Fonolo

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

So with that in mind, contact centers need to ensure that the calling experience is just as pleasant as every other channel. Here’s why people just hate calling a contact center. Is your contact center still forcing callers to wait on hold? eBook: The ROI of Call-Backs for Your Call Center.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 28, 2018

Nothing says summertime like lounging by the pool and reading contact center industry reports, amirite? About: For this report, industry analyst Peter Ryan gathered the views of 352 enterprise executives, each with decision-making authority over contact centers. Our favorite chart: Contact Center 2.0,

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The 2017 edition of the Magic Quadrant report for cloud-based contact centers was released by Gartner last week. That’s a good reason to revisit a long running theme on the Fonolo blog: the cloudification of the call center. You can read a summary of the panel I was on here: Bringing Contact Centers into the Modern Age ).

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Fonolo

JANUARY 23, 2018

Let’s review what makes call-backs such a great addition to your call center: 1) Improve Customer Satisfaction. 2) Reduce Abandon Rates. Abandonment leads to higher repeat calling (which can strain the call center system) and, of course, frustrate customers. VPs & Directors of Contact Centers.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

They had identified their contact center as an area of concern; the department was understaffed and personnel lacked contact center knowledge. Due to a shortage of agents, calls were sent to a backup call center during business hours at a cost of $5 per call, in order to maintain their service levels. .

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

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. Reducing handle time.

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Fonolo

MAY 22, 2018

This month, we were fortunate to get an early copy of a new survey, by Ryan Strategic Advisory, that asked BPO contact centers about call-backs, and I’m happy to share some of that data with you here. For this report, he gathered the views of 352 enterprise executives, each with decision-making authority over contact centers.

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Babelforce

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But we do know that implementing a virtual queuing system at your contact center is a win-win situation for all involved: including customers, agents, and contact center managers. What are the benefits of virtual queuing for contact centers? Get the eBook. In this post: What is virtual queuing?

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

That drives up the abandonment rate, as callers get tired of waiting on hold. If you want a quantitative example of this, download our free eBook The ROI of Call-Backs for Your Call Center. Scheduled call-backs have all the advantages of regular call-backs (improvements in CSat, abandonment rate, handle times, etc.)

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The IVR experience (“press 1 for this… press 2 for that…”) has long been part of the contact center. eBook: The ROI of Call-Backs for Your Call Center. Download our free eBook and learn how call-backs can deliver concrete ROI. What’s Inside: Lower Abandon Rate. Evading gets you in trouble.”

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Here is a common example: We used that exact chart (hat tip to RingCentral ) in last week’s webinar on AI in the Call Center. See 4 Insightful Contact Center Reports You Should Be Reading. For more on that see previous posts AI is Not Reducing Call Center Agent Employment or What’s the Ceiling on Self-Service?

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SharpenCX

JUNE 23, 2021

But, your contact center KPIs are an important piece of creating a happy team and happy customers. Plus, you need a high-performing, empowered contact center. But, don’t feel burdened to track the dozens of KPIs in your contact center. Active Contact Resolution. Call abandonment rate.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

eBook: The ROI of Call-Backs for Your Call Center. Download our free eBook and learn how call-backs can deliver concrete ROI. What’s Inside: Lower Abandon Rate. As the saying goes: If everything is a priority, then nothing is. If hold time is unavoidable, the next best thing to do is offer a call-back.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A university’s contact center, for example, consistently gets questions about a wide range of topics. Chatbots can start a chat when they detect a customer stumbling through the site or showing potential signs of cart abandonment. After all, they’re known for reducing shopping cart abandonment rates by up to 20%.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Download Now] Use the data that lives in your contact center to improve your customer experience. The only way to sustain service levels is to learn what’s really happening in your contact center. Because most of the time, your call center system automatically collects and funnels it to your reporting engine.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. What Are Call Center Efficiency Metrics? Call center managers need metrics to successfully measure agent performance and improvements to call center operations.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In this post: Average Handling Time Customer Satisfaction Service Level First Contact Resolution Call Abandonment Rate Percentage of Calls Blocked Call Transfer Rate Wrap-up Time Customer Effort Score Average Idle Time. With this in mind, here are the ten call center metrics that many experts agree are absolutely vital.

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Noble Systems

MARCH 22, 2021

They are actively seeking ways to fundamentally improve their contact center operations and enhance patient care , efficiently and effectively. In the first blog in this 2-part series, we discussed the top healthcare contact center trends. 6 Healthcare Call Center Technologies.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 16, 2020

Failing to empathize with your customers can end up being counterproductive, especially for the managers and directors charged with keeping tabs on customer journey KPIs within the contact center. Download the free ebook. Abandon rate and bounce rate. Examining the journey through the customer’s eyes .

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Fonolo

MAY 17, 2018

In their earnings release, they highlighted two new products related to the contact center. First, “Collaborative Contact Center” combines their contact center service (built on inContact) with the RingCentral Glip team messaging/collaboration app. eBook: The ROI of Call-Backs for Your Call Center.

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Comm100

MARCH 28, 2018

Which KPIs you track depend a lot on your service philosophy – while time-based metrics such as handle time and queue length are common to many call centers, other schools of thought say that quality-based metrics like customer satisfaction or customer effort are a better way to track overall quality. Tools to Capture Information.

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