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Contingency Planning With At-Home Agents

Outsource Consultants

Non-critical travel has become a rarity, although its need was already shrinking due to rampant cancellations of business and entertainment events. Making the answers to common questions easy to find on your website or IVR messaging can free up agents for the inquiries that truly require a two-way interaction.

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17 Surprising Stats About Call Centers

Fonolo

Without further ado, here are some surprising, fundamental, and/or entertaining stats about the call center, a customer service lifesaver that is here to stay: The most frustrating aspect of the customer service experience? Automated Telephone Systems (IVR) and “the inability to reach a live person for customer support.” Jeremy Watkin.

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

Our solution, VIA Contact Centre, is actually an adapted form of Skype for Business that offers added benefits to the contact center like call recording, smart agent selection, and interactive voice response – the latter is particularly useful as it negates the need for switchboards entirely.

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The Four Ways Call Centers Are Using AI Agents

SmartAction

You call your cable company excited about upgrading your entertainment plan – only to be put on hold for 20-plus minutes and stuck listening to continued elevator music interspersed with promos for other products and an occasional voice recognizing you’re still in a queue. Think of it as the “Hello. How can I help you?”

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3 ways to transform banking through automation

Talkdesk

With BaaS, financial institutions can allow third parties into their tech stacks, opening up their platform, commissioning leads and outsourcing customer service, so they never leave customers on hold. The system could play a special message thanking clients for their loyalty and extending a new offer.

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18 Contact Center Strategies That Actually Work

JustCall

It is essential to look at the problems at your contact center in a multifaceted way: Issues that employees and staff face Issues that customers face Issues with technology Issues with outsourced services Create a list of all the problems that can compromise the service quality that your contact center provides.