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This means they don’t need to pick up the phone, send an email or use social media to make contact so it improves servicelevels and efficiency at the same time. This in turn makes it possible for customer service agents to spend their time dealing with the more complex queries that require greater human intervention.
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Instead you can empower agents by analyzing incoming emails and provide the best template from your knowledgebase to answer the particular query. This should have a dramatic effect on your queue, helping to reduce it significantly while improving servicelevels. Moreover, it is likely to impact consistency and accuracy.
Are customers able to self-solve issues using our knowledgebase and other self-help resources and how often? There’s also significant peer pressure in the contact center industry to adopt an omnichannel or multichannel strategy and be everywhere your customers are.
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A longer hold time will impact your contact center’s servicelevel, probably your over NPS or CSat scores. If your self-service options are not helpful or easy to use, people simply won’t use them. Take advantage of some of the great technology available today and make your self-service platform smart. Really smart.
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