6 Positive Features of Chatbots in Contact Centers
Automation has always been part of the contact center world – and it is getting even bigger with the addition of chatbots. While they are in a basic stage now, as is with all things related to AI, chatbots are getting better the more we use them. Machine learning is different than human learning – it’s only as good as the data we feed it. Chatbots lack natural cognition to challenge inputs such...
How The Callback Option Can Improve Your Contact Center Performance
Businesses spend millions marketing their products trying to satisfy existing customers and gain new ones. A great customer experience is at the top of the list when looking at ways to develop loyalty and shine above competitors. However, all that effort goes to waste when customers feel upset and frustrated when they call into your contact center to resolve an issue - and have to wait and wait...
Increase ROI in Your Contact Center with Artificial Intelligence
Contact centers must streamline operations in order to remain competitive in the modern business landscape. Artificial intelligence has the ability to do this in ways that a strictly human team simply cannot. Many contact centers that are falling behind with the technology are also falling behind in performance. Let's take a look at some of the ways that artificial intelligence is used in the...
Understanding the True Value of Omni-Channel Customer Engagement
Does your organization currently have a multi-channel customer engagement strategy? How about an omni-channel strategy? Whether you do or don’t, it is important that you understand the difference between the two. Before you can adopt best practices, you have to understand what you're working with, as well as what you're working toward. Multi-channel and omni-channel customer engagement help you...
Baseball and Contact Center Technology
It's that time of year when baseball appears on our television again...Batter Up, Baseball season has begun! But why are we talking about baseball? Well, the management of a sports team, any type of athletes on a team really, is not that different from the management of contact center agents. Remember the Oakland A’s—the major league baseball team that inspired the book and movie Moneyball? They...
Great Customer Experience - No Magic Wand Necessary
As Contact Center managers spin around feverishly trying to keep up with the latest self-service trends, customers are continuing to do what they have always done…pressing zero a bunch of times trying to reach an live person! Although technology is our friend when it comes to our smart phones and talking cars, customers still have a tendency to want to talk to an agent, even for the simplest of...