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ROBUST KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CAN CUT COSTS

CCNG

Employees and gig workers are harder to retain, and the job of the customer-facing agent is getting more complicated and stressful. Customers are less patient, and robust technology that meets both employee and customer needs isn’t being implemented fast enough and efficiently enough to reduce the anxiety.

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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. Those data points still play a role in measuring performance, but your partner should have their eyes set on the bigger picture of customer success.

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3 Key Strategies For Call Center Customer Service

Fonolo

No matter what product or service you offer, your approach needs to be nothing short of “customer-obsessed.”. Knowing exactly what your customers want and don’t want will help you to maximize your call center’s customer care, leading to growth and revenue opportunities for your business.

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Silencing the Noise: Unveiling the Impact on Contact Centre Agents and Brands

CSM Magazine

This is particularly worrying, considering agent KPIs are forensically measured and metrics such as Customer Satisfaction and Average Handling Time are easily affected by loud noises — whether these come from the customer’s or the agent’s side.

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The Impact of Bilingual Support on the Customer Experience When a bilingual solution is offered to the customer, companies quickly find that quality scores increase accordingly. The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. It’s our thing. So, of course, we’re biased.

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KPI 101: Call Center Workforce Management Metrics

Global Response

Start measuring performance by creating a dashboard Metrics are used by customer care teams to measure performance and signal when changes are needed to make improvements. Average handle time (AHT) measures the average length of interaction, including hold time, talk time, and after-call work.

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The Timeless Consumer Needs That Define Great CX

Skybridge

We spend a lot of time in the customer care industry talking about consumer expectations: the trends, the unpredictable shifts, and of course, the latest and greatest innovations we can employ to better meet them. In other words, all the technology investment in the world can’t buy you customer love – or loyalty.