BlueOcean

JANUARY 9, 2018

What Does AI Customer Service Look Like? Artificial intelligence in the contact center is one significant piece of the puzzle that is omni-channel customer service. With integration between live chat, video chat, SMS, web forums, email, social, self-serve apps, and, of course, voice, the omni-channel experience must be seamless.

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TechSee

MAY 28, 2019

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. Consider this scenario: James is having trouble programming his smart sprinkler system. Now that’s true success!

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured? Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach.

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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. A customer has the right to know if they are dealing with a human or an automated system. Don’t cross the line.

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Interactions

MAY 28, 2020

Customers are more accepting of home deliveries than shopping in stores. They are more open to video and teleconferencing than meeting in person. This pandemic is pushing brands to think about customer service beyond the channel. Are you ready for AI or Virtual Agents? Where can you automate?

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Although this information can usually be found in the user manual, customers looking for assistance with these basic tasks drive a large volume of calls to the customer care center, which can be avoided with self-service. Here are the steps to get started: Build the virtual agent around a single strategic objective.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

A chatbot, also known as an intelligent virtual agent, is a program that can do activities independently while communicating with humans over a communication channel. Typically, contact centers would use a chatbot to increase sales or improve customer service via messaging services or boost their communication channel presence.

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