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The Future Customer Experience Will Go Virtual

Win the Customer

We want our personalized customer service to encompass a wide variety of platforms from social media to mobile while still being easy to use with lightning-fast responses. At the end of 2014, Forrester reflected on current and rising trends in customer service including omni-channel support.

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Wanted: Customer Service Change Agents for Contact Centers

Tricia Morris

For the first time in the history of Forrester Research’s North American Consumer Technographics Customer Life Cycle Survey , respondents now say they are using self-service FAQ pages on a company’s website more often than speaking with a live agent on the phone.

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100+ Customer Service Statistics & Facts of 2019

ProProfs Chat

Great Customer Service Statistics. Customer Service Stats for Social Media. Rise of the Automation Industry & Self-Service. Build a Delightful Customer Experience With These Customer Service Statistics. In 2017, 35% reported reaching out on social channels, up from 23% in 2014 and 17% in 2012.

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The history of the search engine: from index cards to the AI chatbot

Inbenta

Despite the advancements in search, the Yahoo Directory did manage to survive until 2014 when it was closed for good. . Much of this capability was due to Inbenta’s patented natural language processing which significantly improved companies’ self-service rates.

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2017 Is Out, 2018 Is In – What Will Customer Service Look Like This Year?

Comm100

Improving the agent experience isn’t the only way that companies are looking to remove friction from the customer experience. As Zuckerberg explained back in 2014, “Messaging is one of the few things that people do more than social networking.” The fact that messaging is gaining importance for businesses is no small prize.