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10 Contact Center Technologies You Need to Know

Fonolo

UPDATED: February 2020. Handpicked related content for you: Top Customer Service Conferences in 2020. An Interactive Voice Response System (IVR). In the 21st Century, you’re more likely to be eaten by a shark than to find a call center without an Interactive Voice Response System or IVR.

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How Helpful Contact Center Software is for the Healthcare Sector in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic?

Hodusoft

According to Gartner , over 40% of customer service and support leaders experienced increased service contact volumes compared to original 2020 projections due to the pandemic. . A McKinsey study found that by April 2020, telehealth utilization for outpatient care grew over 78 times from February 2020.

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“Free”: The True Costs of Knowledge Based Authentication Questions?

pindrop

However, despite the customer dissatisfaction, delays, longer wait times, and ongoing data breaches, KBAs do continue to persist and are still one of the more prevalent forms of consumer identity and verification. The abandonment rate has increased from 5.4% Why is this so? in 2012 to 6.1% appeared first on Pindrop.

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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

After assessing how the pandemic had changed the call center in 2020 , we decided to peek over the parapet at 2021. Nobody escaped the long lines and endless waiting times. There’s no substitute for a human voice when you have a complex problem. Contact Center Trends 2020. Here’s what they said.

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How to Eliminate Hold Time in Your Call Center

Fonolo

UPDATED: January 2020. Most callers will begin subconsciously rating their customer experience from the beginning of the interaction, regardless of the channel; phone, web, social media, or mobile app. Why is average wait time an important metric? How to Calculate Hold Time in a Call Center.

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5+ Effective Ways to Reduce Abandon Rates in Your Call Center

Fonolo

UPDATED JANUARY 2020. Lowering call abandonment in contact centers is what we do. How to Reduce Abandonment Rates in Your Contact Center. How to Reduce Abandonment Rates in Your Contact Center. What’s an abandoned call? Use data to why your abandon rate is high.

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Call Center Dialer Software: Optimization Best Practices

NobelBiz

Brad Butler, Contact Center Software Consultant @ NobelBiz Improved Agent Productivity Long wait times can be a significant challenge for contact centers, causing negative consequences for both agents and customers. To mitigate these issues, many contact centers use dialers to eliminate unwanted wait times.