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When Customers Need Help, the Digital Remote Advisor Comes In!

by Mkgt team | April 23, 2019

Digital remote advisors are spreading fast in the Customer Care business and offer remote high-quality support that is changing the Customer support system. This technology allows Customers to be supported in their purchase experience, in the same way, they would be in physical stores.

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Topics: customer experience, customer service, digital remote advisor, next generation customer interaction, remote assistance, video remote support

Tired of Being Put on Hold? Get an Online Appointment Scheduler!

by Mktg team | April 09, 2019

People live their lives in a hurry and expect services to be always available, ready to be used whenever they need. Online appointment scheduler is the solution to this problem because it allows people scheduling an appointment with the contact center at the time they prefer, avoiding customers to wait hours on the phone waiting for a voice to answer. 

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Topics: customer service, online appointment scheduler, next generation customer interaction

What Do Customers Expect from Proactive Digital Assistance?

by Mkgt team | March 26, 2019

 

Customers today are far more demanding than the past and their expectation towards companies have increased a lot. Proactive digital assistance is a good solution to satisfy these expectation; if it is done in the right manner, it offers to customers the help they need when they need it, or even before!

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Topics: customer experience, customer service, customer service trends, next generation proactive support, proactive assistance, next generation customer interaction

Engagement Tips for Digital Customer Support

by Mktg team | March 12, 2019

Today every company has a customer service department, and it is fundamental for customers' satisfaction and loyalty. It is really important to get in contact with visitors in the best possible manner; the success of a sale can depend on customer engagement.

In this post, you will discover some important tips to engage your visitors for digital support.

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Topics: customer experience, customer service, next generation customer interaction

How ChatBots and Real Agents Can Cooperate to Deliver the Best CX

by Mktg team | February 26, 2019

Companies are constantly looking for a way to improve and evolve, in order to offer their customers the best possible service. In this digital age, real agents and ChatBots are necessities when attempting to provide amazing customer service; so let’s look at how they can cooperate to give an unforgettable Customer Experience.

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Topics: customer experience, call center agent, chatbot, virtual agent, next generation customer interaction

Artificial Intelligence: Why It Will Never Completely Replace Humans

by Mktg team | February 12, 2019

While Artificial Intelligence (otherwise known as AI) is advancing at a rather fast pace and becoming more sophisticated by the day, it must be said that it will never completely replace humans. So, let’s talk about some of the reasons why humans are irreplaceable in the business world.

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Topics: customer interaction platform, chat automation, artificial intelligence, chatbots

How AI is Transforming The Intelligent Digital Assistants

by Mktg team | January 29, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more and more popular and is on the verge of spreading into every major industry and workplace. With AI touching (or trying to touch) every aspect of our lives in some way or another, we must ask ourselves: how is it transforming the intelligent digital assistants? Before answering this question, let’s discover what an intelligent digital assistant actually is.

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Topics: chat automation, virtual agent, artificial intelligence, chatbots

Every Customer's Journey Starts Online

by Mkgt team | January 15, 2019

We are living in a digital era, and in particular, we are in a phase when the most important aspect for companies is creating value and reliability for customers. This change of focus has therefore started to reshape the digital service strategies.

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Topics: customer experience, customer service, next generation customer interaction

Conversational User Interfaces Open up Chances for Traditional Banks

by Mktg team | December 21, 2018
Conversational banking is a new digital channel that will soon become mainstream and a fundamental element of an omnichannel distribution network for banks.
It's still at an early stage, but today's customers are very interested in messaging and expect a personalized digital experience.
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Topics: online banking, banking service, artificial intelligence, innovation

From Traditional Customer Service to Next Generation Proactive Support

by Gianluca Ferranti | September 21, 2017

Technology has allowed many industries to revolutionize. Even in the business process outsourcing industry, particularly in the call centers sector, there’s been a lot of new developments.

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Topics: customer service, next generation proactive support

How Call Deflection Enhances Customer Experience

by Luca Cermelli | September 19, 2017

Striving for optimal customer experience is a constant battle that call centers must undertake and one of the sustainable ways to achieve this is through call deflection.

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Topics: call center, call deflection strategy

Top Reasons Why Co-Browsing Improves Customer Experience

by Gianluca Ferranti | September 13, 2017

Giving the best customer experience in a call center is one of the main goals set by management. Through co-browsing, you are giving your clients optimal experience.

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Topics: co-browsing benefits, call center

The Importance of Mobile Customer Engagement in Call Centers

by Michele Albertini | September 11, 2017

Engaging customers even while they are on their mobile phones is one of the biggest goals for call centers today. Contact centers know that majority of people have mobile phones and access information through these devices. 

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Topics: call center, mobile customer engagement

How to Reduce Average Handle Time with ChatBots

by Luca Cermelli | September 07, 2017

One of the biggest challenges of call centers is maintaining a decent average handle time during its peak hours. The more support requests that come in, the longer customers have to wait to get entertained by a free agent.

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Topics: call center, chat automation, artificial intelligence, chatbots

3 Main Call Center Agent Problems

by Gianluca Ferranti | September 04, 2017

Those phones aren’t going to pick themselves up and solve your Customers' issues. Face it: agents are the main assets of a call center.

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Topics: call center agent

5 Great Tips to Improve Call Center Performance

by Luca Cermelli | August 29, 2017

At its heart, managing a call center similar to managing any organization. Benchmarking, saving time, optimizing processes and focusing on your people will be beneficial to improving call center management.

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Topics: call center, call center management

Call Deflection: How to Reduce Customer Service Calls and Increase CX

by Michele Albertini | August 23, 2017

Reducing call center volume should be a priority for Contact Center Operation optimization. 

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Topics: customer experience, call center, call deflection strategy, call defletion, contact center automation, CX

What Are the Most Important KPIs for Your Contact Center?

by Gianluca Ferranti | August 17, 2017

Tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in your call center is more than necessary if you want to make sure your contact center is performing efficiently and you are serving customers in the best possible way.

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Topics: call center KPIs

3 Ways to Optimize Your Call Center Back Office System

by Luca Cermelli | August 09, 2017

It’s easy to overlook back office efficiency in call centers since most of the focus is on the frontline operations.

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Topics: call center, call center back office system

Real-Time Collaboration: a Must-Have for Modern Banking

by Gianluca Ferranti | July 05, 2017

Banks today operate in age where the customers have more demands and expectations.

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Topics: banking customer service, realt-time collaboration

3 Powerful Vivocha Features for Mobile Customer Support

by Luca Cermelli | June 28, 2017

Smartphones have grown in importance in the last years and allow to complete various tasks while walking to work or taking a quick coffee break. This means that many of customers using your mobile app or visitors to your website will eventually require support while being on their mobile phone.

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Topics: customer service, mobile interactions, mobile customer support, vivocha features

SMS and Social Media: the Favourite Channels to Attract Millennials

by Michele Albertini | June 21, 2017

It’s inevitable. Millennials will have the biggest financial influence in the next few decades and today, we are already beginning to feel their increasing purchasing power. 

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Topics: live chat, mobile interactions, millennials and banking, social media

3 Key Benefits of Having a Customer Interaction Platform For Your Bank

by Gianluca Ferranti | June 13, 2017

You don’t have to be working for a bank to know that the number one reason a customer switches to another bank is because of bad customer service. 

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Topics: customer service, integrated platform, customer interaction platform, banks

Enhance Personal Financial Management Projects with Vivocha VideoChat

by Michele Albertini | June 07, 2017

Organizations that offer personal financial management services need to stay in close contact with their clients or risk losing business.

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Topics: banking customer service, video chat, financial management projects

3 Things Banks Can Do to Increase Market Share for Millennials

by Gianluca Ferranti | June 01, 2017

Congratulations! You've finally made it. While most of those who work in the financial sector, or any sector for that matter, have chosen to hold millennials in contempt, you have become part of the growing movement that recognizes the potential of the millennial market.

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Topics: millenial market share, mobile interactions, banks, millennials and banking

3 Best Practices to Build Multi-Channel Customer Engagement in Banking

by Gianluca Ferranti | May 26, 2017

Any moderately competent marketing professional will tell you that customers are now spread throughout different communication channels and that it’s important to be where your customers are - even for customer support.

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Topics: multichannel customer engagement, integrated platform, banks, multichannel communications, video chat

3 Obsolete Communication Channels Still Used by Banks

by Luca Cermelli | May 23, 2017

Despite banks’ improvement of customer experience recently, there is still much to be desired as revealed in Capgemini’sWorld Retail Banking Report for 2016.

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Topics: communication channel, customer service, banks

Not only Live Chat; Choose Omnichannel Customer Service

by Gianluca Ferranti | May 18, 2017

If you are one of the banks that already adopted chat functionalities for your website, then that’s a good start. However, if you want to be able to cover the entire spectrum of channels where your online banking customers are, then read on!

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Topics: live chat, multichannel customer engagement, banking customer service

4 Reasons to Attract Young People to Banks

by Luca Cermelli | May 15, 2017

Like it or not, teenagers and especially those who are in their early 20s will be your future market.  By proactively making your bank youth-friendly, you will be regarded as their trusted partner in the future, instead of merely being something they have to deal with. But before we get into that, let's first get on the same page.

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Topics: customer engagement, banks, generation Z

How Vivocha Tackles Mobile Banking

by Michele Albertini | May 10, 2017

Mobile banking is important for giving customers on-the-go banking services wherever they are. That’s why you can’t ignore customer engagement even if you’re interacting with your customers through a mobile phone.

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Topics: online banking, customer interaction platform, online customer engagement, mobile banking