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Preparing Your Contact Center for the Age of Virtual Agents

Taylor Reach Group

Redundancy strategies today focus mainly on applications and equipment – not personnel – so when the pandemic hit, contact centers were left unshielded from what was to come, especially outsource providers. So how can companies prepare for what might be the new normal of virtual contact support?

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What Is an AI-powered Virtual Agent and What Can It Do?

SmartAction

These omnichannel solutions are known as AI-powered virtual agents. What is an AI-powered virtual agent? At the most basic level, an AI-powered virtual agent can do many things that a live agent can do. By doing so, companies upskill their live agents to do only what a human should do.

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Don’t Be Afraid of Using Virtual Agents in Your Contact Center

Outsource Consultants

An article by Dan Miller raises an interesting point: Implementing virtual agents into your contact center isn’t staying ahead of the curve, it’s common. Don’t Be Afraid of Using Virtual Agents in Your Contact Center. If you’re not using AI in the form of bots, virtual agents, or other methods, you’re behind the curve.

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Is Your Inexperienced Approach to Self-Service Driving Customers Away?

Creative Virtual

Usage of virtual agents and chatbots exploded with record-breaking levels of traffic. As Claudio Chico, Development & Support Technician at Creative Virtual, explained in a recent conversational AI guide : “A proper business virtual agent has many parts and building one involves knowledge in many areas.

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Why You Need a Voice-Enabled Chatbot

SmartAction

Conversational chatbots were one of the leading marketing disruptors in call center automation last year, but fell in popularity as companies discovered the complexity of sustaining an efficient and successful chatbot. So what makes chatbots so difficult to implement and maintain?

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Tips for Improving Your User Experience and Customer Service

CSM Magazine

One great way that a lot of companies have been improving their user experience and customer service is with chatbots. Chatbots are an essential tool for any business that needs to answer customer questions and direct them to the right place. If you aren’t using chatbots, now might be the time to give them a try.

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Leverage Your Chatbot to Its Full Capacity

Creative Virtual

Chatbot technologies are becoming more and more common in the business world, but I think most companies have not realized yet how interdisciplinary these artificial intelligence (AI) tools can be. But what about the long-term pros of having a chatbot? By Laura Ludmany, Knowledgebase Engineer. Long-term benefits go beyond that.