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A Six-Part Checklist For Voice Self-Service: Are You Marking Off All The Right Boxes?

Perhaps the best word to describe how many customers feel about the voice self-service channel is ‘conflicted.’ While they understand why businesses use self-service, and they appreciate self-service options when they work well, customers also become highly frustrated when they don’t. This “love to hate” dynamic seems to come down to poor service design and …

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Incentivizing Customer Behavior Change: Customer Self-Service Trumps Hidden Fees

Customers Don’t Like Hidden Fees A recent Gizmodo article highlighted the fact that some telecom companies charge customers high fees for paying their bills over the phone with a representative. Depending on the company, these fees ranged from $5 to $8 per transaction. With the large customer bases these companies have, those fees could result in …

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Case Study: Use Voice Tech to Provide More, Better Payment Options

Merchant services companies have lot of different payment channels to offer their customers these days. These are the companies that provide customers with the infrastructure to accept and complete payments. Needless to say, with the right merchant services company, a business can cater to the needs of their customers no matter how diverse those may …

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Case Study: When A 400% Increase In Payment Processing Doesn’t Affect Efficiency

Growth is a great thing for any business. But growth that doesn’t bring with it a parallel increase in overhead? Well that can’t be beat! Payment Service Network, a company that handles the remittance process for a wide array of companies, hit a major period of growth. Their process for taking customer inquiries and payments …

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Case Study: Increase Payment Processing Volume and Efficiency Over the Phone with Self-Service

In theory, technology should make our lives easier. There may not be a better use for technology and automation than with manual, rote, recurring tasks and processes. In these situations, automation is like a gift from on high. This was precisely the experience of Arrowhead General Insurance Agency. The company’s Atlanta office processed all of …

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Coder’s Corner: Create A Self-Service App That Doesn’t Suck

Let Customers Be “In The Know” It’s no secret that the majority of people prefer, and even expect self-service options nowadays. Why, you may ask? Because self-service is a constant. No matter what or where someone is they can pick up the call and make a payment because there’s no need for people to be …

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3 Uses of Customer Service Technology in Insurance

Our last post noted how important it is to control the initial customer interaction when it comes to customer self-service over the phone. Once you’ve got control a new challenge arises, namely what do to with that control. Our advice is to wield a scalpel in your approach rather than a hammer. Some of the …

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