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Guest Post: Five Ways to Create First-class Experiences for Customers

ShepHyken

Chatbots and virtual assistants have made self-service a natural first point of contact for many customers. For example, if a customer starts with a chatbot but is then redirected to an agent to explain the question or issue again, it can be very frustrating. Ultimately, all employees are brand ambassadors.

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Helping AI Help Agents: A Better Way to Use AI Applications in the Contact Center

Upstream Works

AI applications come in many flavors – conversational AI for chatbots, robotic process automation (RPA), intelligent virtual agent assistants, and email auto responders. They can simplify the agent’s life even more and allow them to provide real value add to the customer experience that only a human can provide.

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Why Call Center Retention Matters

Fonolo

Knowledgeable, experienced agents can become brand ambassadors. You can use chatbots to answer simple queries. In fact, IBM predicts that 80% of routine customer queries can be answered by AI-enabled chatbots. Who doesn’t want that? Skilled agents offer higher quality customer service. Happy agents = happy customers.

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50 Quick Tips for Improving the Customer Experience

Fonolo

Crown the customer as your brand ambassador. Change things up with chatbots. Listen and learn: Read every single review of your business. Respond to customer requests in real time. Be more available on mobile. Grow stronger with surveys: Make customer feedback surveys a bigger deal. Say “Thank You”.

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Study: The Health of the Contact Center

What does it take to engage agents in this customer-centric era? Download our study of 1,000 contact center agents in the US and UK to find out what major challenges are facing contact center agents today – and what your company can do about it.

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Guest blog: 5 Customer Experience Trends for Financial Institutions in 2023

Comm100

Customers typically engage with your brand on different touchpoints. Some will want their issues addressed on other channels, from chatbots, social media, voice calls, or video calls. If you want to boost your customer retention rates, increase conversions, and turn your clients into brand ambassadors, you must personalize your CX.

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Introducing BB: The Bold360 Chatbot

bold360 Blog

We started with a very simple AI-powered chatbot on our website and then quickly wanted to expand the breadth, and quality, of the experiences it delivered. Your chatbot experience should be built around the specific customer journey you are trying to optimize. Create bot brand guidelines.

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The Health of the Contact Center: Are You Ready for 2019?

A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era. This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019.