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Technical Reps or Agent Techs? The inter-changing roles of technical support and customer service

TechSee

For sales support, press 1. For product support, press 1. For technical support, press 1. Likewise, agents were empowered to go above and beyond their standard scripts, using their newfound technical knowledge and skills to assist their customers. “You’ve reached Service Enterprises.

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Replacing Customer Service Surveys with Sentiment Analysis

Balto

Sentiment analysis has been used for quite some time. Contact center software, voice of customer software, and quality assurance platforms all commonly contain sentiment analysis tools. These tools can be deployed to calculate the sentiment arc as well. Is this a real-time assessment or a process that’s run on a schedule?

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KPIs for call centers: 8 critical metrics to track

Global Response

Are you looking to make sure call center agents are equipped to handle each call as efficiently as possible? Then you may want to look at average handle time and first contact resolution. In this situation, the best KPIs to track would include average handle time and FCR (first call resolution).

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The Supervisor Cadence – Does It Drive the Wrong Behavior?

CCNG

However, using the word “cadence” as a management tool to lead people in the work-at-home space puts a manager’s skills and ability to achieve top performance into a box. To make matters worse, the agent’s average handle time goes up because the agent is discouraged and types or talks slower. I’d sure appreciate it.”

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How to Evaluate and Choose a Help Desk Service Provider

Global Response

Be sure they have deep knowledge of the software, hardware and network requirements necessary to run your help desk, as well as skilled agents who are able to effectively provide Tier I technical support on your product. 9) Consider the ease-of-use of their tools. 5) Evaluate scalability and flexibility.

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Slaying 6 Myths on Remote Visual Support

TechSee

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. reduce costly truck rolls and product returns.

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Call Centre 101: Understanding Inbound and Outbound Calls

Select VoiceCom Blog

Technical support Technical support is a type of customer service, but not all customer service calls are technical support. Fashion brands, for example, don’t necessarily need technical support. Technical support can include changing account information or resolving bugs in the service.