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The State of Customer Self-Service Today

SmartAction

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. Key Trends in Customer Self-Service 1.

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Reduce call hold time and improve customer experience with self-service virtual agents using Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex

AWS Machine Learning

The key to making this approach practical is to augment human agents with scalable, AI-powered virtual agents that can address callers’ needs for at least some of the incoming calls. Gartner’s Customer Service and Support Leader poll estimates that live channels such as phone and live chat cost an average of $8.01

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Virtual Agent Usage Spikes as Self-Service Rescues the Customer Experience

Creative Virtual

More customers are turning to company websites and apps for support, in some cases out of sheer desperation because they can’t get through to a contact centre agent and in other cases because they have been proactively directed there by the business. It’s also interesting to break down the virtual agent traffic by region.

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SmartAction Wins New World Report’s 2023 Best Intelligent Virtual Agent Developer Award

SmartAction

FORT WORTH, Texas, November 14 , 2023 SmartAction, a leading provider of AI-powered virtual agents for customer-obsessed brands, is thrilled to announce its recent recognition as the “Best Intelligent Virtual Agent Developer 2023 – USA” by New World Report in their prestigious Software and Technology Awards.

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Start Every Conversation with AI: The Front Door for Intelligent Customer Service

Speaker: Brian Morin & Helena Chen from SmartAction

Self-service is on the rise. AI virtual agents can help resolve a lot of routine and repetitive interactions, but not all are created equal. Some customer service interactions require a human —but just because some calls must be transferred to a live agent doesn’t mean they can’t all begin with AI.

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3 ways virtual agents can boost call center efficiency

Talkdesk

Self-service is a hot topic in the call center industry. From knowledge bases to virtual agents, the potential disruption that a solid set of self-service applications can bring to contact center efficiency and customer experience is unquestionable and justifies all the buzz.

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Customer Self-Service: Pros, Cons, Examples

TechSee

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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5 Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise

Speaker: Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction

This means more and more companies are implementing cloud-based virtual agents that automate conversations traditionally handled by live agents, all of which can be done across several different channels. How to design “lanes” for virtual agents to outperform live agents. Tune in to discover: Where to start.

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4 Golden Rules for Conversational AI Self-Service

Speaker: Brian Morin & Helena Chen from SmartAction

As automated self-service options continue to grow, how can you make sure that you and your organization are staying on track? You’ll hear real-world examples from leading companies and discover how you can deliver CX success with AI-powered virtual agents in your organization.

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The Insider Secret to Designing Virtual Agents that Surpass Your Competition

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO & Mark Landry, VP of Product at SmartAction

In a world where top businesses are always battling for the best technology, you have to ensure that your virtual agent's design is the best in the competition. How data + business logic keeps virtual agents in their "swim lane". But how do you do this? Schematics of successful interactions.

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The 5 Categories That Rule Virtual Agents

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, Mark Landry, VP Product, Marilyn Cassedy, Director of Customer Success, SmartAction

It just so happens that whenever we design and deploy a new AI-powered virtual agent over voice, the self-service application invariably falls into one of 5 distinct categories. This has been true for more than a hundred clients encompassing hundreds of use cases across 12 industries.

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Implementing Virtual Agents: Where to Start, and How to Finish

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Aarde Cosseboom, Director of GMS Technology and Product, TechStyle Fashion Group

If this is a situation can you relate to, then join us for this in-depth conversation with TechStyle Fashion Group, as they openly discuss their decision to go virtual, and the challenges they faced along the way as they dabbled with both building the omnichannel self-service platform themselves, and outsourcing the design to a partner.

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Expectations vs. Reality: What Can an AI Assistant Really Do?

Speaker: Brian Morin, Helena Chen, and David Parsons from SmartAction

You’ll learn: The latest in self-service deployments over voice & chat through live demonstrations. How to modernize the self-service experience with an AI virtual agent that resolves issues conversationally. What's next in conversational AI that will push industries further than they've ever gone.

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How a Top 25 Most Trusted Brand Handed Their CX to AI

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Patty Kleinfeldt, Director of Q&E, AAA

One of the most trusted brands in the world, AAA, took the most critical aspect of their Customer Experience and handed it over to an AI-powered virtual agent for omnichannel self-service. The secret of data + business logic to keep virtual agents in their "swim lane".

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How to Build ROI for Conversational AI

Speaker: Sofia Burton & Tiffany O'Malley from SmartAction

Agent attrition has always been a huge problem, but now the difficulties of the worker shortage make securing live agents for call centers highly competitive. Virtual agents are an expansion of your best live agent — and they can cut operating costs on average of 66%.