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Guest Blog: The Rise of Chatbots in Customer Experience

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This week we feature an article by Irina Kirnos who writes about how chatbots are customer experience tools that are changing the way that companies interact with their customers. Chatbots are more than just automated FAQ answer generators. That’s the kind of service that today’s chatbot can offer.

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AI in Customer Service: Chatbots and ChatGPT are just the Start

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While initial conversations now focus on improving chatbots with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, this is just the start of what AI can and will offer. Deploying this AI will require more than simply upgrading a chatbot. AI is rapidly becoming a critical tool in customer service.

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Amazing Business Radio: Philippe Mesritz

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How Chatbots Can Deliver Better Customer Service. They discuss how chatbots and other technology can help deliver a better customer experience. Both customers and chatbots must be able to decide when to switch from AI to a human being. Train your agents how to interact with and interpret your chatbot.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 10-25-2021

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(No Jitter) Many customers still prefer email and voice channels for customer service requests over chatbots. Many companies are trying to move the initial contact to chatbots. 4 Ways Chatbots Can Fail at Customer Experience by Phil Britt. Reports and Data expect the global chatbot market to reach $10.08

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How to Take Your Contact Center Omnichannel in 2022

Speaker: Cognigy and CCT

Adding chatbots and voice bots are great first steps contact centers are taking to automate customer service. But what about other digital channels? Customers of 2022 are more likely to expect brands to communicate with them on their channel of choice.

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Guest Post: Customer Service Automation: A Quick Beginner’s Guide

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Automated customer service systems like IVR, chatbots and even knowledge management systems can help you assist customers even when your agents aren’t online.? . With automation tools like IVR and chatbot , you can help customers reach the right agent, therefore helping them avoid repeating themselves multiple times.

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Shep’s 2021 Top 10 Business Predictions

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Chatbots will do more than just communicate with customers. Most companies use chatbots as a way to manage customer support. Chatbots will continue to do that, and get better at it, but they will also help decide what happens next. And AI will fuel this trend.

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Linking & Networking for a Better Agent Experience

Speaker: Jeremy Watkin, Director of Customer Experience at FCR

If you're a contact center leader you've undoubtedly been inundated with sales people trying to get you to hop on the chatbot bandwagon. But is this the best place to burn our operational calories?

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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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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3 Important Things A Chatbot Can’t Do (But an IVA Can)

Chatbots are becoming increasingly popular, but it’s important to remember that they’re only as smart as the technology behind them. Download this Interactions LLC eBook to learn more about chatbots and how to select automated customer care technology for your company.

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How to reinforce IT service desk with AI-powered ITSM Chatbots

Learn Why Enterprise leaders need to build a road map that is based on best practices of ITSM and is also flexible to modify itself as per the changing industry trends/customer expectations.

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Why Virtual Retailers Must Master Messaging Right Now

Successful retailers use messaging and chatbots to respond to and interact with customers in real-time to maintain loyalty and trust. Consumers may want contactless and convenient shopping experiences, but they value immediate, receptive service more.

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Customer Engagement + Bots: Connect with your customers in a new way

Speaker: Noel Roberts, CTO and VP of Marketing, Aria Solutions

Join CCNG member Noel Roberts of Aria as he discusses how to leverage chatbots to deliver excellent customer service that improves the customer experience and drives ROI. We’ll look at some of the challenges facing organizations, including common pitfalls, and will recommend ways to avoid them.

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The Contact Center of the Future with Real-Time AI

Depending on the customer base, you may have 40% of your chat, SMS, and email answered by a chatbot, 30% of voice calls answered by a virtual agent or voice bot, and only 30% actually answered by a human. What does the contact center of the future look like?