Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

Most call centers struggle with efficiency at one time or another. And because efficiency is directly tied to minimizing overhead costs in the call center, it’s a prominent challenge. Find out what you can do today to boost efficiency and improve call center performance by reading our pros’ responses below.

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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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NobelBiz

JUNE 19, 2023

The modern world is centered on the concept of immediacy and the ability to obtain information instantly. As businesses, we need to harness this culture of immediate responses to elevate customer service levels. Real-time monitoring offers an unparalleled advantage in achieving this goal. What is Real-Time Monitoring?

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Call Center Coaching Contact Center Metrics 52

Expivia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Being that we have over 25 years of call center outsourcing experience, we thought it could be helpful to talk about how to manage your partner while outsourcing: How your relationship should work, and what strategies you should implement. Here are two articles that we have written on choosing the best call center outsourcer.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the world of contact center metrics, service level has always held a special place. This metric is universally understood across the industry, and clearly conveys how quickly customer calls are answered by support agents. Its origins go back over five decades, to the earliest days of call centers.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Come into the classroom, sit down, and let us begin today’s four-part lesson: Call Center 101 – The Golden Rules of SLAs. As the official written handshake shared by a vendor and a buyer, it is a tangible commitment that ensures specific services will be delivered. What is a Service Level Agreement?

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Cisco - Contact Center

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Artificial Intelligence Transforming Call Centers. The Contact Center business is going through a series of very important changes driven by the technology innovation, the raise of socials and the new consumption models being evaluated by most of the companies. 73% want the ability to solve product/service issues on their own.

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Callminer

AUGUST 6, 2019

There are a number of call center software solutions on the market, comprising more than half a dozen types of these tools. That’s not to mention the number of software tools that integrate with the various call center software solutions. Types of Call Center Software. Service is a big part. “As

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Taylor Reach Group

MAY 18, 2018

In the daily operation of our Call and Contact Centers we throw around metrics and performance measures like they were candy. It has been said that Call Centers produce more data and more measurement opportunities than is possible in almost any other communications channel. By Colin Taylor.

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Stafford Communications

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

It’s time to get your call center ready for the 2020 Holiday Season. For decades, the US retail industry has experienced two giant peaks every year—one around back-to-school shopping at the end of summer, the other centered on Black Friday, Thanksgiving, and shopping for the holidays. Consulting & Compliance.

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Vistio

JUNE 10, 2022

I’ve been in the contact center consulting space for almost my entire career, which is now, I hate to say it, about 30 years. I started actually by starting up a couple of consulting practices for two major BPOs, which would be Sitel and Convergys. First of all, thanks for having me. Really looking forward to this.

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 9, 2018

The biggest challenge when working with a call center outsourcing partner is making sure they’re providing consistent, ongoing performance. This includes ensuring the agents receive the proper training, quality management, and calibrations to drive high-level performance. 2) Inbound Call Center Service Levels.

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Taylor Reach Group

JUNE 8, 2017

Regardless of the size of the Call Center(s), you have this in your arsenal. Remember, they may or may not do this type of forecasting themselves, nor are they likely to have the available data a Call Center generates. Operating a call and contact is about the numbers. By: John Cockerill. So be kind. First Name.

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Stafford Communications

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How Call Center Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Industry Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a major impact in many industries, including call centers. How is AI Being Used In Call Centers? Interactive voice response (IVR) systems have been in place in call centers for decades.

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Stafford Communications

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Call Center Hiring: How to Hire the Right Call Center Employees One of the toughest challenges that call centers face is finding and retaining good employees. Hiring the right call center employees from the start can help you to reduce turnover and avoid such losses. Autonomous. Multitasking.

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 29, 2018

In order to ensure marketing teams and contact centers work together and don’t step on each other’s toes, Ziv goes into detail on the following steps: 1) Use artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the marketing feedback loop. 2) Use contact center data to avoid marketing certain products and services to customers who already own them.

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Stafford Communications

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

It’s time to get your call center ready for the 2020 Holiday Season For decades, the US retail industry has experienced two giant peaks every year—one around back-to-school shopping at the end of summer, the other centered on Black Friday, Thanksgiving, and shopping for the holidays.

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Call Center Weekly

APRIL 27, 2018

By Sean Hawkins On a daily basis, call center managers are inundated with data, decisions, escalations and reports. If all goes well, service levels have been met, CSAT or NPS will be satisfactory and you may actually have time to take an uninterrupted lunch. Such is the life of the contact center manager.

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Call Center Weekly

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The Background Way back when I was a young vice president of operations I was responsible for a few large inbound call centers, as well as back-end processes. They were given an accompanying handbook that was organized into twelve parts, with each part featuring two key call center dynamics.

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Vcaretec

JUNE 6, 2022

It is a challenge for retailers, both online and brick-and-mortar, to make sure that their customer service levels are maintained throughout the holiday season, when customer support volume can increase by more than 10 fold. If lowering customer service costs are one of your objectives for 2016, get in touch with us today.

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Taylor Reach Group

JANUARY 6, 2023

I think in the coming year we are going to see the rightsizing of Contact Centers. They will rationalize and rebalance their staffing and service levels for all contact channels. Centers will continue to leverage AI and automation to reduce live-agent interactions. The post Happy New Year and Welcome to 2023!

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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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Outsource Consultants

MAY 20, 2019

Here are three key areas healthcare providers can turn to for great cost reduction while maintaining quality service and patient care: PATIENT APPOINTMENT CALL CENTERS. A healthcare call center can save time, reduce manual tasks and lower costs in many ways: 24/7 answering services. Insurance verification.

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Cisco - Contact Center

JANUARY 21, 2020

Narrowing the Call Center Gap. With new generations of new consumers speaking their mother tongue language when calling a contact center, the translation problem will not disappear anytime soon. Cisco has a portfolio of on-premise, hybrid, and cloud contact center solutions.

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TMP Direct

MARCH 17, 2015

Traits of the best call centers – Part 1. The International Customer Management Institute (ICMI) is one of the call center industry’s most respected organizations. Great call centers know that people are the key to success.”. They have a supporting culture.”.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 21, 2023

Key Takeaways: You have to pinpoint the exact reason for a low FCR Your call center should be a customer-centric business Proper ongoing agent training and monitoring Call center technology has evolved to deliver proper performance levels, quality, and FCR enhancement. Review call records and logs.

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CX Global Media

JUNE 6, 2017

Globo HQ is a platform that gives your contact center the ability to access any channel language support. Manage, track and visualize every detail with real-time insight into usage data, service-level data, call data and population data – all numbers specified by language, all reports customized to your needs.

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 27, 2018

Inside this issue: Call Center, Contact Center and Customer Experience Events - April 2018. Financial Institution Appoints Contact Center Consultancy. Customer Service and the Golden Rule . Medical Marijuana Company Appoints Contact Center Consultancy to Develop Agent Training Program .

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Global Response

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But which inbound call center company do you choose? Ultimately, you want to partner with a cost-effective call center that aligns with your company values and provides excellent customer service. Let’s walk through all you need to know to determine which call center is right for you.

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 10, 2020

While the roles may vary widely in their level of accountability, breadth across the organization, or channels (web, store, mobile, call center, etc.), For Leaders in the call center industry, the “sell” cross functionally on the importance of the customer is easier than in past years.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 10, 2022

The employee-employer relationship in contact centers is finally being re-evaluated and redefined, and not a moment too soon. Since the founding of call centers, agents have been paid some of the lowest wages in companies to do a job with little flexibility in working hours, breaks, and vacations.

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Fonolo

APRIL 11, 2019

Much like ensuring that our young are safe from harm’s way, yet still have the freedom to explore and grow, contact center leadership must ensure that their departments are safe-guarded while still maintaining the capability to grow internally and externally both in service and in excellence. Use Advanced Analytics.

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CX Global Media

JULY 12, 2019

About Michael Replogle : International Executive Vice President who has successfully driven call center performance and productivity for more than 32 years in such companies as JP Morgan Chase, USAA, Regus, Direct Energy, and 1800Flowers.com. You can never give agents schedules that they like and still meet service level!”

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Outsource Consultants

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Recently, however, the Philippines faces several major challenges that have slowed growth considerably and caused the nation’s call center industry to feel a pinch for the first time in years. The Philippine call center industry is being challenged by a new foe: Chinese gambling. The rise of the casino industry.

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Fonolo

JUNE 9, 2014

In the world of contact center metrics, “service level” has always held a special place. It gives the industry a universally understood way to talk about how quickly customer calls are answered by support agents. Its origins go back over 5 decades, to the earliest days of call centers.

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JustCall

MARCH 16, 2021

An easily scalable call center software for businesses, JustCall lets you set up your call center in seconds. With a repertoire of calling and SMS automation features, the cloud telephony software gives you the best anytime and anywhere business experience. Comprehensive Call Analytics Dashboard.

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 26, 2019

Since no contact center is perfect, this ratio will always be higher than 1.0, indicate that majority of callers get their resolution within the first or second call while higher numbers indicate more multiple calls (and as a result more frustration for customers and lower customer satisfaction). however, numbers closer to 1.0

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