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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

In our opinion, the basic formula for every great customer service interaction begins with your customer having easy access to a fast, accurate resolution in the channel of their choice, at the time of their choice, in the language of their choice. Providing bilingual French-English support has been a way of life in Canada since, well, forever.

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What’s the State of Work-at-Home in Customer Care in 2017?

BlueOcean

Measuring the quality and productivity of the work-at-home agent is the same process as in-house; agents are held accountable to the same key performance indicators, and they are frequently asked to self-evaluate their delivery of the customer experience. This difference becomes negligible over time as they are coached on a continuous basis.

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Future State of the Contact Center: ChatGPT in Customer Experience

BlueOcean

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. The question of the moment is: what role is ChatGPT going to play in delivering a loyalty-building customer experience? Can AI Handle Complex Customer Care?

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The 3 Principles of Brand Loyalty After COVID-19 Rocked Our World

BlueOcean

But even with everyday brands, customers let frugality lead their way—the increase in spending on private-label store brands wasn’t just due to availability; it was also about value, with those generic brands saving a customer as much as 20-30% off equivalent name brand products. Where Does Customer Care Sit in All of This?

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New Report: ROI Of Customer Service & Customer Experience

Natalie Petouhof

Tweet This report looks at how companies, using the right software, can gain ROI from Customer Service and Customer Experience. Customer Care as a cost center is an unfounded p aradigm. In fact, executives have long thought of customer service or customer care as a cost center.

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Planning Your Live Chat Experience: How Many Agents Do I Need?

Comm100

According to Comm100’s Chat-to-Visit Ratio Report , the chat-to-visit ratio moves inversely to the visit volume a website receives, from 8.96% for the 0-5K segment down to 0.34% for the 500K+ segment. Per Comm100’s Chat-to-Visit Report , the average number of live chat agents that a company needs to serve 2272 chats per month is 6.

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Contact Center AI: How It Can Transform Your CX

Playvox

According to a recent Gartner survey , 62% of millennials and 75% of Gen-Z customers prefer self-service almost all the time, even when they have an option of contacting customer support. This compares to 19% of baby boomers and 43% of Gen X customers who report they would do the same. Powerful, right?