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7 Must-Know Tips to Prepare Your Contact Center for the Holidays

ROI CX Solutions

While this season is an exciting time to enjoy with loved ones, contact centers can quickly become overwhelmed this time of year by an influx of calls, stressed-out customers, and increased demands. Some AI tools even allow agents to analyze the tone used in customer interactions to determine at-risk customers and respond accordingly.

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How to Measure, Evaluate, and Improve Call Center Agent Performance

Calabrio

First Response Time (FRT) : FRT tracks the time it takes for an agent to provide an initial response to a customer inquiry. This is critical for setting the tone of the interaction and minimizing customer wait times. This empowers them to quickly find accurate information, reducing AHT and improving FCR.

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Preparing For Supply Chain Bottlenecks With BPO Support

Outsource Consultants

For the time being, these higher call volumes should not be treated as an anomaly and your call center should be staffed accordingly. If you are experiencing long wait times and agent burnout, it’s time to add support. 2) Be proactive. 3) Maximize your technology capabilities.

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5 Ways to Give Call Center Agent Productivity a Boost

Fonolo

Training shouldn’t just be a one-and-done endeavor—ongoing training opportunities for established agents are equally as important as onboarding for newbies. Book bi-weekly or monthly check-ins with all your agents and keep them striving to meet goals they set individually and as a team. Create an omni-channel experience for customers.

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Bringing Automation to Customer Service – 5 Chatbot Examples for Any Industry

Comm100

The majority of customer service queries are repetitive and simple in nature, like ‘how do I reset my password’, ‘where is my delivery’, or ‘what time is your store open’. While these queries can easily lead to agent burnout, they also use up valuable agent time. Rackspace Technology is a great example of this.

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Qualtrics Announces New Real-time Contact Center Solutions to Make Agents More Productive

CSM Magazine

These solutions boost agent effectiveness and engagement, while improving customer satisfaction and lowering costs, by using Qualtrics’ industry-leading natural language understanding and machine learning capabilities to identify sentiment, reasons for calls, common issue resolutions, compliance risks, and more.

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How to Handle High Call Volume: 10 Strategies for Success in Sales and Contact Centres

JustCall

This blog unlocks the secrets of using IVR automation with JustCall to handle high call volume with ease and free up your agents for what matters most! Introduce call queuing systems to help manage incoming calls by organizing them in a virtual queue based on priority or order of arrival.

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