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How to Improve First Call Resolution, Reduce Call Volume & Accelerate Self-Help

Pointillist

That adds up to 40+ days on hold for every person over the course of a lifetime! For a business, that means high costs and inefficient call center operations. Call centers, therefore, want to improve first call resolution rate, reduce call volume, and excel at customer service while reining in high costs.

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Contact center KPIs: are you setting the bar high enough?

Vonage

As customer habits and expectations continue to evolve, contact centers must keep raising the bar on service quality. Understanding what customers expect is, of course, one piece of the puzzle. 60% of consumers now change their contact channel depending on where they are and what they’re doing.

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction. So, of course, we’re biased. It’s our thing.

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Beyond Issue Resolution: Why It Makes Sense to Outsource Content Review to Your Contact Center Partner

BlueOcean

Outsourcing Content and Ad Review to Your Contact Center. In customer service, that looks like average handle times, first call resolution rates, and customer satisfaction scores. In the next few paragraphs, we will make the case for content review having a natural home with your outsourced customer care provider.

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How Cloud Based Contact Center Solutions Increase Flexibility and Agent Productivity?

NobelBiz

Customer expectations are higher than they have ever been and call centers are increasingly concerned with their ability to adapt to changing conditions. That’s where CCaaS – Contact Center as a Service comes in. Why CCaaS flexibility is so important for call centers?

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51 New Contact Center RFP Questions

BlueOcean

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. Which is, of course, why you’re willingly subjecting yourself to the time constraints and stress of writing an RFP. Writing Your Contact Center RFP Questions.

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How to Improve First Call Resolution, Reduce Call Volume & Accelerate Self-Help

Pointillist

That adds up to 40+ days on hold for every person over the course of a lifetime! For a business, that means high costs and inefficient call center operations. Call centers, therefore, want to improve first call resolution rate, reduce call volume, and excel at customer service while reining in high costs.