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Mattress Firm’s Contact Center Rises and Shines – Improving QA Scores and Average Handle Time

NICE inContact

billion in annual sales (2016). With average handle time (AHT) down by 21%, adherence up by 31% and QA scores up from around 50% to 70%, the positive impact on customer satisfaction is unmistakable. But the Houston-based company was losing sleep over its two contact centers.

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Holiday 2016: 4 Tactics to Keep Customer Satisfaction High in the Busy Holiday Season

Provide Support

In rush hours average handle times often shoot upward, wait times escalate, which leaves many customers frustrated. Published in Provide Support Blog , 2016. Total planned spending this year is second only to the record total spending in 2015, at $952.58. Read more. © 2003 - 2015 Provide Support LLC.

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14 Critical Call Center Metrics You Should be Tracking

NICE inContact

Average Handle Time : Similar to average wait time, average handle time is the total time that a customer spends from initial call/chat/email/social message until their issue is resolved. This includes any wait time, as well as time spent with an agent.

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How to Improve Your Live Chat Average Handle Time

Kayako

For live chat, that means responding to customers quickly and streamlining chat handling times. In 2016 Kayako’s support team worked on a six-month project aimed at improving chat availability, average chat handling time (CHT) and first response Time (FRT). Average handle time (minutes:seconds).

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Reduce call hold time and improve customer experience with self-service virtual agents using Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex

AWS Machine Learning

Callers experienced an average handle time of 5 minutes or longer—an undesirable situation for both the callers and the DVR contact center professionals. He has been with the Transportation Cabinet since 2016 working in various IT roles.

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2021: Emerging AI trends in the telecom industry

TechSee

billion in 2016 to $17.67 Integrating visual support within IVR further delivers an efficient usage of time – reducing average handling times (AHT) and customer hold times, and ultimately driving a better CX. billion in 2021, at a CAGR of 43.6%. The driver for this growth? Artificial intelligence (AI).

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How to Beat Customer Expectations with Better Customer Service

Solvvy

For instance, Hubspot found that the average handling time (the time it takes to resolve a customer’s issue from start to finish) varied by more than 30% from one industry to another, with average handling times of 10 minutes in the gaming & gambling industry, and nearly 17 minutes in the web hosting industry. .