Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Every year this not-for-profit organisation holds the HKCCA Symposium and the HKCCA Award Presentation and Gala Ceremony as part of their mission of advancing the contact centre industry. This was the fifth year we have attended the event as a solution partner of CTINT and Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO, has presented on the event theme.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Back in 2014, the International Customer Management Institute (ICMI) published a report titled The Growing Need for Multilanguage Customer Support. Over half acknowledged that offering support in a customer’s native language was a competitive differentiator. A translation engine is utilised to translate that input into English.

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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

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 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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SmartAction

JANUARY 11, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) via call center automation. Leaders should focus more on the actual ways in which AI-powered customer service can provide practical solutions to specific CX-related challenges.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. To truly modernize your customer service, you don’t need to choose between AI or human involvement. You need both.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This means that companies are always on the hunt for ways to meet those expectations, build brand loyalty and deliver a better customer experience. At Creative Virtual, we recognised these global celebrations with a special series of blog posts written by members of our expert team and published throughout the week. Her conclusion?

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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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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. To truly modernize your customer service, you don’t need to choose between AI or human involvement. You need both.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When you consider recent CX research indicates a personalized experience is important for customers in their purchasing decisions, it makes sense that businesses will work towards this in order to improve customer satisfaction. Today personalized virtual agents are delivering more value to organizations than non-personalized solutions.

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Liveops

OCTOBER 11, 2018

businesses offshoring their customer service began a couple of decades ago, the opportunity to cut costs was paramount. However, they came at the expense of deteriorating customer satisfaction. “I’m able to use real stories to serve the customer because I have and love the product myself.”

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Underpinned by state-of-the-art technology, you can now have a conversation with virtual agents who will understand customer needs and address them quickly. AI-Powered Chatbots AI-driven chatbots have evolved into sophisticated virtual assistants. Or is it something else?”

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Happy Customer Service Week! Every year during the first full week of October we celebrate the importance of customer service and the people who serve and support customers around the globe. Virtual Moron-Idiot!”: Here are four tips to help you deliver a custom support experience for your customers.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 17, 2019

To relieve customers’ hard feelings about problems with some products or services, companies usually choose to improve the customer service skills of their agents. Not entirely, since to get to the point of using your agents’ skills, customers first need to contact your support. And they don’t always.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Digital Customer Service Product and Market Report. Digital-first servicing drives improved CX and brand engagement. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To support WaFd’s vision, Talkdesk has extended its self-service virtual agent voice and chat capabilities with an integration with Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly. We then present the solution architecture, highlight its main components, and describe the customer journey from interacting with Amazon Lex to escalation to an agent.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This year’s MWC promises to be a huge event, with 2,300+ exhibitors presenting the latest and greatest in mobile technology to 108,000+ attendees from 208 countries. That’s quite a lot of new ideas, apps, presentations and giveaways to sift through. Well, if you happen to be in customer service, this list is for you.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This year’s MWC promises to be a huge event, with 2,300+ exhibitors presenting the latest and greatest in mobile technology to 108,000+ attendees from 208 countries. That’s quite a lot of new ideas, apps, presentations and giveaways to sift through. Well, if you happen to be in customer service, this list is for you.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Employment Situation: Present & Past. With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated. Customers are greeted with “How can I help you today?” to self-service for over 100 types of interactions, from the most common to the most nuanced.

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SmartAction

JUNE 9, 2023

Some notable examples include: Chatbots : Chatbots are AI-powered virtual agents, built in-house or by third-party vendors , that engage in text-based conversations with users. They are widely used in customer support, providing 24/7 assistance. Chatbots and virtual agents may provide irrelevant or inaccurate responses.

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Ian Jacobs

JUNE 28, 2016

One of the great things about that movie was its view of the future--or, because so much time has passed since the film was released, its view of what our present should be like. Read more Categories: customer service; crm; virtual reality; augmented reality; videoconferencing; bots; virtual agents.

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EPIC Connections

OCTOBER 20, 2017

EPIC Connections, a global customer engagement and contact center consulting company, announced today that it received the Collaboration Award from NICE inContact, a leading provider of both cloud and on-premise enterprise software solutions. The award was presented during inContact’s DEVone Conference last week in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

Cisco Webex Contact Center CCaaS honored for improving customer service technology and customer experience. I’m excited to announce that Webex Contact Center was among the 2020 Contact Center Technology Award winners, presented by CUSTOMER Magazine this month. Award Winner Second Year in a Row. Award Info.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

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. As a result, a Chatbot is presented as a real solution for improving customer experience in a call center.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2022

What’s more, consumers believe they have the right to interact with an organization in multiple channels and, when appropriate, to pivot between channels, such as when an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) needs to send information to a consumer’s cell phone via SMS during a phone conversation. Like what you’re reading?

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I don’t need to tell you that not everything went as planned, but there were still some bright spots for us and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. Creative Virtual started 2020 celebrating the company’s Sweet Sixteen. 2020 was a record-breaking year for use of our virtual agent and chatbot implementations.

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Connect

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While the rapid development of generative AI platforms will certainly eliminate the need for agents to perform numerous customer service tasks, rather than displace them, this advanced technology will emerge as their saviour and benefit operators in the long run. By Martin Cross , Chief Strategy Officer at Connect.

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DMG Consulting

JUNE 1, 2022

DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services , today released its 2022 – 2023 AI-Enabled Self-Service for the Enterprise report. The future of IVAs and intelligent automation will present unprecedented opportunities to reimagine the service experience.

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SmartAction

APRIL 30, 2021

While there are many different facets to conversational AI, virtual agents, and the technology as a whole, one aspect to recognize when considering and implementing a solution is customer experience. Customer experience (CX) is the impression a customer has of your brand or company.

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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. ”, I explored the profound impact of leveraging AI in customer service. Because in the end, customer service is about trust.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 7, 2021

They also discussed the findings of ISG’s research and current successful virtual agent implementations. Here’s a recording of their full discussion: When ISG held their awards ceremony in October, Chris and Liam Ryan, Sales Director, were able to accept Creative Virtual’s trophy in person from Jan Erik.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. With many of these channels and tools enabling self-service, old-school KPIs are no longer sufficient. Total Cost Per Contact.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Being recognised as the best in conversational AI made our Founder & CEO, Chris Ezekiel, contemplate what makes a virtual agent or chatbot a true conversational AI solution and share his insights in a blog post. Also in November, Mugdha Desai, our Head of India Operations, took part in the Agile Mumbai 2022 Conference.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This specific application of AI technology stands to redefine customer service experiences in auto dealerships. This oversight is more than a missed technological opportunity; it’s a gap in providing comprehensive customer service and operational efficiency.

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Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For example, by only appearing at customer pain points, like a hesitation on a particular product page or at the checkout. With conversational AI put into play, providing a great customer experience in retail becomes easier. Another great idea to explore is offering a digital sales agent that is voice-enabled.

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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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