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How to Manage Customer Wait Time: The Best Tips From Great Companies

Beyond Philosophy

Your customers likely wait in your experience, too, and that may or may not be creating negative feelings about your experience. Therefore, managing customers’ perceptions about wait times in your Customer Experience is essential—and a practical way to foster customer-driven growth.

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Guest Post: Maximize Productivity with a Customer Experience Management Platform

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This week we feature an article by Apira Giriharan, a Marketing Manager from Blackchair with extensive knowledge of all matters related to CX solutions. She writes about how contact center agents can maximize productivity and provide a better customer experience. What is a CX management platform?

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Comm100 Queue Management – The Solution to Long Wait Times & Frustrated Customers

Comm100

Long wait times and uncertainty in the queueing process can quickly turn a positive customer experience into a negative one. This is where Comm100 Queue Management comes in, helping support teams to streamline their queueing process and enhance customer satisfaction. How does Comm100 Queue Management work?

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Why Call-Back Algorithms and Estimated Wait Times Fail

Fonolo

Call-backs are an excellent tool that can benefit both customers and businesses – when they’re designed and implemented correctly. It’s important to understand that call-back products using algorithms and estimated wait times often come up short, leaving customers waiting on hold a second time.

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The Top 3 Ways to Forecast for Your Contact Center

It can be difficult to schedule the right amount of agents at the right time. Download our ebook to learn how to reduce overstaffing and understaffing, lower customer wait times and improve the customer experience with proper forecasting.

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What is Expected Wait Time? (EWT)

Babelforce

Expected Wait Time (EWT) is the length of time a customer has to wait in the queue before an agent answers. There is a systematic approach to calculating EWT which should factor in things like staffing, handling time and the wait time of recent calls. EWT is always a best guess.

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Zero Cost! How to Use Behavioral Science to Improve Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

I recently received a letter from a listener on our podcast asking us to cover how a small business with limited resources can improve their Customer Experience using the behavioral sciences in their business. Feeling familiar and appreciated are pleasant emotions that will enhance the experience. Manage customer wait times.