AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 31, 2023

Government departments and businesses operate contact centers to connect with their communities, enabling citizens and customers to call to make appointments, request services, and sometimes just ask a question. Unless the hold music is particularly good, callers don’t typically enjoy having to wait—it wastes time and money.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

As a contact center manager, you’ve got a lot of metrics to choose from as your key performance indicators (KPIs). In this blog, we help narrow down this long list to help you focus on the metrics that, when improved upon, will really help your contact center thrive. Service Quality. Operational Efficiency.

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COPC

AUGUST 4, 2016

I found this article in CRM magazine, Inbound and Outbound Converge in the New Contact Center , to be an interesting one because it discusses some of the changes in our industry that are being made possible by process and technology, but with an eye to improving the customer experience. By Leonard Klie – CRM magazine.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday nearly upon us, the vast majority of retail call centers have welcomed new agents in the last few months. For example, in 2016, Radial hired 20,000 seasonal workers for its call center, customer service, and freight fulfillment operations – three times its permanent staffing numbers.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Operating a successful contact center is rarely a simple undertaking. As any customer support manager knows, there are a number of crucial factors that come into play when looking to succeed in the call center world. We often hear from call center managers who are trying to improve their call metrics with our solutions.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Our goal is to see every call center offer call-backs, so that no one has to wait on hold ever again. The annual “Contact Center Decision Maker’s Guide” from ContactBabel is one of the best sources of data about the industry. Learn more in these recent posts: Things I Wish I Knew Before Adding Call-Backs to My Call Center.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

JULY 9, 2018

How does a contact center know it’s consistently delivering high quality service? It is a direct reflection of an agent’s and a center’s capacity to solve problems, answer questions, and provide needs the very first time a customer calls. Simply put, it’s getting it right the first time and reducing customer effort.

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Eptica

AUGUST 5, 2016

Date: Friday, August 19, 2016 Why email is more important than ever for customer service. Published on: August 19, 2016. Consumers value its ease of use and full audit trail, while the rise of mobile makes it even faster and simpler to contact companies using email. Share this page on: Tweet.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In 2016, TechStyle implemented SmartAction’s cloud-based AI automation solution, leveraging a conversational AI Front Door and additional call automation capabilities. In other cases, SmartAction’s AI agents gather data upfront before passing to a live agent, which drastically reduces average handle time.

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Contact Center Geek

MARCH 22, 2019

A new team member joins your contact center. She is lauded for having the lowest Average Handle Time, highest Call Quality scores, and highest Schedule Adherence. This is a common practice in many contact centers. And then contact centers make it worse by not giving any training.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

With evolving customer expectations and service complexities, contact centers are poised to deliver strategic value and profitability to organizations. Don’t send an annual survey to see if they’re satisfied with your products, contact center or delivery performance.

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Clarabridge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In many cases, the problem is still that contact centres are seen as cost–centres and therefore management become obsessed with their efficiency. The primary focus for inbound contact centres is often the service level achieved, perhaps followed by Average Handle Time, Adherence or other measures of productivity and performance.

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Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

As Forrester notes in their 2016 report, How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management , “Every customer interaction leaves a trail of customer data waiting to be analyzed.” You can also compare the total number of chats that your chatbot is handling on a periodic basis to track how your chatbot is growing.

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Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

As Forrester notes in their 2016 report, How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management , “Every customer interaction leaves a trail of customer data waiting to be analyzed.” You can also compare the total number of chats that your chatbot is handling on a periodic basis to track how your chatbot is growing.

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