BlueOcean

MARCH 24, 2022

When it comes to complex B2C customer care, the customer is anything but a faceless number in a sea of consumers. B2C brands had their worlds turned upside down by the pandemic, but what does complex customer care look like now things are leveling out? Modified Recruitment Strategy.

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Hodusoft

JUNE 7, 2024

Call Center Management: Challenges, Strategies, Tips, and Best Practices In today’s time, setting up a call or contact center is extremely easy. He famously said “Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.” Why do businesses need call center management?

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Best practices Call Center Omni-channel support Management 52

Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. Understanding the key call center efficiency metrics to track , and more importantly, how to improve them, will set you up for success and help keep your customers happy.

Call Center 52

Call Center Metrics Schedule adherence Average Handle Time 52

JustCall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In other words, you need the right set of metrics. Key Metrics for Real-Time Reporting and Insights As mentioned, you need the right set of metrics to measure your agent or team’s performance. 43% of customers find long call hold times frustrating, and that’s why reducing it considerably improves the experience.

Metrics 52

Metrics Contact Center Benchmark Average Handle Time 52

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

When a customer searches through FAQs, follows a video tutorial, asks a question on a user forum and still does not have a satisfactory answer to their question, resulting in a call to customer service, is that resolution considered a first contact resolution (FCR)? New Self Service KPI Metrics. Call Deflection Rate.

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Self service Metrics Contact Center Virtual Agent 146

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For clients with complex care scenarios – whether that is enterprise customer success management or providing critical support direct to consumers – change is never taken lightly. What Service Level Metrics Are Most Relevant to Your Business Now? Are Your Customers Happy? Change is hard and change can be expensive.

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outsourcing Customer Care Metrics Contact Center 62

Fonolo

MARCH 16, 2023

But without the contact center KPIs and metrics that managers use to measure the effectiveness of their operations, you’d never know for sure. We asked contact center industry influencers to share their insights into the changing role of KPIs and shine a light on new metrics to watch. KPIs matter. And they’re changing quickly.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time First call resolution Metrics 151

BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2020

Choosing an outsourced customer care partner might just be one of the most complex procurement scenarios out there. After all, this is a partner who will hold your brand and reputation in their hands, interfacing with your loyal (and often concerned) customers day in and day out. No boilerplate RFP document will do the job.

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Customer Care outsourcing Contact Center Metrics 62

Russel Lolacher

MARCH 2, 2021

In BC, I’m the public service director responsible for the government social media customer care for our ministry, but my dad still doesn’t understand what I do. A big part of my role has always been change management, and communication is key to that. “Yes, but what do you do? Thanks, Dad. We have a few.

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Government Customer Care Transportation Benchmark 52

Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

And behind the scenes, how do you ensure your quality management (QM) processes are keeping up? Let’s examine the role of AI in streamlining quality management processes to help modern contact centers rise to the ever-changing customer experience landscape. How do contact centers not only survive but thrive in this new era?

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Quality management Management Contact Center Coaching 78

Win the Customer

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I recently worked with an organization who wanted to tap into more detailed information about their customer interactions only to find out that their phone provider was greatly lacking in offerings for call center metrics. The post Getting Started With Advanced Call Center Management and Metrics appeared first on Win the Customer!

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Call Center Metrics Management Interactive Voice Response 78

ClearAction

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

8 Customer Experience Metric Silos Mask Momentum Lynn Hunsaker. Metrics selection can be the most pivotal decision you make in your customer experience management strategy. That’s because what gets measured gets managed. This is why connecting the dots is essential for customer experience metrics.

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Metrics Customer Experience Journey mapping Customer Care 67

BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

But you’re ready to implement and transition into your new outsourced customer care program so you’ve got to buckle up and buckle down. Here are the milestones you can expect along the way of implementing your outsourced customer care program. Building Your Outsourced Customer Care Team.

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outsourcing Customer Care Calibration Government 62

ConvergeOne

APRIL 20, 2021

ConvergeOne has worked with this customer for three years, and all their customer experience metrics are pointing in the right direction. They’ve beefed up self-service channels, helping customers navigate the systems themselves. Compensation has changed to reflect metrics that are both individual- and team-oriented.

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Customer Care Analytics Self service Contact Center 56

CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

Most of the tools that businesses have been using these days generally provide analytics reporting to evaluate customer engagement trends for the touchpoints that are managed by that tool. Customer Care and Customer Service Team. Scaling success within Customer care and service effort is a nerve-wracking deal.

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Metrics Analytics SaaS Journey mapping 52

ConvergeOne

APRIL 20, 2021

ConvergeOne has worked with this customer for three years, and all their customer experience metrics are pointing in the right direction. They’ve beefed up self-service channels, helping customers navigate the systems themselves. Compensation has changed to reflect metrics that are both individual- and team-oriented.

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Customer Care Analytics Self service Contact Center 40

Playvox

AUGUST 25, 2022

As workforce management professionals, we are faced with the daunting task of figuring out the ideal forecast, matching that forecast with a schedule and then making sure that our “master plan” works in the real world – meaning all the people that we are counting on for their shifts work their shifts as planned. ENJOYING THIS ARTICLE?

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Personalization Management Schedule adherence Average Handle Time 85

Real Blue Sky

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As someone who’s been immersed in the customer experience realm for over three decades, I’ve seen businesses grapple with the complexities of managing customer contact centers – whether they were insourcing or outsourcing customer service. Then there’s the issue of stagnant engagement metrics.

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outsourcing Management Customer Service Contact Center 105

Skybridge

MAY 19, 2021

While each metric means something , the truth is, some are more useful and informative than others. More importantly, no single performance measurement is capable of helping a brand leader understand how well the customer care team is taking care of customers. How Long Is The Typical Customer Service Interaction?

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Customer Care Average Handle Time Contact Center Coaching 52

JustCall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Maintaining all communication lines efficiently and ensuring quality service are the biggest challenges for call center managers in the modern market. It is known that call centers have one of the toughest work environments in the service industry, with round-the-clock support, customer satisfaction metrics, and escalation worries.

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Call Center Management B2C Chatbots 52

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For example, a recent report by t he American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) showed that only 30 percent of the businesses the ASCI tracked improved their Customer Satisfaction scores over the past ten years. To learn more about that situation, we hosted the ACSI’s managing director David VanAmburg in a recent podcast.)

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Customer Experience Consulting Consulting Metrics 416

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? The Need for Hyper Efficiency in Call Centers As a call center operations manager, you need to stay on top of the latest trends in hyper efficiency to ensure that your organization is successful.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Management Gamification 52

Playvox

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While agents have been explicit in their desire to continue remote working, nearly half of the contact center managers in our survey are planning to bring agents back to an office in 2022. Over half the managers we surveyed told us they work remotely five days per week, and the overwhelming majority (84%) said they were happy with that.

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Contact Center Management Gamification Surveys 70

BlueOcean

APRIL 15, 2019

Finally, in the rare case that we interact with a customer whose expectations go beyond the realm of possibility, we flag the contact for review with our client. Empowering Your Team to Deliver Kick-Ass Customer Experience. Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care? Read this next!

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Customer Care Coaching outsourcing Contact Center 75

CCNG

JUNE 14, 2023

Here are some key metrics and approaches to consider: Key Metrics to Assess Customer Engagement and Loyalty In Jeanne Bliss’s book, Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine , "Competency #1 is to Honor and Manage Customers as Assets".

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Customer Experience Airlines CCNG Chief Customer Officer 195

Bill Quiseng

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many CX professionals have advocated CX as strategies such as AI, online, self-service, telephone, and face-to-face customer support, customer journey mapping, the Peak End Rule, NPS, CSAT, CES, or other CX metrics, and many innovative technologies to improvetheir customers’ experiences. But no more.

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Journey mapping Education Coaching Customer Care 97

Expivia

JANUARY 29, 2021

With us today we have Jimmy Budnik, the VP of Customer Care and CRP at Overstock.com. I’m Jimmy Budnik, the VP of customer Care and CRP at Overstock.com. And really early on I was asked to work on reverse Logistics and returns, and that was my first exposure to the customer care team at Overstock.

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Customer Care CRM Self service Call Center 52

GetFeedback

AUGUST 16, 2018

But when it comes to service quality, how do you measure where you really stand with customers? Here’s a look at the top 11 customer service metrics you should start measuring today. Customer Happiness Metrics. How can you quantify how customers feel about your brand? Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Score.

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Metrics Customer Service Surveys Self service 79

Jive

AUGUST 27, 2018

Phone metrics inform data-driven decisions. In the era of Big Data and data-driven decisions, phone metrics can act as an invaluable measure of customer service. Previously, only the top dogs in any industry had access to phone metrics. The most helpful phone metrics to track. Is customer satisfaction down?

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Metrics Interactive Voice Response voip Abandon rate 63

Expivia

JANUARY 5, 2021

With us today we have Jimmy Budnik, the VP of Customer Care and CRP at Overstock.com. I’m Jimmy Budnik, the VP of customer Care and CRP at Overstock.com. And really early on I was asked to work on reverse Logistics and returns, and that was my first exposure to the customer care team at Overstock.

Customer Care 52

Customer Care CRM Self service Call Center 52

Voxjar

MARCH 10, 2020

You’ve moved up the company ladder and upper management has placed their faith in you. You’ve got a lot on your plate – managing quality assurance via call recording and monitoring. Not to mention that you’ve been given a budget and are responsible for the measuring the success of your call center metrics. What’s In Store.

Metrics 52

Metrics Customer Service Call Center Customer retention 52

Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

It’s no easy task, but the right mix of call center metrics and KPIs can help you stay the course. Customer service leaders need to tune in to one set of KPIs, but front-line managers need a different view. Net Promoter Score (NPS) Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a popular metric used to measure customer loyalty and satisfaction.

Call Center 75

Call Center Metrics Abandon rate Average Handle Time 75

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Finding Bilingual Support That Suits Your Customers Best We’re an onshore Canadian contact center outsourcer and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated (bilingual) customer care through strategic partnership. The value of that improved metric plays a big role in the client’s bottom line. It’s our thing.

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Customer Support Bilingual agents outsourcing Contact Center 124

Bill Quiseng

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Let’s be revolutionary to transform CX Into CXM, customer service to customer CARE, and customer service training to an education in customer CARE or customer CARE University. QUI TAKEAWAY: Customer service is what you do for your customers. Why only three?

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Journey mapping Customer Care Education Metrics 97

InGenius

MARCH 26, 2020

Though every agent is unique, some agents will feel more confident in their interactions with your customers, leading to better discussions and overall improved interactions. Knowledge management from RightAnswers. There is no better way to measure quality than through direct customer feedback. How can InGenius help?

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Contact Center Management Call Logging CRM 93

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Technology today gives customer service teams a lot of options to help them assist and manage customer needs better. Great customer service teams know what tools they can utilize to improve customer care. They also look into tools that can help gather useful analytics and track metrics.

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Customer Support Multi-channel support voip Benchmark 355

CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

(Temkin, 2018) Just 34% of respondents report they have three or more years of experience developing end-to-end journey maps, and 83% report their organization struggles to use customer journey maps to identify and prioritize CX efforts. Gartner, 2022) CX programs that exceed management expectations are 2.3 over the last two years, 2.4

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Metrics Surveys 195