ViiBE Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Since they’re the most involved with customer interactions, their performance directly affects the customer experience. This article will teach you how to measure an agent’s performance and other important customer service metrics. Here are the five KPIs that we will focus on: Average Handle Time.

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TechSee

MARCH 4, 2024

Enterprise leaders are constantly seeking innovative ways to improve their customer experience (CX), ideally while improving their bottom line. While AI can handle many tasks efficiently, there are still areas where human intervention is necessary. One is the risk of over-reliance on automation.

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TechSee

MARCH 4, 2024

Enterprise leaders are constantly seeking innovative ways to improve their customer experience (CX), ideally while improving their bottom line. While AI can handle many tasks efficiently, there are still areas where human intervention is necessary. One is the risk of over-reliance on automation.

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RapportBoost

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The event, hosted by Customer Service Experience and sponsored by Mitel , will cover: – optimizing live chat conversations with augmented intelligence. – designing a workflow for chat teams’ conversations with customers as well as their interactions with other team members. About RapportBoost. RapportBoost.AI RapportBoost.AI

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Not only is this a frustrating waste of time for you (the customer), it can also heavily affect a brand’s reputation. In fact, recent research shows that 69% of agents reference background noise around them or customers as a key component of declining mental wellbeing.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

Are you grappling with the complexities of call center metrics, seeking to elevate customer experience, and driving operational excellence through insightful data analysis? This comprehensive approach allows businesses of all sizes to unlock a deeper understanding of their customer’s journey, preferences, and pain points.

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COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

By fostering a collaborative approach and consistently evaluating the metrics within your scorecard, you pave the way for informed decision-making and drive performance improvements across your organization. Metric and Target Review Make sure to review each metric and establish targets to understand performance.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In today’s business world, about 89% of businesses compete solely based on customer experience (CX). Building a solid customer experience strategy to attract new customers and retain existing ones is even more crucial for business success now. What is a customer experience strategy, and why is it important?

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

After call work (ACW) refers to the tasks completed by a customer service agent once the call with the customer has been completed. Implementing proper after call work processes can go a long way toward improving the customer-company relationship. Why agents often neglect ACW.

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Tricia Morris

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Customer service knowledge comes in many forms from customer self-service knowledge to agent-facing knowledge, and many formats from video, to knowledge base articles and more. A recent Economist Intelligent Unit (EIU) survey of more than 2,000 global consumers confirms that customers want fast and correct information above all else.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 13, 2019

When I worked in a contact center, there was a complicated projections report that we presented to the leadership team every Monday morning. For example, your ACD provides you the average calls handled per agent per month, average handle time, and days worked per month – three data points needed to calculate an agent utilization metric.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

At the same time, we see a trend away from traditional contact center metrics like average handle time, and towards newer, customer-focused metrics like customer satisfaction, or CSAT. I came away from that call a more satisfied customer. My favorite example is that of a realty office.

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Interactions

MARCH 29, 2023

The paper will be presented at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), June 4 -10, 2023, in Rhodes Island, Greece. The platform triggers audio redaction close to the actual speaking time and maximizes the number of concurrent calls that can be handled on a single CPU,” Jalalvand said.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As the key to customer relations between companies and consumers, the contact center and more specifically agents, must respect a perfect showcase of a brand for the outside world. The Average Handling Time (AHT) Call centers are an excellent investment when it comes to customer care, whether you are assisting your staff or your consumers.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As the key to customer relations between companies and consumers, the contact center and more specifically agents, must respect a perfect showcase of a brand for the outside world. The Average Handling Time (AHT) Call centers are an excellent investment when it comes to customer care, whether you are assisting your staff or your consumers.

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ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 26, 2019

We’ve all heard way too many times that happy customers are the cornerstones of a successful business. But what exactly does a happy customer mean to your brand? And what do you even mean by a happy customer ? However, there are some ways of measuring customer experience that can be more effective than others?

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 15, 2017

My first manager had a poster on his wall that said, “There isn’t a lot of traffic on the extra mile,” a tenet of Customer Service. Today, that poster might read, “Why meet customer expectations when you could exceed them?” The authors argued bad customer service had the most impact on loyalty—by destroying it.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

While this technology will undoubtedly evolve, trusting your customer service to AI can result in a frustrating and costly user experience should the AI provide the wrong information, poor guidance, or even offend the end user. Credit to John Medina for putting this so succinctly when he wrote in Brain Rules: “Vision trumps all other senses.”Vision

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Insights from these analytics-driven contact centres have been captured in a free to download ebook to help other businesses support different ways of working in turbulent times. Case studies from Thomson Reuters and other Calabrio customers putting analytics to work are featured. The organisation saw increased customer satisfaction.

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Kustomer

JUNE 1, 2020

While it may be tempting to chase a quick average handle time or a CSAT benchmark, you might find more use in pursuing customer outcomes as your primary goal. Are your customers happy? Use your metrics as a secondary focus. Monitor Your Team in Real-Time. It still provides a good sandbox.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Exceptional customer service is the backbone of any good call centre. One of these technologies is the use of powerful voice analytics , a form of AI that helps to improve customer experience and help to alleviate pressure on agents and managers. Average handling time is a metric that is measured by all contact centres.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 15, 2022

Their first book The One-to-One-Future (1993) described the approach of businesses nurturing relationships with each customer by collaborating with them and differentiating them. The more a customer trusts a company to act in their best interests, the more value each customer will receive in current and future relationships.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 25, 2023

Implementing these tactics will save money and enhance customer satisfaction and overall business performance. This article is here to tell you that cost reduction needs to be a top priority for contact centers worldwide in the present-day crisis environment. Often, people associate cutting costs with damage control.

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Quadient

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From Volume to Value: Switching Customer Communication KPIs. When I talk to our CXM customers, one of the most prevalent issues they face is persuading their colleagues to invest in communications transformation. With such complexity, the easiest metric for success often falls to the lowest common denominator – the volume delivered.

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Avaya

JUNE 1, 2018

If you were managing a large team of contact centre agents, how long would it take you to cut a few seconds from the average handle time or average time customers wait in your IVR queue? That is due to human capabilities variances and limits to absorb the abundance of data that they could be presented with.

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Playvox

AUGUST 25, 2022

All these singular actions can negatively impact service level metrics and the customer experience. A workforce management professional can have all the “rights” in place – the right people at the right place at the right time with the right forecast and the right schedule – but we cannot account for all aspects of human behavior.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 14, 2022

The primary goal of an outbound campaign is to reach prospects and turn them into actual customers, fulfilling business objectives such as buying a product or service, conducting surveys, establishing appointments, brand promotion, debt collection, etc. These metrics will be used to assess the performance of your outbound strategy.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. No matter how friendly, helpful, and professional your agent is, if your customer engagements are lengthy and repetitive, your customers aren’t going to be happy.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. No matter how friendly, helpful, and professional your agent is, if your customer engagements are lengthy and repetitive, your customers aren’t going to be happy.

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RapportBoost

OCTOBER 7, 2018

RapportBoost will also exhibit at Booth #25 at Customer Contact Week in Austin Oct. “Conversational platforms such as Webchat and other forms of messaging are increasing in use because customers find this type of interaction, with brands, comfortable and familiar. to 12:50 p.m. 10 – 11. RapportBoost.AI RapportBoost.AI

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

On one hand, reporting refers to data collection on various metrics, such as customer satisfaction, call volume, agent performance, and other relevant KPIs. Presented using reports to monitor a contact center’s performance over time. Optimize staffing: Through analytics, managers can identify peak call times and volumes.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In our sphere, a successful contact center is defined by its ability to manage customer interactions and meet their needs, while also operating in an efficient and cost-effective manner. The second is an advanced technological solution to effectively manage customer interactions, streamline processes, and enable data-driven decision making.

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Talkdesk

MAY 10, 2019

AI, machine learning and automation have brought the future to the present and call center leaders who want to keep their businesses competitive in today’s economy must adopt the technology that will enable them to provide truly innovative customer experiences. How satisfied are customers with your services?

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

Cindy Solomon reveals how leaders can play a key role in supporting their staff and customers in a crisis. This is how long I waited for a customer service rep at Virgin America when my flight was canceled. And like any major disruption, both the customers and employees were caught in the middle. 82 minutes…. About the Author.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Does your contact center have a dedicated team that’s ready and prepared to assist your customers at all times? If the number of agents available to handle calls falls below the number of agents on break, meetings/training, on after-call work (ACW), absent or sick, then a call center efficiency loss has already occurred.

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Magellan Solutions

MARCH 14, 2023

At present, 1.4 For example, one priority is to increase customer satisfaction, while another is to cut costs. But the stark reality is that a 100-seat contact center with 10% absenteeism will only have an average of 90 seats occupied at any one time. Yet time can be shaved off this process.

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Magellan Solutions

APRIL 21, 2021

The BPO Philippines provides several metrics to determine the growth and development of a company. The turnaround time for every expense is important for SMEs. That is why setting a deadline to achieve a goal is also an important metric to consider. . One of these metrics is the key performance indicator (KPI).

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