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10 Effective Strategies to Reduce Call Center Demand

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High call volumes are three words that can strike fear into the heart of any call center professional. Without the right preparation, even the most established operations can find themselves struggling with call demand, and trying to stay afloat when faced with an onslaught of customer queries. Interactive Voice Response.

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How to Improve Call Center Agent Productivity

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High call center agent productivity is every call center manager’s dream. So many factors damper agent productivity, like high call volumes and staff turnover, both of which are only too common in the call center industry. How to Foster Agent Engagement in a Hybrid Contact Center.

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Coronavirus preparation for your call center

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Monday the Center for Disease Control (CDC) sounded the alarm bell that the spread of Coronavirus in the U.S. While no one knows what the actual impact of the virus will be, we expect that call centers across several industries along with public sector service agencies will be adversely impacted.

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5 Tips to Improve Abandon Rates for Your Contact Center

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These are five strategies to reduce abandon rates in your call center and enhance the customer experience. Importance of Low Call Abandon Rates? Abandon rate is the percentage of callers hanging up before speaking to an agent compared to the total number of incoming calls.

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5 Ways To Optimize Call Abandonment Rate For Contact Centers

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The abandoned call rate represents the proportion of abandoned calls compared to the total number of calls made. Beyond this acceptable level, a contact center must reconsider its strategy and resources in order to lower it as much as possible. Naturally, the abandoned call rate is given as a percentage.

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The Complete Guide to Visual IVR

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Consumers often list dealing with an IVR as a top grievance with the call center experience. If there’s no way for the user to do any “navigation” ahead of the call, odds are the caller will be transferred from one agent to the next – another top complaint in the call center industry. According to a report by J.D.

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10 Tips for Handling the Holiday Returns Rush in Your Call Center

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A new wave of callers surely already hit your call center – the holiday returns callers. If your frontline of call center agents is scrambling to meet the needs of holiday returns callers, recruit them some backup. Ask agents from other departments to field frontline calls. Redirect callers to a knowledge base.