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Voiptime
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Every contact center requires tools to control, monitor, and fix agents' activity during accomplishing work processes. As most contact center operations are about calls or other communication types, it is vital to bear an option to come up with assistance and support if agents can not solve customer issues on their own or the situation is going out of control.
Voiptime
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
We always say that the central part of the business is the customers themselves. There is no need to repeat old statements, such as “customer retention is a few times cheaper than customer acquisition” or “loyal and satisfied customers will come back and give you more money”. A customer’s evaluation of your products and services is the fundamental factor determining his willingness to make additional purchases or become a brand advocate.
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Voiptime
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Nowadays people keep their privacy and do everything they can to avoid unwanted contact. Partially, marketing practices of the past are guilty in this situation, because aggressive dialing from unidentified phone numbers was extremely common in those days. On the contrary, modern technologies, legal regulations, and marketing culture collectively state that spam phone numbers and unwanted calls aren’t allowed to be used.
Voiptime
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Business is always about money. And to surely know where your loyal customers are doing business with your company and where they are switching to another brand. Thus, you need to collect relevant data regarding your call center customer experience (CX). How much data do you actually need? The answer is resounding: you don’t need the carloads of data yourself and your staff.
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Voiptime
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Any work should be evaluated. This is the main rule of progress and guiding employees in the right direction. Call center feedback is suitable and one of the most popular ways to train, evaluate and motivate a call center employee. Constructive feedback can both encourage and engage agents to perform with higher scores and furnish more adorable customer service with improving customer satisfaction.
Voiptime
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Have you ever contacted any customer support department? If yes, then we can bet that you have experience in interacting with IVR or ACD technology. Contrastively, it is almost clear that you haven’t asked yourself: “how routing is functioning in the customer service units?”, and what are the names and essences of the techniques that serve you during your customer support journey?
Voiptime
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Have you ever called the customer support center? If yes, you know how it sometimes happens when the operators are too busy to handle all the customer calls, and you have to wait for a response. When you are waiting in line for the first available agent, it is the customer service queue that we will tell you about today.
Voiptime
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Most call centers use outbound telemarketing to perform sales calls, warm the lead list and find new potential customers to pass them through the sales funnel. Cold calls as a marketing strategy exist for years, but the discussions about their effectiveness and influence on clients’ opinions and the business’s image still go on. Both supporters and opponents of cold calling have arguments to prove their points of view, but our topic does not set itself a goal to find out who is right.
Voiptime
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
In short, brand advocacy in a call center industry means providing customers with great goods and services that improve their lives. The big picture of brand advocacy also implies all the chains in business relationships when consumers repay by advocating and promoting your products among their peers and family members. For instance, in the selling of the product supplements, your product helps people to feel better, healthier, fuller, etc.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn - President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions, Inc.
In this webinar, Tim Buteyn of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions will explore how to optimize learner engagement with scenario-based training. You'll learn what makes up scenarios, how they benefit the learner, and why this is important to your organization. You'll also dive into real-world examples across a wide range of budgets and look at how typical training content can be completely transformed.
Voiptime
AUGUST 31, 2022
Anyone who has been working in a call center for at least a few months knows how it feels to be permanently under the pressure of angry clients who have no will besides telling you everything they think about you and the service they have got. No one can argue that such an experience probably has a negative effect on both emotional and physical conditions. According to this, some employees start finding ways to be aside from the angry customers and meet with them as rarely as possible.
Voiptime
AUGUST 29, 2022
This forecast and report will interest the head of call centers because it asks questions and promptly gives answers on how to monitor, provide, and forecast wages for call center workers. The report also has figures, charts, and statistical data as evidence. Of course, this data implies the consonance of your budget and motivation. The other benefit of the information you’ll discover is that: managers float in the info that is irrelevant to their current and future call centers.
Voiptime
AUGUST 22, 2022
Every activity has its goals and objectives - we all have heard this statement. What is the difference between the two definitions? How can we define objectives from goals? Which of them are essential for a contact center? What does a list of them look like? Which ones should be chosen as a priority? This topic is so broad that before giving answers we have to start from the very beginning. What benefits will you get after reading this blog?
Voiptime
AUGUST 24, 2022
Clients favor using three or more digital channels of contact with a firm - this is the data provided by McKinsey research. As we have severally mentioned, client experience straightly depends on how a business’s service fits customer expectations. If it is more suitable for a client to use webchat or chat-bot in any messenger, but your support service is available only by phone, there will be no customer satisfaction.
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Voiptime
AUGUST 7, 2022
As you could guess, outbound sales are sales, performed using cold calling or cold emails sent by the agent. People still argue about cold outreach - is it still actual and does it work or is it just a waste of time? Honestly, there are enough people who support both thoughts. But our purpose is to find the truth and understand if outbound sales are an effective solution to improve sales rate or if it is even not worth starting an outbound sales campaign?
Voiptime
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Customer service is a fast-changing industry that needs to cover rising customer expectations. From year to year, industry updates, and people expect more and more from enterprises to assist them and solve their issues. These occurrences have led to a situation where all enterprises require a solution to fulfill all clients’ wishes, improve the quality of service, and boost client retention and happiness. And such a resolution exists, and its title is the hosted contact center.
Voiptime
AUGUST 15, 2022
Even the highly experienced call center agents, in pair with an extensively selected solution and other factors, can’t perform at the utmost level without successful call center managers. The leadership role is the central role in the firm as the manager is the brain and heart of a contact center team.
Voiptime
JULY 15, 2022
The call center is one of the first points of contact between customers and your company. It can have both positive and negative impacts on their decision. Why is the call center so important in the insurance industry and how can you benefit from it
Speaker: Shannon Tipton, Chief Learning Officer, Learning Rebels LLC
Today's work culture requires giving people the ability to control when and where they participate in their professional development. Learn how you can provide valuable, self-directed bites of learning content (and strategies to make that content stick) in this webinar!
Voiptime
JULY 13, 2022
After the pandemia in 2020, many companies had to shift from an office-based workforce model to a remote. Even though those bad times have passed, a greater challenge has appeared. Now, after almost 2 years in remote mode, almost 70% of employees all around the world have no willingness to come back to their offices. The era of home-based working has changed peoples` minds, and now more than ever workers are interested in the hybrid work model.
Voiptime
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
There are numerous call center KPIs, but some of them really make difference for any organization and any business. One such metric is a call abandonment rate as it points to many vital factors and areas of improvement, and is one of the best indicators of your overall customer service success. Thus, measuring the call abandonment rate is vital, but there are many questions that appear in this case. What is the abandonment rate calculation?
Voiptime
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Customer complaints are one of the hottest topics these days. All managers over the world look for effective strategies and blueprints on how to handle customer complaints and related issues.
Voiptime
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
No one is insured from mistakes. They always happen, no matter how much time you spend planning everything and doing all the needed steps to avoid them. The customer service industry isn’t an exclusion in this case and all contact centers do mistakes while providing customer service. Sometimes the root cause is the agents’ lack of knowledge or skills, and sometimes poor strategic planning and wrong goal setting are the reasons for mistakes.
Speaker: Nathan Hart, Mary Kane & Imran Mohammed
Join The Northridge Group for an exploration into how a data-driven root cause analysis of Contact Center First Contact Resolution (FCR) issues can lead to actionable insights to resolve FCR problems, improve Customer Experience, and reduce costs!
Voiptime
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
A call center is an expensive project and can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, if not more. One of the main aspects of call center cost is labor costs as with an average operator’s salary of around 34 thousand dollars per year, and with twenty full-time employees, you will have to pay a huge amount of money.
Voiptime
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
What makes business stable and successful? Numerous factors influence the overall success of the company, but the main one is how you work with customer data. Every conversion and touchpoint is an irreplaceable source of information about customer persona, their wishes and expectations, preferences, and, surely, your improvement areas. Therefore, tracking all customer interactions is vital for any industry and any firm that wants to reach its business goals.
Voiptime
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
"One of the things that made Apple great was that, in the early days, it was built from the heart” Steve Jobs, founder of the Apple In this guide you'll discover: The proven customer empathy scenarios you can put on the work; What are the three most important issues to building the perfect customer empathy? Hint: None of the miracles, only facts; How to enable the rapid building of rapport and successful empathy in a customer service team?
Voiptime
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Business is always about money. And to surely know where your loyal customers are doing business with your company and where they are switching to another brand. Thus, you need to collect relevant data regarding your call center customer experience (CX). How much data do you actually need? The answer is resounding: you don’t need the carloads of data yourself and your staff.
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Voiptime
JUNE 22, 2021
Once again Voiptime Cloud achieved recognition from SoftwareSuggest. This is the fourth award in a row and we’re looking for more
Voiptime
OCTOBER 31, 2022
There is one generally acknowledged fact that retention of customers brings much more outcomes than customer acquisition. Additionally, it is way cheaper to make the current customer stay than to find, interest, and convince first-time customers - numerous studies prove this statement, so there is no sense in doubting it.
Voiptime
OCTOBER 21, 2022
The contact center as an organization that provides customer service totally depends on the performance, knowledge, and skills of its employees. As the agents are those who directly talk to customers, solve their problems, process support tickets, and do other tasks that relate to customer support, there is no other way to furnish excellent service instead to train and coach agents to assist them in reaching the highest level of knowledge and skills in the customer service industry.
Voiptime
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Why do call centers have high turnover rates? It is the question that disturbs numerous managers and even persons who are not related to the industry. Call center attrition seems to be the highest among almost all industries, and average call center turnover is also huger. What is the root cause of these two issues? Why do call centers always suffer the most? How do these factors influence the entire department’s performance and productivity?
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
People prefer to learn in their native language, so localizing eLearning helps genuinely engage learners and gives them that much-needed sense of inclusion. In this exclusive webinar with Chris Paxton, learn how to ensure that authentic translation and localization work for your organization!
Voiptime
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Even though it seems that client service providing is a communication model that includes only two persons - the contact center agent and the customer himself, the reality is more complicated. By the way, cooperation and collaboration between various units and specialists in a customer service department powerfully influence the overall quality of the service, as well as customer experience and customer satisfaction.
Voiptime
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Although everyone on your team should be ideally acknowledged for all products and services of the company, their characteristics, pros and cons, market positioning, approaches to customer service, customer experience, target audience expectations, and other aspects of the business, it is clear that all knowledge should be stored and be accessible for everyone who seeks it. Call center knowledge management means operating the knowledge resources and materials, both external and internal.
Voiptime
JUNE 26, 2022
In these jittery times, you need to furnish the entire team with automated cold calling software with strong features
Voiptime
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Who is responsible for providing an outstanding customer experience and solving clients’ problems? Who realizes excellent customer service? Who are the irreplaceable workers in the customer support department? The answer is clear - it’s the customer service representatives. They are those who create a customer’s image of a brand, come with assistance when the client needs it, do sales and ensure customer retention.
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