CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Understanding the Customer Service Gap The customer service gap refers to the difference between the level of services customers expect to receive and the level they get. On top of that, to safeguard sensitive information, maintain operational integrity, and enhance customer trust, most businesses utilize a call center security checklist.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Every contact center manager wants a team of agents that perform at optimum levels. That’s why it’s so important to be as considerate and thoughtful as possible with call center coaching. Here are five different ways contact center managers can make sure they’re getting the most out of their agent coaching sessions.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Are you struggling to boost customer satisfaction, enhance agent efficiency, or increase lead generation in your contact center? So, as a call center owner, manager or supervisors how do you tackle these difficult challenges and improving the overall performance within your contact center?

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NobelBiz

MAY 2, 2023

Welcome to this insightful blog post, where we discuss building a successful outbound lead generation strategy for contact centers. Other shifts include telcos trying to block calls they deem excessive and labeling calls as spam likely. The days of just loading up a list and cold-calling people are gone.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Organizations relying on call center support were forced to transition to digital channels during lockdowns. In this blog, we’ll look at the top customer service trends to expect in 2022 so you can build a team of customer experience excellence. Now, ask yourself… are you surprised that agent turnover is so high?”.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 5, 2023

However, executing new outbound lead generation programs can be challenging, here are the top 15 challenges related to executing new outbound lead generation programs in call centers and how to tackle them. According to a report by SmallBizGenius , sales representatives must make an average of 18 calls to reach one potential buyer.

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The pandemic has impacted every aspect of our lives, and the contact center is no exception. As pandemic conditions led businesses to shift to work-from-home, many contact centers lacked the capability to properly support remote agents, making their jobs more difficult. Intelligent Contact Routing to Self-Service.

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BirdEye

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This blog post delves into the discussion between Zach Watson, VP of Enterprise Sales at Birdeye and Melissa Cameron, SVP of customer acquisitions at National Storage Affiliates. Leveraging insights from feedback can help understand customer sentiment, performance of each location, and escalate issues as required.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 9, 2016

No, this is not another story about how customers are changing because of iTunes, hands-free calling, mobile shopping, show-rooming or what Zappos and Amazon are doing now. More contact centers should be incorporating agent behavior insights to refine and improve their training models. Where are they struggling?

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Inbenta

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A call center experiencing higher than average call volume is stressful. Think about it: endless phone ringing, long call queues, frustrated customers, and anxious staff. All this is enough to cause call agent demotivation, high error margins, and low customer satisfaction.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? Today, hyper efficiency is no longer a luxury but a necessity for call centers looking to thrive and outperform their competition. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center?

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Call Experts

JANUARY 15, 2020

Below we have highlighted ten keys to improving HR performance: Best-in-class employee service centers that can work on a global level. Reduced turnover cost for employees. More Blogs Menu. Understand and Optimize your Unique Customer Touchpoints. How Contact Centers Manage the Holiday Rush. FCC blocks Robo-Calls.

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Your contact center agents are your company’s face to the outside world. And those roles are vulnerable to high turnover. It takes a special mindset to field complaints and calls, day after day. It’s not as hard as you might think to keep your contact center agents happy, motivated and committed. Advance agents’ careers.

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Stella Connect

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Having strategies in place to be able to effectively manage and reduce call center call volume and wait times for customers is key to ensuring customer satisfaction (CSAT) and agent retention. . This when contact centers have also reported increases in call volumes, hold times, difficult calls, and escalations. .

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But the overall business and your individual contact center agents also play key roles in driving high customer engagement. Why Contact Center Agents Should Love—Not Fear—Online Self-Service. They become happier and more informed— An agent’s job is not an easy one—in fact, it’s the hardest one in the contact center.

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Calabrio

APRIL 26, 2016

And now that spring has sprung we see flowers in bloom, hear birds singing once again, and look forward to spending time learning about our new contact center software and solutions. We presented our subjects with an extensive list of potential contact center issues for 2016 and asked them to choose all that they felt applied to them.

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 20, 2022

Looking for ideas for how to create the best customer service training program for your contact center? So there’s no time like the present to create the best customer service training program for your contact center. 6 Do’s and Don’ts for Creating the Best Customer Service Training Program for Contact Centers. #1:

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SaleMove

JULY 2, 2021

What is striking from a psychological and sociological perspective is how common it is to hear otherwise decent people confess to treating call-center representatives in a manner they would consider verbally abusive and reprehensible in any other context. No wonder there’s often such high turnover. All for the better.

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Call Experts

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The moment you hire new employees; help them understand your culture. If you do not pay attention to the onboarding process, the result can be increased turnover. Turnover causes a considerable loss of productivity and recruitment related investments. More Blogs Menu. Call Experts support offers the happiest holidays!

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Stella Connect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

She is an internationally recognized customer experience thought leader, coach, keynote speaker, and author of Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business). Understanding how their work ties to business outcomes. It’s not as complex as it sounds.

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BlueOcean

JUNE 21, 2016

One of our most popular blog posts is 52 Contact Center RFP Questions to Ask Vendors. Choosing a contact center outsourcer is a huge investment. We’ve compiled a list of 51 contact center RFP questions to help you ensure you’re making the most informed decision. How many centers do you operate? Need some insight?

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Lithium

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Check out this audio version of our blog, also found on your favorite podcast platform! Furthermore, specific contact centers are reporting up to a 100% turnover rate. According to The Center for American Progress replacing an agent can cost roughly 20% of the leaving agent's salary in training and lost time.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 15, 2022

It has been less successful in areas such as customer service, where traditional metrics tend to be departmental (such as lowering average call handle time, or ACH) and cost focused, and the links between digital transformation goals and business outcomes have been fuzzy at best. Increased context reduces ACH.

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Integrity Solutions

MARCH 3, 2020

The most persistent contact center challenges can be overcome by making coaching a part of the culture and developing your agents’ listening and problem-solving skills. Top Contact Center Challenges. The underlying message is that today’s contact center managers are spread thin. of the critical issues they’re facing.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience. But deciding on annual goals and specific yearly focuses for a call center isn’t always easy. Tip: Begin to examine your existing contact center processes.

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SuiteCX

OCTOBER 24, 2016

We also looked at variations of the customer journey by key segment, to understand all the nuances for each segment. Within 6 months , the average handle time in our call center had decreased by 20%, due to the new call queue and phone rep structure. In addition, turnover in the call center dropped significantly.

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ViiBE Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If knowledge is capital, high employee turnover rates represent a massive loss in capital. Sectors with high turnover rates such as the field service industry are currently haemorrhaging knowledge and thus capital without robust solutions. First, one must understand what type of expertise they are looking for.

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CX Journey

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It was published on their blog on May 29, 2015. Placing a call to customer support just got a little nicer and a little easier. Think about the last time you called a company's customer service number. Now, think about the next time you need to call. I know how painful it can be to call customer service.

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Talkdesk

AUGUST 17, 2016

There are some jobs that are just harder than others and call center agents have a difficult role to fill. In yesterday’s blog post , we gave tips #1-5 for helping your call center agents to succeed. Many times call center job opportunities are for those just entering the job market.

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 4, 2022

And if you’re in a contact center performance management role, you’ve probably invested a lot of time and energy into your customer service training and customer service coaching programs. These best practices will not only produce better results on the contact center floor, but they’ll help you bring far more value to your organization.

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delighted

MARCH 9, 2021

AQ : Did you find the Help Center documentation useful in resolving your issue? Prioritizing customer care doesn’t always mean increasing the number of support call centers. Delighted uses this self-service model in the Customer Concierge’s Help Center. Monitor and respond to customers on social media and review sites.

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CX Workout - Ideas Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Customer Churn and Employee Turnover were both on the rise. The first step to prioritizing your investments is to truly understand how your customers experience your company by capturing the “true, unfiltered voice of your customer.” Understand your Customers’ Emotions and Mindsets. So, everything was great? Well, not so fast.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. We’ve all been on a bad customer support call before: you call, you wait, you talk to an agent, you wait, you talk to another agent … It’s very unsatisfying. Check out his crazy ideas below and try some of them in your contact center. #1:

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Magellan Solutions

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Web developers are needed to make and change online shops, blogs, news sites, games, and informational websites. When a company hires someone else to do these tasks instead of doing them themselves, this is called outsourcing. EMPLOYEE TURNOVER IS NOT AN ISSUE FOR YOU. WHAT DOES OUTSOURCING WEB DEVELOPMENT MEAN?

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Bold360

JANUARY 10, 2019

While customer experience is front and center these days, the experience of the customer service agent often gets overlooked. Burnout happens fast and turnover rates are high. The post New Year, New Agents: How AI is Breathing New Life into Customer Service appeared first on Bold360 Blog. Agents will be better prepared.

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Integrity Solutions

AUGUST 3, 2018

By Bruce Wedderburn Over the past few years, contact centers have dramatically increased investments in emerging and disruptive technologies to help improve key efficiency metrics. But how is the growth of technology impacting and even reshaping the role of the contact center agent? Putting Customer Contact Back into the Center.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 29, 2019

You have to understand the politics, particularly if you want to get on okay (and when I say “get on” I mean get promoted to senior levels). It was a reorganization with the front office and back office call centers, so, in other words, a lot of changes in who does what and when. Why Office Politics are Worth Managing.

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