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What is a Contact Center?

VirtualPBX

Last week we announced the newest product to our lineup The VirtualPBX Contact Center. But what is a contact center? A contact center is a vital component of any organization’s operations. Within these centers, dedicated customer service representatives work diligently to address customer inquiries.

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Banking: 5 keys to supercharging your digital strategy

Talkdesk

Almost 17,500 US bank branches closed from the beginning of 2014 to the middle of June 2020. Bank branch closures create additional costs for local business owners, making it harder to manage cash flow, maintain productivity levels and contribute to the wider local economy. Impact on small businesses. Embrace the cloud.

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

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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Putting Humanity in Contact Centers

Customer Relationship Metrics

It’s just the nature of the contact center industry. Or is it time to put humanity into your contact center? It’s time to put humanity into your contact center.” Managing a contact center is fast paced and furious. Doing things the popular way in the contact centers no longer works.”

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. When more enquiries are handled by AI-assisted agents – for example with best-next-step recommendations – are traditionally measured agent performance metrics still accurate? New Self Service KPI Metrics.

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What Are You Thinking? How Executive Perception of the Contact Center Makes or Breaks Success

Balto

Contact centers are no different. Whether executives view their contact center as a profit center or a cost sink ultimately determines how much investment, or divestment, happens there. Is the improvement in these metrics really worth the time and resources? The study revealed an interesting correlation.

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Unleashing Agent Retention in Contact Centers: Top Experts Reveal Secrets

CX Global Media

The fifth step ( Step 1 , Step 2 , Step 3 , Step 4 ) in the contact center agent journey is about agent retention. Retaining contact center agents has always been a significant focus area in contact centers. A several Expert Sessions are dedicated to the topic of on-boarding contact center agents.