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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

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. So, of course, we’re biased.

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Hold times are unacceptable – now more than ever

Interactions

Virtual Agents can help. Virtual agents address both consumers’ as well as brands’ concerns when it comes to hold times and lack of self-service. Virtual agents are available 24×7 across channels and take over typical tasks, leaving the contact center agents focus on the atypical.

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How to Improve Contact Center Optimization with Customer Journeys

Pointillist

In this post, I’ll explore why enterprise contact centers struggle to increase satisfaction while mitigating costs, why journeys enhance contact center optimization and how aligning on and managing customer journeys is the key to improving contact center outcomes. Why Customer Journeys are the Key to Contact Center Optimization.

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What is Live Chat? 5 Big Ways It Can Help Your Business

Bold360

AI-powered chatbots seamlessly escalate customer interactions to live chat whenever an issue is too complex for the chatbot to handle. All context from the chatbot interaction gets passed on to the (live chat) agent, bringing her up to speed immediately. improvement in agent performance, and a 2.6x

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Redefining your CX strategy: The COVID-19 Effect

Interactions

Are you ready for AI or Virtual Agents? Are you ready to forgo the ‘novelty’ customer care channels and focus on your main channel of customer contact? Walking in your customers’ shoes. Customer Journey Mapping is one of the most important exercises in improving customer service.

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The Relationship Between GigCX and Customer Lifetime Value

CSM Magazine

What many brands tend to forget is that AI – namely in the form of chatbots and other automated services – should be considered aids for the customer journey, as opposed to a replacement technology that only serves to alienate a customer. This can only be achieved when using human rather virtual agents.

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From Knowledge Base to Virtual Agents: The Shift to AI-powered Self Service

TechSee

Although this information can usually be found in the user manual, customers looking for assistance with these basic tasks drive a large volume of calls to the customer care center, which can be avoided with self-service. The rise of Artificial Intelligence in customer self-service. Is it cost reduction?