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Guest Blog: Three Surprising Ways You Can Improve the Customer Experience with Cloud IVR

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This week we feature an article by Nogol Tardugno who tells us how to get our contact center interactive voice response (IVR) to deliver the best customer experience. Any reports of the death of interactive voice response (IVR) as a customer service channel have been greatly exaggerated.

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How to Create a Call Center IVR Script

Fonolo

When customers call your customer service line, greeting them with a friendly and easy-to-navigate interactive voice response system is a standard in call center software. With all that said, writing a strong call center IVR script doesn’t need to feel like a mountainous task. What is IVR? The benefits of IVR.

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How the Phone Is Answered Is an Important First Impression

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To begin, there are two main ways the phone call could be answered: live or by an Interactive Voice Response system, also known as IVR. I’ll categorize a live response as either an operator who would connect me to the executive, or a direct number to the executive that is picked up by an assistant or voice mail.

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6 Tips to Optimize Your Call Center IVR

Fonolo

You’re probably familiar with IVR, or Interactive Voice Response, is a menu system that connects customers to the information they need in your call center. Callers will use either a dial pad or tap-button options ( Visual IVR ) to connect with an appropriate agent or department to address their needs.

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IVA is the New IVR Masterclass

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO & Phillip Fisher, CX Consultant at SmartAction

Join Brian Morin, CMO, and Phillip Fisher, CX Consultant as they discuss how IVA (Intelligent Virtual Assistants) powered by advanced speech recognition and natural language processing are replacing the traditional IVR (Interactive Voice Response) with “How can I help you today,” instead of “Press 1” and helping customers self-serve common requests.

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How Much Does IVR Cost?

Avoxi

How Much Does IVR Cost? Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems are tools organizations are utilizing to combat these problems by giving call center managers the power… The post How Much Does IVR Cost? appeared first on AVOXI.

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Guest Post: How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Progression of Contact Centres

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They were the playground for breakthrough legacy technologies such as call routing and interactive voice response (IVR), always in the interest of providing a better, more streamlined customer service model. Contact centres have been at the forefront of advancements in customer-facing communication technology.

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Artificial Intelligence in Cloud-Based Solutions

Speaker: Rick Nucci, Co-Founder & CEO of Guru

With the advent of chatbots, artificial intelligence, interactive voice response, and machine learning, novel technologies continue to disrupt the contact center industry. These advances initially gave the impression that automation will replace the human element.

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Get More Responses With Automated Voice Surveys

Get the masterclass for CX professionals on automated voice surveys by phone. This eBook from IVR Technology Group walks you through the basics of collecting fresh and accurate customer feedback in the most frictionless way possible.

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4 Ways AI-powered Virtual Agents Automate the Contact Center

Speaker: Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction

How cloud-based AI automation integrates with every IVR / contact center platform. Omnichannel – how to automate in voice first then scale the same solution digitally. In this webinar, we will cover: How to identify the perfect call types and chats for AI automation.

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The Future of Contact Centers: What Technology Is Right for Your Customers?

Speaker: Laura Sikorski, Contact Center Consultant

Tune in on November 5th and learn things such as: Using the phone tree to help your customers, not frustrate them.