ShepHyken

MARCH 5, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. What’s the Difference Between Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty? HubSpot) Customer satisfaction is a measurement of a customer’s attitude toward a product, a service, or a brand.

Customer Service 81

Customer Service Loyalty Programs Contact Center Chatbots 81

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

If you follow customer service trends then you know that technology continues to blur the line between digital and physical customer experiences. As you consider your technology spend and roadmap for 2018 and beyond, consider looking inward as well as outward. Get your copy of “ Digital Customer Experience Trends, 2017.”.

Contact Center 121

Contact Center Technology Roadmap Chatbots 121

ShepHyken

JANUARY 7, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. ” Beyond Chatbots: How Artificial Intelligence Can Humanize the Customer Experience by Dan Gingiss. .” ” Call center tips to ensure successful agents by Scott Sachs .

Customer Service 99

Customer Service Contact Center Tips Chatbots 99

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

If you follow customer service trends then you know that technology continues to blur the line between digital and physical customer experiences. As you consider your technology spend and roadmap for 2018 and beyond, consider looking inward as well as outward. Get your copy of “ Digital Customer Experience Trends, 2017.”.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Technology Roadmap Chatbots 120

Comm100

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We’re excited to announce that Comm100 was presented with a Bronze Stevie® Award in the “Contact Center Solution – New Version” category in the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service on Feb. For more information on our Live Chat solution, contact us or reach out for a demo.

Sales 102

Sales Customer Service Contact Center Chatbots 102

TechSee

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Personalization as a driver in customer service. These strategies are increasingly being explored with Gartner stating that by 2018, over 50% of companies will have redirected investments towards customer experience innovations. Examples of AI-Driven Personalized Customer Service. Virtual Assistants.

Tools 157

Tools Customer Service Chatbots How To 157

TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Well, if you happen to be in customer service, this list is for you. We’ve narrowed down the 5 key customer service technology trends to watch out for in 2018. 360-degree view of your customer. While this may seem daunting, there is no better time than the present to get started on the customer journey.

Trends 84

Trends Customer Service Multi-Channel Self Service 84

TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Well, if you happen to be in customer service, this list is for you. We’ve narrowed down the 5 key customer service technology trends to watch out for in 2018. 360-degree view of your customer. While this may seem daunting, there is no better time than the present to get started on the customer journey.

Trends 84

Trends Customer Service Multi-Channel Self Service 84

NICE inContact

MAY 8, 2019

Specifically, how do your customers feel about your customer service? Have they embraced your new, leading-edge, AI-enabled chatbots? Are you being realistic about whether your customer service really satisfies your customers? These are questions that keep contact center leaders up at night.

Self Service 136

Self Service Contact Center Chatbots Omni-Channel 136

ProProfs Chat

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

As leading researchers indicate that organizations lose about $62 million every year due to poor customer service , you can’t expect any good with an average customer support. No matter how great your product your service is, you can’t sustain market competition without a top of the line customer service.

Self Service 111

Self Service Trends Chatbots Omni-Channel 111

BlueOcean

JANUARY 9, 2018

IBM reports that by 2020 – that’s just two years away – 85% of all customer service interactions will occur without a human agent. Instead, in addition to self-serve customer service , the majority of interactions will be driven by AI technology. Forget AI being the future of the contact center.

Omni-Channel 191

Omni-Channel Customer Care Contact Center Case Study 191

Avaya

APRIL 10, 2019

2 technology they expect to transform Digital Customer Experience (DCX), behind customer success analytics tools. In Nemertes’ 2018-19 Digital Customer Experience research study of 697 organizations, we found companies already are relying on AI to transform their customer experience. 39% growth in digital sales.

Contact Center 71

Contact Center Self Service Virtual Agent Analytics 71

NICE inContact

MAY 23, 2019

We live in an omnichannel customer service world now. Emerging technologies and changing consumer demands fundamentally have shifted the way businesses interact with their customers. It’s added a great deal of complexities to the service process as well as to organizations’ relationships with their customers.

Self Service 138

Self Service Contact Center Omni-Channel Chatbots 138

ShepHyken

APRIL 13, 2018

These reasons are reflected by the CCW Executive Report on Contact Center Priorities for 2018, where increasing the “voice of the customer” strategy is the #3 contact center priority this year. The post Guest Blog: Is Your Contact Center Using the Right Customer Feedback Tool?

Contact Center 82

Contact Center Customer Journeys Feedback Tools 82

TechSee

MARCH 13, 2018

The customer service industry, in particular, pinned high hopes on AI, expecting that upon its introduction to the market, smart machines would truly transform the customer experience. However, while AI has not yet become the answer to all our customer service challenges, the technology is moving forward at a rapid pace.

Customer Service 95

Customer Service Chatbots Virtual Agent How To 95

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

In 2018 it was predicted that voice would soon be dead and chatbots would be controlling the customer experience. However, this prediction missed one critical factor: the customer. With this in mind, here are 10 top trends for contact centers and the customer experience in 2019.

Contact Center 55

Contact Center Chatbots Omni-Channel Analytics 55

Answer Dash

JANUARY 1, 2019

(This article is originally published at ICMI ) Hint: Focus on Agent Performance If you’ve sat through any customer service technology demos or walked the showroom floor at an industry conference, you’ve undoubtedly heard well-meaning sales folks speak of innovation, disruption, and automation.

Contact Center 67

Contact Center Knowledge Base Chatbots System 67

Comm100

JUNE 25, 2019

AI-powered chatbots are so 2018. No doubt there has been a lot of talk about how AI can be used to help improve customer-facing interactions – but there’s more to AI than meets the eye. Support agents are the de facto front-line of any company’s customer experience (CX). Chatbots not for you?

Contact Center 123

Contact Center Chatbots Knowledge Base Resources 123

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Figures from Ofgem have revealed that the average number of complaints received by the leading utility companies per 100,000 customer accounts had decreased from 3,510 in Q1 2013 to 2,233 in Q1 2018, but the average number of complaints resolved by the suppliers by end of the next working day dropped from 81 percent to 60 percent in the same period.

Interaction 221

Interaction Telecommunications Customer Satisfaction Social Media 221

Avaya

JANUARY 16, 2018

40% of executives recently polled by Avaya rate their company’s customer experience as “poor” or “average,” and 93% say they’ll be focusing on improving customer experience in 2018. The simple blocking and tackling of connecting your Digital Experience with the rest of your customer service capabilities must still occur.

Customer Journeys 72

Customer Journeys Contact Center Consumers Financial 72

Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

Overall, it’s really just about providing a quality customer experience. We touched base with leading customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein to learn how you can make your contact center adaptive to customers’ evolving omni-channel expectations in 2017. Increasing the focus on your customers is essential.

Contact Center 50

Contact Center Omni-Channel Brands Hospitality 50

Call Experts

JANUARY 15, 2020

These services allow HR to be both efficient and transparent. Also, these automations will power real-time messaging and reporting, voice assistants, chatbots, deep learning, predictive intelligence, and machine learning. Use of voice assistants and chatbots to conduct HR service more naturally and effectively with real-time reporting.

System 72

System Contact Center Call Center Customer Journeys 72

Call Experts

JANUARY 8, 2020

Now more than ever, it's relevant to understand and optimize your customer touchpoints. According to Forbes , "customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies that don't focus on customers." AI-powered tools and contact center solutions offer efficiency and a better understanding of your customer experience.

Touchpoint 78

Touchpoint Self Service Customer Journeys Contact Center 78

Team HGS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

What Does Good Customer Service Look Like? At our February 7 webinar, Andrew Kokes, HGS Global Head of Marketing, and Henry Bruckstein, Founder, CANAM Research jointly presented the results of our first-ever “State of Customer Experience” Survey of nearly 100 customer experience executives, vice presidents, and directors.

Net Promoter Score 40

Net Promoter Score Customer Service Chatbots Contact Center 40

Clarabridge

MAY 10, 2018

From 2008 to Today, and Back to the 80s: C3 2018 Day 2 Highlights. . Executive Vice Chairman, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Sid Banerjee took us through the inception of the company and how the Clarabridge product suite has evolved to help brands optimize customer data and transform experiences.

Omni-Channel 40

Omni-Channel Self Service Chatbots Ecommerce 40

Cyara

JULY 9, 2019

The contact center has become the inflection point for digital transformation in the enterprise. Companies must now compete by delivering innovative, flawless customer experiences. To accomplish this, the vast majority of enterprises are moving their contact centers to the cloud. Joe Eisner. Organization: AWS.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Average Handle Time Competitive Advantage Chatbots 52

Call Experts

MAY 8, 2019

Chatbots or virtual agents can address a wide range of features and questions to provide relevant analysis and efficient protocol. Predict the buying behaviors and preferences of your customers. Design advanced, skill-based rules to manage customer interactions that change depending on real-time situations. More Blogs Menu.

Customer Experience 65

Customer Experience Call Center Contact Center Conference 65

Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Gartner’s Four Best Practices for Implementing Extreme Customer Self-Service. Who is answering calls when your contact center is closed? Who is helping your customers when they have questions and problems outside of business hours?

Virtual Agent 54

Virtual Agent Self Service Customer Experience Contact Center 54

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 22, 2019

So it’s not terribly surprising to learn that the organizations who earned “good” or “very good” employee engagement ratings in the State of CX Management 2018 report by the Temkin Group (now part of the XM Institute) are also much more likely to be ranked as CX Leaders. New roles will be created.

Trends 169

Trends Customer Experience Chatbots Innovation 169

RapportBoost

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We had a great time speaking with host B ruce Belfiore right before the holidays about how to turn your contact center into a profit center. Bruce: Contact centers are under increasing pressure to become profit centers and leverage new channels of engaging customers. …And BenchmarkPortal’s CallTalk.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Chatbots Metrics Sales 40

Eptica

AUGUST 1, 2018

Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 Author: Joanna Allouche - Consultant Making it easier for your agents to deliver superior CX. Published on: August 01, 2018. Author: Joanna Allouche - Consultant Optimizing CX with Eptica When it comes to the contact center, there is a clear link between happy agents and overall performance.

Average Handle Time 70

Average Handle Time Self Service Knowledge Base Contact Center 70

Eptica

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Marketing Manager Delivering public sector customer experience at a time of change. Published on: October 31, 2018. Put customers first Public sector organizations should start by understanding that citizens are their customers.

Self Service 66

Self Service Customer Experience Social Media Chatbots 66

Interactions

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Rose is a customer service representative (CSR). She is always friendly, answers calls or chats immediately, and knows each of her customers personally. One of the biggest challenges faced by contact centers is agent churn. She always has the answers to all inquiries – simple or complex.

Average Handle Time 48

Average Handle Time Contact Center Customer Service Representative Chatbots 48

RapportBoost

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The annual list recognizes trailblazers in the contact center and customer experience industries. Rote was cited specifically for implementing RapportBoost’s Conversational Selling Analysis Platform that helped dramatically increase her company’s live chat performance metrics. . is the heart and soul. RapportBoost.AI

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Average Handle Time Analysis Chatbots 40

TechSee

JUNE 5, 2018

A frustrated George dreads calling Customer Service. Co-browsing allows agents to see and interact with a customer’s browser in real time, visually guiding them through online processes, webforms, transactions or demos. Using artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance interactions with customers is quickly gaining traction.

Trends 116

Trends Self Service Chatbots Technology 116

Eptica

APRIL 25, 2018

Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 4 ways to transform your CX maturity levels. Published on: April 25, 2018. They know that they must keep innovating and improving if they are to differentiate their customer experience and therefore thrive. They need to be ambassadors for your company, and always put the customer first.

Customer Connectedness 49

Customer Connectedness Self Service Brand Values Financial 49

Kustomer

APRIL 15, 2021

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by guests Matt Dixon from Tethr and Vikas Bhambri from Kustomer to discuss Matt’s most recent research on over one million customer service phone calls. Adapting in the Biggest Stress Test Ever for CX.

Omni-Channel 92

Omni-Channel Effort Score Contact Center Call Center 92