Playvox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you’re a contact center professional, you’re probably feeling the pain of agent staffing shortages. This difficulty includes finding contact center agents. There are creative measures every call center can take to address agent staffing shortages. Higher queue times. Don’t despair.

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Call Experts

JULY 28, 2022

Contact center support is a vital part of any business. A contact center can help save you time and money while delivering outstanding service to your customers. The right contact center will improve customer satisfaction , which leads to increased sales and profitability. What Is A Contact Center?

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TechSee

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Contact centers are perfectly placed to predict imminent customer queries. With 40% of all calls considered “next issues” following initial contacts, NIA is now a critical strategy for reducing customer effort, reducing pressure on contact centers and increasing loyalty. NIA: The balancing metric.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The API integration linking your contact center and your customer relationship management (CRM) tool shouldn’t be holding you back. API integrations are lines of code that connect two or more applications, like your CRM and your contact center. What Exactly Is CRM Contact Center Unification? Data Accuracy.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The API integration linking your contact center and your customer relationship management (CRM) tool shouldn’t be holding you back. API integrations are lines of code that connect two or more applications, like your CRM and your contact center. What Exactly Is CRM Contact Center Unification? Data Accuracy.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2018

These systems are relevant for many verticals including healthcare, finance, weather prediction, call and chat centers, desktop apps, info kiosks and more. . Current state of DSS in contact centers. Call centers are highly stressed environments. Visual IDSS – Transforming Contact Centers of the Future.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

If you’ve manage an aging contact center, then you’ve probably identified several inefficiencies which limit your success. Maybe its call volumes that exceed contact center capacity. When you transform contact center inefficiencies into proficiencies you are transforming money “wasted” into money saved.

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BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. Our employees are trained to listen for and include those small pieces of information in the guest’s file – so the next agent who interacts with that guest can reference the small details.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2021

If you go the extra mile and seek personalized, timely, insightful feedback from your customers, you can identify and improve contact center operations—and strengthen customer loyalty. As we aim to evolve customer experience over time, many of us are identifying problems with these types of surveys.

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TechSee

JANUARY 24, 2023

The earlier that your call center staff can see the problem, the faster they can resolve it. While visual engagement often improves multiple KPIs within the call center, this article will focus on the relationship between the efficient use of visual assistance and the direct effect on AHT.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. So, is Average Handle Time (AHT) still a relevant metric and what does it mean for contact centres today? Calabrio is a trusted ally to leading brands.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

A business, in their eyes, could either emphasize fast, transactional interactions or elaborate, emotionally driven conversations. They absolutely do expect speedy, frictionless interactions that produce resolutions on the first contact. They are also looking for engaging, personalized, high-quality interactions.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 11, 2023

A whopping one-third of contact centers have laid off employees in the last 12 months, reducing their headcount by about 33%. Despite fewer resources and fewer employees, contact centers are expected to achieve the same or better results. But how can they achieve this?

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Playvox

APRIL 6, 2023

Maximizing workforce management efficiency through real-time data is an often-overlooked advantage for contact centers. With real-time information, you can make crucial intraday adjustments that improve your efficiency and your customer experience. What Is Real-Time Data Monitoring In Workforce Management?

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. WFM to the rescue.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

This article explains the importance of after call work and explores emerging approaches to streamlining the post-call process for frontline employees. Contact center agents are usually hyper-aware of their KPIs, which can form the basis of their financial incentives and the likelihood of them staying in their jobs.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2021

This week we feature an article from Tanya Bansal , Marketing Executive at Ameyo. Sh e shares best practices supervisors can use for monitoring call center agents in a work-from-home scenario. The landscape of contact centers has shifted to the WFH (work-from-home) model overnight, bringing in many challenges and opportunities.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

This week we feature an article by Tim Houlne who writes about the importance of integrating technology into your business to provide the optimum customer experience. – Shep Hyken. It’s that time of year again. Time to start planning for your 2019 customer experience initiatives. Would you ever use that airline again?

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Leading research and consulting firm Gartner predicts that Conversational AI will reduce contact centre labour costs by $80billion in 2026 and over the same period, one in 10 agent interactions (10%) will be automated, an increase from an estimated 1.6% of interactions today. Calabrio is a trusted ally to leading brands.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When it comes to call avoidance (or, more accurately these days, interaction avoidance ), you usually know it when you see it. It’s easier than you think to misjudge an agent in an interaction, so I’ve assembled examples of interaction avoidance along with actions you should take when it occurs. Review interaction handle time.

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COPC

AUGUST 4, 2016

I found this article in CRM magazine, Inbound and Outbound Converge in the New Contact Center , to be an interesting one because it discusses some of the changes in our industry that are being made possible by process and technology, but with an eye to improving the customer experience. You can read the entire CRM article below.

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Playvox

AUGUST 25, 2022

How to Ensure Contact Center Agents Understand Their Impact. Below is an example that displays how many team members you have and the impact of having one staff member missing in speed to answer, including phone calls, chats or other interactions. You can use these in a huddle or team meeting, and they don’t take a lot of time.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. Enterprises must consider staffing costs, call center management systems expenses and the cost of self-service tools.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

In this article, we take a deep dive into the different AI customer service technologies that companies are employing to improve their customer-facing interactions, as well as to enhance their internal processes. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2020, 85% of all customer interactions will no longer be managed by humans.

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Uniphore

JUNE 16, 2021

You probably already think enough about Average Handle Time, or AHT for short. AHT is the average length of time it takes an agent to complete a call. 67% of interactions involve a time-consuming diagnosis 60% of customer-assistance occupations are automatable* 30% of common call center tasks are automatable*.

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COPC

OCTOBER 28, 2022

You’ll learn how satisfied contact center staff are with their jobs, understand what drives employee satisfaction and distinguish the differences between countries. More importantly, interactions with callers are more engaging and flow better when they’re not placed on hold while agents search for answers.

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RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Read the transcript below: Nicholas Rodriguez: …the highest priorities for Contact Centers that focus on the customer. So, Talkdesk Enterprise Contact Center empowers companies to make their Customer Experience a competitive advantage. Learn more and request a demo at talkdesk.com. Thanks again Talkdesk.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But when the interactions between your customers and your agents are filled with repetitive questions, long holds, and awkward pauses, the human connection falls to the wayside. Without AI, customers often spend extra time navigating generic IVR (interactive voice response) menus. Automation Reduces Repetitive Tasks for Agents.

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ShepHyken

JULY 11, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. My Comment: We start this week’s Top Five Roundup with an article that shares three simple but powerful ideas. It’s part of the customer experience.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But when the interactions between your customers and your agents are filled with repetitive questions, long holds, and awkward pauses, the human connection falls to the wayside. Without AI, customers often spend extra time navigating generic IVR (interactive voice response) menus. Automation Reduces Repetitive Tasks for Agents.

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COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

This blog article discusses the importance of employing multiple types of AI, implementing effective controls and guardrails, and adapting specific roles within the CX organization. Additionally, the high volume of interactions handled by CX professionals creates fertile ground for AI-driven efficiencies.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 24, 2020

Now, we’re going to dive into the different stakeholders within and outside of the contact center who will benefit from this evolution of the traditional knowledge base, and how you can use it to transform your customer experience. . A true AI-powered knowledge base benefits: Customers. Knowledge Base Administrators.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

And with so much still in flux, that’s not set to change any time soon. That means contact center leaders need to get smart about how they deliver better customer experiences – and it begins with looking inward. To improve customer experience, contact center leaders need to first improve agent experience.

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Magellan Solutions

MARCH 14, 2023

million Filipinos are currently employed in the industry (Contact Center Association of the Philippines (CCAP)). No wonder the call center industry remains to be the ‘sunshine industry’ through the years. In this article, we identify and solve 10 challenges that every call center faces. At present, 1.4

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This week we feature an article by Brian Cantor who gives us a list of ways to achieve success and consistency when communicating with customers on any channel. – Shep Hyken. Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology.

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Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Operating a successful contact center demands attention to a wide range of factors, from investing in your agents’ well-being and training to implementing the right tools and technology. Training programs should be designed to meet the specific needs of the contact center and its agents.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

With the large volumes of contact center advisors still incentivized based on speed – typically the Average Handle Time (AHT) – CX goals are quite often unachievable. AHT has dominated contact center measurement for decades. Companies have two options: speed or quality. Quality versus Quantity.

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