CSM Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

David Grimes, CEO and Founder of Sorted offers some key tips to retailers on how to reduce high WISMO and WISMR contact rates while at the same improving the customer experience. Online retail is booming like never before. Negative reviews can stop an average of 40% of buyers from wanting to buy from a business. Call deflection.

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Self Service Tips Retail Average Handle Time 76

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The study analyzed the impact of moving to the cloud for several companies, including fashion retailer TechStyle Fashion Group. Founded in 2010, as TechStyle Fashion Group expanded and added new brands to its portfolio, customer service infrastructures were siloed – no overarching system supported synergy between brands.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score Self Service 120

Eptica

OCTOBER 16, 2018

To read the three previous posts in the optimizing CX series on creating blended agents , improving the agent experience and reducing Average Handling Time while safeguarding quality, simply click on the links. This builds over time, allowing comparisons between specific periods, such as the Peak season in retail.

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Report Self Service Average Handle Time Contact Center 68

Call Experts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If your backlog is large, you might need to purchase more hours or invest in self-service technologies to improve your service quality. On the other hand, a decreasing backlog shows that your service team is meeting customer needs efficiently. Another metric to track is the average handle time.

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Customer Service Average Handle Time Customer Retention Self Service 52

Magellan Solutions

JULY 20, 2021

E-commerce titans like Alibaba and Amazon forever changed the landscape of the retail industry, letting consumers purchase everything from electronics and clothing to household items with the click of a button. This rapidly growing industry, which comprises over 45 percent of all retail growth, means competition is fierce.

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Call Center Omni-Channel e-support Contact Center 52

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2021

At EBI.AI, we have spent over six years working closely with our customers to implement conversational AI projects for a wide range of organisations including retail, local government and multi-national enterprises. Options include working with their chosen AI vendor in terms of enterprise offerings, self-service or as a managed service.

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Self Service Average Handle Time Automotive Chatbots 52

ViiBE Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Automotive , Construction , Energy , Insurance , Retail , SMB , Transport. What is an employee self-service portal? ViiBE Blog. What is the purpose of customer experience management? Customer experience. Natalia Barszcz. August 17, 2021. Share this article. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on email.

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Customer Experience Management CEM Customer Experience Management 52

Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Initiatives include “training staff for interactions in new channels, optimizing AI and self-service opportunities and improving integrations between touchpoints.”. Without it, you risk frustrating them with interactions that require lots of effort, long hold times and costly escalations. Which behaviors impact key metrics?

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Contact Center Customer Journeys Self Service How To 40

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

There’s a reason for that: Retail sales hit a record of $6 trillion in 2018, according to the U.S. That’s due to strong competition from online retailers. If a customer is calling for something as simple as paying their bill, they can avoid long hold times by selecting the “pay my bill” self-service option.

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Customer Experience Tips Self Service Average Handle Time 52

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

McKinsey and Company found that companies that have already applied advanced analytics have reduced average handle time by up to 40 percent, cut employee costs and boosted the conversion rate on service-to-sales calls by nearly 50 percent—all while improving customer satisfaction and employee engagement.

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Customer Experience Self Service Contact Center Average Handle Time 40

TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

The two fields attracting the most AI investment last year were automated AI-powered customer service agents, which raised $4.5 Forward-thinking companies are increasingly turning to AI-powered customer service solutions to optimize CX and to streamline their back-office operations. Agent decision support. High-level data analysis.

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Technology Customer Service Contact Center Gamification 122

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 12, 2018

With all of the new improvements and changes in modern day customer service technology, it’s no surprise that customer expectations have evolved to follow suit as well. Numerous internal transfers lead to increased and lengthy average handling times for live agents, which can be incredibly expensive for companies.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Self Service Average Handle Time 120

Oracle

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Many retailers dream of the day they’ll be able to streamline interactions between customers and products, as well as to offer round-the-clock service while not breaking the salary budget. In general, PWC Research found that 60% of customers surveyed said they’d leave a company after unfriendly service.

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Chatbots Customer Service Virtual Agent Self Service 74

eGain Blogs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Combine that with the fact that, according to another Gartner research, only 9% of customers report resolving their issues completely through self-service, and it is obvious that a massive proportion of customer service traffic is coming over these expensive channels. Average Handle Time (AHT).

Call Center 52

Call Center Metrics Self Service Contact Center 52

NobelBiz

JULY 25, 2023

Reporting: The Blueprint of Action The culmination of the analytics process, reporting, provides a distilled view of insights: Dashboards: Visual interfaces show real-time data like call volumes, average handling time, first call resolution rate, and customer sentiment.

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Interaction Analytics Call Center Contact Center 98

Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

Discovering cross-channel journeys yields a treasure trove of valuable insights including where the call originated from, the intent of the call, and the efficacy of customer service channels. As contact centers make a concerted push towards self-service, discovering cross-channel journeys becomes even more important.

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First Call Resolution Self Service Call Center Effort Score 75

Bold360

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Integrate a qualitative automated customer self-service solution. Investing in a high quality customer support self-service solution has been proven to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty due to the self-empowerment it provides the customer with, to instantly locate the answer he seeks. 10 per inquiry!

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Omni-Channel Travel Call Center Self Service 40

Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

Discovering cross-channel journeys yields a treasure trove of valuable insights including where the call originated from, the intent of the call, and the efficacy of customer service channels. As contact centers make a concerted push towards self-service, discovering cross-channel journeys becomes even more important.

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First Call Resolution Self Service Call Center Effort Score 40

Solvvy

MARCH 19, 2019

I’ve heard twice this week from clients that average handle time and CSAT went down for their agents after implementing self-service technology. In fact, we can see a similar trend in both manufacturing and retail, where simple, repetitive tasks are now being handled by technology.

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Self Service Average Handle Time Infographics Customers 48

Oracle

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The first finalist deployed an integrated, reliable, and simplified platform, which interconnected Oracle Cloud CX applications—Oracle CX Sales , Service , and CPQ —with Oracle Digital Assistant , Analytics, Siebel , EPM, ERP, and BI applications, along with third party retail enterprise and dealer management solutions.

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Connections Strategy Self Service Average Handle Time 47