NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Too often, efforts to improve contact center performance are based business goals like increasing labor efficiency, or lower operating cost. But contact centers are not built to serve managers, they are built to serve customers. Here are five key takeaways, in no specific order, to improve contact center performance.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

2018 is just around the corner, which means that companies around the world are planning (or have already planned) their business goals for next year. For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience.

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Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

We touched base with leading customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein to learn how you can make your contact center adaptive to customers’ evolving omni-channel expectations in 2017. What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? Here’s what we learned. 2: Serve before you sell.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Brands Hospitality 133

BlueOcean

JANUARY 9, 2018

Forget AI being the future of the contact center. AI is the now of the contact center. Artificial intelligence in the contact center is one significant piece of the puzzle that is omni-channel customer service. Ultimately, however, the ROI on AI in the contact center will be a massive motivator.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 30, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform contact centers. Contact center leaders agree and are confident in AI’s role in delivering exceptional customer experiences. Then, we compared business responses with what more than 2,400 consumers told us about their actual service experiences in our 2018 study.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

While technologies like chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI) can play an obvious role in shaping the customer experience, true transformation comes from not only looking digitally outward at your customers, but inward as well. Where can technology help close those gaps? Get your copy of “ Digital Customer Experience Trends, 2017.”.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

While technologies like chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI) can play an obvious role in shaping the customer experience, true transformation comes from not only looking digitally outward at your customers, but inward as well. Where can technology help close those gaps? Get your copy of “ Digital Customer Experience Trends, 2017.”.

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ProProfs Chat

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

As 2017 is coming to an end, here’re 3 customer support trends that promise a better customer support in 2018. First response and FAQs will become increasingly automated with Chatbots. Omnichannel- I think that 2018 will be the year that Omnichannel becomes a reality for many customer support centers. Take a look. .

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Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

We touched base with leading customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein to learn how you can make your contact center adaptive to customers’ evolving omni-channel expectations in 2017. What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? Here’s what we learned. 2: Serve before you sell.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Brands Hospitality 50

NICE inContact

MAY 8, 2019

Have they embraced your new, leading-edge, AI-enabled chatbots? These are questions that keep contact center leaders up at night. Then we compared these findings to what consumers said in our 2018 consumer study. Conversely, organizations overestimate customer satisfaction with automated assistants/chatbots.

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TechSee

APRIL 17, 2022

“Thanks for following up, Mr. Jones; I see you submitted images of your 2018 Camry’s left bumper yesterday. Having one agent brief the other is a good first step, but warm transfers in 2022 have grown to improve both agent efficiency and customer experience beyond the call center.

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NICE inContact

MAY 23, 2019

With so many touchpoints in play, it’s more important than ever for contact center leaders to have their fingers on the pulse of their customers, and then align their own performance with what customers actually experience. Measuring satisfaction levels with specific channels is one input to this process.

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Comm100

JUNE 25, 2019

AI-powered chatbots are so 2018. Truth be told, internal uses of AI have just as much disruptive power as chatbots if not more – and are also far simpler to deploy and far quicker to generate positive ROI. Here are 3 reasons why agent-facing AI is so perfect for today’s contact centers. Chatbots not for you?

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2018

Mandy Holford, director of customer service at leading contact center Echo-U, has highlighted the major trends shaping the industry in 2018 in order to help businesses to understand the current challenges and develop strategic plans to enhance customer experience. Brexit will drive consolidation. About the Author.

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NICE inContact

MAY 16, 2019

Our second annual study delves into attitudes and perceptions about customer experience and service delivery — from the perspective of both customers and contact center leaders. phone, chat, IVR). Then we compared these results to what over 2,400 customers actually reported in our 2018 benchmark.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 7, 2019

” Beyond Chatbots: How Artificial Intelligence Can Humanize the Customer Experience by Dan Gingiss. ” Call center tips to ensure successful agents by Scott Sachs . The post 5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of January 7, 2018 appeared first on Shep Hyken. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Comm100

MARCH 16, 2022

Even back in 2018, the Office of Management and Budget in the US ordered all executive branch agencies to add CX into their ‘strategic decisions, culture, and design of services.’. Despite this, only 12% of government websites are reportedly using live chat. . Santa Fe County has been using Comm100 Live Chat since 2018.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 13, 2018

These reasons are reflected by the CCW Executive Report on Contact Center Priorities for 2018, where increasing the “voice of the customer” strategy is the #3 contact center priority this year. The post Guest Blog: Is Your Contact Center Using the Right Customer Feedback Tool? Social Media.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 5, 2018

The Secret Lives Of Contact Center Agents by Sally Mellinger. Sharpen) Tucked away in a hidden corner of the internet, exists a forum that exposes what it’s really like to be a contact center agent. Customer Service Chatbots Help Reduce Product Returns by Lisa Kosan. This year, chatbots helped address that issue.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 5, 2019

In our upcoming webinar, Fulfilling Changing Customer Expectations with True Omnichannel , we’ll explore all this and more based on recently published Nice inContact research: the 2018 Customer Experience (CX) Benchmark report. Other “future” developments—chatbots and AI—are already here, right now. REGISTER NOW.

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Avaya

APRIL 10, 2019

In Nemertes’ 2018-19 Digital Customer Experience research study of 697 organizations, we found companies already are relying on AI to transform their customer experience. Virtual agents/chatbots – Computer-aided, virtual robots that address basic questions and functions to free human agents to handle more complex ones.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 23, 2018

These strategies are increasingly being explored with Gartner stating that by 2018, over 50% of companies will have redirected investments towards customer experience innovations. Over the last few years, the industry has turned toward conversational AI platforms – known as chatbots – to automate and scale one-on-one conversations.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We’re excited to announce that Comm100 was presented with a Bronze Stevie® Award in the “Contact Center Solution – New Version” category in the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service on Feb. 22 in Las Vegas, Nevada. All of the Stevie Award winners should be very proud of their achievements.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 31, 2020

Sarah Al-Hussaini, Co-Founder and COO of Ultimate.ai, explains why chatbots must be part of the customer journey if their full potential is to be realized. When it comes to chatbots, there are generally two types of sentiment in the market amongst customer service leaders. What’s is a chatbot, and why do you need one?

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Comm100

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Keep an eye out for the 2020 Live Chat Benchmark Report coming out in January or subscribe and be the first to get it. Webinar: AI and Bots: Are you ready? Demystifying chatbots and AI. AI and chatbots were a huge theme this year, but there’s a lot of conflicting and confusing information out there.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We’ve narrowed down the 5 key customer service technology trends to watch out for in 2018. view of customers by accumulating data from the various touch points that a customer may use to contact a company. customer exhibitors at MWC 2018: Verto Analytics. Messaging app exhibitors at MWC 2018: Infinity Mobile.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We’ve narrowed down the 5 key customer service technology trends to watch out for in 2018. view of customers by accumulating data from the various touch points that a customer may use to contact a company. customer exhibitors at MWC 2018: Verto Analytics. Messaging app exhibitors at MWC 2018: Infinity Mobile.

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Avaya

JANUARY 16, 2018

40% of executives recently polled by Avaya rate their company’s customer experience as “poor” or “average,” and 93% say they’ll be focusing on improving customer experience in 2018. Think smaller in 2018…specifically, mobile apps. In 2018, major players will be defined by their understanding of this delicate balance.

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Answer Dash

JANUARY 1, 2019

I’ve heard this spoken of chatbots, in particular, this year. Statements like, “Chatbots will automate X% of your customer interactions” and “Your competition is working on a chatbot as we speak” have been uttered in my presence. Integrate Slack with support tools Slack has revolutionized contact center communication.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

In 2018 it was predicted that voice would soon be dead and chatbots would be controlling the customer experience. With this in mind, here are 10 top trends for contact centers and the customer experience in 2019. As processes or customer expectations change, bots need to be coached to refine them and enhance their skills.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As 2018 draws to a close and we get closer to ushering in a fresh new year, there’s a temptation to sensationalize up-and-coming technologies and get a bit brazen with predictions and statements about what’s to come. AI, Bots & RPA. Dedicated Desktop and Customer Journey Management.

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UJET

JUNE 19, 2019

Chatbots are arguably one of the most talked about and polarizing advancements not just in customer support, but in all of tech. While there are many definitions out there, the word “chatbot” is a term for an application that can simulate a conversation with a live person. Chatbots are the next tool that will improve customer support.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 19, 2017

At the end of the day, contact center jobs are about communicating in the manner that solves a customer’s problems best and new contact center technology has to take that into account. Here are a few predictions about what contact centers (and contact center jobs) will look (and sound) like a year from now.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 22, 2019

So it’s not terribly surprising to learn that the organizations who earned “good” or “very good” employee engagement ratings in the State of CX Management 2018 report by the Temkin Group (now part of the XM Institute) are also much more likely to be ranked as CX Leaders.

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TechSee

MARCH 13, 2018

In 2017, all eyes were on chatbots and virtual agents – the assumption being that they would take over a significant part of the customer interaction and deliver real value in communicating with customers. We will be watching these up-and-coming AI trends closely in 2018, and so should you. Augmentation of human intelligence.

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Call Experts

JANUARY 15, 2020

Also, these automations will power real-time messaging and reporting, voice assistants, chatbots, deep learning, predictive intelligence, and machine learning. Use of voice assistants and chatbots to conduct HR service more naturally and effectively with real-time reporting. Using Chatbots for interactive onboarding.

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