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Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Customer Behavior

BlueOcean

Backed up orders, ticket back logs, and overwhelmed websites will all lead consumers to their phones, whether it’s to make a direct phone call or to scroll through self-service options. But it also made an impact on customer behavior, particularly with self-service customer care. Omni-Channel Patterns.

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How to Deliver An Outstanding Omnichannel Customer Experience

Playvox

What Is Omnichannel Customer Experience? First, it’s important to understand the difference between multichannel and omnichannel customer service centers. Both serve customers in multiple channels, but a multichannel environment doesn’t connect those channels — every interaction is siloed.

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Why Aren’t Businesses Investing in Meeting Their Customers’ Omnichannel Expectations?

NICE inContact

An omnichannel experience – consumers expect it and businesses admit they aren’t great at delivering it, so why aren’t they investing in improving it? True omnichannel experience allows customers to move seamlessly across an organization’s service channels. appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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How Omnichannel Customer Care Weathered the Storm of COVID-19

BlueOcean

A couple of years ago, we explored the state of omnichannel customer care , recognizing the fact that consumers have more channel options available to them than ever before. We also, as an industry, have exponentially more data and insight about consumer behaviors around these channels. Channel Focus.

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If you can’t do voice, you can’t do omnichannel

Interactions

The promise of omnichannel–a seamless integration of automated self-service across digital and voice channels– had us believing that customers could call a business, pause the conversation, and then pick up the same conversation without losing context through texting. . Customers like conversation that feels natural.

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Not Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket – How Businesses Are Allocating CX Funds

NICE inContact

Both self-service and agent-assisted channels are being improved in the upcoming year, reflecting ongoing consumer demand for many options. The study found that a significant portion of companies – 40% – are very likely to invest in four or more channels to improve the customer service experience.

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How to Deliver Market-Leading Customer Service thanks to Automation

Inbenta

There are several ways that businesses are looking to do this, from optimizing their customer self-service portals and knowledge management systems to deploying live chat and chatbots using AI and ML. In addition, new customer experience trends that have accelerated the need for customer service automation.