ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Top 5 Tips to Improve Social Customer Service by Kristina Knight. My Comment: I’m still surprised at the number of companies that don’t embrace social media as a viable customer support channel.

Customer Service 214

Customer Service Self service Chatbots CRM 214

ShepHyken

MARCH 9, 2018

Businesses that already have a strong digital customer service strategy in place are steps ahead of the competition, however here’s how you can catch up in 2018. There will also be cases where chatbots and automated knowledge bases will not have the relevant answer and someone will need to step in to further the inquiry.

Customer Service 189

Customer Service Chatbots Advertising Technology 189

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Dina Dwyer shares how one of the franchisees of the Dwyer Group, Aire Serv, came to the rescue of a customer in need. Chatbots Are Killing Customer Service. Here are my top five picks from last week.

Customer Service 198

Customer Service Chatbots Consulting Consulting 198

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We here all the time of wondrous new technology such as AI, VR, Chatbots and the like, that take us further from customers, pushing customers to self-serve and engaging with us as a personal brand. Read Shep’s latest Forbes Article: Ten Ways To Celebrate National Customer Service Week. . – Shep Hyken.

Customer Experience 277

Customer Experience Big data Technology Chatbots 277

ShepHyken

MARCH 5, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. What’s the Difference Between Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty? HubSpot) Customer satisfaction is a measurement of a customer’s attitude toward a product, a service, or a brand.

Customer Service 202

Customer Service Chatbots Contact Center Marketing 202

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Can awful airline customer service be overridden with AI and analytics? Managing the Fragile Customer Experience by Laurent Bride. (IT Chatbots and AI can’t do everything… yet. by Scott Kendrick.

Airlines 195

Airlines Customer Service Chatbots Analytics 195

CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Less than half of CX execs trust their company's ability to deliver great experiences. Here are over 100 customer experience stats and trends for you to discover. 99% of Customer Experience and Success leaders believe CEM has a positive impact on their business. Only 8% of their customers agreed.

Customer Experience 195

Customer Experience Journey mapping Metrics Surveys 195

TechSee

APRIL 17, 2022

“Thanks for following up, Mr. Jones; I see you submitted images of your 2018 Camry’s left bumper yesterday. Beyond frustrating the customer, this wastes valuable resources, irritating agents, increases average hold time, and lowers overall efficiency. . Warm transfers deliver an effortless and seamless customer experience.

Customer Experience 207

Customer Experience Self service Call Center Chatbots 207

ShepHyken

APRIL 2, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Three Important Considerations for Customer Service Surveys by Paul Selby. CustomerThink) A lot has been written on performing customer service or customer satisfaction surveys. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

Customer Service 139

Customer Service Self service Surveys Scripts 139

Callminer

APRIL 20, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is evolving. As a CX leader, you also need to know which technologies will help you achieve your core objectives in managing the customer experience. As a CX leader, you also need to know which technologies will help you achieve your core objectives in managing the customer experience.

Best practices 186

Best practices Contact Center Customer Experience Interactive Voice Response 186

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Five Musts For Delivering ‘Legendary’ Customer Care On Social Channels by Andrew Kokes. How to train your agents to avoid these 5 customer service fails by Rhiân Davies. It’s that simple.

Customer Service 35

Customer Service Customer Care Chatbots Personalization 35

Lumoa

JANUARY 9, 2018

Customer experience has been already a hot topic in business during 2017 and is promising to be even of higher importance in 2018. “CX It’s predicted, that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator when making consumer choices. Customers want you to know them.

Customer Experience 133

Customer Experience Big data Customer centricity Technology 133

InTheChat

JANUARY 10, 2019

In our last post, we talked about the difficulty of balancing the excitement that the limitless potential of digital technology inspires against the practical realities of implementation on a large scale, which led us to ask: Wasn’t 2018. The post Wasn’t 2018 supposed to be the year of the chatbot? What happened?

Chatbots 93

Chatbots Technology Customer Care Contact Center 93

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Baphira Wahlang Shylla, a digital marketer at Knowmax , a SaaS company that provides knowledge management solutions for various industries that are seeking to improve their customer service metrics. She shares how BPOs can enhance your customer experience.

Customer Experience 168

Customer Experience Scripts Self service outsourcing 168

InTheChat

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It can’t be denied that consumer preferences for customer service channels are shifting more rapidly than ever, with the rate of consumers who identify digital channels as their preferred mode of communication ever on the rise. Unfortunately, the.

Chatbots 83

Chatbots Customer Service Contact Center Customer Experience 83

VocalCom

JANUARY 15, 2018

With the start of a new year, you might wonder how customer engagement will change. In the past couple of years, customer experience has been a top priority for companies, as the digital era has ushered in numerous technologies that many brands use to differentiate themselves from their competitors. An omnichannel experience.

Contact center software 50

Contact center software Chatbots Finance Contact Center 50

Bright Pattern

DECEMBER 6, 2018

AI and bots might have been the most talked about trend of 2018. You couldn’t go to a contact center or customer service event without noticing how many sessions were dedicated to the topic, or overhearing attendees talking about the abundant use cases for AI and self-service bots.

Customer Experience 76

Customer Experience Chatbots Customer centricity Self service 76

Fonolo

JUNE 20, 2018

More and more, a way of standing out from the crowd and winning over customers is by ensuring a top-notch, personal experience from start to finish. Customer experience (CX) continues to be one of the top competitive differentiators this year, and as a result, can no longer be ignored. Change things up with chatbots.

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Brand ambassadors Education Feedback 120

Fonolo

JUNE 14, 2018

2018 is game time. It’s time to look at your customers as teammates rather than as opponents. It’s time to reboot your customer experience game. Here is the reality: A poor (or even worse, unmemorable) customer experience (CX) has led to a resounding “Game Over” for many businesses in the last few years.

Chatbots 90

Chatbots Brand ambassadors Agent burnout Complaint resolution 90

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. For example, is the goal to improve your customers’ experience, and if so, which facet? Before Soliciting Feedback. Social Media.

Feedback 206

Feedback Contact Center Journey mapping Surveys 206

Kayako

JANUARY 24, 2018

I got my answer in the end (and my refund), but it wasn’t an ideal way to spend the first hour of my Sunday morning or my first customer service transaction this year that stressed out. Which brings me neatly toward 2018’s customer service trends: Customer Service Trends 2018: Creating Effortless Customer-Centric Experiences.

Customer centricity 101

Customer centricity Customer Service Self service Chatbots 101

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. According to Chatbots Magazine , businesses can reduce customer service costs by as much as 30% with virtual agents and chatbots.

Personalization 157

Personalization Customer Service Chatbots Analytics 157

Toister Performance Solutions

MAY 6, 2021

Instead, it connected me to a chatbot that didn't understand my question. We've all had frustrating experiences with chatbots. Two recent studies from goMoxie reveal how chatbots are sending customers to the competition. Your customers are struggling online It's 2021. I know I'm not alone.

Chatbots 102

Chatbots Banking Self service Surveys 102

Vonage

MARCH 26, 2018

Three years ago, Gartner predicted that more than half of businesses would implement significant changes to improve customer experience by 2018. The estimated price tag of losing customers due to poor service has reached $1.6 according to Accenture’s Digital Disconnect in Customer Engagement report.

Customer Service 91

Customer Service Contact Center Customer centricity Coaching 91

Fonolo

JULY 5, 2018

A Million People are Using Bank of America’s Chatbot” says the headline in American Banker. From mail-order catalogs to touch-tone IVR to chatbots. They are all answers to the question, “How do we let the customer do more, so that employees do less?” Chatbots are the new star on the horizon. You need the chatbot to: 1.

Chatbots 100

Chatbots Self service Interactive Voice Response Banking 100

CX Global Media

JULY 2, 2018

Too often the inside view on contact center technology is about cost reduction and Customer Experience. However, the reality is that if agents and supervisors are given a difficult to use set of tools it negatively impacts the customer experience and costs more to use. It’s been around since VoIP was established.

Contact Center 188

Contact Center Coaching voip contact center solutions 188

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. Agent time is optimized, enabling them to devote more time to higher-value work that results in greater customer experience.

Customer Experience 96

Customer Experience Management Multichannel Self service 96

Eptica

JANUARY 9, 2019

Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 Author: Anne-Claire Bellec - Marketing Director Reviewing 2018 – our top 10 blog posts from the year. At the Eptica blog we’ve looked at all of our posts from 2018 and come up with a top 10 of the most popular and topical, based on the number of views, comments and general feedback.

Average Handle Time 89

Average Handle Time Best practices Surveys Chatbots 89

HGS

MAY 2, 2018

Ask the Experts: Predictions for the Future of Customer Experience. . Digital disruption has already revolutionized industries across the globe, and the customer service industry is no exception. At the current rate, digital is expected to overtake voice in 2018. Wed, 05/02/2018 - 18:22.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Multichannel Chatbots Banking 100

Comm100

MARCH 6, 2022

Financial institutions across the world are taking advantage of new digital technologies to improve customer experience (CX) and engagement. We’ve looked at how live chat can help credit unions improve member engagement , but to take this to the next level, chatbots are essential. Chatbots increase engagement.

Chatbots 90

Chatbots Banking Surveys Personalization 90

Comm100

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, evolving customer experience trends shook up the financial services industry. Customers demanded digital services to meet their needs, and as organizations rose to the demand, these high customer expectations led to innovative new services. Chatbot domination. billion globally in banking. as add-ons.

Customer Experience 98

Customer Experience Banking Chatbots CRM 98

Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 25, 2018

At Taylor Reach Group, we have compiled a list with hundreds of expos, conferences and summits focused on the Call Center, Contact Center and/or Customer Experience. With that, here are some of the events taking place in May 2018 (in chronological order) with direct links to each event: CX 18 - May 1-4, Nashville, TN.

Contact Center 62

Contact Center Call Center Customer Experience outsourcing 62

NICE inContact

JANUARY 24, 2018

How will companies that have embraced the cloud for the contact center and sales applications across their businesses continue to benefit in 2018 and beyond? Two topics come to mind: participating fully in corporate digital transformation initiatives and investigating uses of artificial intelligence in customer care.

Customer Care 74

Customer Care Cloud contact APIs Contact Center 74

TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Well, if you happen to be in customer service, this list is for you. We’ve narrowed down the 5 key customer service technology trends to watch out for in 2018. 360-degree view of your customer. view of customers by accumulating data from the various touch points that a customer may use to contact a company.

Customer Service 84

Customer Service Real estate Technical Support Analytics 84

TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Well, if you happen to be in customer service, this list is for you. We’ve narrowed down the 5 key customer service technology trends to watch out for in 2018. 360-degree view of your customer. view of customers by accumulating data from the various touch points that a customer may use to contact a company.

Customer Service 84

Customer Service Real estate Technical Support Analytics 84

Aspect

JUNE 18, 2018

We’re thrilled to announce that earlier this week, customer Lidl UK won the esteemed prize of Best Consumer Chatbot at the CogX 2018 Awards. We initially partnered with Lidl – the UK’s fastest growing retailer – back in January to deliver a fully automated, AI-powered, Facebook Messenger chatbot.

Chatbots 54

Chatbots Consulting Consulting Technology 54

Revation Systems

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Interested in learning more about how fintech and chatbots are enhancing the customer experience at banks and credit unions today? Located at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco, we’ll be discussing new innovations that are enhancing the client experience and what the latest technology means for banks around the country.

Banking 48

Banking Chatbots Engineering Customer Experience 48