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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

Instead, we live in a customer-centric world, where metrics like Average Speed of Answer (ASA), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Call Resolution (FCR) are, by themselves, short-sighted and more focused on controlling costs instead of enhancing the experience. Secrets to Incredible Customer Service with Paul R.

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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. Those data points still play a role in measuring performance, but your partner should have their eyes set on the bigger picture of customer success.

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Contact Center AI: How It Can Transform Your CX

Playvox

If you automate coaching based on a larger sample of quality issues you will move the customer satisfaction needle further and faster. McKinsey reports that using generative AI in customer care functions could improve productivity by 30-45%. Powerful, right?

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Top Call Center Efficiency Metrics And How To Improve Them

Playvox

Ultimately delivering outstanding customer experiences should be a strategic business priority for organizations if it isn’t already. For customer support leaders, metrics tied to the goal of delivering and improving upon outstanding customer care and experiences should matter the most and be top priorities.

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Guest Blog: Key KPIs You Must Monitor for an Optimal Customer Experience

ShepHyken

Depending on whether your Customer Care department is an extension of your marketing or your customer service strategy, the KPIs you give yourself may be different. Type: Customer Centric. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) is the most common KPI companies track when it comes to Customer Care.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured? Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach.

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Cold transfer vs. warm transfer: when’s the right time to use them?

Think Customers

Unlike a cold transfer, when a caller may have to repeat himself multiple times to various associates, an associate receiving a warm transfer already has knowledge of the caller’s needs and is better prepared to help. Be human and take the time,” Shearer said of such calls. Don’t worry about your AHT (average handle time).