Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A Guide to Call Abandonment Rate in Call Centers and Its Significance Are you dealing with high call abandonment rates? Providing exceptional customer service is crucial in today’s call center environment, but what if your customers disconnect even before reaching an agent?

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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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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. Clear communication.

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Quality Contact Solutions

MARCH 22, 2021

Back in the early ’90s, as a college student, I found myself working in an inbound call center , which at the time was an industry that many didn’t fully understand or appreciate. I was an agent taking inbound calls for vehicle rentals alongside 199 other agents. Key metrics.

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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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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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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

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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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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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

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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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.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2023

If you’re in the contact center industry, 80/20 service levels are likely nothing new. You may have used 80/20 service levels in your operations! Contact center managers know that SLAs are essential for defining and measuring success for their businesses. Is 80/20 Right for My Contact Center?

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Feast your eyes on the infographic below (along with the accompanying Coles notes) which acts as a handy cheat-sheet for those looking to revitalize their contact and call centers with simple changes (including gamification, service levels, and call-backs), all of which will continue to shape the landscape in 2019.

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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

MAY 14, 2019

But just what is Average Wait Time, and what are some of the ways you can reduce it to help ensure that customer calls are being answered quickly and effectively? 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. Whatever the costume, remember to embrace this whimsical holiday as an uplifting moment in the year of your call center.

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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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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Technology opened the door for fast, responsive service. To keep up, let’s take a look at a few call center efficiency tips to help you improve your call center performance to keep customers happy. Digital tools provide a greater level of sophistication to analyze your agents. Next, track agent performance.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Being a contact center agent, particularly if you are in a call center, is mentally taxing work, and can certainly take its toll if support, either managerial or psychological, is unavailable to you. Call Center 101: The Golden Rules of SLAs. How to Set a Winning Service Level. Plus so Much More!

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Customer Self Service, or CSS, is any type of electronic or automated support that allows customers to find answers or resolve problems without having to connect with a customer service or call center agent. Despite the clear demand for these services, 55% of consumers find self-service portals difficult to use.

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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 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 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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Talkdesk

MARCH 12, 2021

Founded to bring a paradigm shift into the realm of call center solutions, it became the first CCaaS unicorn startup in 2018. Offering a 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA) to its customers, Talkdesk has garnered the trust of over 1,800 innovative companies around the world, including IBM, Acxiom, 2U, Trivago and YMCA.

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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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Global Response

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As a result, more and more companies are turning to outsourcing to manage their help desk service. But in order to reap the benefits outsourcing can provide, you have to be able to effectively evaluate and choose the right help desk service provider. As a result, this should be an area where you do a very thorough level of evaluation.

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Real Blue Sky

MARCH 6, 2023

Before the internet, customer service was typically limited to a brick-and-mortar storefront, letter-writing, or a phone call to customer service. The result is the customer service call center was seen largely as a cost center; it was part of the cost of delivering goods or services.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Call Center 101: The Golden Rules of 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! DOWNLOAD THE FREE 14 PAGE REPORT TODAY.

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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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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. The industry standard for concurrent Chat sessions. What did the customer experience? Not necessarily.

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Talkdesk

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Deciding to outsource your call center operations is a big decision. What kind of reporting and monitoring capabilities does your call center software provide? Can you monitor your incoming calls in real-time to assess the performance of your agents? Do you have the ability to drop into a live call if necessary?

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Real Blue Sky

MARCH 6, 2023

Before the internet, customer service was typically limited to a brick-and-mortar storefront, letter-writing, or a phone call to customer service. The result is the customer service call center was seen largely as a cost center; it was part of the cost of delivering goods or services.

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