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Wanted: Customer Service Change Agents for Contact Centers

Tricia Morris

According to the same Forrester survey referenced above, online community, virtual agent, mobile customer service, social media and live chat have also increased in usage. Who’s your brand or organization’s change agent for customer service? ———————————————. But adapting to this change continues to prove challenging.

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The Future Customer Experience Will Go Virtual

Win the Customer

The ability for customers to file a help desk ticket, call in or go to customer chat and still have a seamless experience became paramount during 2015. Tomorrow’s how-to content will become increasingly virtual with brands developing agents to analyze and digest complex information.

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Guest Blog: Want to Excel at Customer Service? Transform your Contact Centers into Customer Engagement Centers

ShepHyken

This shift will provide an opportunity to engage with the customer, gain useful insight and build brand loyalty. Chatbots which work like virtual agents can solve basic query and transfer a call to ‘live agents’ in case of escalation. But how do we make this transition? Contact Customers on their Preferred Channel.

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6 Ways to Take the Lead in Customer Self-Service

Tricia Morris

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

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.