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How to Develop a Customer Service Strategy for Your Contact Center

Fonolo

No matter how great your product or service is, the success of your contact center largely depends on the customer service you provide. Ultimately, if customers don’t have a good experience, they’re likely not going to call back. Start by creating a customer care vision and set goals. DID YOU KNOW?

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How to Handle High Call Volume: 10 Strategies for Success in Sales and Contact Centres

JustCall

This sudden influx of calls can be anything – from customers reaching out and potential leads dialing in to support requests. When a call surge hits, your sales and customer service teams bear the brunt. This automation streamlines workflows and ensures essential information is readily accessible to agents during calls.

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Understanding Call Center Occupancy in the Contact Center and How To Optimize It

TechSee

This means that to measure occupancy, Management would look only at the agent’s capacity to engage with customers vs. the time actually spent engaging with customers. Monitoring occupancy is important to ensuring staffing levels are optimal and for preventing agent overwork and burnout.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of March 20, 2023

ShepHyken

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? Here are my top five picks from last week.

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5 Ways to Give Call Center Agent Productivity a Boost

Fonolo

Agent productivity shouldn’t solely be based on the output of an agent – rather, it should consider the overall experience during each customer interaction. Learn how you can better your team performance below… How to Foster Agent Engagement in a Hybrid Contact Center. 5 Ways to Help Agents Stay Productive.

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Virtual Agents vs. Live Agents: The Battle for CSAT

SmartAction

So, while intelligent virtual agents are scalable and more cost-effective to employ than their human counterparts, it doesn’t necessarily mean they deliver a better customer experience than humans do…or do they? When it comes to customer satisfaction, how do virtual agents compare with live agents?

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7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages

Playvox

Increased agent burnout. Working extra overtime hours and handling back-to-back interactions all day long can quickly lead to agent burnout, especially if customers are frustrated about long wait times and take it out on agents. Not meeting this expectation could lead to customer churn.