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20 Call Center Pros Share the Most Undervalued Call Center Metrics and How To Better Leverage Them

Callminer

It is the percentage of customer questions that could/should be handled in self-service by the customer. The best way for a company to improve upon this metric is to teach the customer how to access their self-service pages, such as checking their own order status. Brian Dooley @Brian_Dooley.

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20/20 Vision: The Best Advice for Contact Centers in 2020 – The Experts Weigh In

Fonolo

Well, it’s that time once again: We invited some of the top contact center experts from Ada , J Arnold and Associates , The Belding Group , Calzilla , Expivia , and other vibrant CX and CS avenues to offer us and you, our dear readership, their best pieces of advice for contact centers in this increasingly complex customer age.

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Five Steps to Strategically Choose AI For Customer Service

Natalie Petouhof

List the strategic metrics you are measured on every day and then think about how AI can help you to: Reduce call volume (call deflection via satisfying self-service). Increase agent productivity, morale, retention (reduce attrition costs). Improve CSAT, NPS, customer lifetime value (CLV)…. Faster time-to-value.

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10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center

Hodusoft

They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. BPOs offer a comprehensive range of services, including but not limited to customer support and sales. As per a report , the customer care BPO market is estimated to rise from US$22,598.82 million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73

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5 Ways to strike the right balance: Occupancy and Shrinkage

teleopti

Likewise, contact centres try to avoid anything that takes agents away from direct customer care, for example, extra coaching, team meetings, comfort breaks, helping other departments and system downtime. 5 ways to strike the right balance with WFM. Better skills mean happier employees and less attrition. Collaborative working.

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An ultimate guide on call center automation

OctopusTech

Automated interaction with customers. Using a self-service tool such as a chatbot can be considered an automated interaction with customers and an AI-powered IVR is an example of automated interaction through voice. Increasing demands for self-service channels. Use of customer analytics.

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5 Proven Strategies To Help Remote Contact Center Agents Feel Valued

Playvox

And with 69% of service agents considering leaving their customer service role altogether, it’s best to take action to improve morale. Automation is a great tool, for example, to provide customers with company hours. Hold times go down, and customer satisfaction goes up. Ignoring the issue is costly.