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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business? Finding Bilingual Support That Suits Your Customers Best We’re an onshore Canadian contact center outsourcer and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated (bilingual) customer care through strategic partnership. It’s our thing.

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Hold times are unacceptable – now more than ever

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Naturally, I picked up the phone and dialed their 800 number to schedule my delivery, only to be put on hold for over 25 minutes before speaking to an agent. I tried using the chat on the website and in the app, but every channel of communication gave me the standard ‘delay due to COVID-19 message’. Virtual Agents can help.

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How Artificial Intelligence Will Shape Customer Service in 2022 and Beyond

CSM Magazine

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language programming (NLP) are altering how businesses communicate with their consumers. AI-powered personalization helps organizations to boost consumer engagement, loyalty, revenue and gain a more complete understanding of their customers – all in real-time.

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The Pivot to 100% Remote Training in the Contact Center

BlueOcean

When the world hit the pause button in the face of COVID-19, putting our client’s customer care programs on hold wasn’t an option. Tight communication between all stakeholders (trainers and trainees) and support functions (hello, IT, we’re looking at you here) is essential. Communication is key.

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Call Deflection strategies in the age of self-service

TechSee

For that reason, successful call deflection strategies allow enquiries to be deflected to self-service channels such as FAQs, live chat, community forums, knowledge center databases and virtual agents. He navigates to the Contact Us page of the supplier’s website and easily finds the Customer Support phone number.

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Consumer Behavior is Changing, and it’s AI’s time to Shine

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From conducting more business over video meetings, to doing more shopping via apps and over the phone, people’s behavior and perspective of virtual interactions has changed for good over the past few months. This makes customers uncomfortable during the conversation and decreases customer experience. Don’t cross the line.

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Redefining your CX strategy: The COVID-19 Effect

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And, they are more willing to use self-service technologies to communicate with brands. Use this opportunity to assess your customer service organization – how can you optimize your workforce? Are you ready for AI or Virtual Agents? They are more open to video and teleconferencing than meeting in person.