Talkdesk

MAY 12, 2020

The latest trend in at-home agent training centers around online, specialized tools that offer hands-on practice with a contact center interface, testing employees’ ability to learn and adapt to a technology they’ll be using daily. Encourage them to introduce their role on the team as well as how the agents can contact them.

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Contact Center Schedule adherence At home agents Scripts 119

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? Why is benchmarking important?

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Management Gamification 52

Aspect

OCTOBER 19, 2017

It feels like just yesterday we were standing on stage in Orlando announcing the 1 st annual Aspect Contact Center Benchmark (if you missed it here’s the press release ). Once we get your results we will develop a customized report and you will receive a copy of our 2017 Contact Center Benchmark Report.

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Benchmark Interactive Voice Response Gamification Contact Center 85

Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

To ensure the long-term success of a contact center, the management must be aware of what’s going on in the contact center. So, what’s the best way to keep an eye on the daily operations of a contact center? What is Real-Time Monitoring and Why it is Important in the Contact Center?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Analytics Contact center software APIs 52

Fonolo

MAY 3, 2023

Lowering call abandonment rates in contact centers is one of the most powerful performance levers available to call center managers. Reducing abandonment rates is a primary benefit of our call-back software and we’ve helped dozens of companies improve their KPIs by solving their abandonment rate problems.

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Abandon rate Contact Center Abandon Call Call Center 75

Hodusoft

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

HoduCC's Predictive Dialer Earns Prestigious Gartner Badges In today’s highly competitive contact center software solutions industry, standing out from others can be very challenging. As this industry continues to evolve, HoduCC will remain at the forefront, setting a benchmark for innovation and customer satisfaction.

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Contact center software Interactive Voice Response Contact Center Benchmark 52

NobelBiz

APRIL 3, 2023

Generally speaking, in the contact center space, people tend to look at the one-to-one interaction with an agent as the primary means of obtaining information about products and services. Research from Benchmark Portal found that, on average, 15% of customer inquiries are handled through self-service. You guessed it; it’s money.

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Self service Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Banking 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In a contact center, facilitate managing the large volume of daily customer interactions by using essential CRM strategies. CRM software enables contact centers to easily store and access customer information such as purchase history and contact details.

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CRM Contact Center Metrics Benchmark 52

SharpenCX

JANUARY 23, 2020

Contact center managers struggle to coach for better performance. In a sea of numbers spread across 13 different screens, how do you know what levers to pull to make real changes in your contact center? Download Now: How to build customer experience strategies using the data you already have in your contact center.

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Coaching Contact Center Benchmark Management 98

JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Contact centers are the conversation hubs of a business that faces an immense flurry of activity every single day. So how can your business, in such a situation, ensure that your contact center is functioning optimally? All an average customer wants from calling your contact center is to resolve their query.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Scripts Self service 40

Hodusoft

JUNE 5, 2023

HoduSoft’s HoduCC call/contact center software winning the Globee® Awards for Information Technology serves as a moment of celebration for its team that has worked tirelessly and relentlessly to develop and deliver innovative and high-quality unified communication solutions. But the most important thing is to win it together.”

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Contact center software Benchmark Contact Center Customer centricity 40

SharpenCX

MARCH 5, 2020

Over the past few years, the rise of social media, always-in-hand mobile devices, and the generational workforce and consumer swap have made waves in customer service and best practices for contact centers. Contact centers and customer service strategies can’t shift fast enough to keep pace with the rest of the world.

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Best practices Contact Center Airlines Benchmark 67

Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

The strain to balance taking care of employees to protect them from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. As contact volume, customer anxiety and agent stress all still soar, what you once managed can now feel overwhelmingly un-manageable. Every time.

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Best practices Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 84

Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

For most contact centers, surviving the first months of COVID-19 required swift operational reboots that began with major work-from-home (WFH) transitions. The strain of balancing the need to protect employees from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. The Cloud.

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Best practices Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 83

NobelBiz

MAY 2, 2023

Welcome to this insightful blog post, where we discuss building a successful outbound lead generation strategy for contact centers. If an outbound campaign works with a list of 500 leads and only 50 persons answer back, the Contact Rate for that particular campaign will be 10%. And no wonder. And no wonder. Learn more here.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Call Center CRM 52

Balto

MAY 13, 2022

So much of the emphasis in contact centers is on providing the support and service that produce high customer satisfaction. However, we also need to focus on making sure our contact center agents are satisfied. However, we also need to focus on making sure our contact center agents are satisfied.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Gamification Scripts Coaching 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Importance of Reporting and Analytics in a Contact Center Reporting and analytics are one of the crucial components that help gain an accurate and sincere state of a contact center’s development. Presented using reports to monitor a contact center’s performance over time.

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Best practices Analytics Contact Center Coaching 52

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Too often, efforts to improve contact center performance are based business goals like increasing labor efficiency, or lower operating cost. But contact centers are not built to serve managers, they are built to serve customers. Here are five key takeaways, in no specific order, to improve contact center performance.

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Contact Center Contact center software Benchmark First call resolution 49

SharpenCX

APRIL 1, 2020

Download Now: Partner with your VP of Ops to address these 7 projects in your contact center (one at a time). Use company goals as a marker for your quarterly contact center goals, so you set targets that contribute to the big picture. Put your quarterly goals on display in the contact center for your team to see.

Contact Center 67

Contact Center Customer Service Agent burnout Benchmark 67

NobelBiz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

SMS text messaging In-person (for retail contact centers) Of course, the easy way of deploying, managing and tracking all these channels is to opt for a cloud contact center platform such as NobelBiz OMNI+ that allows full omnichannel operability.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Interactive Voice Response Contact Center 104

airespring

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

How effective is your contact center? Below are a range of statistics from a benchmark report by Dimension Data, showcasing the numbers that defined the contact center industry in 2015. With 2016 already under way, use these numbers to measure where you sit on the contact center curve. This is easy.

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Contact Center First call resolution Contact center software Benchmark 74

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. Industry benchmarks put the call escalation rate at about 10%. Why Are Manager Requests Metrics Important to Contact Centers?

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Management Contact center software Coaching Contact Center 52

NobelBiz

MARCH 23, 2022

Running a successful contact center means you’re responsible for keeping customers happy and your agents performing effectively so that your company may thrive. And generating an ROI on your contact center to increase your company’s bottom line is part of that growth strategy. Actually, no, it’s not that simple!

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contact center solutions Contact Center voip call center software 52

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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Interactive Voice Response Contact Center contact center solutions Feedback 52

Hodusoft

JUNE 7, 2024

Call Center Management: Challenges, Strategies, Tips, and Best Practices In today’s time, setting up a call or contact center is extremely easy. At HoduSoft , we strongly believe that call centers and contact centers should do whatever it takes to manage their daily operations as efficiently and effectively as possible.

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Best practices Call Center Omni-channel support Management 52

NICE inContact

AUGUST 2, 2016

Great customer service has become necessary for building customer loyalty and is an increasingly important benchmark when companies are deciding where to take their business. A common theme for companies known for exceptional customer service is a robust, well equipped call or contact center. Register today!

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Contact Center Contact center software Technical Support Benchmark 48

Transparent BPO

AUGUST 20, 2019

If you were to ask many business executives, they would say their customer service contact center is a necessary expense that does not contribute to the bottom line. As such, they don’t emphasize technology upgrades or process improvements for in-house centers and, when outsourcing, settle for the least expensive options.

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Contact Center outsourcing Surveys Call flow 69

SharpenCX

AUGUST 21, 2023

Measurable — Goals must be quantifiable and include a trackable benchmark to hit. Add AI to customer service software by [date] to reduce call times X% with next best actions and predictive modeling.” More than call-center-specific objectives, this is one goal that’s directly related to greater company success. The result?

Call Center 67

Call Center First call resolution Contact Center Contact center software 67

NobelBiz

JULY 25, 2023

Christian Montes, Executive Vice President of Client Operations @NobelBiz The Multifaceted Channels of Interaction In a contact center, customer interactions unfold across a myriad of channels, each holding a unique treasure trove of insights.

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Analytics Call Center Scripts Contact center software 98

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) completely transform the consumer experience and bring contact center software out of the dark ages? It’s not surprising that many contact center leaders feel a little unsure of when, where or why to implement AI in their call center operations.

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Customer Care Contact center software call center software Benchmark 55

Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Contact center training in the most successful contact centers is an ongoing process — for every employee from the top down. Training topics may include things like: Compliance training QA training Technology/software training Sales/customer service training Why is Call Center Training So Important?

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Call Center Contact Center Coaching Gamification 141

NobelBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Integration issues within contact centers are not mere obstacles; they are the bridges to seamless customer experiences, connecting the dots between customer data, efficiency, and satisfaction. Solving contact center integration issues with Nobelbiz Nobelbiz recognizes the importance of seamless integration.

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Call Center Management Contact Center Contact center software 52

NICE inContact

JUNE 30, 2016

For that reason, Speech Analytics software and processes have been gradually picking up steam in the contact center industry for the better part of a decade. Despite this, many contact centers are still struggling to find practical uses, and/or measure the ROI of the technology. You Still Need Analysts.

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Analytics Contact Center Technology First call resolution 49

NICE inContact

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Inbound call centers face rising expectations from their customers to deliver exceptional experiences in an increasingly omnichannel world. Our new 2018 Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark surveyed over 2000 consumers across the US, the UK and Australia to get their insights on customer experiences.

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Call Center Benchmark Contact center software Contact Center 48

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Increasingly, contact center leaders are making this transformational decision because they’re ready to: Increase efficiency Boost customer satisfaction Keep up with competitors Improve time to resolution Reduce agent costs. How can contact centers keep up with this demand? How can contact centers get the most out of AI?

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Interactive Voice Response Best practices Contact Center Contact center software 54

Upstream Works

MARCH 21, 2019

Establishing customer trust and loyalty is the single most important aspect of customer experience, according to the Dimension Data 2019 Global Customer Experience Benchmarking Report. The report also identifies speed of resolution, agent knowledge and ease of contact as key factors which foster that trust and loyalty.

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Customer Experience Management Contact center software Self service 92

SharpenCX

MAY 13, 2020

As you build and share dashboards with your team, share historical data as a benchmark for current performance. Then, pull in live data, charts and reports to show how current metrics compare to benchmark metrics. They took benchmark data and shared it with us (and their team). Get the scoop.

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Call Center Metrics Benchmark Contact Center 76