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26 Tips for Improving Your First Call Resolution Rate

Stella Connect

First Call Resolution (FCR) is the most important metric your contact center can measure. It captures the efficiency of your team, tells you how well you’re serving customers, and highlights what needs work. When it’s high, operating costs are minimized and customers are happier. Equip Your Customer Service Team.

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26 Tips for Improving Your First Call Resolution Rate

Stella Connect

First Call Resolution (FCR) is the most important metric your contact center can measure. It captures the efficiency of your team, tells you how well you’re serving customers, and highlights what needs work. When it’s high, operating costs are minimized and customers are happier. Equip Your Customer Service Team.

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Best Practices for Meeting (and Exceeding) Customer Needs

Stella Connect

4: Personalized communication and resolution. #5: Source: 2021 Stella Connect by Medallia survey of 2,100 consumers in the US and UK. More than one third (35%) of US consumers and just under 3 in 10 UK consumers say they’re only willing to wait up to 5 minutes for customer service to respond. The good news?

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Customer Service Training: Empowering A Service Mindset

Integrity Solutions

In the past, customer service centers were viewed as cost centers or expenses. Today, the organizations that are delivering a superior customer experience are proving just how outdated that perspective is. But great customer experiences don’t just happen.

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The Ultimate 7 Tips to Excel at First Contact Resolution

Call Center Pros

By increasing means of communication (chat, email, text and social media) First Call Resolution (FCR) have become on the First Contact Resolution. While technology has driven ever-changing customer service practices, customer expectations for service speed and efficiency have changed very little.

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Customer Support Trends Every Business Needs to Know

Stella Connect

According to our research, 40% of US and UK consumers say they will share customer feedback about their bad customer service experience online, and nearly half (49%) of American and British consumers say they will tell their friends and family to stop buying from a given brand after a negative experience. .

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Excellent Customer Service Is Your Company’s Secret Weapon

Integrity Solutions

Differentiating on service isn’t just a smart strategy for growth; increasingly, it’s a survival strategy. In industries like retail, for example, the past couple of years have raised the bar on customer service expectations. This is the percentage of customer service calls that get resolved on the first attempt.