TLC Associates

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

When you are in the evaluation stage, choosing the right contact center hinges upon each vendor’s response to typical exploratory questions within the RFP. Even when you’ve made your choice, you still want assurances you’ve wisely chosen an outsourced contact center partner. Related Articles.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). Register for our upcoming webinar “When, How and Why Customers Self-Help” with Steve Morrell, Managing Director and Principal Analyst of Contact Babel and John Cray, Vice President – Product Management, Enghouse Interactive. Digital literacy is the new normal.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contact centers play a vital role in today’s modern businesses. They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

Whenever you hear the term contact center, you imagine cubicles filled with employees, headsets on their heads resolving customers’ queries. Thanks to cloud contact center solutions, today, organizations can host their contact centers at a third-party data center.

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Stafford Communications

JUNE 2, 2020

Why are you measuring service levels that way? One way that consumer satisfaction finds its way into operations is the service level. When we say ‘service level’ in this context, we are referring to what is rooted in the classic call center measure: what percentage of calls is answered within a certain time period.

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Real Blue Sky

MARCH 6, 2023

There are many reasons to consider whether to outsource your contact center. Before the internet, customer service was typically limited to a brick-and-mortar storefront, letter-writing, or a phone call to customer service. Thankfully, this perspective on the contact center has shifted significantly.

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Real Blue Sky

MARCH 6, 2023

There are many reasons to consider whether to outsource your contact center. Before the internet, customer service was typically limited to a brick-and-mortar storefront, letter-writing, or a phone call to customer service. Thankfully, this perspective on the contact center has shifted significantly.

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Noble Systems

MAY 4, 2021

We get a lot of questions about managing contact centers, building successful customer contact strategies, and how new technologies can help impact the customer experience. In this blog series, we’ll take a look at some of the questions that we hear most often when talking with customers.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). Blog #2 Microsoft Teams Drives Agent Productivity. In our first blog, we explored how Microsoft Teams, when integrated into a Contact Center, helps provide a better experience for the end-customer. Self-Service Helps Agents Too.

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Expivia

OCTOBER 4, 2021

However, finding and training staff to handle your customer service isn’t the easiest (or cheapest) task. . This is when contact center outsourcing comes into play. Contact center outsourcing can take the weight of customer management off your shoulders. What Is Contact Center Outsourcing?

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 14, 2022

5 Ways to leverage eCommerce Contact Center Software to improve CX. The e-commerce contact center has been realized as one of the most powerful tools in this battle. because 73% of buyers admit customer service experience is the key influencer in their purchase decision. What does an e-commerce contact center do?

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call4You Marketing implemented NobelBiz Omni+, an advanced, full-featured cloud contact center solution equipped with an impressive stack of options and features that can be easily integrated, customized, and optimized to any contact center use case.

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teleopti

AUGUST 13, 2019

Statistically, the majority of contact centers still use manual processes to adjust their intraday workforce scheduling but why play a constant game of catch-up? Dave Hoekstra of Teleopti outlines 5 reasons to invest in real-time management to balance the workload, achieve service levels and mop-up agent idle time.

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Noble Systems

AUGUST 1, 2019

By ignoring the signs of agent overload and just considering high attrition as a fact of life in your contact center, you are risking your reputation, and the negative impact to customer satisfaction, customer retention and bottom-line results. This blog is Part 1 of a two-part series. Loss of concentration. Negative attitude.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! This blog is Part One of a two-part series that aims to demystify these four components. Forecasting.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 12, 2019

For seasoned workforce managers, predicting contact volumes and creating perfect schedules are second nature – even although, to those of us on the outside, they seem to speak a whole different contact center language! This blog is Part One of a two-part series that aims to demystify these four components. Forecasting.

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Noble Systems

MAY 4, 2021

We get a lot of questions about managing contact centers, building successful customer contact strategies, and how new technologies can help impact the customer experience. In this blog series, we’ll take a look at some of the questions that we hear most often when talking with customers.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 31, 2022

If you’ve been a reader of Blue Ocean’s blog for any length of time, you probably know we love sports and particularly baseball. Let’s look at what sports can teach us about consistency in achieving contact center service levels—and how to adapt to even the most unexpected outcomes. Practice Makes (Almost) Perfect.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. RTA is one of the most underrated metrics in the contact center, but undoubtedly one of the most important. Intraday management. Schedule changes. as necessary.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. RTA is one of the most underrated metrics in the contact center, but undoubtedly one of the most important. Intraday management. Schedule changes. as necessary.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Executive Guide to Improving 6 Call Center Metrics Occupancy rate is rarely calculated on an individual level; typically it will be used to determine which times of day, week or year you will need to schedule more agents to handle call volume. Why is Occupancy an Important Call Center Metric? Very important indeed!

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 4, 2019

Like a lot of contact centers, Superior Contact, a subsidiary of TelNet Worldwide, found itself at a fork in the road: Keep pouring resources into its outdated premise-based system or take the leap into the cloud with new and knowledgeable partner. Now with NICE inContact as its partner , Superior Contact has never looked back.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

As a call center stakeholder—be it an owner, manager, or supervisor—the task of harnessing call center reporting to pinpoint areas for improvement, optimize agent performance, and ultimately enhance customer satisfaction can seem daunting. What are the Benefits of Call Center Reporting?

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TASKE Technology

AUGUST 4, 2019

Last month, we talked about how KPIs can help you measure whether your contact center is meeting business objectives. We also covered a few KPIs that are generally accepted as core measures of service levels in a contact center: first call resolution, telephone service factor, and abandon rates.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the world of contact center metrics, service level has always held a special place. Its origins go back over five decades, to the earliest days of call centers. What is the Purpose of Service Levels? And for many call center managers, maintaining these service levels is a top priority.

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VHT

APRIL 9, 2019

One of the fundamental responsibilities of any financial services provider is to avoid potentially risky activities and to ensure that there is regulatory compliance at every level, including the customer-facing contact center. Also known as GDPR, this European law is a game changer for financial services contact centers.

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Aspect

JANUARY 7, 2020

Truth be told, WFM is a bit of a mystery to most contact center employees. . Forecasting likely contact center volumes . Scheduling enough agents to service these volumes . And, for the planning team, it’s the best tool for understanding and managing how the labor matches contact center volumes. .

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Software solutions offer a world of features that cater to various aspects of call center operations. This transition is simply vital for call centers aiming to stay competitive and meet the evolving needs of their customers. This efficiency reduces idle time and increases overall contact rates.

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teleopti

MARCH 25, 2019

For many years, contact centers have used the Erlang staffing calculator to forecast how many agents they require to meet agreed service levels. Erlang C is predominantly used for queuing calculations based on call volumes and the number of agents necessary to achieve certain service levels.

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teleopti

JUNE 18, 2019

As contact centers continue to grow in both size and scope, so does the layers of management involved. Unfortunately, this also means that communication from the operational levels tends to get muddled. I don’t mean that they don’t know that your service level goal is 80/20, but they don’t know WHY the goal is set to that.

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Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 5, 2021

Due to the pandemic we’ve seen major shifts in the contact centre, with existing trends such as remote working accelerating and customer needs changing dramatically. In this post, we highlight some of the key developments of last year in a review of our top blogs from 2020. Optimising for contact centre remote working.

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Vistio

APRIL 2, 2022

She is an expert in the design and continuous improvement of the remote working model for contact centers, support functions, and enterprise, both in-sourced and outsourced. And that was actually in my first contact center assignment, it was with an outsourcer. Yeah, sure. My career began in HR actually.

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TLC Associates

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Rather than call center chatbots outright replacing people, they can provide ways to enhance the capabilities of your contact center agents. Customer service is a prime example. For holiday season customer service especially, this is particularly helpful as customer volumes spike and demand heightens.

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Monet Software

JUNE 10, 2021

8 Tips for Optimizing Schedules and Enhancing Contact Center Workforce Engagement.at Many contact center managers, however, don’t realize how much more value their scheduling activity can deliver to employees, beyond letting agents know when to show up for shifts. the Same Time. We all love a win-win. A two-for-one.

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Monet Software

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

There are many reasons that can cause shrinkage - and it has to be taken into account when scheduling the required number of agents to meet call volumes. But the truth is that most companies badly under-estimate the sheer volume of shrinkage that besets their call centers. Include All Activities to Reduce Contact Center Shrinkage.

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NICE inContact

JULY 2, 2019

While BAYADA has experienced robust growth in past years, its New Jersey contact center wasn’t so healthy. Service levels improved significantly, even as contact center volume exploded! The post BAYADA Home Health Care Reduces Call Abandon Rate 87% appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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teleopti

MAY 8, 2019

By far the biggest gripe is having to handle last-minute time-off requests with 55% of contact center professionals complaining about the issue. A 2018 Call Center Helper survey revealed that only 52.3% A 2018 Call Center Helper survey revealed that only 52.3% to 30% since 2015. to 30% since 2015.

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