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“Next!” Top 5 Tips to Reduce Customer Service Wait Time

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Only 35% of customers are willing to wait 30-60 seconds for a response on live chat. For today’s consumer fast support is non-negotiable, and long wait times are unacceptable. So how can your team reduce wait times and give your customers the immediate attention they expect? What not to do. What to do.

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COVID-19: How Knowledge Base Management Enables Call Center Continuity

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Just as service reps are adjusting to the “new normal” of working from home, they’re seeing spikes in call volumes with historically-long wait times, high call abandon rates, higher rates of customer churn, and (predictably) lost revenue. Centralize and Scale Your Knowledge Base.

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How to Increase Trust in Government with Digital Communication

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Bridging this gap and managing expectations is a continuous challenge – but one that digital communication can significantly improve. Live chat for immediate, real-time engagement Implementing live chat on government websites allows for immediate communication between citizens and government representatives.

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What is a Chatbot and How Do Customer Service Teams Use Them?

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These bots are “trained” from existing reference materials like a knowledge base or FAQ bank. With a well-established knowledge base integrated, the chatbot can follow a pre-defined conversation flow based on rules to serve up an answer. The most basic chatbot software is often known as a keyword chatbot.

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4 Chatbot Customer Service Use Cases for Every Industry

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This can be done more easily than you might think as organizations can build a chatbot using their existing knowledge base and support materials. By doing so, chatbots can resolve the most frequently asked questions that are simple yet repetitive and time-consuming – and do all this without any agent intervention.

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4 Reasons Why Live Chat for Government is Critical in 2022

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In a 2021 survey, nearly 40% of Americans reported experiencing phone wait times of more than five minutes with federal agencies. Live chat is the most effective channel at reducing wait times because chats can be sent and received in real-time, while agents can handle multiple simultaneous conversations.

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Top 3 Tips for Handling Customer Support Issue Surges

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Instead of offering a great customer experience, agents spend more time triaging as quickly as possible so customers aren’t stuck on hold. Supervisors should be using customized queues, based on support data reports, to manage incoming requests. Accurate Wait Times. Call Back Option. Call Back Option.

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