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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

Voice is still the dominant channel in the contact center and will remain so for many years. “Expect to see more focus on digital and self-service, less brick and mortar, more efficiency-builders for company and customer, and an increased call for the return of voice to handle the challenging stuff.

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A Beginner’s Guide On An Effective Inbound Call Strategy

OctopusTech

Inbound call centers play a crucial role in delivering these revenue-generating experiences, so everything from the standard greeting to agent training to the establishment of KPIs needs to be designed with the customer in mind.

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How to Eliminate Hold Time in Your Call Center

Fonolo

A longer hold time will impact your contact center’s service level, probably your over NPS or CSat scores. Poor self-service options or alternative support channels. If your self-service options are not helpful or easy to use, people simply won’t use them. Really smart.

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Essential Pain Points in Call Center Management – Part 2

NobelBiz

Without this data, they might either overstaff, leading to increased costs, or understaff, leading to reduced service levels. Example from a Call Center Perspective During a promotional event, a call center experiences an unexpected surge in call volume.

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Essential Technologies in Call Center Workforce Management

Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

With their inherent pattern recognition, self-learning and cognitive capabilities, AI powered algorithms have the ability to perform complex jobs with speed and accuracy. Businesses are getting deeper into predictive analytics, using artificial intelligence (AI) applications to help streamline call center experiences for customers and agents.