TechSee

APRIL 26, 2021

The Age of Contact Center Transformation . Like many industries these days, contact centers are at a crossroads. On the one hand, every business needs to save money and customer service is generally the first on the chopping block. On the other hand, call volumes are at peak levels.

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Monet Software

MARCH 10, 2021

Will remote agents continue to represent a significant proportion of the call center workforce? Or will SMB contact centers and clients rush to bring employees back to the traditional production floor? The contact center workforce was already going remote. Here’s why. Flexibility & Scalability. Cost-savings.

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With corporate budgets tightening, contact center leaders might be tempted to cut into your quality management funding. But quality management is a vital area of your business — it’s what ensures your customers get top-notch service. It’s not enough to stick to managing quality at the operational level.

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Hodusoft

MAY 24, 2022

Top Reasons Cloud-based Is Better Than On-Premise For Contact Centers. Contact centers are becoming increasingly important to modern business, and they are the central hub in a company to assist with customer retention and building brand loyalty. What are cloud-based contact centers?

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Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Providing an ever-improving customer experience while boosting contact center agent productivity is paramount for your business. Here’s the blueprint for achieving greater agent productivity in your call center. The quality of customer service and support can also have an impact on the productivity of a contact center.

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Playvox

JUNE 28, 2022

While presenting a tremendous opportunity for business growth, this trend also creates challenges for contact centers. Customers now expect to do business with an omnichannel contact center that delivers consistent and seamless customer experiences regardless of the channel they use. What Is An Omnichannel Contact Center?

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Playvox

APRIL 19, 2023

Excellent time management is crucial in a contact center. Being able to strategically plan and prioritize tasks not only ensures your customers get the service and support they need in a timely manner, but it also increases agent productivity, decreases overall stress, and improves job satisfaction. Every work day is different.

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Taylor Reach Group

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Definition of Service Level: The percentage of calls answered within a set threshold. Note: Service level applies to live contacts so the same definition can be used for other channels such as Chat or SMS. Service level is 80/100 or 80% in 30 seconds. Requirements for Setting Service Level Goals .

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

Brands have already made the move to upgrade from basic call centers to contact centers for the agility and flexibility that they provide. Addressing this gap between expectation and capacity, contact centers offer extended functionality and better efficiencies. What is a Contact Center?

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently. Simply providing an acceptable level of customer service while containing costs is no longer enough.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. We’ve long been proponents of making transactional customer service low effort, for both customer and contact center. So let’s get into it. Those first three are what we’d expect.

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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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outsourcing Contact Center Real estate Business Process Outsourcing 52

JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

Introduction Contact centers are one of the most underrated departments of a business. It is important to equip your call centers with the right toolset and insight for them to function well. Nearly half of customer service agents already find it hard to manage tough conversations. What Is Contact Center Analytics?

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Talkdesk

MAY 12, 2020

The latest trend in at-home agent training centers around online, specialized tools that offer hands-on practice with a contact center interface, testing employees’ ability to learn and adapt to a technology they’ll be using daily. Encourage them to introduce their role on the team as well as how the agents can contact them.

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Transparent BPO

MARCH 11, 2020

.” That adage, coined by Peter Drucker, a man regarded as the inventor of modern business management, testifies to the fact that measuring performance is vital to the success of any business or industry — including the contact center industry. “But take inbound or outbound sales, for example.

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Expivia

OCTOBER 4, 2021

However, finding and training staff to handle your customer service isn’t the easiest (or cheapest) task. . This is when contact center outsourcing comes into play. Contact center outsourcing can take the weight of customer management off your shoulders. What Is Contact Center Outsourcing?

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Service Agility

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Originally published in Contact Center Pipeline, May 2015 X% answered in y seconds. That’s the formula we use for service level calculations in contact centers. If you truly value customer satisfaction, you will set an aggressive service level standard and routinely meet it.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Customer loyalty is more important than ever, and prioritizing customer service — with an excellent, dynamic, and engaged contact center — can help your company stand out. We recommend companies implement technology and automation in their support centers. Your contact center employees are your greatest assets.

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Calltools

JANUARY 19, 2022

Here are six contact center trends that managers should respond to when assisting reps, streaming campaigns and improving the customer experience in 2022. . In addition, this training makes the call center environment a more productive one. . As such, this innovation will likely dominate contact centers in 2022.

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Serenova

JUNE 24, 2020

Even during this time marked by rapid change and uncertainty, the foundation of a successful contact center remains constant: exceptional customer experience. Effectively seizing the opportunity takes an omnichannel cloud contact center. What Is an Omnichannel Contact Center?

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Serenova

JUNE 24, 2020

Omnichannel Contact Centers: the Why and How in 2020. Even during this time marked by rapid change and uncertainty, the foundation of a successful contact center remains constant: exceptional customer experience. Effectively seizing the opportunity takes an omnichannel cloud contact center.

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Quiq

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Share This Story The customer service a company provides has a direct impact on that company’s sales numbers. A positive experience with a contact center agent can serve as the nudge customers need to make a purchase, while a frustrating conversation can deter existing customers and put off new customers entirely.

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Spearline

APRIL 3, 2023

Contact centers typically aim to handle as many calls as possible and resolve customer issues quickly while maintaining high customer experience (CX) standards. Technical issues – These can include problems with the telephony system, call routing, and other technology that supports your contact center.

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Cisco - Contact Center

JANUARY 21, 2020

Europe, with its 24 official different languages, is certainly posing some extra challenges to those companies delivering services across countries part of the union, and that’s nothing considering that there are more than 200 languages spoken on the continent. Narrowing the Call Center Gap.

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Balto

JUNE 20, 2023

And if you’re still relying on a traditional contact center model with long wait times, scripted interactions, and frustrated customers, your business is destined to lose a lot of customers, and concurrently, money. Modern contact centers can use conversational AI to meet customer demands. What is Conversational AI ?

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Monet Software

JANUARY 16, 2020

Blended agent assignments have been a staple of the contact center since the advent of automated call distribution (ACD) systems. Enabling outbound agents to fill in on inbound lines when call volumes spike, for example, has offered valuable options for enhancing call center metrics, like service levels and abandonment rates.

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Customer Service Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

My first job out of college was as a frontline agent in the contact center for a SaaS startup — and over the next 15 years, I grew into a director role. But things have changed and I now find myself back in a contact center leadership role at a SaaS startup, and I’m now looking to execute on many of the lessons learned and shared.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

The strain to balance taking care of employees to protect them from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. As contact volume, customer anxiety and agent stress all still soar, what you once managed can now feel overwhelmingly un-manageable. Every time.

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Monet Software

JUNE 11, 2018

Service level is just one element that contributes to a customer’s positive call center experience – but it’s an important one. Faulty Forecast If call volume or call patterns are different than what was anticipated, it will affect service level. Do you have any tips on improving service levels?

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

For most contact centers, surviving the first months of COVID-19 required swift operational reboots that began with major work-from-home (WFH) transitions. The strain of balancing the need to protect employees from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. The Cloud.

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Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 8, 2018

Calculation: Total Contact Time (Talk Time + After Call Work) /Total Logged-in Time. Example: An agent’s shift is from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (8 hours) where she has 30 minutes for lunch and 2- 15 minutes break (7 hours or 420 minutes logged-in). The larger the center, the easier it is to answer calls efficiently.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 19, 2024

Call center dashboards play a vital role in contact centers. Call center dashboards provide the kinds of insights and metrics that contribute to having improved agent performance and more successful campaigns. Types of Call Center Dashboards So what types of call center dashboards are there?

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CCNG

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While many jobs come with a fair amount of stress, few positions are as taxing as that of an associate in a busy contact center who must regularly handle difficult customer service issues. According to a study by Cornell University , 87% of call center employees report high job stress levels.

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Transparent BPO

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s also a term used in business to describe the fundamental skills necessary to function well — and that includes the business of customer service in the contact center. He cited the following example: “We rolled out chatbots in February, but by April, emails were through the roof. he asked. “A

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