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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

Customers are significantly more likely to purchase from a brand again when information and support is offered in their language. Additionally, as we’re fond of saying, happy agents make happy customers. ICMI data shows that 66% of agents get frustrated when faced with language barriers. It’s our thing.

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How Conversational AI Can Optimize Your Workforce

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The current labor shortage is a big problem, especially for contact centers. Without enough agents in a contact center, customers cannot get the help they need. This eliminates hold times for customers and lets them take care of what they need to, despite staffing shortages. Grow your business.

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CCaaS Trends: The Evolution of Cloud Contact Centres

Lumoa

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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How to Improve Contact Center Optimization with Customer Journeys

Pointillist

According to Forbes, poor customer service is costing businesses more than $75 billion a year. The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction.

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Hold times are unacceptable – now more than ever

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As if justifying the cost was not painful enough, the vendor informed me about the backorders and expected waiting period. Naturally, I picked up the phone and dialed their 800 number to schedule my delivery, only to be put on hold for over 25 minutes before speaking to an agent. Virtual Agents can help. Bridging the gap.

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Call Deflection strategies in the age of self-service

TechSee

For that reason, successful call deflection strategies allow enquiries to be deflected to self-service channels such as FAQs, live chat, community forums, knowledge center databases and virtual agents. He navigates to the Contact Us page of the supplier’s website and easily finds the Customer Support phone number.

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Consumer Behavior is Changing, and it’s AI’s time to Shine

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Contact Center Challenges. The pandemic has caused an interesting conflict within contact centers. Combined with the increase of call volume, it means long wait times for customers and a negative customer experience. . So, be transparent and let your customers know who they are dealing with up front. .