Myra Golden Media

APRIL 11, 2023

A whopping one-third of contact centers have laid off employees in the last 12 months, reducing their headcount by about 33%. Despite fewer resources and fewer employees, contact centers are expected to achieve the same or better results. But how can they achieve this? Learn more about Balto AI’s solutions here.

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Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Providing an ever-improving customer experience while boosting contact center agent productivity is paramount for your business. During the best of economic times, it’s a smart business practice. Here’s the blueprint for achieving greater agent productivity in your call center.

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Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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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. Monitor and Ensure Compliance Maintaining compliance is foundational for your contact center.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Is gamification the right choice for your contact center? Employee engagement is one of the most challenging aspects to master in the contact center. Gamification works well within a contact center environment as it leverages a number of game mechanics that workplaces can use to keep employees engaged and focused.

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently. Unpacking the types of customer interactions contact centers handle provides key insights.

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Balto

MARCH 29, 2023

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your contact center can help you solve even the most challenging customer experience problems. And with customers having higher service level expectations than ever, deploying AI solutions into your existing contact center systems is vital for business success.

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Calltools

MARCH 6, 2024

Establishing trust is essential to conversions for contact center agents. While there are many ways to enhance the customer experience (CX), a preview dialer is one of the simplest yet most effective tools a contact center agent can use. Instead, an agent is immediately connected when the contact answers the call.

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Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. How do you build a high performance contact center? These enable you to make progress on your most pressing challenges and transform into a high performance contact center. Perhaps not.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contact centers play a vital role in today’s modern businesses. They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028. from 2023 to 2028.

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Balto

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

So, it comes as no surprise that one of the primary challenges identified by financial services contact center employees is the easy access of available desktop tools. In fact, one in five contact center employees has listed desktop tools among their top operational challenges for four years in a row.

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Aspect

JULY 15, 2020

Over the last several months, w e have e xperienced one of the most unusual times in modern human history, and we seem to be coming out the other side. Contact centers, like most business, have had to find solutions to provide their essential service from somewhere other than densely populated offices where COVID – 19 might spread.

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The GLOBO Blog

JUNE 22, 2017

GLOBO, a language technology and services company specializing in multilingual communication, is making near real-time, human translation possible. GLOBO will demo its new chat translation tool at Call Center Week (CCW) Conference & Expo (booth #1019), held June 26 to 30 at The Mirage in Las Vegas, NV.

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Monet Software

JANUARY 15, 2019

The dictionary defines efficiency as “effective operation as measured by a comparison of production with cost (as in energy, time and money).”. Sounds like the goal every contact center manager sets at the start of a new year. There are standard KPIs for every contact center, and they are all important.

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

There are two constants in the contact center. Customer expectations are evolving, and contact center leaders are working to elevate the customer experience. For this reason, workforce management has become a core focus of discussion amongst leaders looking to take their contact centers to the next level.

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Monet Software

MARCH 12, 2018

Churchill It’s easy to fall into ruts, whether it’s Friday night dinner at the same restaurant, or contact center guidelines for how agents should handle specific customer situations. Let’s use Average Handle Time (AHT) as an example. Has average handle time been reduced?

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3CLogic

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

SQM reports the average handle time (AHT) for a call is 10 minutes, while IFC reports summarizing the call takes, on average, 6 minutes. In other words, two-thirds of an agent's time is spent on call notes and summarizations, instead of helping the next customer.

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Calltools

JUNE 14, 2023

As a contact center owner or manager, your customer’s experience is at the heart of your operations. Equally as important as your agent’s experience , the customer experience (CX) involves your customer’s perceptions of your brand and how they feel about interactions with your contact center.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

As a call center stakeholder—be it an owner, manager, or supervisor—the task of harnessing call center reporting to pinpoint areas for improvement, optimize agent performance, and ultimately enhance customer satisfaction can seem daunting. This includes calls, emails, live chat, and social media.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 28, 2023

Improving your customer service metrics requires a deeper look at which KPIs make sense for your contact center and the strategies you use to achieve them. What Call Center Metrics Should You Measure? This metric can help you determine if your contact center is operating efficiently. What needs to change?

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Babelforce

MAY 18, 2022

Call center forecasting is a set of practices that aims to determine the contact volume and number of agents needed to handle that contact volume over a set period of time. Accurate forecasting optimizes productivity and ensures contact centers have the right number of agents to deal with contact volume.

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Spearline

JULY 9, 2019

By their very nature, contact centers receive a high volume of telephone calls. Often unknown to them, their customers may be unable to contact them due to issues in the wider network, errors in call termination/routing, or other. The “representative contact center” arrives at $1.3M in annual cost.

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NobelBiz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Discover tried-and-tested techniques to navigate challenging conversations in the customer service and contact center arena. These data can be organized and analyzed to help better understand what’s happening in the call center . All enabled by NobelBiz leading contact center technology.

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Balto

OCTOBER 27, 2022

million for audit funding in 2023 — which may potentially spell disaster for some contact centers. Let’s take a look at the role a contact center may play in the compliance crackdown, as well as how to best prepare. 3 Ways to Prepare for Stricter Compliance Audits (in Real Time).

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Playvox

JULY 6, 2022

There’s a lot riding on your contact center schedule. Does it have the right tasks at the right times? Will customers get service in the time they expect ? But how well your agents follow their schedules is an important metric to manage in your contact center — one called schedule adherence.

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Fonolo

MARCH 8, 2022

One vital aspect of call center efficiency is call center workforce management (WFM). Industry Report: State of the Contact Center 2022. What is Call Center Workforce Management? Put simply, your call center workforce refers to your agents. Shift scheduling systems. All the above is a lot to track?—

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Hodusoft

JULY 19, 2023

Best practices for using inbound call center software Future of inbound call center software What is Inbound Call Center Software? Inbound call center software refers to a suite of tools and technologies used to manage and handle incoming customer calls within a contact center environment.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 31, 2023

Government departments and businesses operate contact centers to connect with their communities, enabling citizens and customers to call to make appointments, request services, and sometimes just ask a question. Unless the hold music is particularly good, callers don’t typically enjoy having to wait—it wastes time and money.

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SharpenCX

JULY 26, 2023

Every call your contact center receives brings heaps of data with it: customer information, customer preferences, product insights, customer satisfaction scores, and much more. What is Call Center Data? Call center data is any information that comes from customer interactions in your contact center.

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Vistio

MAY 4, 2022

Vistio does not try to boil the ocean like many contact-center-as-a-service and customer relationship management tools attempt; instead, its platform is a lightweight system of augmentation and assistance. Most importantly, Vistio helps solve the most important problem that contact centers have always faced: attrition.

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

There are two constants in the contact center. Customer expectations are evolving, and contact center leaders are working to elevate the customer experience. For this reason, workforce management has become a core focus of discussion amongst leaders looking to take their contact centers to the next level.

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost. WFM to the rescue.

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Balto

JULY 12, 2022

As we continue our series into Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for contact centers, we’re turning our attention to managers and supervisors. As some of the higher-paid employees in your contact center, managers should be focused on strategic initiatives to improve team performance. Get a Demo.

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Balto

JUNE 13, 2022

In the contact center industry, we talk a lot about the importance of first call resolution (FCR). The more queries we can resolve on the first contact, the more satisfied customers are. Why Are Manager Requests Metrics Important to Contact Centers? Here are seven tips to help you reduce contact center escalations.

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Babelforce

APRIL 27, 2022

Here are some vital outbound call KPIs to measure: Average Handle Time (AHT). When an agent’s average handle time is too long, they have poor closing skills or don’t understand the product/service that well. You can check out some Average Handling Time Tips here.).

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Tethr

JANUARY 24, 2022

With a click into the leader dashboard, you’ll be able to see important statistics like average handle time, sources of friction, churn risk rate, and overall customer satisfaction. Finally, we’ve rolled out CostRx and AgentRx for Contact Center leaders. Request a demo with our team today.

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Balto

JUNE 29, 2022

According to a study by PWC, eight in ten customers say contact center agents have the biggest impact on customer experience. So, how your agents handle contacts is often the barometer by which your organization is judged. What Is Real-time Guidance? Real-time is like performing live surgery. Get a Demo.

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