Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Congratulations, call center manager! There’s never a dull moment in a call center with a myriad of opportunities for growth and success. The Contact Center Guide to Managing Spikes in Call Volume. Why strong call center management is important. 7 steps to success as a call center manager.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 3, 2024

Predicting the future of the call center industry is no easy feat – it’s a complex and ever-evolving landscape. At Outsource Consultants, we’re committed to providing informed insights, leveraging our experience with over 500 global BPO partners across various industries.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Agent burnout directly harms the quality of customer service your business provides and significantly hurts your company’s bottom line. It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. What Causes Agent Burnout? Preventing Agent Burnout.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Traditional call center environments are often busy, fast-paced environments, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Conversations around call center optimization often focus on technology, training, and metrics, but call center workforce optimization also includes the physical elements of your operation.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 3, 2021

Knowing where you stand with your customers and proving that value to stakeholders requires carefully crafted call center reporting that directly aligns with your organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics. What is a call center report?

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Fonolo

JANUARY 25, 2022

From organizing call center agents to employing the right technology and developing a customer experience strategy, there are plenty of moving pieces in the successful operation of a contact center. Industry Report: State of the Contact Center 2022. Agent onboarding and training.

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Global Response

AUGUST 7, 2023

Culture is one of the most nebulous aspects of any company or team—but creating a positive one can make or break your employee experience, your customer service, and your bottom line. How your team communicates, shares information, and collaborates makes up a big part of your call center culture. Your customer focus.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

When you factor in that call centers typically spend $8800 on hiring and training new agent, attrition can cost a 100-agent contact center about $325,600 per year. In addition, you may be risking your reputation and impeding the quality of customer service, which can lead to plummeting customer satisfaction.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM).

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2022

When we hear the word “productivity”, we often picture the volume of work a contact center agent can get done in their day. This may have been a good indicator of success a few decades ago, but today’s experts agree that delivering a quality customer experience carries more weight than the amount of time spent on the phone.

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Balto

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are many things you can do to make your call center more productive, like motivating your agents, equipping them with technological solutions, and implementing self-service options. What Is Call Center Productivity? How to Calculate and Measure Call Center Agent Productivity.

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JustCall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Remote call center employees feel they can be more flexible, productive, and satisfied while working from home. Work from home call centers must deal very cautiously with employees who prefer to work from home. Work from home call centers must deal very cautiously with employees who prefer to work from home.

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Babelforce

JULY 29, 2021

But every so often you should do yourself a big favor and shake up the call center KPIs your measure. For example, a low AHT is a sign of fast service, but it’s not much use if customers aren’t satisfied with the help they receive. 21 essential call center KPIs. #1 3 Call abandonment rate.

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SharpenCX

AUGUST 4, 2020

As a call center agent, a day of work can be like whiplash. Something goes awry and they’re swamped with back to back phone calls from angry customers. On top of that, agents often feel responsible for salvaging struggling customer relationships. You can create change in your center’s operations.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 10, 2021

A customer care strategy should be put in place to ensure the service your agents provide is always top notch and that the customer experience stays consistent throughout your organization. If customers receive the same high-quality service every time they get in touch, they’re more likely to keep calling back.

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Xaqt

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Monday the Center for Disease Control (CDC) sounded the alarm bell that the spread of Coronavirus in the U.S. While no one knows what the actual impact of the virus will be, we expect that call centers across several industries along with public sector service agencies will be adversely impacted.

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JustCall

APRIL 3, 2024

It can further lead to a dip in customer experience and a shrinking ROI. So, how do you manage call surges during unanticipated high-traffic periods? Let’s explore the top 10 tips high call volume call centers could use. High call volume: What is it?

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Customer retention through delivering an excellent customer experience is more important than ever. So, what do customers expect? To keep up, let’s take a look at a few call center efficiency tips to help you improve your call center performance to keep customers happy.

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TechSee

MAY 4, 2021

Economic and logistical challenges have resulted in businesses turning to the gig economy to support and scale their customer service and sales efforts while lowering their fixed costs and in-house overhead. The Concept of GigCX: Freelance customer service agents. Inefficiencies in the traditional Call Center Model .

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2023

Magnus Geverts shares his top tips for beating agent burnout—and the competition—in 2023. Great news for businesses that rely on the festive season to tide them over during the leaner months but extremely stressful for agents in contact centres. About the Author Magnus Geverts is VP Product Marketing at Calabrio.

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Solvvy

JUNE 30, 2021

A customer’s interactions with a brand drives their entire perception of a business, and as most businesses can attest, each and every customer experience can leave long lasting effects. So how can you get a sense of the customer experience you’re delivering? EST, so why make customers wait?

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

That’s where your retail contact center needs to shine. Superior customer service is at the heart of every successful retail call center, but with all the new online shopping technology, providing a seamless customer experience can become quite the challenge. Don’t just be any old retail call center.

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SharpenCX

MAY 6, 2020

And, why investing in the contact center can catapult your business forward. How you manage your contact center and develop your agents has a direct impact on customer outcomes and your bottom line. It’s time to break down your call center management by the numbers to see how you’re adding value each day.

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Mindtouch

MAY 31, 2018

Support agents are the people who likely know your customer best. Just think about how many times your call center team interacts with customers daily. It follows that when you take the pulse of your agent experience, you’ll inevitably discover opportunities to improve the customer experience, too.

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Babelforce

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

According to a recent report by Gallup, 76% of workers will experience burnout at some point in their job. But for call centers, burnout is especially common. It contributes to the industry’s notoriously high agent attrition rates, which averaged around 38% in 2022. But what exactly is agent burnout?

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ShepHyken

MARCH 20, 2023

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 8 Best Practices for Creating a Compelling Customer Experience by G. Hult (Harvard Business Review) How can a company best create a compelling customer experience? There may be a reason.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They also provide you with actionable insights that drive your decision-making and help you build a customer-first culture in your contact center. Providing a seamless customer experience is a pressing challenge that many contact centers are still struggling with.

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Monet Software

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

How to treat employee burnout and reinvigorate call center engagement for the long haul. Do you feel it spreading through your contact center workforce? That sense of ennui, stagnation or general “blah” that creeps up on agents and saps their energy and enthusiasm? It develops silently over time.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 16, 2018

Regardless of the reason, an unhappy group of support agents can make for unhappy customers and seriously impact customer experience KPIs. Wherever you find agent burnout, dissatisfied customers are not far away. What makes customer support agents unhappy?

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

One the recurring tropes in our industry is that consumer behavior and/or new channels and/or AI will lead to a decrease in the importance of the plain old phone call. Is there #VoiceShrinkage in the Contact Center? AI is Not Reducing Call Center Agent Employment. Chat, Messaging, and Customer Service.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 15, 2021

By starting your conversations with AI , live agents can do what they’re meant to do — handle the interactions that require a human touch. AI takes the brunt of the repetitive nature that contributes to customer service agent burnout. A bonus is the fact that customers skip the repetition as well.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Anecdotally, even the promise of substantially higher contact center agent salaries isn’t resulting in the number of qualified hires call centers need to fully staff up. With the holiday rush looming, an agent shortage could be detrimental to business. Increased agent burnout.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 9, 2023

Ownership and control Loss of control is probably the biggest pain point of organizations that outsource customer service to BPOs and third-party service providers (that use single-tenant software.) But multi-tenant contact center software can enable organizations to log in to their BPOs’ portals and see live reports and data of agents.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 10, 2023

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Experience Is Everyone’s Responsibility by Rebecca Hinds and Sarang Gupta (Harvard Business Review) In today’s digital-first world, achieving great customer experiences is more challenging than ever.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In the battle to maintain customers’ loyalty and drive repeat business, many brands leverage customer satisfaction as a competitive advantage. The caveat though, is that delivering a stellar customer experience – especially in retail, hospitality, and healthcare sectors – can be prohibitively expensive to scale.

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