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8 Contact Center KPIs Add to your Management Tool Box

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Your Step-By-Step Guide to Building Better Customer Experience Strategies Use data you already have to build actionable strategies for a better customer experience Get the eBook. Call abandonment rate. To track your abandonment rate, divide your number of abandoned interactions by your total inbound interactions.

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3 Keys to Q4 Contact Center Success in 2021

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Try These 3 Contact Center Strategies for Q4 Success. Call Deflection: This technology strategy diverts incoming calls to digital channels instead of bogging down your live agent queues. Decreased call abandonment rates and total call time (by eliminating call holds). Higher customer satisfaction and higher agent morale.

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6 Tips to Optimize Your Call Center IVR

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That’s why it’s so important to evaluate this essential tool and make any required upgrades , especially when you notice signs of customer complaints, low agent morale, or technology limitations. An opti-channel strategy can help you determine the ideal communication channel for a specific customer. Is the wait time too long?

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How to Improve Call Center Employee Retention

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An agent is more likely to leave if you don’t invest in an effective retention strategy. CUSTOMER FEEDBACK: “We saw a reduction in our abandon rate, an increase in member satisfaction, and an upsurge in agent morale.” – Mark Edelmen, VP of Digital Member Services, Stanford Federal Credit Union. Invest in training.

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Infographic: 6 Small Changes That’ll Make a Big Difference in Your Contact Center

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Even if you don’t fancy yourself a hardcore gamer, ‘gamification’ will continue to factor into contact center strategies (especially given the continued development of new technologies). Gamification is endlessly useful for engaging and training new employees, as well as for boosting agent morale and staff engagement.

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What Is Call Center Reporting & How Does It Work?

NobelBiz

Call center reporting is an integral component of modern customer service strategy, acting as the foundation upon which companies can measure, understand, and enhance their interactions with customers. Strategy : Prioritize the development of a unified data architecture. Table of Contents What is Call Center Reporting?

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Scheduled Call-Backs Are a Call Center Superpower

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This small change in strategy is deceptively powerful. That drives up the abandonment rate, as callers get tired of waiting on hold. Long wait times also lead to frustrated customers who then take out their anger on the agents, raising average handle time and lowering agent morale. Smoothing Out Spikes in Call Volume.