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

Pointillist

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. has always been a challenge for call centers.

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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Total Value Returned Rate is a key metric that also has to be tied to customer retention. It doesn’t matter how much equipment your team is able to retrieve if they cost you the lifetime value of that customer in the process. This is what relevant service level metrics look like in today’s customer care center.

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

Instead, we live in a customer-centric world, where metrics like Average Speed of Answer (ASA), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Call Resolution (FCR) are, by themselves, short-sighted and more focused on controlling costs instead of enhancing the experience. Secrets to Incredible Customer Service with Paul R.

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

Pointillist

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. has always been a challenge for call centers.

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Advance from Personalization to Customer Journey Orchestration

Pointillist

By Steve Offsey The goal of customer journey orchestration is to improve journey outcomes by enabling the most relevant interactions in the context of each customer’s goals and their overall experience. What is Customer Journey Orchestration?

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The Impact of Bilingual Support on the Customer Experience When a bilingual solution is offered to the customer, companies quickly find that quality scores increase accordingly. The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. It’s our thing. So, of course, we’re biased.

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3 Ways to do More with Customer Experience Personalization

Comm100

There are several strategies businesses should adopt to realize the benefits of a personalized customer experience: Understand the customer journey: When creating an amazing customer experience, knowledge is power. Then determine which message to deliver at which stage of the journey.