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Call Center Compliance & Regulations: Legal Considerations When Outsourcing Your Call Center

Global Response

Although call centers provide essential support and benefit to your business—including increased customer service availability, improved productivity and efficiency, stronger service levels and more—if a legal dispute or non-compliance issue is uncovered, your call center can end up costing you more than you imagined.

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What Metrics Matter Most For An Inbound Call Center?

Quality Contact Solutions

One of the most commonly asked questions when it comes to inbound call center outsourcing is around metrics. Because there are so many metrics that are available to track internally, externally, at the inbound call center agent level and the program level, it’s no wonder people stop to think “where do I begin?”

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Important Forecasting Considerations for Inbound Contact Solutions

Quality Contact Solutions

Service Levels. Occupancy Levels. The key metrics to focus on will be call volume and average handle time. Look at these metrics by day, week, month and definitely time of day. Each call center will have specific metrics from management that need to be adhered to. Call volume. Average Handle Time.

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How To Pick The Right Call Center Provider

Global Response

This can include things like telemarketing, surveying, appointment setting, customer service, technical support or other areas of service. Conversely, outbound call centers focus primarily on outbound customer communication and may not offer traditional customer service solutions. Contact centers.

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Increase Your Call Center’s Efficiency with a Hybrid Dialer Solution

NobelBiz

By intelligently evaluating agent availability and analyzing call metrics, hybrid dialers optimize call timing and maximize efficiency, enabling call centers to seamlessly balance automated and manual dialing for improved operational performance. Industry agnostic, but popular and very necessary in Collections, Telemarketing, Lead gen.

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Why Some Businesses Prefer In-House Customer Service Over Call Centers

Global Response

In these cases, an in-house customer service team makes sense, though it can be helpful to outsource some of the less technical aspects of customer service, such as telemarketing, lead generation or order taking, in order to free up time for internal teams. Organizations needing to improve customer service metrics.

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How to determine your wildly important goal for your inbound call center

Quality Contact Solutions

Goal setting & metrics for the inbound call center. Is it first call resolution %, service level %, the average time to answer, etc.? Key metrics. The most common service level used is 80% of the calls answered within 20 seconds. Said differently, define a starting line, finish line, and deadline.