ViiBE Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

On the one hand, customer satisfaction is a crucial goal that must be achieved by the end of a call to keep the caller’s business. On the other, each call must be handled as promptly as possible to ensure that the next caller has a short wait time. Why is Average Handle Time important?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

3 Metrics CX Teams Use to Measure Customer Feedback There are a lot of customer experience metrics teams can track, but we see three most commonly used: Net promoter score (NPS), customer satisfaction score (CSAT), and customer effort score (CES). Customer Satisfaction Score What is it?

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Earn a Higher Share of Wallet Conversation analytics can help businesses earn a higher share of wallet by providing insights into customer satisfaction and loyalty. By analyzing customer interactions, businesses can identify opportunities to upsell, cross-sell, and provide personalized recommendations.

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TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2024

Call centers are the frontline of customer service for many businesses. Providing excellent service in call centers is crucial for maintaining customer satisfaction and loyalty. Similarly, call center agents are measured on their average handle times.

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Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

These AI-powered QA tools have revolutionized the field, leveraging machine learning, natural language processing and more to help contact centers: Analyze 100% of interactions: Moving beyond limited sampling, AI can scrutinize every customer touchpoint, ensuring comprehensive coverage.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2024

While these systems have historically provided robust voice communications, they’re increasingly becoming barriers to innovation in an age where customer expectations are evolving at breakneck speed. Traditional on-premise systems, while reliable, are increasingly becoming innovation bottlenecks.

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

On the other hand, a contact center dashboard covers multiple communication channels, including phone, SMS, email, chat, and social media. Call Center Dashboard: This dashboard is ideal for businesses handling a high volume of phone calls. It monitors metrics like average talk time, call availability, and cost per call.

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Kustomer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Conversational automation is crucial to great customer support. An effective customer service chatbot can communicate with customers and answer important questions, streamlining the customer support process. Furthermore, consumers are increasingly expecting chatbots to be a part of your customer support strategy.

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Effective call quality monitoring solutions and the contact center quality management programs they support provide valuable insights that drive agent coaching, process optimization, and ultimately, increased customer satisfaction and loyalty. A survey by HubSpot reports that 63% of companies are spending more time prioritizing CX.

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SaleMove

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Together, we look forward to helping accelerate the adoption of Digital Customer Service around the world. Through the partnership, Glia’s modern customer communications and collaboration platform will add seamless digital capabilities to traditional telephony-based call centers for business clients.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2021

Customer satisfaction can be defined as how happy customers are with a company’s products, services, and capabilities. Learn how a Knowledge Management system can help keep your customers satisfied. The dilemma of Customer Satisfaction for today’s demanding customer.

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Surveys and Feedback: Customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores, Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and post-interaction surveys. Offline Interactions: In-store visits, point-of-sale data, and physical customer feedback. Topic Modeling: Identifying recurring themes and topics within customer conversations. Peckham Inc.

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TechSee

MARCH 5, 2020

This technology is positively impacting efficiency KPIs as well as customer and employee satisfaction rates. Employee training is one of the most time-consuming “shrinkage” activities that takes agents away from customers. Collaboration through Visual Assistance reduces the need for traditional time-consuming meetings.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In addition, failure to provide a timely resolution to a customer’s issue is an important contributor to customer dissatisfaction. A recent study on this topic found that customer satisfaction (CSAT) ratings are 35-45% lower for customers who must make a second call about the same issue.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 28, 2020

No longer viewed as telephone answerers, chat typers, or script readers, customer service agents have become strategic customer liaisons. Focus on reducing customer effort. Focusing on customer satisfaction as an outcome of the service interaction has led companies to shift their measures of success as well.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Steps include: Audio capture The voice analytics process begins with the capture of voice communications. Topic tracking and issue identification: Voice analytics identifies customer satisfaction levels by analyzing recurring themes, trends, and sentiment within conversations.

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TechSee

JANUARY 24, 2023

The ideal time to launch a visual session is when the customer first describes their challenge and any gap in understanding is encountered by the agent. Images can help the agent better understand the issue without requiring the customer to communicate what they are experiencing verbally.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured? Customer Satisfaction. For this self service KPI to be green, it should. Fulfillment Speed: humans are visual creatures.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Whether it’s your own culture that shifts over time or that of your outsourcer, keeping a pulse on cultural alignment in your outsourced contact center is essential. Is communication still going strong and do you feel comfortable in those interactions? Did your customers? Are your values still shared and mutually respected?

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Calabrio

MARCH 10, 2025

By utilizing a call center QA scorecard, built from a well-structured QA scorecard template, you can assess agent performance, identify areas for improvement, and ultimately enhance customer satisfaction. Brand Communication: Did the agent’s communication align with the brand’s voice and guidelines?

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

When tracked over time, this metric also allows organizations to understand how AI chatbots are developing. Average Handle Time (AHT). Average Handle Time is a measure of the duration chatbots spend in each interaction. Customer Satisfaction Rate (CSAT).

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ShepHyken

APRIL 2, 2021

Customers want to be heard by your business and know that you take their frustrations seriously. When communicating with angry customers , don’t let this misconception cloud how you approach the situation. Doing so can lead to even greater frustration from your customer and affect your ability to resolve their issue.

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Magellan Solutions

MAY 21, 2023

Importance Of Bilingual Answering Services For Businesses Bilingual answering services provide several business benefits, such as the following: Increased Customer Satisfaction Bilingual customer service enables your businesses to cater to a wider customer range who prefer to communicate in their native language.

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

In essence, it tracks how often a customer’s problem is solved without the need for follow-up calls, emails, chats, or other interactions. When customers feel heard and their problems are solved promptly, they are more likely to become advocates for your brand, leading to positive word-of-mouth referrals.

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Bold360

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Intelligent routing happens through an intelligent routing device or platform, technology that uses data and AI to automatically send inbound customer communications to the best resource for resolution. Pre-set routing rules determine how incoming communications are directed to specific areas, agents, or departments.

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TechSee

JUNE 11, 2019

For years, companies have battled to strike the right balance between customer service KPIs. For example, heavy emphasis on low AHT would often negatively impact customer satisfaction. Increased call deflection to self-service: self-service options reduce waiting, saving valuable time for customers.

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Magellan Solutions

JULY 11, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, excellent customer experiences are crucial for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to succeed. Embracing customer experience outsourcing strategies is a game-changer for maximizing customer engagement. SMEs must prioritize customer satisfaction and loyalty to have an edge.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

“Hello Lauren, thank you for contacting customer service, what can I help you with today?” Doesn’t that start your customer experience off right? In order to customize your communication, companies use agent screen pops to aid in the journey. Average Handle Time.

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Kustomer

OCTOBER 28, 2020

“Containment rate” (the percentage of total conversations fully handled by the bot), or its alternative name, “deflection rate”, is a key metric to track when trying to figure out how well your bot is performing. Customer satisfaction is also important. Start With Hello. Your first bot does not need to be elaborate.

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Kustomer

OCTOBER 28, 2020

“Containment rate” (the percentage of total conversations fully handled by the bot), or its alternative name, “deflection rate”, is a key metric to track when trying to figure out how well your bot is performing. Customer satisfaction is also important. Start With Hello. Your first bot does not need to be elaborate.

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Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction Customer Centricity Metrics 52

Playvox

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

According to a 2021 survey by ICMI , the top 10 metrics for employee performance in service centers are: Customer Satisfaction Agent Productivity Accuracy Average Handle Time Average Speed of Answer Quality Score Abandonment Rate Schedule Adherence Service Level Average Response Time.

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TechSee

JULY 17, 2018

However, despite the plethora of IVR technologies advancing its use within the call center, none of these technologies offer the true key to effective communication – sight, or the ability for the system to see what the customer is seeing. For example, imagine that a customer would like to pay his electricity bill via the IVR.

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Interactions

MAY 20, 2021

According to new research by Zapwater Communications , 65% of Americans are looking forward to traveling again, both internationally and domestically. Agent experience is directly correlated with customer experience. Therefore, reducing employee effort reduces customer effort, which equals greater customer satisfaction.

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Magellan Solutions

APRIL 3, 2024

This powerful combo is a recipe for success; it’ll boost customer satisfaction and loyalty through the roof and drive business growth and profitability like nobody’s business. Are you ready to unleash the full potential of BPO chat support and take your customer service game to a whole new level? Our mission?

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Kustomer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This backs up recent Kustomer research that revealed 64% of consumers enjoy talking to customer service via the same channels they communicate with family and friends on. The customer reported that the DMs were easy to handle and that being able to easily track these tags was a major win for their business.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Taking the time to tag the call, log the details, update the CRM system or forward customer feedback to the relevant department provides vital information to contact center managers, chief experience officers, R&D personnel and customer journey mappers. Automating this process can save thousands of hours a year.

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Contact center technology encompasses all those tools and technologies used by the contact center teams to communicate with customers over the phone. Businesses can use contact center technology to facilitate or improve customer experience, increase productivity, or both. When was the last time you even used your landline phone?

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