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What is ‘Effective Customer Engagement Strategy’ in the Age of COVID-19?

Bold360

At the same time, they are having to address evolving customer expectations, digital transformation, multiple online channels, and emerging CX capabilities enabled by mobile apps, chatbots, social media messaging, and more. It takes more than one or two interactions to convert today’s customers into loyal buyers.

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Redefining Customer and Employee Engagement During COVID-19: How Chatbots Can Help

Bold360

Companies should be moving away from physical, face-to-face channels and towards digital, self-service channels. Your employees and your customers alike are utilizing remote, digital channels to deliver and access services. The impacts on service quality and customer churn are clear and will damage your company’s future.

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Future-Proofing Customer Experience (CX) for a Digital-First ?New Normal?

Bold360

The term “customer experience” (CX) doesn’t seem to have a standard definition, but it’s often used interchangeably with customer journey, brand perception and customer engagement. omnichannel engagement) across the entire customer journey. Self-service is thus a CX (and employee experience) win for all involved.

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What Now? 3 Steps for Taking a Post-COVID Approach to FSI Customer Engagement

Bold360

Looking back, it’s clear that FSIs that had invested in digital (service) transformation prior to the pandemic tended to outperform their more flat-footed rivals. Even before the pandemic, customers preferred the convenience of digital-first service provision. Give customers (self-service) options.

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CX Now: What Is Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Why Is It More Important Than Ever?

Bold360

Self-service remedies divert traffic to manage workflows. There are two necessary elements for tackling the supply side and the demand side of the current CX/EX double whammy: It’s essential to divert phone traffic away from overwhelmed call center reps by deploying self-service tools like dynamic search bars and chatbots.

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Lessons Learned from the Frontlines of CX: Add Channels or Risk Becoming Irrelevant

Bold360

COVID-19 has utterly disrupted how customers and companies interact. We’ve witnessed dramatic, rapid shifts in preferred customer engagement channels at a time of social distancing and people working (and doing nearly everything else) from home. 3 Big Trends in Customer Engagement . A growing number of website redesigns.

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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Is communication still going strong and do you feel comfortable in those interactions? Are you still in regular contact with your partner’s leadership team and do you still trust them to deliver excellence for your customers? These scores and metrics aren’t the only way to look at the customer experience, though.