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3 key customer service trends for 2018

Vonage

Three years ago, Gartner predicted that more than half of businesses would implement significant changes to improve customer experience by 2018. The estimated price tag of losing customers due to poor service has reached $1.6 according to Accenture’s Digital Disconnect in Customer Engagement report. trillion in the U.S.,

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Customer Journey Mapping

Call Experts

A company must understand how their customers behave, their patterns, and their pain points. Customer experience is not necessarily linear. Often, the customer journey is influenced by motivations and trends unrelated to your company’s service. Here are the essential steps you should consider before starting your map.

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AI and Customer Care: The Future is Here

BlueOcean

Long gone are the days when customers almost expected to experience IVR hell and would pretty much tolerate jaw-dropping wait times. IBM reports that by 2020 – that’s just two years away – 85% of all customer service interactions will occur without a human agent. What Does AI Customer Service Look Like?

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How to Create an Omni-Channel Customer Journey Map in Retail

GetFeedback

Retail is changing in 2018. Creating an amazing customer experience through omni-channel customer journeys that engage your prospects where they are and help shuttle them through your sales funnel. What is a customer journey map? Why create a customer journey map?

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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.

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15 CX Experts Talk about the Future and Challenges of Customer Experience in 2018 [part 1] 

Lumoa

Customer experience has been already a hot topic in business during 2017 and is promising to be even of higher importance in 2018. “CX It’s predicted, that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator when making consumer choices. How to overcome those challenges?

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2018: New Ways Cloud Will Enhance Customer Care

NICE inContact

Others started with inbound voice and over time have added omnichannel routing or workforce optimization. Cloud contact center deployments that began in customer care may have been extended to other business areas. A few years ago, the notion of managing customer journeys was an essential theme in customer care.