Callminer

JULY 22, 2018

Let’s take a look at 4 critical measurements to determine the effectiveness (or, conversely, ineffectiveness) of the outsourced contact center: 1) Service Level. As any contact center manager knows, service level is a metric composed of a pair of numbers: a percentage value and a time value in seconds.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It could be argued that customer service is uniformly about a few core things: Giving consumers agency; shepherding them towards a positive outcome to their problems; and providing solutions and smiles by whatever means (and using whatever technology) necessary. Service Levels. Call-Backs. Call-backs are a powerful thing.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Contact centers are like people: We’re all at different stages, chugging along healthily but sometimes faltering along the way. As we begin to look back at 2018, one thing is becoming clear: Not every contact center is created equal. All contact centers face barriers, and you certainly know your own intimately.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Jane’s CEO observed the bandwidth problem and implemented a solution: She formed an internal call center and hired and trained a team of 10 agents to support it. This story demonstrates that call centers help companies improve overall service levels. It is inversely proportional to a service level.

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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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Fonolo

MARCH 17, 2022

At first glance, a call center manager job may seem easy compared to the agents they oversee. After all, they are not the ones who have to navigate call center software, ensure customer satisfaction, and take all the phone calls. Industry Report: State of the Contact Center 2022.

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Call Experts

JULY 27, 2023

A customer service call center serves as the backbone of a company’s customer service operations, providing a centralized hub where all customer inquiries, requests, and concerns are addressed efficiently and effectively. That’s where a customer service call center comes in.

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Hodusoft

APRIL 26, 2023

Metrics to Measure the Performance of Your Virtual Call Center “A useful metric is both accurate and aligned with your goals. Managing a virtual call center is not easy. Only the right metrics can tell you if things are working in your call center or not. Read on to gain valuable insights.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Monitoring agent performance is fundamental for keeping your call center running at optimal levels. . This guide will introduce you to some of the most important call center metrics and KPIs. These are the most relevant call center performance metrics to measure: Average After-Call Work (ACW).

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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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Hodusoft

APRIL 5, 2023

7 Best Practices for Managing Call Center Operations Call centers are crucial for many businesses, especially the ones that deal directly with customers. A recent stat shows that almost 90 percent of customers feel that the experience is as important as the product or service. Read on to know more.

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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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Expivia

APRIL 29, 2021

The success of your call center depends on the list of key performance indicators (KPIs) you follow. Without call center KPI tracking, you’ll never know if you’re running your call center effectively. Make sure you track and optimize them to ensure you run your call center successfully.

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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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Zingtree

AUGUST 6, 2018

BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) is an industry experiencing rapid growth, with predictions that it’ll reach $3 billion in the next few years. Rather than host a call center in-house, a BPO can take over many tasks for larger organizations, at a fraction of the cost. Service Level. Agent Turnover.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Advanced voice-powered technology has become a central component of call center strategies at some of the largest businesses around the world, causing many stakeholders in the customer service field to begin asking important questions about the future of call center service.

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Talkdesk

MAY 14, 2019

Knowing how long it takes to answer customer calls can help you answer that question, and Average Wait Time has become a contact center key performance indicator for just that reason. What is Call Center Average Wait Time? AWT can be measured globally across the contact center, by ring group, agent or phone number.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As much as it can be a stressful topic of conversation for those toiling away in call centers and contact centers, social media can also signal fun and frivolity, particularly during this festive season. Your contact center colleagues will be asking you questions all day. How to Set a Winning Service Level.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Download Now: See what Frost & Sullivan marked as the most important trends impacting contact centers. Let’s consider the cost good and bad service can have on your company. American Express found that consumers will pay 17% more to purchase from a company with a reputation for great service.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Customer service and call center agents are certainly feeling the effects of this power: They are working harder than ever to successfully meet customer demands to earn rave reviews rather than damaging social media rants from customers. Start capturing those special customer service moments and watch that video go viral.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 12, 2021

Talkdesk is an enterprise cloud contact center as a service (CCaaS) solution provider empowering companies to deliver customer experience excellence and top-notch quality of service (QoS). Founded to bring a paradigm shift into the realm of call center solutions, it became the first CCaaS unicorn startup in 2018.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 17, 2018

As we transition into autumn, it’s easy for us in customer service to lose the steam, energy, and focus we coveted during the rejuvenating days of summer. Call Center 101: The Golden Rules of SLAs. Learn how to become an expert in Service Level Agreements (SLAs). How to Set a Winning Service Level.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Excellent customer service must become a central component of companies’ strategies if they hope to survive and thrive in this digital age. From creative call center strategies, to social listening, to large customer service budgets, there exist a multitude of techniques that will aid brands in continuing to delight consumers.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Call Center 101: The Golden Rules of SLAs. Learn how to become an expert in Service Level Agreements (SLAs). How to Set a Winning Service Level. Meeting the Industry Standard of Service Level. What’s Inside: SLAs in Nutshell. Plus so Much More!

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Effect on Customer Service and Call Centers. Two of the technologies that are currently in the “AI” bucket have a direct impact on customer service are ASR (speech recognition) and NLP (natural language processing). This, among other factors, may be why we continue to see both call centers and agent employment grow.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 16, 2018

There is no question that brand evangelists are powerful assets for any company, but the question lingers: How do you create this level of brand loyalty? Here is how customer service teams, call center agents and community managers can create, identify and leverage brand evangelists. How to Set a Winning Service Level.

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Customer Relationship Metrics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

With no precedence for this service channel and a shiny new piece of software that executives thought should be maxed out by assigning up to five concurrent Chat sessions per agent, they had a tough decision to make. For this contact center, the customer experience is of primary importance. What did the customer experience?

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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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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you take a tech tool like ChatGPT and ask it about call abandonment in the contact center, the AI-powered bot will give you an earful about one of the most persistent problems in the customer service industry. So, how do you reduce abandonment rates in today’s contact center? Now you’re talking!

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BlueOcean

MARCH 30, 2018

Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, we discussed how securing long-term partnerships with service suppliers like outsourced contact centers can impact your overall business objectives. We can’t take an RFP template that was written for manufacturing and use it verbatim for sourcing a contact center.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 5, 2019

As we head into 2020, data is becoming more crucial for successfully running a call center than ever. In the past, the efficiency of a call center hinged on management’s ability to identify flaws in their processes and opportunities to improve the running of the center. Metric #3: First Call Resolution Rate.

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Fonolo

MARCH 11, 2021

Medical contact centers have been inundated with worried members seeking answers and support. While not physically on the front lines, call center agents have been facing their own challenges with massive call volumes as they attempt to help callers navigate health networks to get the support they need.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 2, 2023

Cost Per Call : A Key Metric for Your Contact Center Have you ever wondered how much money you spend to handle a single call? If you’ve mulled over the question, then you must be aware of the concept known as ‘cost per call.’ Cost per call is one of the most important metrics for contact centers.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Contact center metrics and key performance indicators are these parameters – the reflection of how a business has made its customers happy. While earlier businesses didn’t focus much on delivering value to customers through their call centers, the trends today have changed.

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Calltools

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It pays to have happy customers and long contact center wait times are one great way to ensure the company doesn’t get paid. Is that a customer you’ll have to fight to keep or one that proclaim the service of your company? Is that a customer you’ll have to fight to keep or one that proclaim the service of your company?

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Call queues are central to the effectiveness of call centers and customer service. Call centers use a variety of methods, tools, and practices to lower the average time that a caller spends in the call queue. Call queuing is a concept used in inbound call centers.

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