Fonolo

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Read the Full Industry Report Here: Contact Center Trends 2021. “I see the CX industry finding new, faster and more efficient ways to meet their customers’ needs, maybe through the use of new technology, while also balancing a deeply personal, empathetic human connection.” We had to listen to that.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 28, 2025

With the advancement of the contact center industry, benchmarks continue to shift and challenge businesses to meet higher customer expectations while maintaining efficiency. Average Handle Time (AHT) : This measures how long agents spend on calls, including after-call work.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 27, 2025

If your contact center feels like its constantly busy but your customer satisfaction scores remain low, chances are there are hidden inefficiencies hampering performance. Identifying and reducing these inefficiencies can turn your contact center into a streamlined operation that delivers exceptional support.

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Myra Golden Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Controlling phone calls; getting your average handle time down, known as AHT, comes down to emotional intelligence. So, what are the top five underutilized soft skills for contact center agents? This focus will shave seconds, if not minutes, off your talk time! Glad you asked!

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Global Response

MARCH 12, 2025

Read Time: 12 minutes Table of Contents Introduction Looking to understand and use contact center analytics to boost efficiency and build customer loyalty? Best practices: Anticipate future customer demands by focusing on the most critical metrics, using consumer data responsibility, and leveraging real-time and historical data.

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ROI CX Solutions

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Reading Time: 12 minutes Table of contents Introduction The holiday season has arrived! 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.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 17, 2023

If there’s one thing managers need to understand about digital transformation, it’s how artificial intelligence is changing CX in the contact center. Gartner reports that AI chatbots alone can save the contact center industry up to $80 billion in annual labor costs by 2026. What AI tools Will Improve Contact Center CX?

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Workforce Management Optimize Contact Center Efficiency: How to Balance Cost & Quality Share Solving the cost-quality equation: how to optimize contact center efficiency Every contact center faces a version of the classic business dilemma: how to deliver excellent service while keeping operational costs under control?

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Fonolo

JANUARY 12, 2023

The same holds when considering how artificial intelligence is changing the contact center. . Tools like interactive voice response (IVR) and smart call routing are tried and true ways to save time and money – and offer better service. More personalization and better customer experience . Tools that personalize CX.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

The proliferation of AI and automation into our work and personal lives means that the nature of work is changing. This rings especially true in the contact center, where many of the simpler, repetitive tasks are still performed by humans. Technology is on your side.

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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

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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Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 1, 2020

If you asked any contact center manager two months ago about their business continuity plan, they’d likely opine on their facility’s readiness to address just about any emergency scenario. Here are five ways contact centers can support their onsite workers amid the coronavirus outbreak: 1. by JD Fairweather.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The contact center agent’s job is getting harder. Call volumes in many contact centers are down along with the cost to serve. However, that means successful call center agents must now deal with a far greater proportion of complex issues. Seven types of successful contact center agents.

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Calltools

JANUARY 10, 2024

Average handle time (AHT) is an important metric call center agents use to measure how much time it takes to interact with a customer. This metric measures the average length of time on the phone with the customer and includes the wait time and time spent on agents after the call has been completed.

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Hodusoft

MARCH 26, 2025

The Complete Guide to E-commerce Contact Center Success with HoduSoft E-commerce companies have revolutionized the way people purchase products, as well as services. E-commerce companies (their contact centers, in particular) face certain unique challenges while delivering customer service. Here are some of those: 1.

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The Northridge Group

JULY 20, 2023

Contact centers are in a state of flux, with many contact center associates (and workers in general) hesitant to return to the office full-time and forgo the flexibility that comes with a work-from-home (WFH) or hybrid environment. As such, it is also important to focus on the right KPIs that prioritize CX.

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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

MARCH 11, 2025

Workforce Management 9 Contact Center Quality Assurance Best Practices: Modernize Your Approach, Optimize Your Performance Share Even as AI enters the picture, the human interaction between agent and customer is, and will remain, at the core of customer service operations. What is call center quality assurance?

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CCNG

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Budgets are getting tighter, and executive teams are asking contact center leadership to do more with a lower headcount. The already frustrated customer is now stuck in a queue with a long wait; that’s because staffing levels are down because contact centers don’t have enough customer-facing workers. It’s a vicious cycle.

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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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CX Global Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Most likely in your contact center agents run callers through the routine of asking – Mother’s maiden name, date of birth and last four digits of your Social Security Number to prove who they are before you give them service. You must heavily scrutinize the reasons why you add time to the customer experience.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Assisting customers using visuals can add efficiency and significantly cut costs in three areas of customer service: the contact center. Visual Assistance in the Contact Center. Visual assistance bridges the visual gap between customers and contact centers. field services. self-service.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In this post, we demonstrate how the CQ solution used Amazon Transcribe and other AWS services to improve critical KPIs with AI-powered contact center call auditing and analytics. The goal was to refine customer service scripts, provide coaching opportunities for agents, and improve call handling processes.

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Callminer

JULY 16, 2018

Contact centers especially struggle with how to train, manage, and engage agents properly. Since contact center agents interact with customers daily, it is essential that you create a plan and strategy for keeping at home agents engaged from afar. Personalize their training. Recognize their efforts.

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SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Some of the difference lives in agents’ diverse personalities. But with the right training and encouragement, most contact center agents can become effective and efficient communicators. Positive experiences with a contact center agent go a long way. Unfortunately, only 21% of contact center agents do this.).

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Fonolo

JULY 29, 2021

While call center agents rely on hard skills — or technical skills — to handle contact center technology, call center soft skills are just as critical for success. Contact center agents develop soft skills through their own life experiences, and use them to provide a positive, customer experience.

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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. This call center solution is great for larger teams and businesses. Using Virtual Contact Center Apps .

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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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Fonolo

APRIL 25, 2023

It improves your CSAT scores, supports your agents and helps smooth out call spikes in the contact center. Top 7 Problems Fonolo Call-Backs Can Solve If you work in a contact center, chances are you are familiar with the traditional way to use call-backs. You’ll improve performance KPIs such as average handle time, too.

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Myra Golden Media

APRIL 11, 2023

A whopping one-third of contact centers have laid off employees in the last 12 months, reducing their headcount by about 33%. Despite fewer resources and fewer employees, contact centers are expected to achieve the same or better results. I really like Balto AI’s Real-Time Guidance.

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Global Response

MARCH 24, 2025

As consumers demand more timely and personalized service across channels, you want to ensure your call center agents are empowered with relevant information and the right technology to meet these demands. In other words, a KMS reinforces the general call center’s mantra of delivering timely and efficient customer support.

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Interactions

APRIL 2, 2025

Next-Level Personalization Most IVAs can integrate with common CRMs, appointment systems, and inventory systems for personalization. Additionally, our IVA offers omnichannel fluidity, with context persistence that enables the IVA to be aware of previous transactions, regardless of the channel or time when it occurred.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In addition to feeling tired, individuals who multitask also feel more stressed – which is counterproductive in a contact center, when agents are assisting customers. However, this can be difficult to do when worrying about average handle time and resolving the call quickly.

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Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

This is where modern contact centers are turning to cutting-edge solutions, including AI, to deliver real-time performance tracking and more actionable coaching. Agent performance is at the core of overall contact center productivity as well as customer experience quality.

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