OctopusTech

MARCH 1, 2023

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. Call centers should resist the attitude that “supervisors will pick it up as they go.”

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SharpenCX

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Document important aspects of your call center tech, like what platforms need to be open and key steps to use them, as a reference point for agents when they need help. Bulk up your knowledge management resources so agents have access to SOPs and common customer questions. It builds longevity into your contact center, too.

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Pipkins

APRIL 7, 2020

Let’s Break Down What Workforce Manage Solution Automation Means For You. How come a call center with 36 agents running on spreadsheets can feel like rowing up the River Styx while a call center with 100 agents is sailing smooth? Let’s imagine a hypothetical magic call center.

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Talkdesk

MAY 17, 2016

This guest post is written by Talkdesk Product Manager Ernest Wong. Today, we’re announcing Customer Sentiment Score (CSS), a new kind of call center feature that allows companies to understand customer sentiment as well as predict potential customer unhappiness and proactively address it.

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3CLogic

APRIL 13, 2022

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. Upgrade Your Contact Center Analytics.

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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. So what exactly do call centers do?

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Today’s demanding consumers have high expectations when it comes to the call center experience. The solution to hold-time is to offer a call-back as an alternative. The annual “Contact Center Decision Maker’s Guide” from ContactBabel is one of the best sources of data about the industry. Average Handle Time.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I worked the same customer support job for a year when my manager threw new (complicated) software into the mix. My boss brought it on to improve our customer experience, but in reality, it just made my job harder. Download Now] 7 projects every VP of Ops can address to reduce inefficiencies in your contact center.

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COPC

JULY 11, 2016

Posting 1 of 2 in a Series—Call Center Best Practices for Recruiting, Hiring and Training. To improve performance and provide a superior customer experience, call centers often focus on the three main functions of operational management, quality, and workforce management. In fact, when COPC Inc.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Mix in the random nature of call arrivals and the ordinary variability of human performance and the magnitude of the task can be huge. And although it may sound strange, small and midsized centers are generally even harder to manage than larger centers.

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