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Seven CX Tips to Help Weather the 2021 Holiday Season ‘Everything Shortage’

CSM Magazine

In fact, 2021 is forecast to be one of the most treacherous holiday seasons since the Great Recession of 2008-2009. Look for tools that can easily integrate with your current CRM and other critical systems so your existing workflow is preserved and all your data is in one place, which will lessen the need for training.

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Live Chat for Higher Education – The Ultimate 101 Guide

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Ticketing & Messaging features provide not only a unified dashboard but also management of all chats, allowing agents to easily stay on top of messages in the order they’re received. Lower support costs One of the major benefits of live chat for education comes from the low costs to implement and support compared to other channels.

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Higher Education Chatbots – Everything You Need to Know

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Higher Education Chatbots – Everything You Need to Know In the competitive world of higher education, providing students with the very best support is key to increasing enrollment, improving student satisfaction, and reducing drop-out. This is where higher education chatbots come into play.

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How to Stay Close to Customers While Working From Home

CSM Magazine

However, finely-tuned conversational systems can.”. However, EY emphasises the need to use the right data when ‘training’ conversational AI, explaining that “The bot uses logic to determine user inquiries and connect with enterprise systems to get the desired results”. However, getting it wrong will alienate users.

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There’s No I in Team, but What About AI?

CSM Magazine

The technology can also assist with managing seasonal spikes, such as the UCAS Clearing system on A-level results day, or to support an insurance company’s customer service team following an extreme weather event. That’s why today’s AI is best directed at internal employee support rather than customer-facing bots.”.

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5 Ways to Apply AI and Win Back Business

CSM Magazine

Facilitating customer self-service using automated contact channels, such as IVR and chatbots is a recognised method of reducing strain on contact centers during spikes in demand. Deploying a range of chatbots, each suited to a specific task, can greatly enhance the customer experience and deliver substantial benefits to the business.

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What Elephants and Customer Experiences Have in Common

CSM Magazine

Unleash the chatbot! We saw this in the last big recession spanning 2007-2009. Effortlessly link to workforce management (WFM) and quality management (QM) systems and messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, WeChat, or WhatsApp. The result of such workarounds regularly translates to a degradation of the customer experience.