Win the Customer

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the realm of contact centers, the pursuit of enhancing customer service while streamlining operations remains a top priority. As technology evolves, two prominent solutions have emerged: AI-powered chatbots and self-service portals. Let’s delve into the pros and cons of each to empower informed decision-making.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. We’ve long been proponents of making transactional customer service low effort, for both customer and contact center. So let’s get into it. Those first three are what we’d expect.

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MiaRec

APRIL 8, 2024

Ever since COVID, contact centers have increasingly invested in Artificial Intelligence (AI). In fact, according to a recent MarketsandMarkets report, the global contact center AI market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 21.3% billion (May 2022) to $4 billion by 2027.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 23, 2024

These omnichannel platforms facilitate a cohesive experience for debtors, which allows them to interact with collections agencies through their preferred channels, be it SMS, email, web chat, or voice calls. This is why automation is especially transformative in contact centers.

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Blake Morgan

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

                             What’s the future of contact centers in shaping customer experience and brand loyalty? Companies are increasingly recognizing the critical role that contact centers play in shaping customer perceptions and driving brand loyalty.

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TechSee

JUNE 29, 2023

While initial conversations now focus on improving chatbots with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, this is just the start of what AI can and will offer. Deploying this AI will require more than simply upgrading a chatbot. Contact center agents often get daily or weekly briefings with the latest updates.

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NICE inContact

JULY 26, 2019

Chatbots are coming. Consider these stats*: 4 minutes is the average time savings with a chatbot enquiry vs. a traditional call $0.70 Consider these stats*: 4 minutes is the average time savings with a chatbot enquiry vs. a traditional call $0.70 How smart are chatbots today? To be honest, not very smart. Not cool, right?

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Alliance by IFS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Whether inquiring about your phone bill or checking into your hotel room, you have probably received service through a chat bot by now. While 23% of companies already use chat bots, are you prepared for this next generation of customer service? Chat bot users achieve 2.4 Efficiency Gains.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Bots, and the underlying AI that drives them, have become increasingly popular in many Customer Experience and contact center circles, and for good reason. Bots offer extended functionality and enable customers to find answers or support without the involvement of a live agent. Transparency is key. Be realistic.

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Vonage

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sure, but only if the customer gets treated right across the board — at any point, on any channel (even by that new chatbot your boss keeps mentioning). The answer is omni-channel contact center solution that allows businesses to route interactions through email, chat, SMS, video and social channels seamlessly.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2018

And you’re ready for your outsourced customer service RFP to hit the road and bring you some stellar options for a new contact center partner. Here’s the short list of the best questions to ask about AI in the contact center. Looking for more contact center RFP questions? We want to make it easy for you.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 1, 2024

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has created opportunities to improve the customer experience in the contact center space. With Amazon Lex bots, you can use conversational AI capabilities to enable these capabilities within your call center.

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Think Customers

JANUARY 18, 2022

Customer service interactions can quickly evolve, requiring different channels and tools. A quick live chat with a bot, for instance, can rapidly escalate to an emergency call with an agent, which we refer to as an associate, and vice versa. The same is true for a call that begins with an interactive voice response (IVR) system.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots. We end by explaining how contact centers can keep AI models up to date using Talkdesk AI Trainer.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Contact centers are a powerhouse to deliver that exceptional experience across the entire customer journey starting from awareness, interest to purchase, service and advocacy. Contact Center Customer Experience can be enhanced every step of the way as customers interact with the brand.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Contact centers are no exceptions. Only about a third of the customers are willing to use bots and virtual assistants to interact with companies AI is not a customer pleaser, yet! Contact center execs are keen on leveraging AI for the right use cases and the one team they rely heavily is IT.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Nordic region’s largest insurance company, If, has adopted innovative artificial intelligence in combination with its existing solution from the contact center supplier Puzzel. The new agreement covers If’s contact centers in four countries. One such solution the chat bot, Ruby.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2019

Traditionally quality management in the contact center has been focused on evaluating agent-assisted interactions — mainly phone. We already discussed the gap between the number of digital channels for CX that are supported in the contact center and the number of channels that are evaluated as part of a business’ QM programs.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 15, 2024

Conversational commerce is all about interacting with customers through various communication tools, like live chat, chatbots, and contact centers. Utilizing Messaging Platforms and Chatbots Live chat can be a great choice for conversational commerce. Of course, chatbots can’t answer every query.

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NICE inContact

JULY 5, 2019

Chatbots are a kind of silver bullet to fulfill the needs of today’s demanding digital customers. Let’s take a closer look at 5 reasons customers love AI-driven chatbots. An AI-driven chatbot that appears automatically while a customer is viewing the website is the ideal self-service option. 3) Chatbots personalize experience.

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ShepHyken

JULY 31, 2023

While chatbots and digital solutions are valuable, human-to-human interactions still plays a vital role, especially when technology falls short. Provide seamless connections between various communication channels, including chatbots, apps, phone calls, and emails.

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Comm100

JUNE 5, 2018

How AI can be Used in the Contact Center. AI has some viable uses in the contact center sphere that managers can employ to improve their CX and the efficiency of call centers. Out of these benefits, two concrete benefits of AI in the contact center stand out. Capturing Customer Data.

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TechSee

APRIL 26, 2021

The Age of Contact Center Transformation . Like many industries these days, contact centers are at a crossroads. Vision: A key element for transforming contact centers . Creating a visual interaction between an agent and a customer in need of assistance is the fastest path to success.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2019

Chat is a favorite interaction channel for customers and is increasingly offered as an option on websites and mobile apps. It often eliminates the “on hold” frustration of voice calls and lets contact centers increase productivity by having agents work with 3 or 4 customers at the same time.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you’re here because you’re trying to figure out what a customer service chatbot is capable of and how it can help your customers and company grow, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s explore the top 6 chatbot examples of 2020. A Chatbot to Help Mortgage Applications . Industry: Banking and finance.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Can your contact center keep up with changing consumer demands? The 2018 survey reveals that use of digital channels is higher than phone – however use of “automated assistants” or chatbots by consumers for recent service interactions is still limited at only 8% globally. appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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Comm100

JULY 11, 2019

Closer to home and much more practically, let’s take a look at how AI is changing the contact center and customer experience, and where the impact is most significant. Specifically, we’ll focus on three applications of AI that will forever change how we build and run contact centers: Chatbots, analytics, and the agent experience.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 5, 2022

This week we feature an article by Shruti Bansal, Digital Marketing Expert at Ameyo , an AI-powered contact center solution. She shares how contact centers can use voice bots to capture, interpret, and analyze verbal input from the speaker and reply in a similar natural language.?.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Dead air time refers to the period of inactivity during customer interaction in a contact center; the time between when an agent finishes speaking and when the customer begins speaking or vice versa. Dead airtime can negatively impact the customer experience and make the interaction feel awkward or uncomfortable.

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Oracle

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Thanks to advanced digital technologies, companies now find themselves in a position to truly transform the contact center customer service experience. Contact centers traditionally have been separate from the main business of companies, which generates problems with contact center customer service performance.

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NICE inContact

MAY 11, 2021

Gartner predicts that 85% of customer interactions will be managed without humans in 2021. The Contact Center is still inherently a forum for human engagement. This might be a scary notion for agents who are sensitive to job security but rest assured that human agent jobs aren’t going away.

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Interactions

APRIL 22, 2022

Contact centers have been around for decades. They started as call centers as they were formed prior to the Web when the phone was the only alternative to an in-person conversation. Through the years, as the Web and e-commerce gained full adoption, click to chat emerged, and call centers evolved into the modern contact center.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 7, 2021

AI has many valuable uses in the contact center, from providing data and channel options to reducing costs. With AI enabling better forms of self-service, automation can address many contact center challenges with limited cost impact or added strain to the existing pool of agents. Managing Routine Inquiries.

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