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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

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Rachel Ivers worked as an Inside Sales Representative for 8z Real Estate for one and a half years. She also worked for zavvie, a real estate marketing startup. Additionally, she works at the CU Boulder Real Estate Center. The number one way to increase efficiency in a call center is by…”.

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Is Outsourcing Really Cheaper Than Internal?

Outsource Consultants

Real Estate & Facilities Costs: Don’t forget the physical space! The Stats Don’t Lie: A McKinsey study revealed that companies outsourcing customer service achieved a 10% to 30% reduction in handling time and a 20% to 40% increase in first-call resolution rates.

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Cloud IVR Technologies Offer Contact Centers a Cost-Effective Solution to Improve Customer Service

Noble Systems

With the growth of cloud virtualization and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) call delivery over virtual interconnects, the cloud-based IVR solution has become a much more viable option. With Cloud IVR, contact centers have a lower cost of entry and can eliminate daily maintenance and upgrade requirements and valuable data center real estate.

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15 Proven Ways to Reduce Your Call Center Cost

OctopusTech

It will also help you with removing real estate costs. Invest In Agent Training Comprehensive training improves agent first-call resolution rates. Customers get their issues addressed promptly instead of calling back repeatedly. This ultimately leads to higher first-call resolution and shorter handle times.

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Who uses VoIP? (Use Cases of VoIP in Different Industries)

JustCall

This cloud-based phone system re-routes calls to the right department/individuals without any manual intervention of a receptionist. Advanced call routing, in this sense, addresses a major gap in support quality. It decreases the customer waiting time and improves first-call resolution. Local Business Presence .

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Everything You Need to Know About Auto Attendant

Hodusoft

As per a research by SQM Group, self-service first call resolution ( FCR ) rate is 74%, and those who opt for a self-service option prefer it to an IVR used to navigate callers to agents for issue resolution. Higher FCR Did you know that auto attendants’ FCR rate is the highest among all contact channels?

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The Ultimate Guide to Cost-per-Call Calculations

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Including repeat callers in your cost-per-call will make the average lower, but its not reflective of the true cost of having that customer have to call you multiple times to resolve an issue. The same holds true with abandoned calls. The cost of real estate is usually fixed on a monthly or annual basis.