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The Best Advice for Contact Centers in 2018: The Experts Weigh In

Fonolo

Here, experts and influencers in the CX and CS industries give us incredibly valuable soundbites on best practices, boosting morale, improving performance, implementing technology, building partnerships, and delivering a well-orchestrated customer support offering to your burgeoning audience of customers. Learn more about Jon here and here.

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How to Measure Contact Center Agent Productivity and Five Ways to Boost It

Playvox

To minimize the percentage of unproductive time periods, you need a workforce management (WFM) solution that will accurately forecast multichannel agents across all channels in your business. The benchmark for this metric is typically 85-90% occupancy across all multichannel agents. What is the occupancy rate?

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3 ways of reducing customer query volumes

Eptica

Empower your agents with automation Helping agents to deliver a better, more consistent service is central to increasing their productivity and morale, and consequently deepening engagement with customers. It is therefore vital to empower them with the tools they need to get their job done efficiently. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Contact Centers aren’t Ready for Omnichannel

Calabrio

Without 360-degree business process planning —Workflows aren’t optimized for both customers and agents, resulting in cumbersome and illogical processes that frustrate both groups. It frustrates agents, decreasing their job satisfaction and fostering low morale. Whitepaper: “ Multichannel Analytics in the Contact Center ”.

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Don’t neglect the positive side of customer service

Eptica

This could be through a newsletter, a Facebook group or a full online community. Positive customer responses are easily lost in the thousands of interactions that companies receive, and the feedback may just be forwarded around the contact center to improve morale. Share this page on: Tweet.

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RapportBoost Podcast – Featuring Mike Aoki

RapportBoost

Of course, now it’s changed so much, and there’s been more of an all-around contact, multichannel, omnichannel contact center. Given the current landscape of multidimensional, multichannel communications, what would you say are the three “must do’s” for any customer service center, regardless of industry?

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JustCall vs Dialpad Comparison in 2023: Best Call Center Software Review

JustCall

Number Porting Available Available Ring Groups Unlimited A Maximum of 3 groups for Standard, 25 for Pro, and unlimited for Enterprise Dial by Extensions 3-digit Extensions Available Available only for Enterprise plan Toll-Free Number Available Available at $15 per month for annual plans or $17 per month for monthly plans, plus $0.2