Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Optimizing Virtual Agents to Achieve Customer Satisfaction in Ecommerce


Most online consumers are driven to utilize ecommerce because of its convenience when compared to ordinary shopping. Not only do they access a wider range of products and services at competitive prices, but also enjoy a much more satisfactory customer experience. All ecommerce transactions are commonly noted for the ease an individual experiences while executing them.

As a result more and more people are turning to online shopping to make their essential purchases, and many ecommerce websites have seen the need for a more effective interaction with their clientele. Whilst it's true that the internet is convenient, it is still not exempt from occasional glitches. For instance, a customer might experience difficulties navigating to the particular category of product he or she desires in a website. If left unchecked, such occurrences can cause adverse repercussions on any ecommerce website as most web surfers will instinctively go somewhere else.

In answer to this dilemma, most "e-tailers" incorporate the conventional FAQs links, and sometimes customized search engines in their websites. However, these solutions are sometimes counter-productive, and leave the client in a deeper fix than at the beginning.

Fortunately, technological advancements over the years have given rise to efficient software programs popularly known as virtual agents(IVAs). These intelligent programs can directly interact with any stuck customer on a wide range of issues relating to the website's various services. Virtual agents can be termed as the perfect customer relationship employees. They are naturally programmed with in-depth information concerning the business entity they represent, works 24/7, and are excellent at multi-tasking. Furthermore, depending on the scope of the business an IVA can be programmed to carry out dialogues in different languages. Consequently, these programs can be invaluable for ecommerce websites that receive high traffic throughout the day as an IVA program can effortlessly communicate and reply to the client's queries, thus offering them a fast and personalized solution to their problem.

Incorporating an IVA program in an e-commerce website can offers profound benefits in enhancing your firm's customer relationships, which invariably leads to client satisfaction, and loyalty. Secondly, incorporating an IVA program can relieve a company of the need for human agents. Unlike the latter, virtual agents are ubiquitous, can attend to thousands of clients at a go, and more importantly, never cease working. Consequently, opting for this failsafe solution can enable business entities to employ the resources they might have used on maintaining human agents in expanding the enterprise.

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