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How to Handle High Call Volume: 10 Strategies for Success in Sales and Contact Centres

JustCall

This sudden influx of calls can be anything – from customers reaching out and potential leads dialing in to support requests. When a call surge hits, your sales and customer service teams bear the brunt. Drowning in calls during peak season? This optimized staffing is essential in dealing with high call volumes.

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How to Create a Call Center Performance Report

Fonolo

You know that customer service is the backbone of your organization. Knowing where you stand with your customers and proving that value to stakeholders requires carefully crafted call center reporting that directly aligns with your organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Abandonment rate.

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Call Center Occupancy Vs Utilization: Their Importance and their Differences 

JustCall

Some of them are: Call arrival rate, for frequency of inbound calls. Call abandonment rate, which shows how many customers hang up before speaking with an agent. Average handling time, to indicate how long an agent takes to complete a customer call. Any higher, and agents will be burnt out over time.

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7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages

Playvox

Being short-staffed causes gaps in the schedule and results in a situation where there are simply not enough agents to handle volume. Increased abandon rates. Customers will only wait so long in the queue before they give up. Managers who want to meet customer demands will typically ask their agents to work more hours.

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The Role Of Employee Self-Service In Workforce Management

Playvox

Improved Efficiency Getting your staffing levels right and creating a balanced workload across all of your customer service channels is crucial. Reduced Labor Costs Overstaffing and understaffing are both major workforce scheduling challenges in customer service centers.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Successful Predictive Dialer Campaign for Your Business

NobelBiz

Predictive dialers occupy a cornerstone place in every outbound calling strategy as they shorten the time between answered calls, enabling your team to connect with your customers and reach new leads faster. Pacing ratio : This is the ratio of the number of phone numbers dialed to the number of agents available to handle calls.

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How to Calculate Occupancy Rate in a Call Center

Fonolo

Why 80/20 is the Wrong Service Level for Your Call Center. Why Your Call Center Needs to Watch Abandon Rates. ‘Occupancy Rate’ is the percentage of time that agents spend handling customer inquiries vs. waiting for calls (idle time). How to Calculate Occupancy Rate.