Call Center Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The situation required my patience, as well as clear communication from the airline. Unfortunately, the airline didn’t deliver. I never got an answer and in fact, each airline rep I spoke with gave a wildly different and equally confusing update. I challenge you to put this rule into practice in your contact center.

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Fonolo

MARCH 19, 2020

The poorest-prepared — and so hardest hit — was been Expedia, followed closely by almost every other airline, Amex, Chase Bank, and Virgin Media. We’re very proud that our metrics are not declining — meaning specifically service level; how fast we solve cases; our ‘C-Sats’, customer satisfaction. The metrics we really care about.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 9, 2018

In a previous blog, I outlined 14 different metrics that contact centers should be tracking to improve customer experience. However, these metrics are designed to influence real-time decision making in your contact center. What is Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)? What is Customer Effort Score (CES)? 6) Agree.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 9, 2018

In a previous blog, I outlined 14 different metrics that contact centers should be tracking to improve customer experience. However, these metrics are designed to influence real-time decision making in your contact center. Are you tracking these 3 customer service metrics in your contact center?

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 9, 2018

In a previous blog, I outlined 14 different metrics that contact centers should be tracking to improve customer experience. However, these metrics are designed to influence real-time decision making in your contact center. Are you tracking these 3 customer service metrics in your contact center?

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pindrop

AUGUST 16, 2021

Each KBA required to complete authentication increases the average handle time required to authenticate a caller and increases the average cost per call for the contact center. AHT is a call center key performance indicator (KPI) meant to gauge operational efficiency and agent effectiveness. WEBINAR: Caller Authentication 101.

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ClearAction

MARCH 22, 2024

United Airlines passenger dragged off a flight: PR nightmare, customer churn, stock plunge. Southwest Airlines outdated IT caused 16,900 canceled flights for 2 million passengers: PR nightmare, customer churn, stock plunge, massive fines. Some firms are experimenting with new metrics such as Net Trust Score.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The Worst Offenders Include Apple, Amazon, Airlines and 7 on Your Side: Apple, Verizon top ‘on hold’ complaints list ). Delta Airlines! According to the 2017 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) , airlines remain in the bottom one-third of industries for customer experience. Consistency Across Multi-Channel.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics. Here are a few more examples to illustrate the power of customer perception , and why its importance should not be underestimated: Is United Airlines America’s most-hated airline? United Airlines is one of America’s favourite companies to hate.

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TechSee

MARCH 26, 2019

The Contact Center KPIs that Matter Most – TechSee Data Sheet Collection Part 1. It is a core metric that helps measure customers’ overall perception of a brand and the likelihood of them recommending the product or service to a friend. One such area is the contact center. What is Net Promoter Score?

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Enterprises in the airline, healthcare, and banking industries have all benefited from using Avaya’s solutions. You have loads of valuable contact center data, and your platform should support you by making it easy to take action on that data. Create custom metrics to gain more visibility into your call center.

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COPC

JULY 20, 2023

Overview Service level is one of the most important metrics for a contact center to measure and manage and has been in place since contact centers evolved. However, in our consulting work, we find that this vital metric’s management and targets have yet to evolve from the original definition.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 1, 2018

One industry constantly flooded with inquiries is the airline sector. Brands like KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, have already found ways to leverage AI to power their service operations and drive friendlier and more personal customer support interactions. Few industries have more volume of customer service data than airlines.

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Global Response

JANUARY 9, 2023

Southwest Airlines. If you’ve spent any time traveling—or talking to people who do—you’ll notice that Southwest Airlines has a sizable following, a rarity for airlines. For example, Southwest allows you to check two bags for free—while many other airlines charge $25, $35 or even $50 per checked bag. Get everyone on board.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 29, 2019

The global cloud-based contact center market is expected to grow from (what was) USD 6.80 Gamification is the future of employee engagement and attrition for the call center. This keeps your employees happy and your call center on point! Who should attend: VPs & Directors of Contact Centers.

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3CLogic

MARCH 9, 2021

In this interview with 3CLogic’s Chairman and CEO, Denis Seynhaeve , and Observe.AI’s Co-founder and CRO, Sharath Keshava Narayna , we explore the top challenges and opportunities contact center leaders will face in 2021. Sharath : In 2020 we learned how resilient contact centers are and how critically they impact today’s businesses.

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Babelforce

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In this post: What is an inbound call center? Key metrics for inbound call centers Three skills the best call centers have Your free guide to contact center automation. What is an inbound call center? This is an alternative to an outbound call center which only places calls.

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Babelforce

JANUARY 7, 2021

All in one neat metric. 4 strategies to increase your CLV Your (free) eBook on contact center automation. Unlike metrics like CSat or NPS , CLV relates directly to profitability (so it tends to be important to more people!). As a budget airline, EasyJet can’t upsell with first class tickets. The benefit?

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SharpenCX

APRIL 8, 2020

Apply call center management best practices to your interaction queues to fix gaps in your customer journey – like queues overflowing with customers o n hold. 13 tips to manage your contact center queues for greater efficiency and better customer outcomes. Give agents visibility into queue metrics. Get the ebook.

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Eptica

JULY 26, 2017

It could even involve working a shift in-store or in the contact center to get the agent perspective on CX. Therefore to reinforce the importance of CX, an increasing number of organizations are linking senior executive and CEO bonuses to customer satisfaction metrics. Share this page on: Tweet.

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360Connext

APRIL 28, 2017

Using truly customer-focused metrics. In a compelling and revealing presentation, Graham Tutton , Vice President, Customer Insights, shared how now they measure metrics that matter to both the brand and the customer. My favorite metric was how they determined the incredible results of reducing wait time. Save 1,000 words.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 17, 2017

This group allows professionals in the customer contact field to share best practices aimed at improving customer interactions and the experience. Its purpose is to find viable customer experience solutions that are earmarked for improved performance and will contribute to contact center excellence. Members: 11,498.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Initially, we focused on more technical aspects of the contact center, but over the years we expanded to include more of the human aspects of that industry, and the broader universe of customer service as well. Is there #VoiceShrinkage in the Contact Center? AI is Not Reducing Call Center Agent Employment.

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Southwest Airlines has set itself apart in the competitive airline industry through its commitment to customer experience. By avoiding hidden fees, ensuring friendly staff interactions, and offering a straightforward rewards program, the airline has cultivated significant brand loyalty.

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8x8

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Herb Kelleher, the iconic leader of Southwest Airlines made an insightful statement about strategic plans: “We have a strategic plan. Speech Analytics for Contact Centers. See a consolidated view of numerical and graphical details about call activities and metrics for selected dates. Contact center analytics.

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Serenova

OCTOBER 7, 2020

At the outset of the pandemic, as families rushed to stock up on toilet-paper and canned goods, contact center leaders were scrambling to transition customer service agents to remote status. Now as many as 80 percent of call center agents are currently working from home. Macro-manage the customer experience.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 13, 2015

One of the biggest issues is NOT that Customer Service Professionals are not aware of the issues in their contact centers. How It Will Work – Real-World Superior Social Service: Let’s say you are an airline organization or a hotel chain monitoring millions of Tweets across the globe. They know what they would like to do.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Once everyone is on board, it’s time to create some baseline metrics and goals and then determine what the ROI needs to be based on the program qualifications being set in place. Metrics/Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure the goals and objectives. Social media metrics. Calculating Gains.

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JustCall

MARCH 23, 2023

A key part of the contact center solution, the touch-tone feature allows the caller to press buttons according to these instructions and reach the relevant department. It is used prominently across industries such as contact centers, healthcare, banking, payment processing, etc. What is Multi-level IVR?

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Fonolo

AUGUST 4, 2020

The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics. These help you to gather specific, qualitative information about your CX and can provide some useful actionable metrics. Every time a customer contacts you is an opportunity to find out how they feel about your brand. Listening to them . Ask them with a survey.

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Avaya

JUNE 1, 2018

If you were managing a large team of contact centre agents, how long would it take you to cut a few seconds from the average handle time or average time customers wait in your IVR queue? While your organisation’s contact centre is no longer the sole owner of customer engagement, by no means are contact centre metrics any less important.

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ClearAction

MARCH 20, 2020

Ideally, you’re focusing on actioning the root causes, and tracking that progress with an internal metric. We did this at semiconductor equipment-maker Applied Materials and found that our internal metrics actually predicted future customer sentiment and financial behaviors. Cash in the Attic. ” Wow!

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SharpenCX

JANUARY 14, 2020

On top of this, you’re confronted with KPIs and metrics your team has to meet. And, the finance team tells you “There’s no room in the budget for that” whenever you mention getting more resources for call center improvements. Through all of it, you’re tasked with managing the most overwhelming metric — customer satisfaction.

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Eptica

MARCH 8, 2016

Secondly, at the end of interactions companies can now collect feedback on how the transaction went through consumer surveys , based on industry standard Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) and Net Promoter Score (NPS) metrics. This is particularly true of businesses that operate 24×7, such as online retailers, airlines or telecoms operators.

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Comm100

MAY 21, 2019

Takeaways : There was a lot of valuable advice shared in the keynote but I loved Jeff’s suggestion to take down the wallboards in your center and simply ask your team to focus on the customer. Jenny Dempsey – Create a Culture of Self Care in your Contact Center. Next up is Ginger Hardage.

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Babelforce

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

If so, good luck – under one third of contact centers have optimized their ability to source agents with relevant experience. Businesses (and contact centers) think about interactions. Several major airlines use it to give callers flight information, preempting the need for an agent. 4 Better agent experience.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Mr. Ray helps CX and marketing leaders to launch and manage successful CX programs, gather and use voice of the customer (VoC) data more effectively, align CX metrics to the right leading indicators of success, and improve the use of customer journey maps and personas. RPA Helps Contact Centers Deliver Better Customer Experiences.

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