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International Contact Centre Operations Tips & Best Practices

Callminer

While the majority of consumers choose to reach out to companies via multiple mediums , many have reported wanting to avoid going through structured IVR systems – so it’s no surprise that communication quality within a contact centre has become more important than ever before. Encourage agents to cheer up callers with more flexible scripting.

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Call Centres Coming Home: How Technology Can Smooth the Move

CSM Magazine

The move by call centres to bring their operations back to the UK, however, has happened in conjunction with an upturn the employment market in the country as it emerged from the 2008 financial crash. One innovation that has the ability to immediately reduce costs for operators is Voice Driven Interactive Voice Response (IVR).

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Using Plain Language & Personalization in the Contact Center for Better CX

NICE inContact

For example, when the Cleveland Clinic simplified its billing statements in 2008, it was able to recover an additional $1 million a month. Here are a few steps you can take to communicate clearly and deliver personalized service: Incorporate plain language in your IVR system using a flexible scripting tool.

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Customer Service: 7 Pain Points For Call Centers

NobelBiz

Implement a strong IVR solution : The goal is to better disperse clients based on the reasons for their calls. However, depending entirely on a call script and reciting it mechanically is one of the most common blunders in customer service! The overflow becomes spillage. In the medium run, this strategy may be disastrous.

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Customer Service: 7 Pain Points For Call Centers

NobelBiz

Implement a strong IVR solution : The goal is to better disperse clients based on the reasons for their calls. However, depending entirely on a call script and reciting it mechanically is one of the most common blunders in customer service! The overflow becomes spillage. In the medium run, this strategy may be disastrous.

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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

A properly scripted menu leads customers to the answers they need, provides them with the opportunity to navigate to a live agent, and decreases the overall call volume that reaches the call center. DestinationCRM.com published an article, “Can Mobile and IVR Avoid a Fight?” Up from just 2.2% The Value of Metrics.

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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

Xaqt

The Great Recession in 2008-2009 accelerated the offshoring trend as companies grappled with the economic downturn. One optimized Cognitive IVR can automate the work for a near infinite number of live operators for a given call type. Which meant that someone from Kansas could call a U.S