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Inbound KPI Metrics to Monitor for Operational Efficiency

Calltools

According to a 2017 Microsoft report , 97% of global consumers say that customer service experiences affect their brand loyalty and buying decisions. Abandonment Rate. This is known as the abandonment rate. Reduce your inbound call abandonment rate to increase customer retention. Handle Time.

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18 Live Chat Best Practices to Help You Deliver Superior Customer Service

Comm100

Note: This blog post was originally published in January 12th, 2017. More companies all the time are experiencing the benefits of live chat , but how does one maximize these benefits? Keep your average response time low. A high response time can lead to high abandonment rates and customer dissatisfaction.

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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

Nobody escaped the long lines and endless waiting times. The Temkin Group’s 2017 Customer Experience study showed a severe decline in customer experience ratings from 2015 to 2016. But the number of companies that scored ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ increased from 18% in 2016 to 38% in 2017 – the highest rating ever.

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Introducing: Talkdesk Sentiment

Talkdesk

Customer experience is a hard thing to measure, so contact centers have historically relied on other KPIs as a proxy: service level, wait time, abandonment rate, etc. However, collecting CSAT data has always been a challenge and low response rates to CSAT surveys have been a big problem. Why measure Mood?

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New Survey on Service Level: 80/20 Is Still Going Strong

Fonolo

A new survey from Call Centre Helper confirms that the reign of 80/20 continues, but there is more to the story. The report surveyed over 250 contact centers, asking questions about how companies are delivering customer service over voice, email, chat, and social media. Were their wait times 30 seconds or 10 minutes?

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Hype or Reality? Importance of Customer Service as a Key Differentiator

8x8

Because of the nature of Lenox’s business, both sales and call volumes are dramatically higher during the holiday season than at other times of the year. On Black Friday of 2017, though, the company realized that customer call abandonment had spiked—likely due to longer-than-normal wait times.