Callminer

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Call center fraud is no laughing matter. Fraud is not only on the rise in call centers generally (jumping by 350% between 2013 and 2019 ), but the spread of fraud in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic means businesses and consumers alike must be more mindful than ever. Caller has difficulty answering KBA questions.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Throughout 2020, many new trends arose and call center solutions continued to evolve to meet fresh challenges in the space. New Challenges for Call Centers in 2021. “Call centers can leverage several autonomous and semi-autonomous AI functions to streamline internal processes. Attention to Detail.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Talking to customers on the phone all day isn’t an easy job; that’s why it takes a special set of skills and characteristics to be a successful contact center agent. If you’re looking for ways to boost your agents’ performance, check out our white paper, Using Gamification to Improve Contact Center Performance.

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Call Center Weekly

MAY 1, 2019

Contact centers played a vital role in bringing your organization to this paradise, but will they still relevant? This article explores the contribution of contact centers towards the end of an organization's customer experience journey. Proactive Engagement Today's contact center mission is painfully reactive.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Learn how to best prepare your contact center for the holiday season. As the holidays fast approach, many companies are starting to think about how to maximize efficiency within their contact centers. 3) Maximize efficiency with a people-centered approach. 2) Turn your agents into natural sellers.

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Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image by Mikko Koivuneva from Pixabay Whether it’s called a one-on-one meeting, or a coaching conversation, or a performance check-in, this regular conversation between a supervisor and an employee is essential to an effective and high-performing contact center. What’s on their mind? Be professional and business-like.”

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

To learn more about how call centers can address customer vulnerability, we reached out to a panel of call center experts and business leaders and asked them to answer this question: “How can contact centers address increased customer vulnerability?”. One thing contact centers need to get better at is…”.

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Calltools

MARCH 6, 2024

Establishing trust is essential to conversions for contact center agents. Whether calling new leads or existing customers, preview dialers can improve the customer experience and set your business apart from the competition. Customers often end the call when there is too much delay before speaking to a person.

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Customer Service Life

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Nothing can derail a perfect day in the contact center like a public comment from a customer calling your company out for a feature or service that you lack or something you failed to do. Situations like this are definitely enough to raise the collective blood pressure in your contact center.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The on-going contact center conversion to SIP trunking technology has been an industry success story. For starters, using SIP technology to enable voice and video calls, messaging, and data transmission saves money: up to 50% more, according to Gartner analysts. Every call center uses trunks to carry its calls.

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Customer Service Life

JANUARY 31, 2024

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Throughout my career in the contact center, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with quality assurance (QA). I was already two years into a role as a customer support manager when I hired someone with actual contact center experience (I had none) who informed me that I should be “doing quality.”

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 9, 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, work-from-home models spread throughout the call center industry. As a result, many call centers were forced to make short-term adaptations to their employees’ working processes in a blink of an eye. Another fun experience you can offer call center agents is a pop-up market.

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Playvox

MARCH 12, 2024

Think about the last time you reached out to a contact center for one of the services or products that you purchased. You could have contacted the company in a multitude of ways — chat, text, social media, or even an “old-fashioned” telephone call.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2024

Why is call abandonment still a thing? If you take a tech tool like ChatGPT and ask it about call abandonment in the contact center, the AI-powered bot will give you an earful about one of the most persistent problems in the customer service industry. So, how do you reduce abandonment rates in today’s contact center?

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

Every interaction counts, and one frequently neglected yet vital touchpoint is the contact center. These centers, where customers engage with a company, hold significant influence over brand identity. For example, a customer calls a call center because they are experiencing difficulties with a product they purchased.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As contact centers across the world continue to recover and adapt from the aftershock of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s become clear that empathy isn’t just a trend customer support teams need to embrace – it needs to be part of your operational foundations. How to Foster Agent Engagement in a Hybrid Contact Center.

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NobelBiz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Business call forwarding is a vital tool that seamlessly redirects incoming calls to ensure constant communication with clients and colleagues. It offers enhanced flexibility and customization compared to traditional methods, allowing businesses to tailor their call management strategies. for domestic calls and $10.00

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The Northridge Group

JULY 20, 2023

Contact centers are in a state of flux, with many contact center associates (and workers in general) hesitant to return to the office full-time and forgo the flexibility that comes with a work-from-home (WFH) or hybrid environment. You may unsubscribe from these communications at anytime.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Call center training has always been one of the key pillars of running a successful call center. A strong call center training program should not just be part of your onboarding process. Instead, it’s helpful to think of it as regular part of your workforce management. What is Call Center Training?

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COPC

MARCH 11, 2024

Early attrition poses a significant and costly challenge for contact centers. and Centrical have teamed up to present the Improving Contact Center Retention Series, offering strategies to increase call center retention and lower attrition-related expenses. To address this issue, COPC Inc.

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Vistio

APRIL 1, 2024

Instead, companies must look to innovative contact center technology solutions like Vistio, which offers next-best-action guidance and automation, to prepare their customer service agents fully. Join us as we delve into the world of contact center innovation and uncover the secrets behind exceptional customer service.

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Calltools

APRIL 3, 2024

Take some time to learn about the contact center trends for 2024 that will put your team on the path to success. Focus on Customer Care All of the contact center trends you adopt should ultimately improve customer care. They can also help your contact center process more calls.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Active listening is an essential skill for contact center agents for one very good reason: customers want to be heard. Call-backs are great for bridging the gap between self-service and live calls, by the way.) Call-backs are great for bridging the gap between self-service and live calls, by the way.)

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Advances in technology allow contact centers to use data in much more manageable ways, redefine how to engage with customers, gain efficiencies, and leverage actionable insights to improve quality management (QM) and the customer journey. One of the most impactful uses is how AI is transforming customer experience (CX).

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Quality Contact Solutions

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Many businesses look to call centers to handle this vital business process. What Is Call Center Appointment Setting? Call center appointment setting is gathering information about sales prospects, contacting them by phone, pre-qualifying them, and scheduling appointments for follow-up by a sales representative.

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TeleDirect

DECEMBER 14, 2023

There was a time when outbound call centers consisted of a person calling phone number after phone number in search of that one lead. So, what is outbound call , exactly? At TeleDirect, it consists of dedicated call agents whose job it is to find, verify and qualify leads. TeleDirect is committed to your success.

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Fonolo

JULY 22, 2021

Customer service in a contact center is especially important. Most call center agents are familiar with the rage of angry customers, frustrated with long wait times, and other problems. Customers calling a contact center want: Quick resolution. Six Crucial Contact Center Trends Shaping 2021.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM). But getting to this nirvana is no picnic.

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Fonolo

JUNE 13, 2023

Their patience is never shorter than when dealing with your call center. That’s why call-backs have become a contact center essential. What can a call center manager do? 4 Ways Call-Backs Improve Your Call Center First, a quick refresher on some key ways call-backs improve your call center.

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Calltools

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Choosing the right digital tools can improve outcomes in your contact center. An integrated CRM dialer can provide myriad benefits for your contact center. Instead of manually dialing numbers from a call list or database, agents can use a dialer to connect to potential customers automatically.

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SharpenCX

JULY 26, 2023

Every call your contact center receives brings heaps of data with it: customer information, customer preferences, product insights, customer satisfaction scores, and much more. But perhaps you’re sitting on all of your call center data. Instead, you rely on gut checks or old tactics to inform your strategy.

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TeleDirect

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At TeleDirect, we deliver cloud-based contact center solutions to companies and industries across America. Cloud Contact Center: What Is It & How Does It Work? Customer contact centers have come a long way. Once upon a time, they were typically run in-house, with on-site agents taking and making calls.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the world of contact center metrics, service level has always held a special place. This metric is universally understood across the industry, and clearly conveys how quickly customer calls are answered by support agents. Its origins go back over five decades, to the earliest days of call centers.

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3CLogic

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Creating a seamless and customer-centric contact center that ensures you’re staying ahead of the competition requires a comprehensive digital transformation strategy. If your contact center isn’t embedded within your CRM or service management platform — such as ServiceNow or SAP — it’s time to raise an eyebrow.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

However, we’re willing to bet that this contact center trend — resiliency — will be seen across all industries. Contact centers need to be more resilient before the next crisis. Contact centers need to be more resilient before the next crisis. Contact Center Trends 2021. Crises do occur.

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TechSee

JANUARY 29, 2024

Cost savings : By automating customer service tasks, enterprise leaders can meaningfully augment Tier 1 human agents in contact centers and technicians in field service, thereby saving costs. This is often called hallucination. Reliability: LLMs are notorious for their propensity to provide inaccurate information.

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Call Experts

JUNE 23, 2022

Customer retention is a huge deal for your organization, so it’s important you put some effort into building a better customer rapport. This article will explain customer rapport, why it’s essential, and how contact centers can support your customer service efforts. . What Is Customer Rapport?

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