, multi-language conversational chatbot. Customers now want to apply the power of large language models (LLMs) to further improve the customer experience with generative AI capabilities. We discuss two such use cases in this section.

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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. The waiter or waitress may have come to your table only a few times, but their interaction enhanced your dining experience.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 27, 2020

With physical offices and locations closed, many are struggling with the influx of customer questions to their contact centres – an issue that may be compounded by the sudden need to support agents working from home. Organisations with an existing self-service solution have a definite advantage.

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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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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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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

MAY 14, 2020

Just as customers are increasingly adopting self-service channels, employees are also increasingly open to using self-help options. Depending on the size of your workforce and nature of your business, it’s likely that your company could benefit from implementing self-service options in multiple areas.

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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

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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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

Businesses who thrive at building robust, complete customer journeys harness the power of automation to build self-service solutions in their order management strategy. Personalization and Relevance Creating a personal touch in your order management virtual agent can significantly enhance customer experience and engagement.

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SmartAction

APRIL 4, 2023

By examining the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI), the Times correspondents show how virtual voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa squandered their early advantage and left room for the rise of chatbots that use Conversational AI technology. Chatbots are, indeed, a different kind of virtual assistant.

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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’. For nearly a decade now, we’ve talked about our virtual agents and chatbots delivering a personalized self-service experience – with no marketing spin required!

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For as long as virtual agents and chatbots have been used by companies to provide customer self-service, they have been criticised for removing the human touch from interactions and taking away the opportunity to build an emotional connection with customers. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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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. Our virtual agents can solve 80% to 90% of customer problems.

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TechSee

MARCH 11, 2024

Industry events and news coverage are full of companies offering Generative AI , Conversational AI, chatbots, and AI Agents. Understanding Conversational AI Conversational AI refers to technologies that users interact with through a natural, conversational interface, like chatbots or virtual agents.

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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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