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Cloudcontact centers may be more reliable. “Cloudcontact centers are 27% cheaper and experience 35% less downtime than their on-premise counterparts.” Two-thirds of respondents overall were ‘behind the curve’ in terms of evolving their traditional call center into a modern customer service operation.”
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Too many digital agendas still focus on deflection rather than meeting five generations of customer expectation around live assistance, self-service and being proactive. Contact centres are a case in point. We know cloudcontact centres enable both virtual and home-based resource models.
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They have probably already used your digital self-service solution to find answers to common questions, so if they are calling your contact center, it means they have relatively complex issues. The majority of today’s customers are digital first and prefer to handle simple issues with self-service technologies.
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Customers retrieve all the information they need quickly while organizations have the intelligence they require to direct customers to the correct place within their self-service function to complete the final purchase.
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