Fonolo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve decided up your contact center game. Picking an effective contact center strategy is a process that requires thought, evaluation, and preparation. We’ve got eight essential tips so you can start improving your contact center today.

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Balto

JANUARY 11, 2024

“Do you enjoy filling out customer service surveys?” ” Then why do we pester our customers with surveys? You can eliminate post-transaction surveys with a new sentiment analysis technique called the sentiment arc. Sentiment analysis has been used for quite some time.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If your contact center is like most, you probably have a robust set of guidelines that document your procedures, detail your standards, and outline how employees should handle various situations. But one thing many contact centers are missing is a remote work company policy. What Is A Remote Work Policy?

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Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 26, 2017

You’ve conducted surveys, created committees, put in recognition programs, and still you struggle. It’s just the nature of the contact center industry. Or is it time to put humanity into your contact center? Or is it time to put humanity into your contact center? Is it really?

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

CX and Contact Center Priorities and Technology Investments for 2023 March 2023 Each year, DMG Consulting surveys our international customer base of enterprise, contact center, and IT leaders and asks them to share their customer experience (CX) and contact center goals, as well as related technology investment priorities for the upcoming year.

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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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Global Response

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

What is a Multi-Channel Contact Center? Ready to increase customer engagement and satisfaction, reduce average handle time and grow sales? Then it might be time for you to consider a multi-channel contact center for your business. So what is a multi-channel contact center?

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

Introduction Contact centers are one of the most underrated departments of a business. It is important to equip your call centers with the right toolset and insight for them to function well. What Is Contact Center Analytics? This means your contact center is adequately equipped.

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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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Fonolo

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Sure, if you’re hiring correctly, your contact center will be filled to the brim with the right personalities and work ethics for success—but being surrounded by the best call center agents means effective training, constant support, and strategic goal setting. Performance Evaluation Scorecard for the Contact Center. (It

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BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. We’ve long been proponents of making transactional customer service low effort, for both customer and contact center. So let’s get into it. Those first three are what we’d expect.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Optimizing team productivity is the key to achieving this goal, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the steps necessary to unlock your call center’s full potential. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center? This technology is a component that takes calls and assigns them to the appropriate agent.

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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. Many companies migrate to BPO contact centers for their customer service needs. BPO contact centers help businesses increase productivity, grow their customer base, and improve customer experience.

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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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CCNG

JULY 27, 2022

With the shift to multi-or omnichannel contact centers, today's emphasis is on customer experience. That means operational metrics like Average Speed of Answer (ASA), Average Handle Time (AHT), and FCR prove to focus on controlling costs instead of ensuring overall customer satisfaction.

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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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Customer Service Life

JANUARY 7, 2021

They boast a number of benefits for contact centers handling text-based support channels like email, chat, SMS, social media, and more, including: Improved speed and accuracy when interacting with customers. Reduced time to full resolution. The fact of the matter is that all savvy contact center agents use them.

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ConvergeOne

MARCH 16, 2021

When it comes to contact center authentication, callers overwhelmingly prefer voice biometrics to knowledge-based security questions. Depending on the survey, the numbers suggest that at least 8 out of 10 callers prefer to be authenticated using voice biometrics over traditional knowledge-based authentication. 50 per call.

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CCNG

JANUARY 4, 2023

Elevating the Customer Experience (CX) is an obsession for the contact center industry, and rightly so. The experiences that customers have with your contact center condition the way they think about you as a supplier of goods and services and as a trusted part­ner in providing the things that they need and want in their lives.

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Monet Software

JANUARY 16, 2020

Blended agent assignments have been a staple of the contact center since the advent of automated call distribution (ACD) systems. Enabling outbound agents to fill in on inbound lines when call volumes spike, for example, has offered valuable options for enhancing call center metrics, like service levels and abandonment rates.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

This rings especially true in the contact center, where many of the simpler, repetitive tasks are still performed by humans. It’s a crucial part of the contact center and the longer you wait to deploy it the further behind your competition you fall. Would you consider that a great customer experience?

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Call Experts

JULY 28, 2022

Contact center support is a vital part of any business. A contact center can help save you time and money while delivering outstanding service to your customers. The right contact center will improve customer satisfaction , which leads to increased sales and profitability. What Is A Contact Center?

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Callminer

JUNE 9, 2020

Average handle time, or AHT, is an important call center metric. To calculate AHT, add your total talk time + total hold time + total after-call tasks, and then divide by the number of total calls. That is your average handle time. Calculating Your Average Handle Time.

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Customer Service Life

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Early in my career as a contact center manager, I did many things that make me cringe nowadays. I rode that high horse for a long time — even marking team members down on their quality evaluations for failing to end calls with that simple question.

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Customer Service Life

MAY 21, 2018

The first was to gauge our quality performance across all of our programs and the second was to be a thought leader in the customer experience space — working to promote best practices in our approach to customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey results and share valuable insights with clients. Average Handle Time (AHT).

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Ready to level up your contact center team? Improving call center agent performance can seem overwhelming, and you might wonder where to start. TIP: Common KPIs for contact center agents can include average handle time (AHT), first call resolution (FCR), and customer satisfaction score (CSat).

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Fonolo

JANUARY 21, 2021

TIP: Common KPIs for contact center agents can include Average Handle Time (AHT), First Call Resolution (FCR), and Customer Satisfaction score (CSat). If you don’t already have a system to track agent performance , it’s time to make the upgrade. Think training is a one-time requirement for your agents?

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2021

If you go the extra mile and seek personalized, timely, insightful feedback from your customers, you can identify and improve contact center operations—and strengthen customer loyalty. As we aim to evolve customer experience over time, many of us are identifying problems with these types of surveys.

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Fonolo

MAY 22, 2019

In addition to today’s batch of four reports, please check out our new re-issued report on managing call spikes in the contact center. Ventana’s Value Index for Cloud Contact Centers (2018). For the first time, Gartner is including AI as part of their assessment although, it seems, somewhat reluctantly.

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Taylor Reach Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

During these meetings, I routinely asked about the current operation of the Contact Center, what changes they had initiated (along with the results) and what pain points they were currently facing. The business was growing and along with that, the Contact Center had grown in size. By: Turaj Seyrafiaan. The Situation.

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SharpenCX

MAY 26, 2020

It’s common for some business leaders to view their contact center teams as an afterthought. This isn’t helped by contact centers’ notoriously high turnover rates. Call center jobs are, too often, chalked up as entry-level roles. Starting with the Source of Quality CX — Your Contact Center Agents.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Contact Center Customer Experience always starts with how a customer feels before knowing how a particular technology works. And the premise of how customers feel when they call your contact center starts from your IVR messaging. The IVR messaging is what customers hear when they call your contact center.

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VocalCom

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A contact center is the backbone of a company’s customer service department. As customer experience is a top priority for brands these days, a well-functioning contact center is vital to winning customer loyalty. Here are five qualities of an exceptional contact center that lead to outstanding customer service.

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Call Design

JULY 6, 2021

Here’s a list of 10 key metrics that can be used by contact centre managers to ensure the delivery of both strong customer experiences and financial performance through workforce efficiency. According to a Contact Center Helper report, 95.7% First Contact Resolution. Average Handle Time (AHT).

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 14, 2021

When it comes to keeping a pulse on the health of your contact center, cost per contact can be a very handy tool. Here’s how to calculate CPC: At its core, the process of measuring cost per contact is pretty straightforward. Simply pick a time period and follow the formula below. Unfamiliar with this term?

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