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How to Develop a Customer Service Strategy for Your Contact Center

Fonolo

Develop a strong customer care strategy. 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. A fundamental part of any service strategy is goal setting. Your best plan of action?

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

JustCall

Training should focus on communication techniques, product knowledge, and problem-solving strategies. Reduced wait time is directly proportional to happy customers and more sales. You can free up agents by providing self-service options like interactive voice response (IVR) systems or online knowledge bases for your customers.

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Manage High Call Volume with Ease Using IVR Automation: A Complete Guide

JustCall

This reality yields longer wait times, ballooning queues, and plummeting customer satisfaction , with many businesses only able to address 37.8% Such circumstances fray the efficiency and morale of your customer service teams and steer them towards burnout, sending customer satisfaction spiraling down. of inbound calls.

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Manage High Call Volume with Ease Using IVR Automation: A Complete Guide

JustCall

This reality yields longer wait times, ballooning queues, and plummeting customer satisfaction, with many businesses only able to address 37.8% Such circumstances fray the efficiency and morale of your customer service teams and steer them towards burnout, sending customer satisfaction spiraling down. of inbound calls.

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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? Customer Wait Time.

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Preparing For Supply Chain Bottlenecks With BPO Support

Outsource Consultants

For the time being, these higher call volumes should not be treated as an anomaly and your call center should be staffed accordingly. If you are experiencing long wait times and agent burnout, it’s time to add support. 2) Be proactive.

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Top 3 Reasons Why Call Centre Workers Have One of the Highest Turnover Rates

CSM Magazine

Training is a major cost for the industry and CX leaders often deal with 40% agent churn. 51% of poorly trained agents are pessimistic about their careers—an outlook that can lead to poor performance, unhappy customers, and agent burnout—yet 61% of agents who received good training felt optimistic.