Balto

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Agents and managers reap the benefits of having a call center quality assurance process. Quality assurance (QA) is critical to any thriving call center. A proper contact center QA program helps your organization retain happy customers, improve brand and voice consistency, and keep agents in check.

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Best practices Call Center Gamification Coaching 52

LiveVox

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Three-quarters of call center leaders say improving the customer experience is a “very important” factor driving their decision to update their contact center software. That’s one of the insights from a recent LiveVox survey of call center professionals at the C-suite, VP, and Director level.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

JULY 9, 2018

Here’s a list of the most crucial metrics that inbound call center must measure. It is a direct reflection of an agent’s and a center’s capacity to solve problems, answer questions, and provide needs the very first time a customer calls. A 2016 survey by Call Center Helper shared that 62.7%

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Fonolo

APRIL 24, 2018

In just the last month we saw the release of Apple’s Business Chat, the announcement of Twilio’s new Flex call center platform and the acquisition of Altocloud by Genesys. A new privacy regulation (GDPR) has multiple impacts on call centers that operate in, or provide service to, Europe. Who wrote it: Call Centre Helper.

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Contact Center Call Center Self service Surveys 99

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

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. Omnichannel, Cloud-Based Contact Centers.

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Contact Center Gamification Call Center Average Handle Time 176

Fonolo

JULY 13, 2023

Here’s why active listening is one of the best communication tools every customer service call center representative should master. 7 Tips for Success from Call Center Professionals So, even though actively listening may be a challenge, it’s critical to providing a great customer service experience.

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Customer Service Call Center call center professionals Scripts 67

TeleDirect

APRIL 6, 2022

How Do Call Centers Help with Healthcare-Related Communication? | Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), contact tracing has helped slow the spread of the virus. TeleDirect’s hotline call center is also a useful tool to handle critical, time-sensitive communication between patients and healthcare providers.

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TRUSTID

APRIL 21, 2019

According to the recent article, “Is Your Contact Center Ruining Your CX?” many companies still consider the contact center a separate organization from other departments. When things aren’t in sync, the call center can impact your customer experience, driving frustrated customers straight to your competitors.

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call center professionals Banking Call Center Contact Center 56

Lumoa

APRIL 13, 2020

With the modern technologies available today, such as speech-to-text and artificial intelligence (AI) it’s possible to automatically generate insights from calls, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) surveys, and post-call surveys. As mentioned earlier, some organizations receive huge volumes of calls every day.

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Feedback Interactive Voice Response call center professionals Surveys 83

TRUSTID

MAY 9, 2019

According to the recent article, “Is Your Contact Center Ruining Your CX?” many companies still consider the contact center a separate organization from other departments. When things aren’t in sync, the call center can impact your customer experience, driving frustrated customers straight to your competitors.

call center professionals 48

call center professionals Banking Call Center Contact Center 48

TRUSTID

APRIL 16, 2019

According to the recent article, “Is Your Contact Center Ruining Your CX?” many companies still consider the contact center a separate organization from other departments. When things aren’t in sync, the call center can impact your customer experience, driving frustrated customers straight to your competitors.

call center professionals 48

call center professionals Banking Call Center Contact Center 48

TRUSTID

JUNE 30, 2018

Call center agents are trained to support customers and resolve their issues in a timely manner. Today, agent-based authentication makes up roughly 20 percent of the cost and duration of an inbound call. So why are they spending so much time interrogating them over the phone?

Call Center 49

Call Center Banking Contact Center Interactive Voice Response 49

Fonolo

APRIL 24, 2018

In just the last month we saw the release of Apple’s Business Chat, the announcement of Twilio’s new Flex call center platform and the acquisition of Altocloud by Genesys. A new privacy regulation (GDPR) has multiple impacts on call centers that operate in, or provide service to, Europe. Who wrote it: Call Centre Helper.

Contact Center 57

Contact Center Call Center Self service Surveys 57

TRUSTID

DECEMBER 16, 2018

In our recently released 2018 Learnings on Customer Authentication market report , we take what we have seen throughout the year to give more insight into the current status of call center authentication. So what have we learned? Organizations want technologies that effectively authenticate customers over the telephone channel.

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Engineering call center professionals Call Center Accountability 52

TRUSTID

MAY 18, 2018

We know this because of the 127 call center professionals we surveyed for the “State of Call Center Authentication” report, 69 percent said they continue to rely solely on personal information to authenticate callers.

Banking 48

Banking call center professionals Call Center Contact Center 48

TRUSTID

JUNE 14, 2018

Because the answers to KBA questions are all across the internet, open information sharing over social media has created one of the biggest threats to call center authentication. In our 2018 State of Call Center Authentication survey , we asked call center professionals to tell us their plans to create multi-factor authentication.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

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.

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Customer Support Bilingual agents outsourcing Contact Center 124

TRUSTID

APRIL 24, 2019

By authenticating customers before the call is answered by a live agent, organizations can improve and their customer experience, as well as their customer satisfaction rates.

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call center professionals Contact Center Education Engineering 48

Callminer

JANUARY 18, 2021

Use call recordings and ongoing training to nurture emotional competence among agents. Diffusing tense conversations and satisfying the chronically unsatisfiable are but two of the emotionally charged skills of every great call center agent. ” – Effective Call Center Scripts , Salesforce; Twitter: @SalesforceGov.

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Best practices Call Center Contact Center Scripts 226

Pointillist

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

By Stephanie Ventura Metrics tracking is a vital element of every call center. However, aiming to track all possible call center metrics can lead to information overload. Many call center leaders cite First Call Resolution (FCR) as the most important metric to track. What is First Call Resolution?

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