ViiBE Blog

MAY 13, 2021

Customers often contact a call center when they are frustrated or experiencing an issue with a product or service. In the background, entire systems run behind the scenes to manage their call and put them in touch with a representative as efficiently as possible. There are different types of call centers.

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TLC Associates

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The first chatbot said hello to the world over 50 years ago. Even with the advancements made in the 21 st century, there are still constraints on the chatbot experience. Rather than call center chatbots outright replacing people, they can provide ways to enhance the capabilities of your contact center agents.

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OctopusTech

MARCH 1, 2023

Most companies will set up or adopt a call center to field customer service requests and complaints. These call centers organize phone support queues and equally distribute calls to reps on the service team. What Are Inbound Calls?

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? Today, hyper efficiency is no longer a luxury but a necessity for call centers looking to thrive and outperform their competition. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center?

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bold360 Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

The frustrated customer might wait a few minutes and then call into the bank’s call center, where they faced lengthy wait times as other customers were doing the same thing. Add a Chatbot. Pressure on the more labor-intensive live chat dropped almost immediately as the chatbot handled more volume.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Strategies in Optimizing Call Center Customer Support for Increased Revenue. For companies looking to establish a customer-first mindset at their call center, the essential part is to understand the customers in terms of their interests, behavior and needs.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Talk of ChatGPT is everywhere from your LinkedIn feed to the evening news to, yes, this blog. Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. But with ChatGPT in the spotlight, we wanted to bring you a deeper dive into AI in the contact center.

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Babelforce

JUNE 9, 2022

We’ll also provide tips about how you can implement this approach in your contact center. In this blog: • What is customer centricity? How can contact centers become more customer-centric? How can contact centers become more customer-centric? Call centers are the front line of the customer experience.

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Outsource Consultants

JUNE 19, 2018

AI can help with bots to help personalize chat experiences and routing capabilities to ensure calls go to the agents most fitting of the customer issues. Faster, Tailored Responses: Automated chatbots built through machine learning can provide instant responses to customers with tailored solutions based on previous customer interactions.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

And the only way to succeed is through an effective contact center management system. This blog will look at the tips and best practices for contact center management. Follow them to optimize your contact center operation and ensure smooth customer service. What is Contact Center Management?

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

TechStyle’s top call drivers are conversations like returns, order status, and billing–repetitive conversations that used to be handled by live agents but now handled by AI agents. In other cases, SmartAction’s AI agents gather data upfront before passing to a live agent, which drastically reduces average handle time.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

Customer-facing AI technologies are especially relevant to assisting in customer identification, call classification/routing, chatbots and predictive personalization. For example, the technology can identify patterns that indicate a customer’s intent based on web activity or text and route the call or chat to the appropriate agent.

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NICE inContact

JULY 12, 2019

Even when you’re already convinced of the advantages of digital customer service, there’s a series of steps to take before actually integrating a new system into your call center software. Time is money, right? No one wants to spend too long integrating digital customer service into your call center software.

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The organization’s using the Call Center Software to measure how well they handle customer calls and try to improve CX with the first call resolution. What is the first call resolution (FCR)? How Call Center Software Increases Business Efficiency by FCR? How to measure FCR?

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VocalCom

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

First contact resolution, average handling time…many brands consider these KPIs critical for measuring their customer service success. For example, long average handling times may indicate miscommunication among departments or insufficient use of contact center technologies such as CRM databases.

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VocalCom

MAY 21, 2018

Only then can IVR menus truly serve customers well and save them time. Chatbots in particular are efficient for helping customers find answers to simple questions, making personalized recommendations, and assisting with the purchase process. The post 5 Technologies That Reduce Customer Effort appeared first on Vocalcom Blog.

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Horizon CX

MARCH 19, 2022

But I digress, that’s another topic for another blog. For example, when issues arise that cannot be managed online or through a chatbot, contact by phone may be the only viable option. By calling their Customer Careline. As a CX professional, one might have hoped that was science fiction, but it’s unfortunately not.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 25, 2023

The call center industry is notorious for its high operating costs, making it imperative for businesses to find innovative ways to cut expenses while maintaining or improving the service quality. This comprehensive guide will explore the top 12 call center cost-reduction strategies to help unlock your business’s full potential.

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Cyara

JULY 9, 2019

Blog: Art Schoeller at Forrester Research. What are the drivers of migrating contact centers to the cloud?”. Cloud contact center solutions need to be agile. LEX is one example of such a service that would be difficult, if not impossible to implement, in a premise-only environment. Organization: Forrester Research Inc.

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Global Response

MARCH 27, 2023

To improve your speed in a way that customers will actually notice and appreciate, implement one of these tactics: AI/Chatbots. AI can help speed up many backend operations when it comes to call centers, ensuring that your agents reduce call handle time and thus speed up operations overall.

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VocalCom

APRIL 2, 2018

With all the discussion of messaging apps, chatbots, and live chat, your company may think that the voice channel is a thing of the past. In reality, while digital channels are used most prominently in today’s customer service, many people still call brands when they need assistance. Give a quality experience.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying. To this end, we have grouped the top contact center trends for 2019 into these three categories: human, effortless and transformative. Leverage Gamification for Soft Skills Development.

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VocalCom

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This can further lead to the optimization of other contact center KPIs, such as improved first contact resolution and reduced average handling times. The post Using Personality Mapping to Generate an ROI Unheard of for Contact Center Solutions appeared first on Vocalcom Blog.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying. To this end, we have grouped the top contact center trends for 2019 into these three categories: human, effortless and transformative. Leverage Gamification for Soft Skills Development.

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OctopusTech

JUNE 8, 2022

Due to this, a lot of regular tasks and activities are handled by automation software and not by call center representatives so that they could focus only on complicated and challenging issues. Call center automation simplifies the process of businesses and increases efficiency in customer service.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction. Contact centers are now considered more than just service centers. Without it, you risk frustrating them with interactions that require lots of effort, long hold times and costly escalations.

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Balto

JANUARY 22, 2024

We’ve seen generative AI being applied in different industries with great results, specifically in the contact center domain. This blog aims to uncover the numerous use cases of generative AI in the modern contact center. Call center managers spend 5x more time preparing for coaching sessions than actually coaching.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Related Article: 7 Simple Tips To Give Quality Feedback In Your Call Center 3. Setting Clear And Attainable Goals For Your Agents To enhance contact center productivity, it’s essential to establish clear and achievable goals for agents. Related Article: Best Ideas To Increase Productivity In Your Call Center 8.

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aircall

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The next-most popular measures of success — average reply time, average handle time, and average resolution time — also focus on operational urgency and efficiency. But mobile apps , automated chatbots , and even some self-service channels still appear to be in the early days of their adoption curves.

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Global Response

JANUARY 23, 2023

Scale our 2-person call center team to a team of 1,000 employees managing every aspect of customer service.” Hire 4 new agents in Q1 to reduce time in queue and average wait times by the end of Q2.” After all, you don’t want to decrease your response time at the expense of the quality of your service.

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Upstream Works

JULY 6, 2022

Good examples would be reducing Average Handle Time (AHT), having fewer repeated calls, and lower call volumes overall. To illustrate, Rob cited using conversational AI to pre-collect information about the customer, so the agent only spends time dealing with the problem at hand. .”

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Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

For a business, that means high costs and inefficient call center operations. Call centers, therefore, want to improve first call resolution rate, reduce call volume, and excel at customer service while reining in high costs. But how exactly will customer journey analytics work in a call center operation?

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ProProfs Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

chatbots and others such as knowledge base , live chat , help desk , and others to make. For every second shaved off average handle times, chatbots can save call centers up to $1 million. And this may be a great way of handling an issue for both parties, in terms of their patience and your time. #7:

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NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2018

In part one of the blog series, we looked at a framework for building a strong business case to invest in customer experience technologies. In this blog, we will take a deeper look at some of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that drive enhanced customer experience and true financial benefits.

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Mindtouch

AUGUST 21, 2019

Customers, on the other hand, might seek information within their product (in-product contextual help content ), using Google, or through a company’s website and chatbot interface. Chatbots that can answer simple queries without human intervention, help customers find specific content, or hand off complex queries to a live agent.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 31, 2019

I could take you through a litany of common contact center terms and definitions … but why? In fact, I’ve included a link to an unbiased market source at the end of this blog. The post 7 Contact Center Glossary Terms You Need to Know appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

For a business, that means high costs and inefficient call center operations. Call centers, therefore, want to improve first call resolution rate, reduce call volume, and excel at customer service while reining in high costs. But how exactly will customer journey analytics work in a call center operation?

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