Creative Virtual

APRIL 30, 2020

Making a call to a customer service contact centre can be a frustrating and time-consuming experience on a regular day. Customers are taking to social media to complain about being unable to get through to call centres and being disconnected after waiting on hold for hours. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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Connect

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Utilising virtual agents in contact centres isn’t exactly a novel concept, but trends towards newer and more intelligent systems have been improving the customer service landscape. Virtual agents aren’t replacing staff, they’re making them better. Customers are trending towards virtual agents.

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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. This research is old now, but the desire of customers to have native language support is still very much there. 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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SmartAction

JANUARY 11, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) via call center automation. According to recent surveys by Frost & Sullivan’s Stratecast team, 20% of all companies have plans to adopt some type of AI-powered solution in the near future. Limited voice automation choices.

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DMG Consulting

JUNE 11, 2019

DMG Consulting Releases 2019-2020 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. Foundational component of next-gen, digitally transformed service organizations. 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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Interactions

MAY 26, 2022

Brands who implement Conversational AI applications like virtual agents can deliver exceptional customer experience with added benefits like decreased operational costs, improved CSAT, and increased agent productivity. Even if live agents are unavailable, virtual agents can handle unlimited conversations.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

If you’re using old IVR technology in your contact centers, you know its limitations and how frustrating it can be for your customers – press 1, press 2, and press * to go back to the main menu. It better understands customer intent and utilizes machine learning (ML) technology to generate an intelligent response. Collaborate.

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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. Agent Assist Minimizes AHT.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Happy Customer Service Week! Today we kick off the annual week-long international celebration of the importance of customer service, the people who deliver that service and the impact it has on successful business practices. 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. Agent Assist Minimizes AHT.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Personalization as a driver in customer service. With unprecedented advances in algorithms and other machine learning tools, AI-enhanced solutions, such as virtual assistants or chatbots, can learn how to respond, engage or process many standard tasks — including customer service queries. . Virtual Assistants.

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Noble Systems

JUNE 26, 2020

Most cloud-based IVR platforms also provide the flexibility to add advanced options, including skills-based routing, intuitive tools for building menus and routing paths, virtual agents, self-service, payment processing, surveys, and speech analytics.

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SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

2020 didn’t cancel National Customer Service Week. That’s why this year, more than ever before, it’s vital to appreciate your agents a little extra during Customer Service Week. Virtual coffee meetups. Kick off Customer Service Week and schedule virtual coffee meetups or 1:1s with your agents.

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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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Interactions

MAY 6, 2022

In customer experience, wasting time is one of the biggest pain points for consumers. In a recent survey, we found the top obstacles people experience when contacting customer service have to do with time, such as long wait times or wasted time due to inefficient processes. . 63% were transferred multiple times.

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TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Why agents are embracing the change. The future of customer service is human-machine collaboration.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Focused on serving the needs of customers, helping them solve problems, teaching them how to use products, and answering their questions, customer service agents are central to business growth and effective operations. The Future of Customer Service Channels is Now. Face-to-Face Video Communications.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 7, 2020

What does this mean from the customer service and customer experience (CX) view and for virtual agents answering real time customer queries? What else could be better training for a CX tool than the customers leaving feedback at the very time an answer was delivered? Is this valuable data lost?

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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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TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Rejecting doomsday predictions that robots will take their jobs, many agents are embracing AI technology.

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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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Creative Virtual

MARCH 14, 2022

If you give visitors to your website the option to self-serve with a chatbot or virtual agent, kudos to you for recognising the importance of easily accessible digital support! Both current and potential customers appreciate being able to engage with automated self-service anytime, anywhere.

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TechSee

MARCH 7, 2022

Today, digital self-service has become the preference – and the new normal, along with higher expectations and reliance on these channels. The role of technology is more important than ever in improving customer service and operational efficiencies. Download our eBook: What Self Service Will Look Like in 2025 .

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While Creative Virtual’s V-Person solutions successfully automate digital customer service, forcing all customers to only self-serve with a virtual agent is never a good CX decision. Go beyond the typical customer surveys and dig into rich data like conversations with your virtual agent and contact centre.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 22, 2020

In the recently published report The Inner Circle Guide to AI-Enabled Self-Service (available for download in a UK version and in a US version ), ContactBabel takes a deep dive into the current status of CX self-service technologies, use cases and customer preferences.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 30, 2022

In their 2022 CIO survey, Gartner found that there is a broad demand for digital transformation across industries as well. Conversational AI is one of the technologies increasingly being added to digital transformation strategies in the areas of customer service and employee support.

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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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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

JUNE 2, 2020

In the 2020 edition of The Inner Circle Guide to AI-Enabled Self-Service (available for download in a UK version and in a US version ), ContactBabel surveyed business leaders about their current and planned customer service offerings and investments.

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Fonolo

JUNE 17, 2021

The call center industry is booming, with over 80% of Fortune 500 companies using virtual agents to support customer service. If your agents are jokers and have playful attitudes, increase the frequency of your call center games or offer them a gift card to a comedy club. Give them a chance to progress.

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Interactions

MAY 28, 2020

A recent survey by Deloitte asked people whether they agree with the statement: “I feel safe going to the store right now.” ” In the US, only 34% of those surveyed responded with “agree” or “strongly agree.” How did they treat their customers during the pandemic? Were they charitable?

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Creative Virtual

JULY 27, 2022

Contact centres and contact centre agents are under immense pressure, dealing with increased contact volumes, rising customer frustration, and agent attrition. This survey, conducted by Censuswide, found: 68% of contact centres report rising chat and call volumes. 70% of contact centres report escalating customer churn.

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UJET

JUNE 25, 2021

As the world begins to reopen post-COVID-19, customer experience is more important than it’s ever been, with 80% of companies saying their core business model needs to go and/or stay digital to remain economically viable. But this operative shift in the customer journey was already well underway before the pandemic.

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Interactions

JUNE 10, 2022

In our recent survey, customers noted that when using an automated system, they see benefits such as: The convenience to get tasks done when they want to take care of them. Many times when customers contact customer service they have to choose a specific task to take care of via self-service.

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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

Did you know that American businesses risk losing a whopping $494 billion in revenue from poor customer care? In the age of smartphones, where support is only a click away, consumers have massive expectations when it comes to customer service.

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bold360 Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In a chat session, customers can get fast answers to their typed questions, help with their purchases, recommendations on products and services, and other assistance from customer service agents. All context from the chatbot interaction gets passed on to the (live chat) agent, bringing her up to speed immediately.

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