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Mastering Escalation Management: Harnessing Tech in Modern Call Centers

NobelBiz

The Role of Technology in Escalation In a call center, escalation management is a crucial process that ensures customer complaints or issues are resolved by a specialist, more experienced, or senior company representative. These tools ensure that no customer query falls through the cracks.

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Do More With Less: 3 Effective Strategies to Maximize Your Contact Center’s Potential

Myra Golden

This could include a knowledge base that provides quick access to answers and solutions and a customer relationship management (CRM) system that helps agents keep track of customer interactions and preferences. The provider also collected feedback from customers through post-interaction surveys and focus groups.

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Call Center optimization: Tools and best practices to increase performance

NobelBiz

Here are some standout features: Hold Queues and Smart Call Routing: Efficiently managing incoming call volumes is fundamental. Hold Queues : Ensures calls are answered promptly, minimizing wait times. Hold queues and smart call routing play a pivotal role. This increases the likelihood of first-call resolution.

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Beyond the AI Customer Service Hype: Practical Applications for Real Results

UJET

A customer calling to ask about store hours, for instance, may be routed to a self-service option or Virtual Agent , while more complex queries will be routed to a human agent. Contact center AI monitors customer service traffic in real time 24 hours a day, monitoring all customer service requests, agent traffic, and overall ticket volume.

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Beyond the AI Customer Service Hype: Practical Applications for Real Results

UJET

A customer calling to ask about store hours, for instance, may be routed to a self-service option or Virtual Agent , while more complex queries will be routed to a human agent. Contact center AI monitors customer service traffic in real time 24 hours a day, monitoring all customer service requests, agent traffic, and overall ticket volume.

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How Does a Predictive Dialer Work

NobelBiz

Agent-Related: it detects how many agents are available, makes a decision based on the skills they have to route the inbound call (though DNIS or a different routing method); it uses real-time statistics to see the average handling time of each agent per type of issue and determines what timeframes are most convenient to place calls.

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Take a Smart Seasonal Approach to Health Insurance Open Enrollment

Think Customers

Associates are hired full time, to be utilized in different ways and on full- and part-time schedules throughout the year. As a result, average handle time and wait times decrease, while sales conversions improve. And call-back assist tools shorten customer wait times and improve NPS.