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A Beginner’s Guide On An Effective Inbound Call Strategy

OctopusTech

Inbound call centers play a crucial role in delivering these revenue-generating experiences, so everything from the standard greeting to agent training to the establishment of KPIs needs to be designed with the customer in mind. Some companies even use call center gamification as an incentive system for performance.

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How to Leverage Advanced Contact Center Analytics to Unlock Valuable Insights

3CLogic

Picture this — your call center experiences a huge surge in volume on Tuesday morning at 10am, a time that’s typically quiet. As the queue grows, average handle time (AHT) spikes, the abandon rate grows, and the first call resolution rate plummets.

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The Tactics You Need to Know to Implement 3 Key Customer Service Trends for Better Experiences in Your Call Center in 2021

SharpenCX

Build recognition into your call center culture, so every agent feels included and encouraged, no matter where they’re working or what their schedule looks like. Read Next] Erase bad call center experience trends for your agent s in 2021. Ask questions and seek to understand why handle times are off base.

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Best Practices for Recruiting, Hiring and Training

COPC

Rather than just measuring one metric such as average handle time (AHT) or close rate, the call center added other parameters such as conversion/close rate and weighted number of orders based on time worked. Finally, the cancellation rate was also included when they were determining top performers.