InMoment XI

JULY 25, 2024

Contact Center Experience Best Practices The metrics you track to measure your contact center experience will vary depending on your industry. Implement Omnichannel Integration To create a great contact center experience, your customers need to be able to interact with you via the channel that is the most convenient for them at the time.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What Service Level Metrics Are Most Relevant to Your Business Now? Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. What should your outsourcer – and you – be measuring beyond those standard metrics?

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InMoment XI

MARCH 22, 2025

Measuring Engagement Levels to Assess Account Health While traditional static metrics like service renewals and the number of support requests submitted can offer some insight into account health, they may not provide the full picture. Improving Customer Engagement and Personalization The value of personalization is undeniable.

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

By analyzing customer interactions, businesses can measure key performance indicators (KPIs) such as customer satisfaction, first contact resolution rates, and average handle time. Agent and Coach Performance Metrics : Evaluate agent and team performance with detailed scorecards highlighting strengths and areas for improvement.

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

These omnichannel touchpoints include everything from the tried-and-true phone, email, and web/app chat to self-service and social media. At Blue Ocean, we hire agents who understand that your customers are our customers, and customers are the only reason we are all in business. But the trick is knowing what to measure.

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

These omnichannel touchpoints include everything from the tried-and-true phone, email, and web/app chat to self-service and social media. At Blue Ocean, we hire agents who understand that your customers are our customers, and customers are the only reason we are all in business. But the trick is knowing what to measure.

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Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Identify nuanced sentiment: AI detects subtle emotional cues, providing a deeper understanding of customer satisfaction beyond surface-level metrics. Ensure agents fully understand these standards, including the metrics used for evaluation. You need to see the whole, omnichannel picture: voice, chat, email, socialthe works.

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SurveySensum

OCTOBER 29, 2024

According to McKinsey , effective use of analytics in contact center operations can help you reduce the average handle time by up to 40%, increase self-service usage by 20%, cut employee costs by $5 million, and improve conversion rates on service-to-sales costs by 50%. However, what are the benefits of contact center analytics?

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Think Customers

APRIL 21, 2022

This typically means choosing between omnichannel versus multichannel support. What is omnichannel support? A defining characteristic of omnichannel support is that customer support is available across all communication channels, delivering a consistent customer experience. What are the benefits of omnichannel support?

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

By establishing metrics for factors like “time spent in the knowledge base,” “screens to resolution,” or “questions to authentication,” you will learn what agents experience when supporting customers. Alternatively, dissect average handle time for your agents’ phone conversations.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

How to Create an Empathetic, Omnichannel Service Experience. Top Takeaways: An omnichannel customer service experience is about being able to meet customers at any channel they choose and create a seamless experience for the customer between different channels. Not being able to connect with customers is a pain point.

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eGain Blogs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

” Knowledge improves call center metrics (KPIs). When used well, in line with best practices, knowledge management enables breakthrough enhancements to operational metrics, not only transforming the contact center but transcending it in many ways. Average Handle Time (AHT). Average Speed to Answer (ASA).

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. In uncertain economic times, they become even more critical to help navigate business health and growth. What Are Call Center Efficiency Metrics? Why do metrics matter?

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

And as customers themselves have increasingly prioritized convenient, qualified, and personalized experienceswhenever and in whichever channels they prefermany contact centers have moved to an omnichannel model to meet these needs. It also includes empowering call center agents with effective training, strong scripts, and targeted coaching.

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This becomes even more evident with home-based agents, as supervisors have less control over their working conditions with limited visibility into real-time performance. For example, with customers feeling more stress, legacy metrics like Average Handle Time (AHT) aren’t going to drive CSAT scores.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

From an operational perspective, personalization will drive down important call center metrics like average handle times (AHT). Deliver omnichannel contact center capabilities. To provide service in the communication channel the patient prefers, your call center should incorporate omnichannel capabilities.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 11, 2022

Some metrics may even lead to customer neglect. For example, a focus on Average Handle Time may lead to incomplete resolutions, striving for a larger customer support headcount may drain a company’s resources. When specific metrics, such as NPS or AHT, are used in isolation, they don’t tell the full story.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 25, 2022

Learn more about how our enhanced omnichannel contact center solutions support digital transformation here. At the foundation of digital transformation for contact centers are the blending of human and self-service automated engagements to provide a continuous omnichannel CX. Accelerating Digital Transformation.

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

What’s worse, without customer experience metrics in place, is that you won’t know until it’s too late. If you take the journey from providing good enough customer service to delivering great experiences, and measure your progress with actionable customer experience metrics, you’ll be able to stay ahead of the competition.

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

Deliver on omnichannel demands Customers want to use the different channel they prefer to interact with your brand. Develop a true omnichannel approach thats unified in the cloud and ensures that agents have easy access to customer history and insights across all channels. Heres how: 16. And if you can measure it, you can improve it.

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Calabrio

MARCH 10, 2025

Essentially, a QA scorecard template outlines specific criteria and metrics, such as call handling, communication skills, product knowledge, and adherence to procedures, which are used to score agent performance. This data-driven approach enables you to make informed decisions and optimize your contact center operations.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2018

Of the many metrics that Contact Center Executives care about, here are some key ones that directly impact customer experience: Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) – This continues to be the #1 direct measure on customer experience. Average Handle Time (AHT) – This is one of the most significant metrics when it comes to driving down costs.

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Accurately measuring FCR in an omnichannel contact center requires the ability to track a single issue across multiple channels and touch points, tie together disparate contacts, and have visibility and insights into the whole situation. Research from the SQM Group finds that the average FCR across all industries is about 68%.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Intermediary metrics, however, play an immensely important role in diagnosing performance, identifying challenges and uncovering opportunities. Traditional metrics like average handle time and first contact resolution are undoubtedly important in this quest.

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Kustomer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Results the customer has seen so far include a 33% improvement in agent average handle time. Three other metrics that they track are average first response time, average response time and missed chats – all of which have seen improvements over Zendesk. All with Kustomer, now part of Meta.

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Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

These “cutting-edge” technologies at the time helped managers better distribute and manage voice calls more efficiently. But as customers’ communication needs and preferences shifted, contact centers today provide omnichannel support. This improves customer satisfaction and net promoter scores, and other key customer service metrics.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

By prioritizing understandability, customers experience improvements in key contact center metrics including average handle time, first call resolution, sales conversion, and churn. The technology supports use cases from customer support, to business development resources (BDR), to sales.

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Omnichannel capabilities can help you manage the flood of calls during open enrollment. Mind the metrics Make sure that your organization is focused on the right business metrics. These might include member renewal rates, new member enrollment and even member referral metrics.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While setting goals, ensure they are measurable, attainable, and time-bound. You can readjust your strategy accordingly after reviewing your metrics to see what works and does not. This goal is specific, measurable, and time-bound; hence can be reviewed at the end of a quarter to cross-check targets. Measure your CX metrics.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 15, 2022

Omnichannel experiences. Often omnichannel and multichannel are used interchangeably, but they are quite different. As the name describes, multichannel uses multiple and discrete channels, whereas omnichannel allows for the context of each interaction to remain across multiple channels. Business-centric-only metrics.

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Playvox

MAY 4, 2023

A digital contact center must take an omnichannel approach to customer interactions to make communication more convenient for the customer and boost the agent experience at the same time. Related Article: The Top 4 Contact Center Trends To Boost Performance And CX What Is An Omnichannel Contact Center?

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 31, 2019

Instantly available, hosted contact center services including support for omnichannel communications and sophisticated routing, with native workforce management and analytics. Putting your contact center in the cloud saves time and money… no more onsite systems to maintain, pay for or upgrade.

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Magellan Solutions

MAY 16, 2024

Inbound calls are cheaper, and omnichannel support costs more. As Fred Chua, CEO of Magellan Solutions, emphasizes, “Improving productivity and output is all about managing key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics. Average Handle Time (AHT) : Lower AHT leads to higher productivity and increased call handling capacity.

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ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Co-browsing becomes a powerful customer support tool that boosts performance metrics significantly when coupled with omnichannel tools such as video assistance. Safety is a key metric when considering customer satisfaction. Quality of experience, more so than price, is the key metric that customers use when choosing products.

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ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Co-browsing becomes a powerful customer support tool that boosts performance metrics significantly when coupled with omnichannel tools such as video assistance. Safety is a key metric when considering customer satisfaction. Quality of experience, more so than price, is the key metric that customers use when choosing products.

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ViiBE Blog

AUGUST 19, 2020

Today, omnichannel communication possibilities make customer support increasingly complex. There are many well-established lists of metrics that companies can reference to determine which KPIs they will use to measure their performance. Introduction. Support Call Center Employees .

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Average handle time (AHT) , a key CX metric, has fallen by two minutes! Find out where DSW is going next, as Tim and Tom discuss insights for deciding which transactions best lend themselves to automation (next up: returns) and look ahead to integrating chat into the customer’s omnichannel experience.

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