VocalCom

OCTOBER 24, 2017

At one time, self-service meant forcing customers to perform tasks on their own without the information and support they needed. Today, savvy companies offer self-service as a means of empowering customers to help themselves with confidence and minimal effort. Integrate self-service with your omnichannel strategy.

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Self service Interactive Voice Response Contact center software Banking 91

Aspect

OCTOBER 6, 2017

By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator, according to a recent Walker study. One key aspect of a great customer experience, that is more in demand today than ever before, is self-service. You can also find more information on self-service, here.

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Self service Customer Experience Surveys Personalization 88

Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

Cisco Webex Contact Center CCaaS honored for improving customer service technology and customer experience. I’m excited to announce that Webex Contact Center was among the 2020 Contact Center Technology Award winners, presented by CUSTOMER Magazine this month. Cisco Wins UC Today’s Best Collaboration Platform for 2020.

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Contact Center Technology contact center solutions Virtual Agent 124

DMG Consulting

MAY 26, 2020

WFO Trends in 2020. 2019 was the year of artificial intelligence (AI), automation and analytics, a trend that has continued in 2020 and into the foreseeable future, despite the pandemic. The market is seeing an increase in the number of digital-only servicing organizations and growing investments in self-service applications.

Analytics 96

Analytics Contact Center Consulting Consulting 96

Nicereply

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Zendesk’s 2020 Customer Experience Trends Report dropped earlier this month, combining the data of the 45,000 companies using Zendesk with an external survey of thousands of agents, managers and customers. Maybe that’s why good service is most important to the younger generation. What does this mean for you?

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Self service B2C 100

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 31, 2023

Gartner’s Customer Service and Support Leader poll estimates that live channels such as phone and live chat cost an average of $8.01 per contact, while self-service channels cost about $0.10 Call volumes increased further in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and driver licensing regional offices closed.

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Virtual Agent Self service Transportation Customer Experience 86

ShepHyken

JANUARY 6, 2021

Consider the result of the more than 1,000 consumers we surveyed for our 2020 Achieving Customer Amazement Survey. of them are willing to leave because of bad customer service. We found a whopping 96.2% That number will stay high and is more important than ever as we continue to navigate and come out of the pandemic.

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Chatbots Surveys Self service Personalization 430

ShepHyken

MAY 10, 2021

And number five is to “Create Self Help Portals.” Customers are enjoying self-service options, so give them what they want. It was the business word of the year for 2020, and I believe it will be the word of the year in 2021. Many are common sense and reminders, yet pay attention to numbers four and five.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 2, 2021

Misconception #2: Customers only want self-service options. in the first quarter of 2020, and expected to continue to rise throughout 2021. Doing so can lead to even greater frustration from your customer and affect your ability to resolve their issue. In the U.S. alone, e-commerce now accounts for 16.1% of all sales.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 22, 2020

CX Network’s The Global State of Customer Experience 2020 report breaks down insights from customer experience (CX) experts, looking at the opportunities and hurdles over the first half of 2020 as well as forecasts for the remainder of the year. Delivering Self-Service During the COVID-19 Uncertainty, Part 3: Supporting Employees.

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Virtual Agent Self service Surveys Customer centricity 52

Fonolo

DECEMBER 5, 2019

As we head into 2020, data is becoming more crucial for successfully running a call center than ever. As contact center managers rev up their brand-spanking-new AI to help them execute their 2020 plans, which metrics should they be tracking? Here are the top 4 metrics your call center should be tracking in 2020. What’s Inside:

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Call Center Metrics First call resolution Contact Center 125

DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Digital Customer Service Product and Market Report. Digital-first servicing drives improved CX and brand engagement. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services.

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Consulting Consulting Marketing Customer Service 62

Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 15, 2020

We just completed our fifth annual survey and had 275 participants chime in on their top three challenges and priorities. While I encourage you to read the full report, here are some observations that stand out this year: Top Contact Center Challenges With attrition garnering so many votes, we see a bigger drop in the […].

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Contact Center Surveys Employee engagement Self service 162

Eptica

APRIL 8, 2020

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Marketing Manager The state of UK customer service 2020 - struggling to improve. Published on: April 08, 2020. We combined this with a consumer survey to look at channel choice across the customer journey. All research was carried out in February 2020.)

Customer Service 79

Customer Service Self service Benchmark Surveys 79

TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

trillion in spending — in the United States by 2020. This penchant for technology has shaped their consumer behavior and preferences, and brands must tailor their customer service strategies to suit Millennials’ attributes. They demand highly convenient and fast service. Self-service platforms.

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Customer Service Self service Virtual Agent Chatbots 359

TechSee

MAY 7, 2019

He called customer services, who repeated the same instructions he’d just read in the manual – and he still couldn’t make heads or tails of them. 2019 Survey: NFF Returns. The survey demonstrates that 41 percent of us have returned a non-defective item in the past 12 months. Back to the store. TechSee polled more than 3,000 U.S.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Interaction Analytics Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Interaction Analytics Product and Market Report.

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Consulting Consulting Analytics Marketing 62

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As we say farewell to 2020 there are plenty of positives to take from this year of change and challenges. By far the biggest takeaways from 2020 are: Remote work is here to stay – the pandemic has finally ended the decade-long debate on remote or home-working. Lessons learned. What’s in store for 2021?

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Analytics Self service Government Engineering 72

Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2019

Now: Ready yourself for the dawn of a new customer service decade, and read this timely and useful advice from the mouths of the experts themselves. Their 20/20 industry insights will propel your contact center to success in, fittingly, the year 2020.*. That won’t go away in 2020, and it will probably still be a requirement in 2050!

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Contact Center Self service Call Center Chatbots 121

Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In fact, according to Contact Center Pipeline’s 2020 contact center trends survey, of the top 20 challenges, “lack of, or bad desktop tools” (KM being one) ranked second. In that same survey, of the top 20 priorities, “improving knowledge access” ranked […].

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Management Contact Center Surveys Self service 225

Tethr

MAY 18, 2020

The leading companies of the convenience revolution have set high standards for every aspect of the customer service industry. Differentiators such as better technology, self-service, subscriptions. The end of survey-based CX measurement. Find the friction in your life, solve it and maybe you’ll solve it for others.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 28, 2020

A Gartner survey found that of highly engaged employees, only 21% report having a high-quality experience. One way companies can easily improve the experience of employees is by offering personalised self-service options for routine support. It also highlights the need to make strategic investments in experience improvements.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

According to Deloitte’s 2019 Global Call Center Survey , customer service topped the agenda for most firms. 78% of participants believed that improving customer service came a close second. The pandemic made these elements even more crucial in 2020 and will continue to do so into 2021. Video Chat. Final Notes.

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C Space

MAY 28, 2020

The Brand Move Roundup – May 28, 2020. Online grocery shopping portal Instacart has quietly debuted its self-service tool for promoted products in search results in its advertising platform as demand for the company’s services continues to climb. Brands and agencies can now buy ads through a self-service platform.

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Consulting Consulting Advertising Self service 52

Sykes

JUNE 13, 2017

Self-Service: The New Battlefield. Gartner, an American research and advisory firm, has predicted that this year will be a tipping point when customer experience becomes more important to consumers than even products and services. Let’s explore four ways to produce the best self service customer experience.

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Aspect

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Paul Stockford, Chief Analyst at Saddletree Research has recently completed a survey of 143 contact center managers and executives regarding their opinions and preferences on a wide range of topics, and some of his key findings about cloud contact centers were revealed in a recent webinar co-sponsored by Aspect.

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Cloud contact Contact Center Surveys SaaS 86

Serenova

JUNE 24, 2020

Omnichannel Contact Centers: the Why and How in 2020. Omnichannel contact centers are contact centers that provide superior customer service experiences that keep people coming back. For example, while most strive to answer 80% of calls in 20 seconds, a recent survey found that 62% of companies never respond to emails.

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Contact Center Multichannel contact center solutions Cloud contact 98

Aspect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

trillion annually by 2020, they are a force that businesses can’t afford to overlook. As the first generation of digital natives to enter the workforce, they changed how businesses interact with customers, forcing these companies to rethink how to deliver exceptional customer service. . Self Service. Social Presence.

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Customer Service Self service Contact Center Chatbots 207

Hodusoft

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

If you are starting a call center or wish to upgrade your contact center software then go through this list of top 10 call center software for 2020 and select one that suits your operations the best. HoduCC – Call Center Software Bitrix24 Avaya Genesys Ameyo Zendesk Five9 Dixa Hubspot Help Desk Salesforce Service Cloud.

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Babelforce

OCTOBER 2, 2020

2020 is speeding by – and it hasn’t been easy for anyone. In this post: Acquisition and loyalty Debt Recovery The Cloud Automation API Integration / Development Customer Service / CX General Call Center Statistics. Here’s what you can learn about debt collection contact centers around the world in 2020: #6. The upshot?

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REVE Chat Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

Customer service satisfaction is measured by understanding how your customers interact with your brand and collecting their feedback through surveys using different channels. The customer satisfaction tips also highlight the areas for improvement you make CSAT surveys. . Understand your customers.

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Omni-channel support Self service Chatbots Feedback 98

CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Martech Alliance, 2021) Nearly half (48%) of survey respondents said the customer experience they deliver falls below or significantly below their customers’ expectations. Gartner, 2021) 8 in 10 consumers report that businesses are meeting or exceeding their expectations for service, compared to 67 percent in 2014.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Metrics Surveys 195

SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

2020 call center trends look to finally shake up the stale industry. A staggering 88% of customer service professionals say customers have higher expectations than in the past. Likewise, sending out surveys doesn’t work if you don’t do anything with the feedback you get. In 2020, move your digital transformation efforts forward.

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Call Center Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Self service 84

Serenova

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In a webinar drawing on ICMI’s industry-leading research and insights from the 2020 ICMI Featured Contributors (including Serenova Vice President of Customer Success Jen Jackson ) ICMI Group Principal Analyst Roy Atkinson explored what’s trending in 2020 and why contact center leaders should pay attention. Self-service.

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Interactive Voice Response Self service Contact Center Analytics 40

DMG Consulting

MARCH 31, 2019

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 – 2020 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2019 – 2020 Workforce Management Product and Market Report.

Consulting 48

Consulting Consulting Marketing Management 48

Pointillist

JUNE 7, 2021

In 2020, enterprises and consumers were forced to cope with unpredictable circumstances that altered how customers behave, what they want from brands and most importantly, how organizations can meet their evolving expectations. In this year’s survey, we sought to uncover what separates customer experience leaders from laggards.

Surveys 71

Surveys Management Journey mapping Customer centricity 71

Creative Virtual

MAY 9, 2019

In fact, a survey conducted in 2018 across six countries found that 60% of customers said they had shared their bad experiences with others, either in-person or online. For example, adding a chatbot on a messenger app is a great way to provide customers with quick self-service, but it can’t be a standalone tool.

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