Connect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

By Charlene George, Sales Director at Connect SA Amid the intense competition of today’s market, delivering exceptional customer experience (CX) is mission-critical for companies that want to attract new customers and retain them throughout the customer lifecycle.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This process is particularly useful in the contact centersite of countless, and crucial, customer conversationswhere it enables businesses to optimize operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive more strategic decision-making. Plus, AI has driven an increase in the capacity of contact center tools.

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VocalCom

AUGUST 7, 2017

In addition, contact center metrics such as average handling time and first contact resolution provide data on how the customer experience is affected by service practices. Through close examination across channels, brands may use such valuable information to create richer customer experiences.

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Calabrio

APRIL 8, 2025

As a result, key customer interactions lose an all-important element: their humanity. Even just before the rapid rise of AI in the contact center, a study found that 59% of all consumers felt companies had lost touch with the human element of customer experience. Today, though, the tide is turning.

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VocalCom

AUGUST 26, 2019

Here are five essential big data sources to look at—and how you can use them to create exceptional customer experiences. Do you understand what motivates your customers to purchase? Speech and text analytics can reveal tremendous insights into your customers’ feelings and interests to help you improve your customer experiences.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of these technologies is the use of powerful voice analytics , a form of AI that helps to improve customer experience and help to alleviate pressure on agents and managers. Average handling time is a metric that is measured by all contact centres. What Is Voice Analytics? Reduce AHT.

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Callminer

AUGUST 6, 2019

IVR speech recognition and speech-to-text features do the heavy lifting ordinarily done by live agents while personalization tools help tailor calls for good customer experience. It’s no different when it comes to delivering on the customer experience. Software can be used for customer experience. “CX

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

Great customer experiences now come with a massive price premium and bad ones drive even the most loyal consumers away in a hurry. Managing Customers: While much of call center management deals directly with the organizations operations, these activities ultimately tie back to one thing: the customer experience, or CX.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 24, 2025

Modern call recording systems incorporate features such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and sentiment analysis, allowing supervisors to flag calls based on specific keywords or customer emotions. Essential KPIs include: Average Handle Time (AHT) Measures the time spent per interaction.

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Balto

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As customers seek seamless and personalized interactions with their financial institutions, the financial services industry is facing new challenges accompanied by opportunities for improvement, particularly in CX (Customer Experience). A great customer experience goes hand in hand with customer loyalty.

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VocalCom

MAY 29, 2017

An ongoing dialogue with your agents lets your brand monitor customer satisfaction levels and improve service continuously. Use different kinds of customer surveys. Well-timed customer feedback surveys are essential to understanding customer emotions. Analyze customer satisfaction metrics.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This will improve KPIs in the long run, including Average Handle Time, Customer Satisfaction (CSat), and First Call Resolution (FCR). Something people don’t often think about is how much time and effort is spent managing customer emotions. Working with goals and targets. Empathy and intuition.

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Eptica

JULY 25, 2018

However, while this may help explain major variations in metrics, customer experience is about constant, iterative improvements that all add up – and most satisfaction scores cannot link directly to these individual changes with any certainty. Finding out why customers are behaving in a certain way is just the first step.

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VocalCom

JULY 29, 2019

Also, be sure to establish whether first contact resolution should take priority over other metrics such as average handling time. Agents should know that they are permitted to spend more time on an interaction if it will help them find a permanent solution. Give every interaction a human touch.

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Balto

JANUARY 14, 2025

In todays customer-first world, monitoring and improving call center performance through analytics is no longer a luxuryits a necessity. Utilizing call center analytics software is crucial for improving operational efficiency and enhancing customer experience. Sentiment Analysis: Analyzes customer emotions to improve engagement.

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VocalCom

JUNE 11, 2018

With that said, always aim to provide quality experiences. While having a central database will undoubtedly reduce average handling time, remember that first contact resolution is more important for earning customer loyalty. Customers prefer to make contact once and find the answers they are seeking.

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Analytics Why Manual Quality Management is Falling Behind (and what to do about it) Share The Quality Management (QM) landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation as delivering exceptional customer experiences (CX) has become a defining factor of business success. Contact centers are at the heart of this challenge.

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Clarabridge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

For better or worse ‘Customer Experience’ has become one of the most talked about fads in business circles. The primary focus for inbound contact centres is often the service level achieved, perhaps followed by Average Handle Time, Adherence or other measures of productivity and performance.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2024

On a real-time basis, genAI supplies agents with additional insights, improves guidance and next best actions, and delivers the right customer and historical information, knowledge articles, procedures, reminders, and more to enable agents to provide a great customer experience.

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Balto

JANUARY 3, 2025

When implemented strategically, call monitoring becomes a growth engine that drives customer satisfaction, boosts agent performance, and aligns customer experience with broader business goals. Instead, metrics should paint a holistic picture of customer experience and operational success.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

While most classic contact center technologies will continue to be utilized, most will be replaced by chatbots, cloud technologies, AI, and remote work, enabling businesses to enhance the customer experience and save expenses. Also driving this trend is real-time analytics.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While most classic contact center technologies will continue to be utilized, most will be replaced by chatbots, cloud technologies, AI, and remote work, enabling businesses to enhance the customer experience and save expenses. Also driving this trend is real-time analytics.

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Balto

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Introduction to Call Center Quality Management Defining Quality Management in Call Centers Call center quality management comprises the processes and practices that involve monitoring and evaluating call center agent performance for the purpose of improving it to ultimately enhance the overall customer experience.

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ROI CX Solutions

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Improving customer experience (CX) with AI One handy AI call center solution that has received a lot of attention is the introduction of smarter AI chatbots. Key AI technologies used in contact centers Call centers use AI tech in a variety of different ways to improve the customer experience and improve their efficiencies.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 27, 2019

Customer experience is the name of the game today, with more brands competing based on customer experience (CX) as a key differentiator than price or product innovation. As we’ve said before, customer experience comes down to how your customers feel about your brand. 1) Be personal.

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ProProfs Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

And this proactive way of showing your customers that you care about them can only make them think even better about your brand. #4: 4: Reduce Support Cost With Automated Customer Service Tools . For every second shaved off average handle times, chatbots can save call centers up to $1 million. Tweet this.

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