Chat & Messaging
Chatbot Horror: How Poorly Designed Chatbots Can Ruin the Customer Experience
By now, you have likely heard how beneficial online chatbots can be. They can help reduce contact center costs by addressing common inquiries and needs, and gathering information to direct messages to the right live agent when necessary. When service agents’ time is freed up from having to ask the same mundane questions over and…
Read MoreTransform Your Customer Care Team From a Cost Center to a Profit Center
Every company has both cost centers and profit centers. Cost centers are departments that are necessary to the business – but don’t directly contribute to its revenue growth. Profit centers, on the other hand, are teams that do directly generate revenue. All too often, customer service is seen as a cost center. Sure, a customer…
Read More10 Examples of Conversational Commerce in Action
Engaging in authentic conversations has always been an effective way to sell across all industries. Consider a consumer walking into a brick-and-mortar store, searching for new skincare products. They’re greeted by a sales associate, who strikes up a conversation to learn more about the consumer’s lifestyle and needs. After building rapport, the consumer trusts the…
Read More6 Ways Brands Can Provide Stellar Customer Service Across Marketplaces
These days, the vast majority of brands sell through a number of different channels. Taking a multichannel approach to sales ensures these brands can get their products in front of more customers in more places, and in doing so, maximize sales. Of course, each brand’s mix of sales channels looks different. But it might include…
Read MoreHow (and Why) to Adopt Multilingual Customer Engagement
You might have a loyal customer base that loves your products. But today’s consumers value experiences as much as they do products. In fact, Salesforce research found that 80% of consumers say that the experiences a brand offers are just as important as its products. And a single bad experience can be enough to scare…
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