ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2021

This week we feature an article from Tanya Bansal , Marketing Executive at Ameyo. Sh e shares best practices supervisors can use for monitoring call center agents in a work-from-home scenario. The landscape of contact centers has shifted to the WFH (work-from-home) model overnight, bringing in many challenges and opportunities.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

To learn more about how call centers can address customer vulnerability, we reached out to a panel of call center experts and business leaders and asked them to answer this question: “How can contact centers address increased customer vulnerability?”. One thing contact centers need to get better at is…”.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Analytics Voice Analytics: Unlock Insights in Your Contact Center Conversations Share In the data-driven contact center of today, understanding the nuances of customer conversations is paramount. Plus, AI has driven an increase in the capacity of contact center tools. What is voice analytics?

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Entrepreneur and CRM expert Bobby Darnell describes business development as a “contact sport.” When it comes to contact center development, what Darnell means is that you must engage. You can’t passively improve a call center. . Call center development is an essential subset of any overall business development plan.

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Aspect

JUNE 4, 2020

To follow the same path as Rumi — at least in a business sense — contact center leaders must have a plan that enables them to rapidly respond and adapt to change. Business Continuity in the Contact Center. annual improvement (decrease) in average handle times. annual growth in agent productivity.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 11, 2018

From essentials like average handle time to broader metrics such as call center service levels , there are dozens of metrics that call center leaders and QA teams must stay on top of, and they all provide visibility into some aspect of performance. First contact resolution (FCR) measures might be…”.

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CCNG

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Many Contact Centers use metrics of averages to base decisions, i.e.: Average handle time (AHT) Average cost-per-contact (ACC) Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Averages have their place in management decision-making, but they cannot be overly relied upon. Isn’t there a better way?

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

Best Practices Contact Center Management: Best Practices & Strategies for Peak Performance Share The modern contact center is no longer seen as a mere service function at the periphery of the business. At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity.

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Calabrio

APRIL 8, 2025

Analytics A Guide to Contact Center Sentiment Analysis & Measurement Jump ahead What is Contact Center Sentiment Analysis? How Does Contact Center Sentiment Analysis Work? In the contact center, customer interaction analytics can run into the same issue when analyzing a voice call.

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NobelBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Forecasting in call centers helps today’s contact centers achieve high efficiency and customer satisfaction while keeping running costs low. Call centers predict future call volumes and other metrics so demand can be better met and good service levels can be maintained with optimized resources.

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Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There are a lot of smart — very smart — individuals managing and directing Call and Contact Centers today. Yet these bright, bright people still manage from time to time to do things that defy understanding. This is my top ten list of really dumb things that smart call and contact center executives do.

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Fonolo

APRIL 6, 2020

The Best Apps for Virtual Contact Center Teams. We’re going to walk you through some of the best remote contact center technology and apps to use for your business and remote teams. HubSpot’s Help Desk Software is integrated with Aircall and is built in tandem with HubSpot’s sales and marketing software.

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Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 26, 2017

It’s just the nature of the contact center industry. Or is it time to put humanity into your contact center? It’s time to put humanity into your contact center.” Managing a contact center is fast paced and furious. You feel like no matter what you try, it’s not going to work.

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Babelforce

JUNE 10, 2021

14 tips to cut Average Handling Time #1 Improve your call routing #2 Gather customer information automatically #3 Show customer information on screen #4 Improve your data collection #5 Offer omnichannel support #6 Train agents thoroughly #7 Provide agents with support #8 Create more effective processes! #9

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BlueOcean

MARCH 11, 2025

Maybe youre all too familiar with the way your contact center seems to be a black hole of data. It tells us that the issue isn’t with agent performance, but rather with underlying factors like root causes driving contact volume or processes and policies that constrain our ability to resolve customer issues.

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CCNG

MAY 30, 2024

Then, when marketing says they’re doing the Buy-One-Get-One deal again you can have a data point captured that properly increases the volume forecast based on the previous campaigns. We all need to normalize our arrival patterns to make sure we’re not inaccurately including power outages and random sales campaigns in our future forecasting.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Companies would have all the resources they needed to operate a BPO contact center in-house in a perfect world. Many companies migrate to BPO contact centers for their customer service needs. BPO contact centers help businesses increase productivity, grow their customer base, and improve customer experience.

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Contact center technology can be the nerve center of your organization’s customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. Depending on the services offered, the contact center can also be called a call center, service desk, or customer service department. What Is Contact Center Technology?

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Balto

MARCH 3, 2025

Call center automation is transforming customer service operations across industries, shifting from traditional human-only models to a hybrid approach that blends technology with human expertise. Voice biometrics and authentication streamline the verification process, reducing average handle time by 45 seconds per call.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When it comes to customer experience , there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. So, I go into an interview and talk much less about what’s required, and instead I explain what we do, where we’re at in the market, and what our vision is for the company. Are they listening?

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Global Response

MARCH 24, 2025

In an era of empowered customers, contact center knowledge management enables agents to seamlessly access relevant content to quickly resolve customers’ issues. In other words, a KMS reinforces the general call center’s mantra of delivering timely and efficient customer support.

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CCNG

JULY 27, 2022

With the shift to multi-or omnichannel contact centers, today's emphasis is on customer experience. That means operational metrics like Average Speed of Answer (ASA), Average Handle Time (AHT), and FCR prove to focus on controlling costs instead of ensuring overall customer satisfaction.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Date: Monday, September 28, 2015 The evolution of contact center performance. Author: Pauline Ashenden In the past contact centers were often viewed as a cost cente r, meaning that the primary goal of companies was to run them as efficiently as possible while still responding to customers competently.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 14, 2025

Inbound contact centers are the frontline of customer service , handling millions of customer inquiries daily. At Outsource Consultants, we’ve seen how effective strategies can transform these centers into powerful customer satisfaction engines. What Makes an Inbound Contact Center Effective?

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Zappix

JANUARY 21, 2025

This surge underscores digital self-service solutions’ critical role in enhancing customer experiences, deflecting calls from contact centers, and driving efficiency in support processes. To learn more about Zappix, go to [link] Contact Zappix, Inc.

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Call Design

JULY 6, 2021

Here’s a list of 10 key metrics that can be used by contact centre managers to ensure the delivery of both strong customer experiences and financial performance through workforce efficiency. According to a Contact Center Helper report, 95.7% First Contact Resolution. Average Handle Time (AHT).

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Here at Fonolo , our call center tech lends itself nicely to business and development planning. Our rich insights help inform your strategy and monitor progress, showing metrics like average handle time (AHT), and much more. . You need an action plan for call center development. Marketing objectives .

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 28, 2025

Why Selecting the Right Enterprise Contact Center Matters Choosing the right enterprise contact center is a critical decision for businesses seeking to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency. What Are Must-Have Features in an Enterprise Contact Center?

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Global Response

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

What is a Multi-Channel Contact Center? Ready to increase customer engagement and satisfaction, reduce average handle time and grow sales? Then it might be time for you to consider a multi-channel contact center for your business. So what is a multi-channel contact center?

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Outsource Consultants

MARCH 18, 2025

Domestic brands are increasingly exploring call center outsourcing both nearshore and offshore as a cost-effective alternative to managing customer experience (CX) in-house. At the same time, rapid advances in AI are transforming how contact centers operate, enabling smarter automation and data-driven insights.

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Monet Software

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Top tips for using call center analytics and reporting to make the case for your spending forecast. It’s almost that time again. The contact center budgeting process is never easy. That’s why we created The Ultimate Guide to Budgeting for Your Call Center !) For many SMBs, the annual budget is coming due.

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Playvox

JUNE 21, 2022

The requirement to provide a better customer experience while improving productivity and controlling costs is paramount in contact centers at the best of times. Workforce management (WFM) continues to be one of the most important contact center productivity tools. Workforce Management Strategy. Recessions happen.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The best way to track any online marketing is through Google Analytics, so it’s imperative for your call monitoring software to be able to integrate directly with it. Gregory Golinski is a digital marketing executive for YourParkingSpace , a platform connecting drivers with parking space owners. Gregory Golinski. Stacy Caprio.

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Global Response

MARCH 18, 2022

Omnichannel contact centers: the evolution of customer communication. Or, for some companies, the majority of contacts come over the phone. You might not be surprised to hear that it’s not one specific channel, technique or form of marketing. What is an omnichannel contact center? Sound a bit confusing?

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 31, 2019

I could take you through a litany of common contact center terms and definitions … but why? In fact, I’ve included a link to an unbiased market source at the end of this blog. Cloud Contact Center – Cloud computing… applied to the contact center.

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