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The Importance of Customer Self Service Portal

Kayako

In fact, 79% of US consumers say they have used a self-service portal for customer service, and 88% of customers expect companies to have self-service options. 65% use self-service channels because they like the convenience and don’t want to talk to agents or wait on hold to do simple routine tasks.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues. Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach.

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Call Deflection strategies in the age of self-service

TechSee

The goal is both to ensure customers receive the answers they are seeking in the most efficient manner and to reduce the number of inbound calls routed to human agents. Let’s explore four proven methods of boosting call deflection: User-friendly self-service channels. Proactive customer communications.

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From Knowledge Base to Virtual Agents: The Shift to AI-powered Self Service

TechSee

Customer self-service refers to customer-initiated interaction technologies that enable customers to access information and perform routine tasks without requiring the assistance of a live customer service representative. Drivers for customer self-service.

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2018: New Ways Cloud Will Enhance Customer Care

NICE inContact

Cloud contact center deployments that began in customer care may have been extended to other business areas. Two topics come to mind: participating fully in corporate digital transformation initiatives and investigating uses of artificial intelligence in customer care. Digital Transformation. Plan to join us!

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Designing Self-Service for Customer Success

COPC

Organizations can make self-service a more desirable option by developing an easy-to-use system that resolves issues efficiently. See how Amazon Web Services (AWS) automates voice and non-voice communication using natural language ML services in our upcoming webinar.

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Unraveling the Tangled Vines of Omnichannel Customer Care

BlueOcean

The challenge, however, is that the more complex the customer journey, with more channels and points of contact in a single customer journey, the more effort (read: expense) is required from an organization to resolve each interaction – and often, as shown in the graph above, more customer effort is required to reach resolution.