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10 Effective Strategies to Reduce Call Center Demand

Fonolo

High call volumes are three words that can strike fear into the heart of any call center professional. Without the right preparation, even the most established operations can find themselves struggling with call demand, and trying to stay afloat when faced with an onslaught of customer queries. DID YOU KNOW?

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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

After assessing how the pandemic had changed the call center in 2020 , we decided to peek over the parapet at 2021. We asked the contact center industry’s top influencers and business leaders what they thought the most significant contact center trends in 2021 would be. Contact Center Trends 2021.

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction. It’s our thing. So, of course, we’re biased.

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New survey highlights current state of caller authentication

TRUSTID

With a growing number of threats facing today’s contact centers, the number of call center leaders who are ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ dissatisfied with their current authentication method rose 50% over the previous year. 54% of respondents want authentication to complete before the call is answered. Want to learn more?

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Call Center Outsourcing: Pros, Cons, and Best Practices

OctopusTech

Call center outsourcing refers to a strategic business decision made by a company to delegate its customer support inquiries from a third-party source often called a Business Process Outsourcer (BPO) rather than hiring an in-house team of employees. These channels include live chat, phone calls, SMS, email, and social media.

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Call centers prefer removing agents from authentication process

TRUSTID

Today, agent-based authentication makes up roughly 20 percent of the cost and duration of an inbound call. That’s because contact centers rely on knowledge-based authentication (KBA) that requires telephone operators to ask a series of personal questions to verify each callers’ identity. 50 cents per call.

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International Contact Centre Operations Tips & Best Practices

Callminer

While the majority of consumers choose to reach out to companies via multiple mediums , many have reported wanting to avoid going through structured IVR systems – so it’s no surprise that communication quality within a contact centre has become more important than ever before. Caller Expectations are on the Rise.