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17 Surprising Stats About Call Centers

Fonolo

Automated Telephone Systems (IVR) and “the inability to reach a live person for customer support.” still prefer phone or voice as their primary customer service channel. Call center volumes have dropped by 71% since 2015. The call center outsourcing industry is expected to grow, regardless of geopolitics. Jeremy Watkin.

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Call Centers Go Mobile to Satisfy Higher Customer Service Expectations

CSM Magazine

Until 2015, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) was based on a simple math formula: outsourcing non-core services (including customer call centers) to more cost-efficient partners and markets to reduce spend. In 2015, BPO needs to move beyond managing call center bodies. new jobs in the IT / BPO sector by 2016.

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Perseverance Through Rapid Change: EPIC Connections Celebrates 15 Years of Success as a Mainstay in Contact Center Consulting

EPIC Connections

Through the years, EPIC has served the ever-evolving needs of our clients, optimizing outsourced services, responding to the demands of digital and multi-channel customers, migrating to the cloud, and more recently empowering the digital transformation. Although we don’t advertise it much, EPIC stands for Email, Phone, IVR, and Chat.

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The Role of Digital in Customer Experience, by Sandeep Kuvvarapu

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Many of them have outsourced contact center operations and some have maintained in-house customer support. Interactive voice response, chat bots, FAQs etc. A study by Forrester states that more than 63% of the businesses are still looking to further improve their customer’s online experience in the coming year.

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Top Metrics that Measure Inbound Call Center Performance

Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

In most outsourced inbound call centers, failing to hit the required service level can result to penalties and losing the contract. An inefficient IVR system may also cause callers to abandon the queue. A method of reducing the number of abandoned calls is to start off the call with ringing rather than going straight to the IVR system.

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Customer Rage Study Podcast: Interview With Scott Broetzmann and Mary Murcott

Connecting the Dots

So almost a quarter, one in every four customers in response to their most serious problem was going to be satisfied. Here we are in 2016 now, the study was done in 2015, and it is only 17%. In 1976, the percentage of households with a problem was 32% and in 2015 it’s 54%. Well, an IVR survey doesn’t measure that at all.

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Triple Your Results with Digital Transformation in Your Contact Center

Dialer 360

According to a known call center fact “In 2013, 62% of organizations were already using cloud-based contact center solutions and this number is expected to grow by 25% in 2015.”. Top call center myths include a less control over the sales force and system due to outsourcing call center. Greater Security Is Automatic.