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Contact Center Automation: Reduce Agent Burnout and Boost Customer Satisfaction

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Contact centers play a significant role in customer experience management. 71% of customers expect personalized communication, and 76% are frustrated if contact centers cant meet these expectations. 71% of customers expect personalized communication, and 76% are frustrated if contact centers cant meet these expectations.

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What You Need to Know About Contact Center AI

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Specifically, the world’s leading brands have begun using contact center AI to create a more efficient and effective customer service experience. What is Contact Center AI? How Does Contact Center AI Work? Will Contact Center AI Replace Call Center Agents? The simple answer is no.

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Virtual Agents in the Contact Center: Data Gathering Made Easy

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When it comes to reducing expenses within contact center operations, one of the best ways to do so is to reduce the amount of time that live agents spend on the phone. With that being said, one of the biggest time-consumers of live agent minutes comes from repetitive and tedious data gathering.

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Virtual Agents are Automating the Contact Center: Natural Language Greeting & Intent Capture

NICE inContact

This is the first of four ways that virtual agents are automating the contact center. Navigating poorly designed DTMF touch-tone systems and single word command menus can cause issues with proper routing and ultimately result in internal transfers, which is a large expense for contact centers.

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5 Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise

Speaker: Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction

This means more and more companies are implementing cloud-based virtual agents that automate conversations traditionally handled by live agents, all of which can be done across several different channels. How to design “lanes” for virtual agents to outperform live agents. Tune in to discover: Where to start.

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Virtual Agents in the Contact Center: Automate One Routine Call Type at a Time

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The biggest challenge facing every contact center is agent churn. Many agents are bored, unengaged, and generally unhappy, and they churn at a rate of 33% across all industries. Not to mention, technology constraints can sometimes make it difficult to improve the agent experience.

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Multimodal User Experience Design Best Practices

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The same holds true in the contact center. Multimodal Virtual Agents allow customers to tap, text and talk to get more done , with little effort. Offering variety can help create more successful outcomes for customers with a lower AHT for agents — a win on both sides of the phone line. View Webinar.

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The Conversational AI Journey: What to Expect from Start to Finish

Speaker: Gary Davis, SmartAction CEO

Understanding the work involved before and after you deploy a virtual agent makes all the difference between a poor customer experience and one that’s on par with your best live agent. What happens after go-live, and how to monitor, fine-tune, and train your virtual agent.

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Start Every Conversation with AI: The Front Door for Intelligent Customer Service

Speaker: Brian Morin & Helena Chen from SmartAction

Enter a conversational AI solution for your contact center. AI virtual agents can help resolve a lot of routine and repetitive interactions, but not all are created equal. Self-service is on the rise. More and more customers are looking to solve their own issues without human intervention.

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4 Ways AI-powered Virtual Agents Automate the Contact Center

Speaker: Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction

Register now to hear Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction, discuss how leading contact centers are leveraging the power of conversational AI through cloud-based virtual agents that automate the call types and chats traditionally handled by live agents. May 30th, 2019 12:30PM PST, 3:30PM EST, 8:30PM GMT

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The Contact Center of the Future with Real-Time AI

What does the contact center of the future look like? Depending on the customer base, you may have 40% of your chat, SMS, and email answered by a chatbot, 30% of voice calls answered by a virtual agent or voice bot, and only 30% actually answered by a human.

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The 5 Categories That Rule Virtual Agents

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, Mark Landry, VP Product, Marilyn Cassedy, Director of Customer Success, SmartAction

It just so happens that whenever we design and deploy a new AI-powered virtual agent over voice, the self-service application invariably falls into one of 5 distinct categories. This has been true for more than a hundred clients encompassing hundreds of use cases across 12 industries.

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Navigating the Worker Shortage in the Contact Center

Speaker: Brian Morin, Helena Chen, and Sofia Burton from SmartAction

The latest trend in the contact center has CX leaders worried -- across industries, there is a massive shortage of workers. Key takeaways: Why there’s a shortage of call center agents during a time of relatively high unemployment. How to mitigate the impact of an understaffed contact center with conversational AI.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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How to Build ROI for Conversational AI

Speaker: Sofia Burton & Tiffany O'Malley from SmartAction

Contact center leaders have faced an onslaught of burdens exacerbated by the pandemic. Agent attrition has always been a huge problem, but now the difficulties of the worker shortage make securing live agents for call centers highly competitive. Determining which calls are best for automation.