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The Incredible Power of Calling Your Customers Back

Fonolo

Putting customers with complex cases on hold for eternity is a weak move: It’s a frail part of a call center infrastructure; and it may block a potentially good future relationship with the customer reaching out for help. A call-back ensures that no phone line needs to be active until the agent is available to assist the customer.

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

Fonolo

The call center experience is under great scrutiny from today’s consumers. On the other hand, call center managers have to be cost-conscious in their approach to staffing. Luckily, there is a way to lessen the impact of hold times, without hiring agents: Offer your callers a call-back instead. Potential Downsides.

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Is this the End of On-Premise for the Call Center?

Fonolo

That’s a good reason to revisit a long running theme on the Fonolo blog: the cloudification of the call center. Compared to other enterprise software, the transition to cloud has been a difficult road for the call center. Industry analysts have mostly converged on a very bullish opinion regarding cloud-based call centers.

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Why Call Center BPOs Need to Offer Call-Backs

Fonolo

As the demand for outsourced call centers grows annually by 6%, it’s critical for BPOs to offer services that meet these growing expectations. The ability to offer callers the option of a call-back is a popular request from companies choosing a contact center BPO. Decreasing abandonment rates.

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Top 3 Ways IVR Automated Callback Technology Benefits Customers and Contact Centers

Noble Systems

These complaints lead to high call abandonment rates, poor customer experience, and worst of all, customer attrition. Intelligent callback technology, such as IVR Automated Callback with IVR Virtual Assistant , offers customers choices and elevates the overall experience. Abandon rates used to be 12%.

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Top Contact Center Acquisitions of 2017

Fonolo

billion is probably the largest ever transaction in the call center industry. This isn’t a call center deal, strictly speaking, but it is part of Avaya bankruptcy which is really the biggest story of the year. Corvisa was a both a hosted call center and a Twilio-esque CPaaS platform. Mitel Acquires Shoretel.

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Survey Shows Growing Popularity of Call-Backs Among BPOs

Fonolo

Luckily, more and more call centers are offering a call-back option, as an alternative to waiting in the queue. We, at Fonolo, see this trend through the increased demand of our call-back solution. Which Vendors are Currently Providing Call-Backs? What’s the Benefit of Call-Backs?

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