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Your Guide to Navigating the World of Customer Service Outsourcing

Global Response

Customer service outsourcing is a huge industry, resulting in approximately $525 billion dollars of spend every year, in fact. But if you’re not outsourcing your customer service yet, it may seem like a big project that’s not necessarily worth the investment. Is outsourcing really more affordable than managing things in-house?

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How to Calculate Outsourced Call Center Service Level and Why is it Important?

Advantage Communications

When it comes to outsourcing your customer service to a call center, there are a range of metrics that call centers use to ensure they are delivering a superior customer experience (CX) for your customers.

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How to Pick the Right Inbound Call Center Company

Global Response

Scalability and availability : The goal of all outsourcing partnerships is to make it easier for your business—easier to employ more agents and easier for your customers to access support. Domestic outsourcing options are inherently aligned with American business practices and compliance standards.

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How to Enhance CX Metrics Strategically

Outsource Consultants

ASA (Average Speed of Answer): Average wait time before a customer’s call is answered. AHT (Average Handle Time): Average duration of each customer interaction. SL% (Service Level): Percentage of calls answered within a predefined time frame.

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Which Customer Service KPIs & Metrics Matter Most?

Global Response

For example, a great FCR rate might be a sign that things are going well—or it could be an indication that agents are marking issues as resolved before they are, just to hit their targets. Similarly, average handle time is another metric that can easily become skewed if tracked individually.

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The Coming Disruption of the Contact Center Outsourcing Industry

Taylor Reach Group

The Contact Center outsourcing industry is a significant piece of the customer service and support landscape. Each day millions of calls, emails, chats, SMS messages and social media interactions are handled by Contact Center agents employed by these Contact Center Outsourcing (CCO) firms representing thousands of organizations and brands.

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KPIs for call centers: 8 critical metrics to track

Global Response

After all, when you’re managing a call center, whether it’s in-house or outsourced, there’s a long list of KPIs (key performance indicators) that you could be measuring. Handle time, CSAT, FCR, abandonment rate—the list is nearly endless. This in turn can help reduce agent turnover rate and abandonment rate.