Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 5, 2020

Once I worked with a technical support center that had a fairly wide range of average handling times (AHTs). Most of the agents had AHTs somewhere from 8 to 12 minutes, but the AHT for one agent in the group was over 20 minutes.

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Global Response

MARCH 18, 2022

How to improve the customer experience in your call center. Thankfully, there’s a lot of ways to improve the customer experience in your call center. How improving your call center customer experience improves the customer journey. Tracking, understanding and analyzing your call center data.

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Global Response

MARCH 1, 2022

KPIs for call centers: 8 critical metrics to track. When it comes to KPIs for your call center, one thing is for sure: less is more. After all, when you’re managing a call center, whether it’s in-house or outsourced, there’s a long list of KPIs (key performance indicators) that you could be measuring.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Companies would have all the resources they needed to operate a BPO contact center in-house in a perfect world. A business process outsourcing can be the perfect fit for your company if you need more than one support channel. . Many companies migrate to BPO contact centers for their customer service needs.

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Babelforce

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

What do your call center agents do while at work? Yes, they answer customer calls. But they still take away from the time agents could spend taking calls. The time spent on these activities is called shrinkage. The time spent on these activities is called shrinkage.

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Call Experts

JULY 27, 2023

A customer service call center serves as the backbone of a company’s customer service operations, providing a centralized hub where all customer inquiries, requests, and concerns are addressed efficiently and effectively. That’s where a customer service call center comes in.

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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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Callminer

MARCH 9, 2020

Scheduling forms the foundation of every successful call center operation. Ensuring your organization has enough hands on deck at all times keeps callers from waiting too long or abandoning calls altogether before their questions can be answered. Keeping up with Incoming Calls. Monitoring Attendance and Leave.

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Fonolo

MAY 3, 2023

Lowering call abandonment rates in contact centers is one of the most powerful performance levers available to call center managers. It’s also what Fonolo Call-Backs do best. What is an Abandoned Call? TIP: Most contact center software will generate a Call Detail Record (CDR).

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Contact center technology can be the nerve center of your organization’s customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. Depending on the services offered, the contact center can also be called a call center, service desk, or customer service department. What Is Contact Center Technology?

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JustCall

APRIL 3, 2023

An inbound sales call center is an absolute necessity. Irrespective of the state of the phone calls, inbound call centers are an essential part of businesses today, providing a critical point of contact for customers to get support, make purchases, or get answers to their questions instantly.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

Brands have already made the move to upgrade from basic call centers to contact centers for the agility and flexibility that they provide. Addressing this gap between expectation and capacity, contact centers offer extended functionality and better efficiencies. What is a Contact Center?

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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. There are different types of call centers.

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Taylor Reach Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The path to contact center modernization has never been straightforward when it comes to its navigating technology infrastructure. Costly,” “crowded,” and “confusing” are how business owners typically describe the process of selecting the right platforms to power their center. On-premise contact center infrastructure is dead.

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Hodusoft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

7 Best and Effective Inbound Call Strategies For Call Centers. The inbound contact center serves as the point of access for customers for queries, complaints, issues, and feedback. Inbound call center software helps businesses to optimize huge volumes of inbound calls in order to deliver excellent customer service.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2018

This article underlines the value of DSS in customer service and focuses on the potential computer vision brings to call/chat centers, where providing a positive customer experience (CX) at scale is critical to success in the current competitive business climate. Current state of DSS in contact centers.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Assisting customers using visuals can add efficiency and significantly cut costs in three areas of customer service: the contact center. Visual Assistance in the Contact Center. Visual assistance bridges the visual gap between customers and contact centers. field services. self-service.

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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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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone system is an Internet-based phone system that allows businesses and contact centers to make voice calls. They enable the user to contact any landline, mobile, or even another computer using an Internet-connected laptop, desktop, tablet, or cell phone.

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Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

By Swati Sahai Call centers are an operationally-complex element of your business, but they play a big role in your customers’ experience with your company. It’s no easy task, but the right mix of call center metrics and KPIs can help you stay the course.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Visual assistance technology is a powerful tool for technical support, but it can also help address other customer inquiries, deliberations, and bureaucratic issues. Incorporating remote visual assistance into day-to-day operations helps: reduce customer effort and wait time. lower high call volume. improve efficiency.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 6, 2013

Lowering call abandonment in contact centers is what we do. It’s a primary benefit of our call-back software (and we’re proud of it) so you’ll forgive us for making this piece detailed… a round-up of what we’ll be covering today so you can skip the bits you already know.

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JustCall

JANUARY 18, 2023

In an inbound call, a customer initiates a call to a business’s contact center. The help desk generally handles these calls. In some cases, inbound calls can also be made by the employees. Call centers usually take inbound, and outbound calls for a business.

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 19, 2018

In the last Indicators post, we discussed one of the most important operational indicators: Average Handle Time or AHT. In this issue, we continue with other operational indicators dealing with the efficiency of the center, i.e. “Service Level”, “Average Speed of Answer (ASA)” and “Occupancy Rate”. Occupancy Rate.

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Vonage

MARCH 11, 2016

Melanie, a Verizon Wireless technical support rep, took a minor frustration and turned it into a great experience. Time to call. Pressed the number for technical support. How Verizon supported Melanie. Perhaps one reason is that many contact centers don’t support this channel the right way.

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teleopti

JANUARY 22, 2019

For instance, if today’s multi-channel customer engagement centers had not morphed from simple call centers to something much broader, many companies could have lost the majority of their customers and gone out of business a long time ago. It’s a sobering thought. A guide to survival. Involve and devolve.

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JustCall

MARCH 23, 2023

In this blog, we will go in-depth, covering everything from what is IVR (and multi-level IVR) and IVR call centers meaning to their benefits and the steps involved in IVR setups. It is used prominently across industries such as contact centers, healthcare, banking, payment processing, etc. What is Multi-level IVR?

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