TechSee

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the last few years, call centers have experienced an awakening with pandemic-driven remote work models, increased demand for service, and rising awareness of the benefits of delivering a good customer experience. What Is Call Center Technology? 5 Innovative Call Center Technologies in 2022.

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Babelforce

JULY 15, 2021

Self-service support seems too good to be true. Most of the time you can set up knowledge bases and chatbots in a matter of days or weeks. And, with the right tools, it’s easy to offer phone-based self-service support too. Quick recap: what is self-service? 1 A knowledge base.

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JustCall

APRIL 8, 2024

We’ll explore some tried-and-tested strategies to learn how to scale a call center. TL;DR > As businesses scale, they face challenges such as increased call volumes, expanding customer bases, and seasonal fluctuations in demand. Call center optimization while maintaining quality can be a difficult task.

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Global Response

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Setting up your call center may seem as easy as hiring a few knowledgeable agents and providing them with a phone line—but nothing could be further from the truth. Even basic call centers have a variety of software requirements, from essential call center operating software to software for security and recruitment.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 3, 2023

As we will see, the main goal of a self-service system is to reduce the time the agents spend on simple, repetitive tasks or transactions such as paying a bill or getting account balance information. A functioning self-service system generally empowers clients with the tools and resources necessary for their inquiries.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides an unprecedented opportunity to revolutionize the call center experience for the 59% of your customers who prefer telephone communication. We’re not talking about the time-consuming interactive voice response (IVR) of the past that provided a less-than-optimal customer experience.

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Callminer

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Call centers , in particular, represent just one facet of a large and varied international outsourcing industry. However, the world’s call centers are arguably the most public examples of companies’ outsourcing efforts, facing customer directly in one-on-one interactions. Better Agent Performance.

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Xaqt

JANUARY 13, 2020

The number one cost driver in any call center is labor expense, and its also the one you can best manage and control. Here we'll discuss the two best ways to deploy Contact Center AI to reduce staffing requirements. The industry standard cost-per-call is in the range of $5-$8 per call.

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Fonolo

MAY 4, 2021

The highly-coveted Millennial and Gen Z consumers expect and demand a certain quality of customer service across all channels. Many call center overseers are now realizing that they are technologically behind their more channel-savvy competitors. The ROI of Call-Backs for Your Call Center. The result?

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Babelforce

JUNE 8, 2022

Call center blockage is when a business’s communication channels are unable to take new incoming contact. This typically occurs during busy periods when all available agents are already handling calls. More staff means more people available to take calls that would have previously been blocked. Reduce post-call work.

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Quiq

MARCH 16, 2022

Share This Story No, the call center isn’t dead. But while the industry’s focus has shifted to text-based communications, call centers aren’t going anywhere. Last year, Salesforce reported that customers ranked “phone” as their second most preferred customer service channel. Show customers you care.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In our first blog, we explored how customer expectations are rapidly changing and what organizations should consider as part of their Self-Service strategy. This blog will continue that exploration with some insight into some of the benefits we’ve seen in organizations that have implemented Self-Service.

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Xaqt

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

How to Reduce Your Customer Support Costs by 85% and Take Your Customer Experience to the Next Level with a Conversational IVR That Integrates With Any CRM or Ticketing System. This type of AI-IVR capability enables your contact center to voice automate customer interactions that previously required a live agent.

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pindrop

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At the core of this experience is the process of identification which in turn is based on the very foundational element of Knowledge-Based Authentication questions or KBAs. Pindrop research shows that up to 30% of customers struggle with KBA based identity questions, while more than half of criminals pass them.

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Dialer 360

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In the call center industry, trends are always happening. Call centers are constantly evolving their services to cater to better serve their clients, and the needs of customers are constantly changing. Explore the top call center trends for 2023 that will transform the call center industry.

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Xaqt

JANUARY 6, 2020

A Cognitive IVR has the ability to engage in a natural language based conversation with a customer and take automated action based on the callers needs, thus resulting in a fully automated customer voice interaction. Press or say 2 if you're calling to place a new order".

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JustCall

APRIL 3, 2024

Reports highlight that 83% of callers would avoid a company after a bad brush with the company’s IVR system. So, how do you manage call surges during unanticipated high-traffic periods? Let’s explore the top 10 tips high call volume call centers could use. High call volume: What is it?

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Outsource Consultants

AUGUST 3, 2020

So what does that mean for your call center operations? So how can you maximize ROI across your call center operation to prepare for the travel industry’s awakening? Double down on the equity you’ve built across these at-home models to create flexible staffing models that keep you from overstaffing your call center.

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Xaqt

JANUARY 7, 2020

Whatever the reason for the call spike, one thing is certain - Customer Experience suffers and agents get burned out quickly. Sometimes, there is even lost revenue opportunity because potential sales calls abandon or callers hang-up before speaking with an agent. Until recently, options for handling call volume spikes were limited.

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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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Xaqt

MARCH 26, 2020

As companies are battling service disruptions to their core business, call volumes are on the rise and revenues are in decline, they are forced with the difficult decision to cut call center costs while mitigating impact to customer service. But many times customers will still pick-up the phone and call.

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Outsource Consultants

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

And one of the most promising CX developments is the growing tech landscape that makes it easier to mitigate the impact of high call volumes and unexpected spikes that are looming in Q4. The most powerful technology pairings in 2021 include call deflection, AI, and automation systems that work in harmony. Let me help?”.

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Hodusoft

DECEMBER 28, 2022

What is Call Center Management? Call center management backed by cutting-edge call center technologies helps managers oversee their teams and be on top of things. By implementing call center management, organizations can accurately measure, monitor, and optimize their performance.

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Global Response

MARCH 20, 2023

Are your call center interactions taking too long? ACW includes things like post-call processing or tracking, updating customer data, scheduling follow-ups or tracking KPIs. To calculate your AHT, simply add the total talk time + total hold time + total after-call work time and then divide by the total number of calls.

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JustCall

APRIL 9, 2024

Call center life can be a rollercoaster ride. One minute, your agents are cruising along; the next, they’re buried in a mountain of calls. There are some tried-and-tested strategies to help your call center weather these volume storms and keep things running smoothly. But fear not.

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aircall

JANUARY 11, 2017

Due to becoming more mobile and more tech-savvy, customers have increasingly high standards when it comes to customer service. The emergence of customer self-service is a reflection of an evolution of customer expectations. Offering customer self-service could be the answer. What is customer self-service?

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ConvergeOne

MARCH 16, 2021

When it comes to contact center authentication, callers overwhelmingly prefer voice biometrics to knowledge-based security questions. Depending on the survey, the numbers suggest that at least 8 out of 10 callers prefer to be authenticated using voice biometrics over traditional knowledge-based authentication.

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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? Hyper efficiency is a term used to describe the streamlining of processes to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer service. Look no further!

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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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Fonolo

MARCH 9, 2023

Things like complicated automated response menus, having agents who are not empowered to solve problems, and trying to stretch resources by understaffing are not going to solve customer problems. Here are some of the most common customer complaints in contact centers. Offer omnichannel customer service Everybody loves options.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2018

Voice biometrics is another high-tech solution that is going mainstream; a leading bank’s recent ad campaign publicizes that they know customers “by the sound of their voice.” IVAs are self-learning; their ’intelligence; is continually evolving based on data inputs from each new interaction. Enhanced self-service.

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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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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2017

In this age of digital transformation, customers and prospects must be able to easily access an enterprise from any channel – phone, self-service (websites, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, intelligent virtual agents (IVAs)), email, chat, co-browse, SMS, social media and video.

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Solvvy

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Replacing human customer service agents with IVR technology: Bad idea. One of the earliest forms of AI customer service to come mainstream is interactive voice response (IVR) technology, in which a computer recognizes the customer’s natural speech or touch tone and uses it as a prompt for their next action.

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Fonolo

MARCH 7, 2023

If they have a problem or a question, they expect immediate information and quick resolution — but keeping up with this demand can be an impossible task for your contact center’s live agents alone. That’s where self-service comes in. Movements from the human realm to the self-serve realm is harder.

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Call Experts

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Then you can craft a self-service experience, train your support team, and develop content. Build a knowledge base to support self-service solutions. As you begin to build more content to support your customers, these assets become your knowledge base (purchasing, implementation, retention, and more).

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The best way for a call center to stand out as a leader is through the customer experience. Most callers will begin subconsciously rating their customer experience from the beginning of the interaction, regardless of the channel; phone, web, social media, or mobile app. How to Calculate Hold Time in a Call Center.

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