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When Adding Call-Backs to Your Call Center, Beware The “Free” Option

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The call center experience is under great scrutiny from today’s consumers. Let’s review what makes call-backs such a great addition to your call center: 1) Improve Customer Satisfaction. 2) Reduce Abandon Rates. There are many ways to fall short of their expectations. See this success story.

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Why We Love Call-Backs (And You Should, Too!)

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Consumers today are more demanding than ever, especially when it comes to the call center experience. Meanwhile, call centers are under pressure to live up to these expectations while keeping costs contained. 2) Reduce Abandon Rates. Most call centers have some type of call volume spike.

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Looking for an Inbound Call Center Outsourcing Partner? Keep These Tips in Your Glovebox

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KPI’s – Know what key performance indicators are essential to the program’s success and be sure the prospective inbound call center outsourcing partner understands and can measure them. Consider metrics such as average speed of answer, abandon rate, utilization, talk times, first call resolution, etc.

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The Contact Center Guide to Managing Spikes in Call Volume [Industry Report]

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Sometimes the causes of call spikes are understood, even anticipated. Yet, in many cases, these periods of peak call volume come as a real shock to everyone in the contact center. When a call center experiences peaks in call volume, hold times inevitably go up and abandon rates become an issue.

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The Contact Center Guide to Managing Spikes in Call Volume [Industry Report]

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Sometimes the causes of call spikes are understood, even anticipated. Yet, in many cases, these periods of peak call volume come as a real shock to everyone in the contact center. When a call center experiences peaks in call volume, hold times inevitably go up and abandon rates become an issue.

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How to Eliminate Hold Time in Your Call Center

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Unsurprisingly, longer call hold times are directly correlated to higher call abandonment rates; people often give up and hang up before they get through to a support agent. We live in a time when ‘experience’ is a driving factor behind many consumer choices. Unpredictable events.