Upstream Works

DECEMBER 11, 2018

We’re seeing greater interest and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our customers’ contact centers, including the use of bots to support the popularity of chat as a channel option and a surge in self-service. The very word “multichannel” seemed to indicate that the more channels a contact center could boast, the better.

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Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

Customer service has gone digital — and your contact center needs to evolve with the times. Make sure your contact center is set up for digital success behind the scenes so that you can provide the experiences your customers demand.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If your contact center isn’t currently focusing on cross-selling and upselling, you’re missing a great opportunity to strengthen customer relationships and increase revenue. Our original contact center research revealed that 28 percent of contact centers generate 11 to 20 percent of their revenue from cross-selling and upselling.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Whether buying goods online or paying bills over the phone, they happily relay accounts and credit card details to a contact center agent without a second thought, trusting that the company that they are dealing with will manage their card data securely. The view from the contact center. But how secure are they?

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 31, 2018

When Talkdesk puts together our long-term feature roadmap, we put a lot of thought into where contact center executives want to go in the future and build a product that will give them the tools they need to execute on their vision. Call Recordings. From a high level, this is a goal we’ve always tried to achieve.

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Avaya

JANUARY 29, 2019

For most contact centers, the agent workforce is one of the biggest expense lines on the budget. In fact, the agent talent pool can account for up to 70% of a contact centers annual operating budget. After all, customer experience in its simplest definition is measured in the relationship customers have with a brand.

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BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Your and your outsourcer’s tech team will need to collaborate regarding platforms, desktop tools, task management systems, workforce management systems, IVR systems, call recording systems, and more. Schedule your Technical Transition kick-off meeting.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Chats, inbound calls, email and SMS lead the pack of channels across the contact center that generate enormous sets of data. That data can be leveraged by contact center managers who are looking to make substantive improvements to the daily contact center operations.

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Pointillist

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It is the only performance metric that “has an effect on almost every other meaningful statistic and measurement in the call center.” ” Today’s call centers must balance many priorities while maintaining an intense focus on customers. As McKinsey & Company explains : The contact center.

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Kustomer

APRIL 29, 2021

To learn more about recording customer calls and capitalizing the data, check out the Customer Service Secrets podcast episode below, and be sure to subscribe for new episodes each Thursday. Listen Now: Listen to “Call Recordings Are the Secret to Better Customer Support | With Steve Richard” on Spreaker.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Like their private sector peers, the front line for engagement with government agencies lies in the contact center. Contact center investments can yield significant and rapid improvements to that. Call recording? Understand the capital requirements and where they are aligned in your contact center.

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Talkdesk

AUGUST 10, 2017

For customers and prospects in your contact center, agents are the voice of your company. This all starts before a call is even made or received. This helps give the agent the right context so they can get the call started off on the right foot.

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Stella Connect

MARCH 5, 2018

As part of this ongoing strategy, RevZilla took a hard look at how it could measure and improve performance across its front-line team. Call recordings or chat / email transcripts are then pulled and reviewed. 15% improvement in first contact resolution. Enter Stella Connect. Real-Time Micro-Coaching.

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Stella Connect

MARCH 5, 2018

As part of this ongoing strategy, RevZilla took a hard look at how it could measure and improve performance across its front-line team. Call recordings or chat / email transcripts are then pulled and reviewed. 15% improvement in first contact resolution. Enter Stella Connect. Real-Time Micro-Coaching.

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TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2024

Similarly, call center agents are measured on their average handle times. This not only leads to dissatisfaction but also increases the likelihood that customers will abandon the call or, even worse, switch to a competitor or complain on social media. Chat Interactions Contact centers aren’t just for the phone.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In 2018, SICOM wanted to improve their operations as they realized their existing contact center solutions had many limitations, including not having easy access to call recordings and a homegrown ticketing system they had outgrown. In fact, SICOM technology is used in 30,000 restaurants in 62 countries.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

Consider this: of people who reached out to a contact center, 73% had tried a digital channel first, according to the Verint Experience Index (VXI): Banking report published earlier this year. Jordan is a contact center agent who scores very well on metrics like average call time and first-call resolution.

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Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

Using customer journey analytics, you can integrate your structured data (website, CRM system) with your unstructured data (transcripts from web chat, audio call recordings, chatbot transcripts). Discover Cross-Channel Customer Service Journeys to Understand Where Calls Originate From Customer behaviors vary across different channels.

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Kustomer

AUGUST 8, 2022

Richards notes that measuring just to measure and having data is not going to help improve the situation. He states, “In the organizations… who do a much better job, they kind of close what we call insights-to-performance gap. The whole point, why do you measure a sprinter? Why do you time a skier? I get a kick out of it.

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Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. That’s where leveraging contact center performance management software can help. The answer is both.

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Pointillist

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In a recent Forrester survey, only 35% of CX professionals reported that they are measuring how their most important customers feel about their most important experiences. The use of artificial intelligence can help you address both of these issues and make your customer experience measurement programs much more effective.

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Ann Michaels and Associates

JUNE 15, 2020

Quality Assurance in the contact center is being used to improve NPS (Net Promoter Score) and overall customer experience. Perform a deep analysis of your call records. Consider how many calls are subsequently transferred into other departments. Could you please rate your recommendation on a scale of 0-10?”.

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Talkdesk

MAY 3, 2017

The mission of AppConnect is to allow Talkdesk customers to add more tools to their contact center stack without any hassle. Below is a list of AppConnect launch partners; all of these apps are available for a free trial, so if you see something you like, add it to your contact center and starting measuring the impact today.

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Thematic

JANUARY 27, 2019

Contact centers often miss out on many opportunities on how to improve their team’s performance and deliver critical insights to the rest of the company, simply because the analysis of mountains of data they collect may seem daunting. Unstructured data is data that isn’t stored in a fixed record length format. Case study.

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Avaya

JANUARY 26, 2018

Desktop screen capture: This is an undetectable back-end process that records desktop screen activity during each customer interaction. Supervisors and managers can use this both in the contact center and back office to view customer interactions from beginning to end via synchronized screen and call recordings.

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Ann Michaels and Associates

MARCH 30, 2019

Quality Assurance in the contact center is being used to improve NPS (Net Promoter Score) and overall customer experience. Perform a deep analysis of your call records. Think about how many calls are subsequently transferred into other departments. Could you please rate your recommendation on a scale of 0-10?”

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Customer Experience (CX) is still the number one measure of strategic performance while 87.2% CX has also totally revolutionized the way front-line operations such as contact centers measure their success, switching from the number of calls answered and how quickly to how well do we understand customers?

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Thematic

JULY 15, 2024

For many decades, traditional analytics methods were used to analyze contact center data. Speech analytics looks at both the acoustic elements of speech – tone, pitch, speed – as well as the words spoken during customer service calls. Its main use is to measure call quality and agent performance.

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OpinionLab

JANUARY 14, 2019

At Foresee we focused on CX measurement. Our premise was that to deliver business value you need a customer satisfaction (CSAT) measurement that is based on scientific principles; it must be reliable, precise and accurate. Measurement is bad – because it is just a score and does NOT provide actionable insight.

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BirdEye

MARCH 1, 2024

Also, for businesses with remote employees, call forwarding can help a team member step in if someone is out of the office or busy in a meeting. Such measures ensure you answer every customer call and boost the overall customer experience. This helps them recruit the best talent without any location constraints.

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Magellan Solutions

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This is because most contact centers have their own list of available numbers they can call. A telesales or telemarketing call center can be a highly useful technique for small firms because it delivers many of the same advantages in terms of direct client contact while taking up less time and money.

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 31, 2018

First contact resolution (aka first call resolution), or FCR, might not be high on your list of call center metrics. Maybe you’ve never measured it. Think of the last time you contacted a brand’s customer service department and the phone call, chat, or email exchange ended before your issue was resolved.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 27, 2020

There are numerous reasons to record calls, but leading the pack is quality. Call recordings play a central role in monitoring, measuring, and improving call quality. A quality management program without call recordings is like macaroni without cheese. The pair belong together.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 7, 2024

In fact, Gartner had predicted that by 2026, conversational AI within contact centers will reduce agent labor costs by $80 billion. DialerHQ – For Voice Call Insights Source: DialerHQ DialerHQ is a contact center solution that’s primarily famous for its cloud phoning system.

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Magellan Solutions

JUNE 14, 2021

Moreover, asks these questions to them : Will they hold call calibrations with you? . Are you able to listen to call recordings? But beyond this metric there are other ways businesses measure their performance such as: Customer Satisfaction Rate. Cold Calling Service. Omnichannel Contact Center.

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Kustomer

JULY 16, 2020

Steve notes that just measuring to measure and having data is not going to help improve the situation. He states, “In the organizations…who do a much better job, they kind of close what we call insights-to-performance gap. The whole point, why do you measure a sprinter? Steve Richards: (02:29). Gabe Larsen: (03:54).

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Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

Using customer journey analytics, you can integrate your structured data (website, CRM system) with your unstructured data (transcripts from web chat, audio call recordings, chatbot transcripts). Discover Cross-Channel Customer Service Journeys to Understand Where Calls Originate From Customer behaviors vary across different channels.

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