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The Secret Weapon for Building Great Customer Relationships

ClientSuccess

Customer-centric service has emerged as one of the leading contributors to account renewals, recurring revenue, and upsells for SaaS-based organizations. . In addition to your vast toolkit of customer success solutions, tools, and resources, there is one secret weapon to include to build strong customer relationships: customer-first service.

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

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Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost. Spreadsheets don’t function well as a reporting tool.

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“Next!” Top 5 Tips to Reduce Customer Service Wait Time

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Some managers will turn up the heat on their agents, enforcing strict targets and service level agreements (SLA) on handling time to keep conversations short. There are several tools any team can implement today that will help to reduce wait times and keep your customer service complaints to a minimum. What not to do.

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Workforce Optimization: What It is and Why You Need It

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Workforce optimization tools automate the operational performance management processes, providing added muscle to workforce management (WFM), quality management (QM), agent coaching , analytics, and reporting. Quality Assurance (QA) tools are great, but they tend to be reactive. It’s also sometimes referred to as quality assurance.

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Make Every Agent Your Best Agent With WFM — Even Remotely

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It’s not just a tool for finding out what’s wrong — it’s also a way to celebrate what’s going right. Customers’ high expectations — not to mention your service level agreements with them — require companies to deliver timely service. Related Article: How WFM Tools Create Success for Omnichannel Contact Centers.

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How eLearning Solves Your Contact Center’s Training Challenge

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Service levels could suffer, and besides, training costs money. The best contact center learning management systems enable multimedia eLearning, which means agents can learn skills from: Videos eBooks Webinars Podcasts Slide decks Articles Livestream instructor-led training. Unfortunately, ongoing training is often shortchanged.

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How Customer Success and Marketing Can Work Together to Increase Customer Retention

ClientSuccess

The old adage that ‘your current customers are your best marketing tool’ still holds true, even in the age of digital marketing and SaaS vendors. Additionally, asking a customer to participate in customer marketing initiatives can provide an additional personal touch for customers who may be feeling a little down about their service levels.