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Key Considerations for A Healthy Contact Center

CCNG

Re-evaluating your agents’ location is a good step toward outsourcing some of the workflows. Having a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) to fill in during peak times or handle some of your lower-tiered calls can relieve stress within your contact center. Not average handling time or other internal metrics.

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Is Your Inexperienced Approach to Self-Service Driving Customers Away?

Creative Virtual

Perhaps in the early days of limited in-person interactions and surges in calls to contact centres, customers were more understanding about long wait times or out-of-date self-help content. During the past year, more customers have turned to digital channels and automated self-service for support.

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New Research: Digital Self-service Now More Popular than Calling Customer Service

CSM Magazine

60% of UK household water and energy customers prefer not to call customer service if they can use online tools to solve their problems, according to Macro 4 research. The majority of people are now happy to use self-service instead of speaking to a customer service person on the phone – especially for simple queries.

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The Changing Dynamics of Customer Support Outsourcing in 2020

OctopusTech

As the teen years have ended with great successions of technological advancements, 2020 has brought innovative hopes for customer support outsourcing. Forrester predicts that brands will spend $8 billion more on customer service agents in 2020 than the previous year. Intelligent Self-service AI tools.

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What if You Didn’t Have to Outsource Customer Service to Keep up With Customer Expectations? 4 Alternatives to Outsourcing That Keep You in Control and Your Agents Happy

SharpenCX

All of this boils up and it can be tempting to wash your hands of it and just outsource customer service. And while outsourcing is a great solution, for some, it’s not for everyone. If you’re tempted to outsource customer service, weigh all your options first. Customers like solving their own problems.

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3 Keys to Q4 Contact Center Success in 2021

Outsource Consultants

That’s because nearly 40% of current incoming call volume can be handled entirely with automated, self-service channels , according to a business leader survey from Gartner. Emphasizing self-service via call deflection allows you to automate customer engagements across sales, support, product info, etc. —

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The Evolution of Call Center BPO Services

Global Response

But with the rise of modern technology and the globalization of the workforce, call centers and business process outsourcing (BPO) services look very different today. This reduces wait times and enhances overall customer satisfaction. It is also interesting to note that nearshore outsourcing has become more popular.