Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

In uncertain economic times, they become even more critical to help navigate business health and growth. Call center leaders are under increased pressure to improve operational and agent efficiencies and look for cost-cutting opportunities while delivering outstanding customer experience (CX) — a tricky balancing act for sure.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Exactly how many of your company’s 500 employees are on calls? If the number of agents available to handle calls falls below the number of agents on break, meetings/training, on after-call work (ACW), absent or sick, then a call center efficiency loss has already occurred. What is Call Center Shrinkage?

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Expivia

JULY 21, 2021

You’re always surrounded by technology in a call center. From the way you get the call to the aftercall memo you need to send, everything’s connected to technology. Without knowing what the current and upcoming trends in advanced call center technologies are, you may be left behind. Omnichannel Support.

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Noble Systems

APRIL 21, 2020

On the contrary, call center services are in high demand, and business continuity for call centers is becoming more important for economic and societal health. Contact center agents, considered essential critical infrastructure workers during COVID-19 by CISA , have always had a stressful job.

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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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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Exactly how many of your company’s 500 employees are on calls? If the number of agents available to handle calls falls below the number of agents on break, meetings/training, on after-call work (ACW), absent or sick, then a call center efficiency loss has already occurred. What is Call Center Shrinkage?

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification.

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OctopusTech

MARCH 1, 2023

Most companies will set up or adopt a call center to field customer service requests and complaints. These call centers organize phone support queues and equally distribute calls to reps on the service team. What Are Inbound Calls?

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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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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? Today, hyper efficiency is no longer a luxury but a necessity for call centers looking to thrive and outperform their competition. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center?

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

As someone who has worked in support centers before, I know firsthand how important it is to have engaging and effective training programs. One effective approach to training is to incorporate gamification elements , such as rewards and recognition, into the learning process.

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Vistio

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Today we are talking with Fred Stacey about his experiences in call centers, both helping to build them and helping them in recovery. Dovetailing nicely with our Agent-Centric Call Center Philosophy is the objective today to discuss Employee Experience. In these locations call center employment is a very good position.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 8, 2016

Nate chatted with Talkdesk Product Manager, Robert Sur, about the importance of leveraging call center data to develop and refine a phone support strategy. I’ve been on Talkdesk’s Product Marketing team for almost a year now, and I have always considered myself to be fairly knowledgeable about the merits of call center reporting.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

CRM Integrations The contact center software must be able to integrate seamlessly with your helpdesks and CRM (Customer Relationship Management). The call center solution and CRM integration help your sales team work better, faster, and more effectively, guaranteeing improved customer service quality.

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Hodusoft

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The contact center trends too, changed completely driven by the pandemic. 2020-21 saw most contact centers make a shift to cloud contact center software. And if one is to go by indications, contact center trends for 2022 , signal a whole new wave coming. AI technology. Video chat . Digital Training Tools.

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Fonolo

MAY 17, 2017

Although there’s a plethora of intelligent call center technology to take advantage of, many organizations still only have basic functionalities in place. The quality of a contact center’s infrastructure ultimately determines its success. An Automatic Call Distributor (ACD). UPDATED: February 2020.

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Outsource Consultants

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So if you have specific AI goals, you should definitely consult on your options with an expert contact center partner. Waiting is the Hardest Part (But It Doesn’t Have to Be). Customers have not only come to expect inevitable wait times — they’ve come to loathe them. Don’t wish you started three months sooner.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

If you think call center training is a thing of the past, the data will make you think again. The call center industry has grown to become a $180 billion industry in the United States, which employs over 5 million employees globally. 6 Expert-Approved Tips on How to Build Your Agent Dream Team 1.Train

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Noble Systems

MARCH 30, 2020

Providing superior customer service, and in many instances, just providing average customer service, can be challenging – especially for companies experiencing skyrocketing call volumes during this crisis. Gamification applies game elements and principles in non-game settings such as work environments.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Call center leaders have their work cut out for them. Sometimes, it’s hard to find the time to map out call center development goals. . Here at Fonolo , our call center tech lends itself nicely to business and development planning. You need an action plan for call center development.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In the past, businesses had to spend a lot of money and take up a lot of space to install call center technology — stations, computers, servers, etc. Companies may now use Cloud Contact Center solutions without worrying about deployment and maintenance thanks to the power of the cloud. And here are the telltales.

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aircall

JANUARY 6, 2021

Call center analytics and customer satisfaction surveys will tell you whether any clients or categories of clients aren’t getting the attention they expect. Here are some specific ways and areas to improve sales performance: Set up an outbound call center to proactively pursue leads and follow up on referrals.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enhancing Agent Productivity with Balto Real-time Script Adherence Balto’s enterprise call center solution automatically monitors customer conversations and checks if your agents are adhering to the scripts, helping you prevent expensive compliance mistakes and other issues that could result in dissatisfied customers.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In the past, businesses had to spend a lot of money and take up a lot of space to install call center technology — stations, computers, servers, etc. Companies may now use Cloud Contact Center solutions without worrying about deployment and maintenance thanks to the power of the cloud. And here are the telltales.

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Balto

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The Need for Understanding Customer Desires in Customer Experience Management A predictive analytics solution collects huge amounts of data across different customer touchpoints and calculates relevant metrics from your customers’ interactions, such as handling time, agent behavior, queue length, and other relevant call center metrics and KPIs.

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OctopusTech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

For example – If you want to make or receive a phone call by using your customer care software, then ensure that it provides blended call center services too. Automatic call routing. When a user speaks with an operator of a call center, both parties clearly understand each other without any misunderstanding.

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CrazyCall

JULY 4, 2019

The other valuable metrics are: Average response time. Problem resolution time. Average Waiting Time. If you want to get familiar with more metrics that are valuable to track in regards to how well your customer service team operate check out our 4-part section of TOP 20 Call Center Metrics Managers Can’t Ignore.

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Callminer

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Hiring the right contact center agents is important, but ongoing agent training and performance management are crucial for customer satisfaction and the success of your business as a whole. If you’re looking for ways to boost your agents’ performance, check out our white paper, Using Gamification to Improve Contact Center Performance.

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