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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

Instead, we live in a customer-centric world, where metrics like Average Speed of Answer (ASA), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Call Resolution (FCR) are, by themselves, short-sighted and more focused on controlling costs instead of enhancing the experience.

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How to Calculate Outsourced Call Center Service Level and Why is it Important?

Advantage Communications

These metrics - as discussed in our blog titled ‘ 7 Key Metrics to Look out for When Outsourcing Your Customer Service to a Call Center ’ - include First-Call Resolution (FCR), Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Call Abandonment Rates (CAR), Customer Effort Score (CES), Average Handle Time (AHT) and Service Level (SLA).

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Do Your Live Chat Agents Measure Up? The 9 Best Key Performance Indicators and How To Use Them

Comm100

A high number of missed chats may also indicate that agents are spending too much time on each chat. We’ll look more at the average handle time metric later. This key performance indicator reveals the percentage of time that agents are spending in live chats, wrap-up, and other activities, as opposed to “away” or offline.

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Top 5 KPIs Every Live Chat Manager Needs to Track

Comm100

If it’s high, you may need to add staff during peak busy times. Alternatively, you may need to check average handle time as it could indicate that your agents are spending too much time on each chat. It can be measured as follows: Amount of live chats per month x Average Handle Time.

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Customer Experience Measurement: Which Metrics Should You Focus On?

Chattermill

Customer Effort Score (CES). Customer Effort Score (CES) measures a customer’s ease of an experience with a company. Generally, this is measured by customer support team, it’s calculated by taking the average response rate time between a customer opening a support ticket and when a rep acknowledges their request.

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5 Key Components for IVA Success

Interactions

Customers can resolve issues in less time on the channel they prefer, while contact centers reduce live agent minutes, average handle times, and costs. Spoiler alert: We also have a quick interactive assessment you can take — you’ll find the link at the end of this blog.) Are you tracking Customer Effort scores?

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5 Key Components for IVA Success

Interactions

Customers can resolve issues in less time on the channel they prefer, while contact centers reduce live agent minutes, average handle times, and costs. Spoiler alert: We also have a quick interactive assessment you can take — you’ll find the link at the end of this blog.) Are you tracking Customer Effort scores?