Fonolo

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This story demonstrates that call centers help companies improve overall service levels. To achieve and maintain a good holistic service level, however, it is imperative for call centers to improve and maintain their internal service levels, too. A common reality in call centers?

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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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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Call center managers must be aware of industry trends, customer needs, and the latest call center technology. Benchmarking helps call centers compare their operations and processes to other call centers. Here we’ll go through standard KPIs and common reasons why call centers struggle to meet them.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This story demonstrates that call centers help companies improve overall service levels. To achieve and maintain a good holistic service level, however, it is imperative for call centers to improve and maintain their internal service levels, too. A common reality in call centers?

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Contact centers are the conversation hubs of a business that faces an immense flurry of activity every single day. So how can your business, in such a situation, ensure that your contact center is functioning optimally? The best way is to work with industry-tested strategies that have proven themselves time and again.

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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? For the contact center, scalability is key, especially in regards to managing an influx of call volumes.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Voice-powered technology has grown exponentially in the past few years. Notably, many are asking whether voice-powered technology is a threat or an asset to call center employees. Here’s a deep dive into how voice-powered technology is being integrated into call center strategies with great success.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

As a call center stakeholder—be it an owner, manager, or supervisor—the task of harnessing call center reporting to pinpoint areas for improvement, optimize agent performance, and ultimately enhance customer satisfaction can seem daunting. and “Do you have the right people and technology in the right places?”

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Really, it’s a promise, one you must keep in order to satisfy clients and maintain the service levels that will keep your long-lasting relationship with them buoyed. Anyone working in the service industry, be it in retail, health or finance, should get the low-down on Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and fast.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

JULY 12, 2018

A contact center agent deals with stress on a daily basis, and it can get pretty taxing. But a contact center manager is no exception. Here are eight strategies to help in your journey to contact center management success. Just winging it in the contact center arena almost always leads to failure.

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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

MARCH 17, 2022

Let’s take a look at what makes a great call center manager and how to find the right fit from the hiring stage. Industry Report: State of the Contact Center 2022. Call Center Management Duties. Call center managers have many job duties, many of which take place behind the scenes. Analytical skills.

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Call Experts

JULY 27, 2023

At Call Experts, we routinely hit industry standards and have even received Platinum certification from our industry partner ATSI. In this blog, we will explore how contact centers have transformed the industry and discuss the key metrics that should be tracked to ensure continued customer satisfaction.

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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 31, 2018

AI” isn’t a particular technology (like blockchain) or even a particular concept like IoT. The core problem here is that AI is not a specific technology. The set of technologies that are included in the definition shifts with time. As a particular technology becomes mainstream, we stop thinking about it as “AI”.

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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. Call Center 101: The Golden Rules of SLAs.

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Expivia

APRIL 29, 2021

While this call center KPI is easy to adjust, it may affect the happiness of your agents if you put too much pressure on them. As part of your service level, you need to know how long customers are in the queue. The industry standard for service level is 80/30, where 80% of the calls are answered in 30 seconds or less.

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SharpenCX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Historically, consumers have grown accustomed to this kind of service — slow, time-wasting, unresponsive. But, with the development of new technology, consumers today have different expectations. Download Now: See what Frost & Sullivan marked as the most important trends impacting contact centers.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2024

Can’t technology put an end to this problem once and for all? 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. Why is call abandonment still a thing?

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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? Cost per call is one of the most important metrics for contact centers. Factors that affect the cost per call How to calculate the cost per call in a contact center?

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Understaffing – Lengthy call center queues are related to suboptimal staffing. The obvious reason would be that your call center is understaffed. Outdated Technology – Outdated or non-customer-centric call center software affects call center agent efficiency. Why is Call Queue Management Important.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If most call center teams had to pick a “North Star” it would be service level, which measures the length of time callers wait to reach an agent. It’s kind of surprising that, despite all the enormous changes that have occurred in customer service technology, the dominant metric remains service level.

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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. DID YOU KNOW?

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Two years ago we wrote “ Salesforce Has Many Fingers in the Call Center Pie ” and that is even more the case now. The larger pattern is the growing overlap of CRM and call centers (See “ Is a Call Center Just a CRM Feature? ”). Of all the sectors in enterprise IT, call center resisted the cloud transition the longest.

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