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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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The insight about exceptional customer service and the customer experience is still rock solid, and so we decided to revisit the article entering 2025. When it comes to customer experience , there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. We work hard to set expectations up front.

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TechSee

AUGUST 10, 2023

TechSee’s visual automation platform uses computer artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) to enhance customer and contact center engagements. TechSee’s Computer Vision AI and AR can improve issues facing customer contact centers around first-call resolution, average handling times, and truck roll avoidance.

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Connections Contact Center Average Handle Time Omnichannel 206

InMoment XI

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With 87% of consumers actively avoiding buying from brands they don’t trust, understanding and improving the customer experience has never been more critical. Customer experience analytics is the practice that empowers businesses to do just that. What is Customer Experience Analytics?

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

If you have a business, you have customers – otherwise, you won’t stay in business very long. And if you have customers, they will inevitably need support. This leads some businesses to think of customer support as a necessary evil, something you’d rather not have to deal with but can’t avoid. They begin with the customer.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 2024 156

BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

If you have a business, you have customers – otherwise, you won’t stay in business very long. And if you have customers, they will inevitably need support. This leads some businesses to think of customer support as a necessary evil, something you’d rather not have to deal with but can’t avoid. They begin with the customer.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 2024 156

Bold360

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Why data, not intuition, is the key to measuring customer satisfaction. It’s not likely to come as earth-shattering news to any marketer, but there’s a straight line between customer satisfaction and customer retention. Look to the big picture to measure customer satisfaction.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The discussion around how to reduce customer service costs is not a new one. For decades, service organizations have been proposing innovative ways to cut operational costs in customer service: Let employees bring their own coffee? ??. Limit call times to 3 minutes each? How to Reduce Customer Service Costs Sustainably.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Every team at an organization must prove how their work contributes to the bottom line — and customer experience is no exception. We know CX teams can deliver significant business advantages: Satisfied customers are much more likely to purchase more Revenue grows 40% faster by providing personalized experiences Businesses achieve a 2.3x

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Metrics Net Promoter Score NPS Effort Score 270

TechSee

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Customer experience, or CX, is a fundamental component that determines the success of a business. Companies thriving today recognize that finding ways to improve customer experience is not just an option but a strategic necessity for 2025, with all the opportunities and challenges that it entails, and beyond.

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Eptica

JULY 4, 2018

Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 Author: Anne-Merete Jensen - Senior Business Consultant How to reduce Average Handling Time and improve quality. The agent simply needs to personalize it and send it on, cutting handling times while preserving accuracy and customer satisfaction.

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

When you analyze the natural language interactions between customers and an organization, conversational analytics unlocks a wealth of insights that can be used to resolve issues faster, enhance agent performance, reduce costs, and demonstrate the value of customer service investments. What are the Benefits of Conversational Analytics?

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InMoment XI

JULY 25, 2024

The contact center experience can make or break your customer’s overall experience with your organization. Specifically, negative experiences can cause customers to churn, while positive experiences can restore customer satisfaction trust, and improve your brand equity. What Is a Contact Center Experience?

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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. One primary concern is long call wait and handle times. Similarly, call center agents are measured on their average handle times.

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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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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Modern customers interact with many touchpoints before making a purchase. In fact, 89% of customers say that a quick response to an initial inquiry is important when deciding where to take their business. As a result, teams can make informed decisions on improving customer relationships and resolving issues.

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Call Center Contact Center Social Media Metrics 195

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more:    How does modern AI enhance the efficiency of customer interactions in contact centers? How can AI anticipate customer needs and offer better solutions in customer service? It’s about engaging customers.

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Customer Engagement Engagement Contact Center Average Handle Time 93

Think Customers

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

For too many years, contact center measurements have been focused on efficiency instead of customer experience. Metrics such as average handle time (AHT), number of contacts handled, average wait time, and average speed of answer have all been heavily used and tracked.

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Contact Center Customer Centricity Metrics Net Promoter Score 88

TechSee

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In reality, the lines between customer service agents and technicians have become blurred – the technician’s role includes some traditional responsibilities of agents, and the agent’s role includes more responsibilities traditionally held exclusively by technicians. Focus on reducing customer effort.

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COPC

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In last month’s article , we looked at how coaching customer satisfaction (CSAT) to a number may lead to wasted time and effort, employee dissatisfaction, and difficulty improving CSAT results. Your other metrics, such as response time, average handle time (AHT), escalation rate, etc.,

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Customer Satisfaction Metrics Average Handle Time Contact Center 94

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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ShepHyken

APRIL 2, 2021

She shares common misconceptions about customer service and offers ways to fight them in order to provide great customer experiences. But as is the case with other organizations, customer service has its fair share of myths about what customers want, which metrics to track, and how to perform the responsibilities of a front-line agent.

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Customer Service E Commerce E-support Average Handle Time 122

SaleMove

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Today we have the honor of recognizing Glia’s partnership with Infosys, a global leader of next-generation digital solutions, advisory, and consulting services, to extend Digital Customer Service to Infosys’ business clients across the globe. With Infosys, we are gaining a trusted, strategic global partner who will help us scale.

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TechSee

APRIL 2, 2019

And with 51% of Americans now preferring to shop online, the pressure on customer support operations is about to increase exponentially. From speech recognition and voice analytics to neuro-linguistic programming, they seek to solve customer’s problems by telling them what to do. What is Computer Vision AI? Object Recognition.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Insurance B2C 174

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The company offers a variety of mattresses and related products at competitive prices, and customers obviously approve: They’ve propelled Mattress Firm to over $3.8 With average handle time (AHT) down by 21%, adherence up by 31% and QA scores up from around 50% to 70%, the positive impact on customer satisfaction is unmistakable.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For clients with complex care scenarios – whether that is enterprise customer success management or providing critical support direct to consumers – change is never taken lightly. Are you still in regular contact with your partner’s leadership team and do you still trust them to deliver excellence for your customers?

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Customer Care Contact Center Net Promoter Score Metrics 156

Provide Support

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

4 Tactics to Keep Customer Satisfaction High in the Busy Holiday Season. With big holiday season just around the corner, many online retailers are busy preparing their customer service teams for the holiday rush. According to NRF’s survey conducted by Prosper Insights, American consumers plan to spend an average $935.58

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, enterprises constantly seek new ways to boost efficiency, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce operational costs. One standout solution in this space is Sophie AI , a powerful Agentic AI that transforms customer service and CX through autonomous, multimodal support.

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ROI Average Handle Time Net Promoter Score NPS 109

ViiBE Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Since they’re the most involved with customer interactions, their performance directly affects the customer experience. This article will teach you how to measure an agent’s performance and other important customer service metrics. Here are the five KPIs that we will focus on: Average Handle Time.

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Call Center Average Handle Time Net Promoter Score Metrics 98

TechSee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This is especially relevant in today’s customer-focused marketplace, where expectations are high, and customer service excellence has become a competitive advantage. Volume – rapidly address the most common issues that drive most inbound customer contacts. Reduce second-time calls with better FCR.

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Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time Measurement 196

ShepHyken

MARCH 30, 2018

Depending on whether your Customer Care department is an extension of your marketing or your customer service strategy, the KPIs you give yourself may be different. Type: Customer Centric. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) is the most common KPI companies track when it comes to Customer Care. First Response Time.

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Blog Average Handle Time Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 92

BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

What Does Content and Ad Review Have in Common with Customer Service? In our world, content review shares the same goals of any customer care program: delivering a high-quality experience to the end user. Essentially, content review is just a different kind of customer contact. Content review is a topical subject these days.

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Kayako

JUNE 8, 2017

One of the biggest mistakes when measuring customer experience is focusing on what your team is doing instead of what your customers are experiencing. Metrics like time tracking, productivity, and performance take the front seat, but often don’t relate to the experience your customer receives or how they feel about it.

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Metrics Customer Experience Average Handle Time Net Promoter Score 96

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues.

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Metrics Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score 146

TechSee

MARCH 5, 2020

Every customer service professional knows that running a successful call center is a constant balancing act. Managers will often focus on improving employee productivity to keep customers happy and costs down. This technology is positively impacting efficiency KPIs as well as customer and employee satisfaction rates.

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Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 145

TechSee

JANUARY 24, 2023

By systematically and visually leading a caller through a series of steps, the service team can reduce costs by cutting the AHT spent on calls and increasing the number of customers they serve. This performance improvement is especially valuable when asking customers to perform complex tasks that extend the time of the call.

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Engagement Average Handle Time Call Center Connections 109

Magellan Solutions

MAY 21, 2023

Are you ready to make your brand more appealing to diverse customers ? Businesses deal with different types of customers every day, including those with foreign languages, such as Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, etc. Bilingual Answering Services are a type of customer service that involves bilingual customer service agents.

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Call Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction Competitive Advantage 98