Bold360

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Seeing someone who can help you, whether you are using a website or an offline store is essential to a full customer experience. Maybe your customers want to buy a product or a service which isn’t immediately in view. Think about the process your customer needs to go through to get these answers. Keep Listening. Keep Track.

Chatbots 80

Chatbots Omni-Channel Self Service Analytics 80

Comm100

JANUARY 21, 2020

Whether you’re new to digital omnichannel or your company is already deep into digital transformation for customer service, it’s always important to check the health of your digital customer journey. So, what should you look at when planning or evaluating your customers’ digital journey? Social media vs. SEO reach.

Customer Journeys 100

Customer Journeys Social Media B2C Omni-Channel 100

Comm100

JANUARY 21, 2020

Whether you’re new to digital omnichannel or your company is already deep into digital transformation for customer service, it’s always important to check the health of your digital customer journey. So, what should you look at when planning or evaluating your customers’ digital journey? Remember: Mind your response time.

Customer Journeys 209

Customer Journeys Social Media B2C Omni-Channel 209

Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2020

It seems like just yesterday that the customer service industry began transitioning from a multichannel to an omnichannel mindset. For years, many companies struggled to cobble together the best customer experiences they could. Digital omnichannel is the next word in customer experience. It was a shift backed by data—lots of it.

Omni-Channel 100

Omni-Channel Social Media Knowledge Base Touchpoint 100

ShepHyken

MARCH 26, 2019

In Shep’s Opening Monologue… He discusses the pros and cons of chatbots. The Interview with Natalie Petouhoff: Companies that become too enamored with chatbots, AI, and other technologies can risk losing touch with their customers. AI might be more useful to employees rather than customers.

Chatbots 123

Chatbots Contact Center e-support Social Media 123

Vonage

DECEMBER 6, 2018

According to research by the Aberdeen Group, companies with strong omni-channel customer engagement retain an average 89 percent of their customers, compared to just 33 percent for those companies without. Chat, social media, mobile apps and social media are all essential to modern customer service.

Omni-Channel 145

Omni-Channel Multi-Channel Self Service Strategy 145

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

B2B Customer Journey Touchpoints: A Guide for CS Teams. B2B customer journey touchpoints mark the roadmap toward successful outcomes for clients and CS teams. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy.

Customer Journeys 115

Customer Journeys Touchpoint B2B Social Media 115

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what’s going on in the AI market, when just last month some commentators were questioning chatbot sector momentum – particularly with Amazon stripping costs and people out of its Alexa team? Not limited to standard text interactions, ChatGPT can write poetry, help debug code and even troubleshoot IT issues. Question 2.:

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Chatbots Comparison Training 52

Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 15, 2022

Listening” to customers and employees today can be complex. It involves capturing not just what people tell us, but also how they’re interacting with our customer experience channels and how they feel doing this. And it’s a critical step toward showing empathy in customer experiences. Original Article by Ginger Conlon.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Self Service Contact Center Competitive Advantage 52

Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2020

It seems like just yesterday that the customer service industry began transitioning from a multichannel to an omnichannel mindset. For years, many companies struggled to cobble together the best customer experiences they could. Digital omnichannel is the next word in customer experience. It was a shift backed by data—lots of it.

Omni-Channel 131

Omni-Channel Social Media Average Handle Time Knowledge Base 131

Bold360

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Facebook made big news around six months ago with the release of their chat-bot feature and their agreement to let companies and brands build their own within the platform. Brands as diverse as American Express to 1800-Flowers to Domino’s Pizza have all deployed their own bots, showing just how versatile bots can be when done right.

Chatbots 40

Chatbots Customer Service Self Service Customers 40

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2018

With AI, call centers are equipped with a wide range of voice analytics, enabling recognition of customer, accent, gender, and emotion, as well as powering conversational IVRs and voice based virtual assistants. But there is still one missing element that has barred AI from radically transforming the customer experience.

Call Center 84

Call Center Self Service Contact Center Analysis 84

Eptica

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Why the future of customer service isn’t just automation. Author: Pascal Gauvrit The rise of artificial intelligence is leading many experts to predict that the future of customer service will be driven by automation and technology , without the need for human agents to interact with consumers.

Self Service 62

Self Service Customer Service Banking Chatbots 62

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2021

Customer service leaders and chief information officers (CIOs) are often asked what are they doing about artificial intelligence and automation. Do they centre around increasing customer engagement? Perhaps your objectives are more qualitative and based on measures of customer satisfaction, customer effort and customer lifetime value?

Self Service 52

Self Service Average Handle Time Chatbots Automotive 52

Bold360

MARCH 23, 2017

What are the Key Success Factors of a Messaging Bot? The Age of the Customer is upon us, and with it, the sources of power for businesses have changed. The advances that we see in technology and the projections for the future are all focused on making a better customer experience, and creating the ideal environment for engagement.

Omni-Channel 58

Omni-Channel Self Service Customer Service Chatbots 58

Esteban Kolsky

JANUARY 29, 2018

that we are presenting on Customer Experience. It was fantastic, seriously – here’s the link if you want to check it out (registration required), and we had a very engaging (that’s what the comments said) conversation about why #CX matters now, and how to get started with your customer experience initiative.

Customer Experience 107

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Self Service Interaction 107

Solvvy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

What is a Customer Service Knowledge Base? To build strong relationships with your customers, you must be transparent and provide information. A customer service knowledge base gives you an easy way to provide tips and guidance to educate your users or customers. Articles, white papers, and e-books.

Knowledge Base 62

Knowledge Base Self Service Customer Service e-support 62

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Despite the power of artificial intelligence to transform the customer experience, many AI projects fail at the first hurdle. Chatbots are already a common phenomenon in contact centres while millions of people interact daily with virtual assistants such as Google Home and Alexa. Henry Jinman at EBI.AI Don’t rush in.

Return on Investment 49

Return on Investment Chatbots Technology Interaction 49

Comm100

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Choosing a customer engagement software solution can be daunting. By keeping this list in sight during research — or using it to ask your vendor questions during a sales pitch — you will be able to avoid hidden drawbacks and make an informed decision about which customer engagement solution is right for your company.

Software 102

Software Customer Engagement Engagement Social Media 102

West Monroe

OCTOBER 15, 2018

As we wrote about in our recent white paper, Contact Center of the Future: Conversational Bots and Empowered Agents , the role of the contact center agent will change tremendously in the years to come. Training must focus on these complex interactions and will require additional problem solving and soft-skill initiatives.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Employee Engagement Engagement Training 40

RapportBoost

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

At Customer Contact Week in Austin last month, we noticed how the discussions surrounding chat training and onboarding stood out far more than in previous conferences. For starters, the emphasis for call centers and customer service teams to employ “omnichannel” solutions took center stage. By Tony Medrano and Scott Moberly.

Training 71

Training Call Center Telecommunications Exercises 71

ShepHyken

MARCH 31, 2018

Over the last few years, customer service has shifted from traditional phone support toward social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and others. Dan Gingiss started the Social Customer Care Track and interest has grown exponentially. Social Media Changes Customer Service. Happy customers tell an average of 6.

Social Media 86

Social Media Self Service Customer Service Marketing 86

Bold360

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Recently, I have been leading a highly sophisticated Conversational Bot project. This sophisticated bot has very robust speech analytics capabilities, yet remains very simple for the customer to maintain, enhance, and optimize, and provide full visibility for real-time insight into what people are asking.

Self Service 40

Self Service Customer Retention Feedback Engagement 40