SharpenCX

DECEMBER 2, 2020

American businesses risk a staggering $494 billion in revenue from poor customer care, according to the 2020 National Customer Rage Study. . With financial losses of such scale on the line, the stakes have never been higher to deliver good customer service in your call center.

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Fonolo

MAY 16, 2023

One of the most basic, and critical, types of call center analytics is call volume. According to Statista, there were over 175 billion customer service calls in the US in 2020. Abandonment rate: The percentage of calls that are abandoned by customers before speaking to an agent.

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Outsource Consultants

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In honor of National Customer Service Week, we wanted to offer some key insights on three trends to keep in mind as you craft call center experiences for your customers. Call center leaders should focus their attention on these trends in 2020 to improve customer experiences and capitalize on every opportunity.

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TeleDirect

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Since mid-2020, work from home jobs have skyrocketed, and there’s no sign of slowing down. According to a recent study, call center employment (including roles like WFH call center reps) are projected to increase nearly 50% over the next decade. Interested in becoming our next star WFH call center rep?

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Outsource Consultants

JUNE 22, 2020

Want to learn how to lower costs with these call center tools? Cost-Effective Call Center Experience Near(shore) or Off(shore). Knowledge is power — and a CRM offers insights that can lower operational costs, as a data-supported agent can handle more volume than an agent that is data deprived. .

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aircall

JANUARY 24, 2022

Willingness to escalate difficult calls. It’s always nice to hire call center agents that have call center experience, but it’s sometimes better to train the right people. This article was originally published on October 19, 2020, but has since been updated. Being coachable. Persuasiveness.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

UPDATED: January 2020. The best way for a call center to stand out as a leader is through the customer experience. It’s no surprise that an exceptional experience leads to more satisfied consumers, who continue to spend more money. This is a major challenge for contact centers in 2020.

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VocalCom

JUNE 22, 2020

As brand ambassadors, happy and empowered agent will make a real impact on the bottom line: happy employees are 31% more productive (Harvard/MIT study), while 90% of consumers are likely to stay loyal after a positive call center experience ( 2020 CallMiner Churn Index ).

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Customer centricity is not just about offering great customer service, it means offering a great experience from the awareness stage, through the purchasing process and finally through the post-purchase process. It’s a strategy that’s based on putting your customer first, and at the core of your business.

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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Call center customer service has a strong bearing on customer satisfaction and your business as a whole. So, improving call center customer service becomes necessary in order to make your business stand out. Your call center experience gets more interesting when you know your customer well.

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Hodusoft

MAY 24, 2023

Whether it was the invention of the telephone in 1876 or the launch of the World Wide Web in 1989, call centers leveraged every emerging technology to achieve such a humongous market size. As per Statista , the international call center market size reached USD 339.4 billion in 2020.

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Serenova

OCTOBER 7, 2020

To overcome the challenges of managing a remote workforce, while maintaining the customer service experience for your customers, you need the right technologies and policies in place to support your teams as they navigate the transition. But that seems to be changing.

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NobelBiz

MAY 22, 2022

The 2020 pandemic started a cascade of unforeseen changes and transformations that radically changed the contact center world. As a response to the pandemic lockdowns, call center businesses rushed to move their operations to the cloud and implement work-from-home systems ASAP.

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Russel Lolacher

AUGUST 29, 2022

But, you know, to their credit, you know, my, my leadership was, was very open and receptive to, and the whole call center thing was new to them to you. You know, particularly in the world I live in, and IT Service Management and customer experience, those things evolve in the marketplace constantly.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

After assessing how the pandemic had changed the call center in 2020 , we decided to peek over the parapet at 2021. We asked the contact center industry’s top influencers and business leaders what they thought the most significant contact center trends in 2021 would be. Contact Center Trends 2020.

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