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. The research revealed that 88% of customers agreed with this statement and that 43% of them still prefer non-digital channels.

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Average Handle Time Multi-Channel Contact Center Metrics 59

Playvox

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Let’s face it, the call center of yesteryear is not wholly relevant when looking at customer service operations today. For convenience, I’ll use the term “contact center,” but what does a modern contact center or customer support center look like? Many have shifted so that digital channels make up the bulk of their customer contacts.

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Contact Center Multi-Channel Average Handle Time Omni-Channel 72

Comm100

APRIL 28, 2021

As easy as it is to support customers with live chat, live chat customer support operations should never be run blindly. Knowing how your team is performing is the key to delivering great customer service. It also helps to develop stronger ties with your customers, as well as more effective communication with your employees.

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Measurement Abandon Rate Net Promoter Score Wait Times 133

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. But what is too often overlooked is the impact these interactions and frustrations are having on agents’ mental health and productivity.

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Brands Average Handle Time Call Recording Software 59

BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

What Does Content and Ad Review Have in Common with Customer Service? In our world, content review shares the same goals of any customer care program: delivering a high-quality experience to the end user. Essentially, content review is just a different kind of customer contact. Content review is a topical subject these days.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Policies First Call Resolution 120

BlueOcean

MAY 13, 2021

Brand loyalty is a reflection of a customer’s commitment to a relationship with a given retailer or service provider. But, of course, the pandemic changed everything about all our relationships. Globally, 83% of customers who bought new brands in 2020 say they’ll buy from those brands again in the future.

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Loyalty Brands Ecommerce Average Handle Time 156

NICE inContact

JANUARY 31, 2019

To understand todays technologies and what they mean to your business is key to help make the right investments in your customer experience – here are some of the most researched contact center terms: . Putting your contact center in the cloud saves time and money… no more onsite systems to maintain, pay for or upgrade.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time Effort Score 186

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? At its core, contact center reporting is the systematic process of capturing, analyzing, and leveraging data from every customer interaction across various channels.

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Call Center Report Contact Center Net Promoter Score 59

UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

And there’s a very simple way to unlock each of your customer service agent’s full potential—give them a rock-star number two player. And you can leverage Virtual Agents’ artificial intelligence (AI) to level up your customer experience in a big way. Babe Ruth had Lou Gehrig—the list goes on. What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents?

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Virtual Agent Customer Service Self Service Average Handle Time 72

UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

And there’s a very simple way to unlock each of your customer service agent’s full potential—give them a rock-star number two player. And you can leverage Virtual Agents’ artificial intelligence (AI) to level up your customer experience in a big way. Babe Ruth had Lou Gehrig—the list goes on. What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents?

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Virtual Agent Customer Service Self Service Average Handle Time 72

TechSee

JUNE 11, 2019

For years, companies have battled to strike the right balance between customer service KPIs. For example, heavy emphasis on low AHT would often negatively impact customer satisfaction. Conversely, when trying to improve NPS, agents would often spend additional time building relationships with their customers, driving up call durations.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Why aren’t you seeing the results you’d like in the customer experience space? If your efforts aren’t optimally performing, it may be time to jumpstart a self-service transformation project in your contact center. But many lack the advanced automation that can handle the complex, process-driven tasks such as the order return example.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Why aren’t you seeing the results you’d like in the customer experience space? If your efforts aren’t optimally performing, it may be time to jumpstart a self-service transformation project in your contact center. But many lack the advanced automation that can handle the complex, process-driven tasks such as the order return example.

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Self Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Call Center 149

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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Talkdesk

JUNE 21, 2019

Reducing average wait time and average handle time in your contact can yield huge customer satisfaction increases for your business. In this blog, we outline what call wrap up time is and actionable steps you can take to reduce it in your contact center.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 25, 2023

Implementing these tactics will save money and enhance customer satisfaction and overall business performance. As we will see, reexamining their operational processes and investing in new-generation technologies can enable contact centers to streamline operations and reduce costs while improving customer experience.

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Call Center Contact Center Strategy Average Handle Time 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Customer service is a critical aspect in ensuring a company’s and brand success. Naturally, the best approach to maintain an exceptional level of service is to serve customers through a contact center. Of course, it doesn’t come without its challenges and difficulties! To do this, customer service must be flawless.

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Call Center Customer Service Contact Center Social Media 52

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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How To Contact Center Policies Average Handle Time 52

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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Virtual Agent Customer Service Gamification Contact Center 72

Playvox

MAY 4, 2023

It’s simple: fantastic customer service. My interactions with the fruit seller were authentic and friendly, and he answered all my questions. It’s no secret that stellar customer service is the first step to customer loyalty, but you’re not dealing with a couple of people meandering through a fruit store.

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Contact Center Customer Expectations Meeting Self Service 52

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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Omni-Channel Self Service Policies Abandon Rate 95

NobelBiz

MAY 17, 2022

Customer service is a critical aspect in ensuring a company’s and brand success. Naturally, the best approach to maintain an exceptional level of service is to serve customers through a contact center. Of course, it doesn’t come without its challenges and difficulties! To do this, customer service must be flawless.

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Call Center Customer Service Contact Center Social Media 52

Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

Most companies aspire to excellence in customer experience (CX). After all, the employee experience drives the customer experience. What you need are agents capable of solving customer problems in ways that are not only efficient but also create customer experiences that build loyalty and drive sales.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Effort Score Metrics 77

TechSee

APRIL 2, 2019

And with 51% of Americans now preferring to shop online, the pressure on customer support operations is about to increase exponentially. From speech recognition and voice analytics to neuro-linguistic programming, they seek to solve customer’s problems by telling them what to do. What is Computer Vision AI? Object Recognition.

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Contact Center Self Service Video Average Handle Time 174

Playvox

JUNE 10, 2022

Agent coaching has long been a method for improving contact center performance and the customer experience. In fact, McKinsey estimates that “the average 500-agent call center in North America allocates around $2 million of staff time to coaching activities every year.”. Coaching Tips for Contact Center Agents.

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Contact Center Tips Sports Average Handle Time 69

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

No call center wants to disappoint its customers. Even if you sell the most inventive and one-of-a-kind product on the market, the smallest mistake during the customer experience can have major effects. So, what are the most typical client annoyances when interacting with businesses? We outline all the answers.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2018

They offer insights and proposed courses of action to decision-makers based on problem diagnosis, previous actions taken, the outcomes of those actions and other relevant contextual info. It also improves their ability to bring customer issues to successful resolution, enhancing both customer satisfaction and inline agent satisfaction.

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Contact Center System Average Handle Time Virtual Agent 95

Joe Rawlinson

JANUARY 6, 2016

In the last decade, there has been an influx of customer experience platforms that all offer the ability to capture data and give actionable insights to deliver exceptional customer service. What they fail to effectively measure is the emotional connection that customers have or don’t have with a company.

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Exceptional Customer Service Metrics Customer Service Average Handle Time 60

Playvox

MARCH 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to implement new technologies, fine-tune your staffing strategy, or empower your agents to provide exceptional customer service, you’re in the right spot. Revolutionize Your Customer Support Center Productivity: 10 Proven Strategies 1. We will delve deeper into both of these points later in this article.

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Contact Center Gamification Training Chatbots 84

Playvox

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Whether in sales, customer service, or collections, ensuring that your employees are motivated and engaged should be a key focus. Contact centers are using a wide range of new strategies to ensure their customer service representatives are engaged – encouraging them to offer a world-class customer experience to clients.

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Gamification Contact Center Average Handle Time Employee Engagement 79

Kustomer

JULY 1, 2021

Brands and consumers alike, who may have been hesitant to buy and sell online, are now embracing digital customer experiences like never before. Delivering stand out experiences — personalized and human experiences that can surprise and delight a customer — is the most successful way to stand out from the competition.

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Retail Omni-Channel Brands Average Handle Time 90

Talkdesk

JULY 30, 2019

Of course, there is no way to avoid delivering customer service and support, but for decades the goal has been to keep the costs of doing so as low as possible, all while trying (often ineffectively) to maintain a good experience for all. But among leading-edge organizations, that attitude is changing.

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Contact Center Self Service Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 43

Zeisler Consulting

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Anybody who’s read much of what I have to say about Customer insights and Voice of the Customer (VoC) knows I’m quite critical of legacy KPIs like CSAT and NPS. Even operational measures (think: Average Handle Time, First Contact Resolution, etc.) Who wants simply satisfied Customers? how to improve it.

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Effort Score NPS Metrics Average Handle Time 72

Bold360

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Why data, not intuition, is the key to measuring customer satisfaction. It’s not likely to come as earth-shattering news to any marketer, but there’s a straight line between customer satisfaction and customer retention. That’s not to say that NPS is not a customer satisfaction KPI that any business wants to overlook.

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NobelBiz

JUNE 19, 2023

As businesses, we need to harness this culture of immediate responses to elevate customer service levels. Real-time monitoring offers an unparalleled advantage in achieving this goal. What is Real-Time Monitoring? This enables them to identify areas for improvement and provide timely feedback and coaching to agents.

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Call Center Contact Center First Call Resolution Metrics 52

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Customer experience (CX) has become a priority for the vast majority of organisations – or has it? 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. Companies have two options: speed or quality.

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Metrics Customer Service Contact Center Social Media 55

Interactions

APRIL 17, 2019

For example, modern customers prefer self-service channels that allow them to find solutions themselves, and more quickly, rather than waiting in a queue to get to a live agent. They have expanded their channel offerings in order to improve customer experience. If they weren’t focused on customer experience, what were they focused on?

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