BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business? The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated. But what’s the best approach?

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Millennial consumer attributes. According to Accenture , Millennials have overtaken Baby Boomers as the largest consumer demographic, expected to account for 30% of retail sales — that’s $1.4 Consider a native app with special features to improve engagement, customer stickiness, and overall service. She’s a Millennial.

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Interactions

MAY 6, 2022

In customer experience, wasting time is one of the biggest pain points for consumers. In a recent survey, we found the top obstacles people experience when contacting customer service have to do with time, such as long wait times or wasted time due to inefficient processes. . Today’s consumers are busier than ever.

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Interactions

JUNE 10, 2022

Customers are busy and self-service provides a fast and efficient way for them to get things done. Consumers also recognize the benefits of using automated systems. In our recent survey, customers noted that when using an automated system, they see benefits such as: The convenience to get tasks done when they want to take care of them.

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Interactions

MAY 14, 2020

From conducting more business over video meetings, to doing more shopping via apps and over the phone, people’s behavior and perspective of virtual interactions has changed for good over the past few months. Changing Consumer Behavior. This month, we investigated just how much consumer behavior has changed since the pandemic.

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Interactions

AUGUST 12, 2022

Conversational AI applications are being used by many brands today to automate tasks via self-service and improve both customer and agent experience. Applied Conversational AI applications are the category of solutions you should be looking at for use in the customer experience space. See a visual on how it works here.

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Interactions

JANUARY 20, 2022

However, for some debt-ridden consumers, this time of year serves as a glaring reminder of their obligations. However, for many well-intentioned consumers who try to embrace the New Year with a newfound sense of fiscal responsibility, they find it hard to do so. What drives consumers to incur debt is simple to understand.

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Interactions

JANUARY 20, 2022

However, for some debt-ridden consumers, this time of year serves as a glaring reminder of their obligations. However, for many well-intentioned consumers who try to embrace the New Year with a newfound sense of fiscal responsibility, they find it hard to do so. What drives consumers to incur debt is simple to understand.

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PK

APRIL 16, 2020

Post-recession demand from consumers for greater transparency, mobility and digital connectivity has driven advancements, but risk management, compliance and cost optimization remain top concerns for today’s banks. In 2020, customers expect better digital experiences from their financial providers.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language programming (NLP) are altering how businesses communicate with their consumers. AI-powered personalization helps organizations to boost consumer engagement, loyalty, revenue and gain a more complete understanding of their customers – all in real-time.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. To truly modernize your customer service, you don’t need to choose between AI or human involvement. You need both.

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Interactions

JUNE 25, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated the shift in consumer behavior. It takes decades to change consumer behavior, but this pandemic has done it in a matter of weeks. It has forced consumers to put aside whatever hesitations they had with online shopping and embrace it with both arms. Virtual Agents can help.

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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. is a global cloud contact center leader for customer-obsessed companies.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. To truly modernize your customer service, you don’t need to choose between AI or human involvement. You need both.

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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. In our NICE inContact CX Transformation Benchmark , chat has the highest satisfaction of all channels with 47% of consumers saying they were very satisfied with chat, as it provides convenient, quick, and helpful service.

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TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Why agents are embracing the change. Post-call analysis also benefits from AI.

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TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Smarter Agents. Virtual agents learn as they process more information, but someone must train them.

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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

Did you know that American businesses risk losing a whopping $494 billion in revenue from poor customer care? In the age of smartphones, where support is only a click away, consumers have massive expectations when it comes to customer service.

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Interactions

APRIL 14, 2021

Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are making significant changes to the way the financial services industry handles consumer credit. But navigating the myriad of opportunities to improve the way companies interact with customers is complex. And that’s why I want to share my insights with you today.

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BlueOcean

JANUARY 9, 2018

These technologies are sparking new expectations in today’s consumers on an almost daily basis. Long gone are the days when customers almost expected to experience IVR hell and would pretty much tolerate jaw-dropping wait times. What Does AI Customer Service Look Like? Forget AI being the future of the contact center.

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UJET

JUNE 25, 2021

As the world begins to reopen post-COVID-19, customer experience is more important than it’s ever been, with 80% of companies saying their core business model needs to go and/or stay digital to remain economically viable. But this creates its own concern, as consumers are continually using more devices in more ways to access support.

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Kustomer

MAY 5, 2022

There are innumerable studies that highlight the future of CX, and how chatbots are one of the most common ways to improve your customer experience. But one type of chatbot that has proven to help reduce costs and improve your CSAT scores are virtual agents. Kustomer surveyed over 525 U.S.-based

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Interactions

JULY 2, 2020

. 2020 has brought on a perfect storm for the collections space with more debt and high delinquency rates due to the pressure put on consumers from the economic effects of COVID-19. In fact, consumer debt has risen to record-breaking heights, at over $14 Trillion by mid-2020. While these numbers are alarmingly high, it makes sense.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Personalization as a driver in customer service. Delivering personalized customer service is more than just addressing a customer by name in an automated email, or segmenting by interest; it is a way to capture the customer’s attention and create a level of engagement that is authentic and relevant at every stage of the customer journey.

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Interactions

APRIL 14, 2021

Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are making significant changes to the way the financial services industry handles consumer credit. But navigating the myriad of opportunities to improve the way companies interact with customers is complex. And that’s why I want to share my insights with you today.

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Interactions

JULY 2, 2020

. 2020 has brought on a perfect storm for the collections space with more debt and high delinquency rates due to the pressure put on consumers from the economic effects of COVID-19. In fact, consumer debt has risen to record-breaking heights, at over $14 Trillion by mid-2020. While these numbers are alarmingly high, it makes sense.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Focused on serving the needs of customers, helping them solve problems, teaching them how to use products, and answering their questions, customer service agents are central to business growth and effective operations. The Future of Customer Service Channels is Now. Every day, more than 2.5

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

One of our most popular blog posts focuses on which contact center predictions from the past few years have come true in the world of outsourced customer service. Lose prediction, and you’ve lost the game – not to mention your customers. Can we Evolve Customer Experience to Keep Pace with Changing Consumer Habits?

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Kustomer

MAY 26, 2022

In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen has a heart to heart with fellow business leaders, urging them to take advantage of chatbots so their organizations will acquire and retain customers. Chatbots are also fantastic tools for lightening agent load, allowing them to tackle more complex customer inquiries.

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Solvvy

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Chances are, the last time you called a customer support number, you interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot. Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots use advanced technologies to automate customer interactions and enhance customer experiences in several ways: . consumers expect businesses to have online portals.

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Interactions

MAY 28, 2020

As governments plan a phased approach to open up businesses, consumers are both excited and cautious about their safety and welfare. Businesses are gearing towards opening up while maintaining the safety and security of their employees as well as the customers. How did they treat their customers during the pandemic?

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Interactions

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As a result, many consumers are now worried about falling further behind in their bills and payments, without the safety net of extended payment moratoriums. The signals that many individual consumers and households were in for a rough time were strong. The Current Challenge. “These periods of forbearance will eventually end.

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UJET

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This means that companies are disappointing millions of customers and losing out on the opportunity to automate an increasing percentage of the inquiries they receive. The current generation of self-service solutions, intelligent virtual agents (IVAs), are smart, omni-channel systems that automate many types of inquiries.

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Inbenta

APRIL 14, 2020

Why transform your customer journey? The customer journey refers to the entire path a prospect follows when interacting with you. Another definition of the customer journey could be the succession of stages from the moment a prospect identifies a need, up to the moment he becomes a customer of yours.

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Think Customers

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Customers want to reach brands on their own terms, whenever, wherever. Chatbot and messaging capabilities are the essential tools needed to provide this 24/7, personalized customer service. Let’s explore their differences to find the right fit for customer needs. But these two platforms aren’t interchangeable. What’s a chatbot?

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TechSee

MAY 28, 2019

Call deflection is the process of routing a customer enquiry to an alternative service channel. The goal is both to ensure customers receive the answers they are seeking in the most efficient manner and to reduce the number of inbound calls routed to human agents. Proactive customer communications.

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Interactions

JULY 29, 2020

Power Utilities expert Andrew Heath believes senior utility execs are fast realizing focusing on customer engagement is no longer a “nice-to-have” but is instead a must-have, especially across digital channels. Virtual agents can support an omnichannel approach to customer service. Success in Action.

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