Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Once the initial shock subsided, however, many companies have been pleasantly surprised by how quickly they are accruing benefits from their cloud contact centers and customer experience (CX) applications. You continue to lean on legacy on-premises contact center platforms.

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Contact Center Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Call Recording 139

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In the world of Contact Centers , moving functions like IVR and ACD are obvious choices. Like other cloud systems, the architecture provides a more scalable environment allowing you to better support call distribution and IVR. Your Contact Center represents the front line to your constituents and customers.

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Contact Center Call Recording Document ROI 63

UJET

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Contact center employees are extremely important to the overall success and health of businesses. But call center employees can also be some of the least supported, hardest worked employees in the business – a sure-fire recipe for call center burnout. . What is Call Center Burnout?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I believe some of this is because there is so much emphasis on customer feedback metrics that we lose sight of the forest for the trees! This can include customer feedback, financial data, behavioral analytics, operational metrics, and industry benchmarks. Determine what a specific measurable outcome would look like.

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Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score 259

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Analytics Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 Share Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 What area do you see as the biggest opportunity for growth in your contact center? What is call quality monitoring?

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InMoment XI

MARCH 21, 2025

Conversational analytics software monitors interactions across various touchpoints and channels, including phone call recordings, chatbot transcripts, emails, social media platforms, and business messaging apps, providing a comprehensive view of how customers communicate and what they say about you.

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UJET

JULY 7, 2020

30% said there were “lots of silos” when it came to how well their contact center technology integrated with one another. Instead, contact center professionals should look for a solution that’s been developed as a single platform from the beginning or has tight out-of-the-box integrations.

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Engagement Contact Center Call Recording Metrics 106

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. Here’s the formula: Total Resolved Cases / Total Number of Cases x 100 For example, if 40 out of 120 interactions in a month are resolved on first contact, FCR rate will be 33%.

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Pointillist

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

By Stephanie Ventura Metrics tracking is a vital element of every call center. However, aiming to track all possible call center metrics can lead to information overload. Instead, organizations must focus on metrics that yield the greatest insight. Why is FCR considered so essential? The reason?

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UJET

JULY 7, 2020

30% said there were “lots of silos” when it came to how well their contact center technology integrated with one another. Instead, contact center professionals should look for a solution that’s been developed as a single platform from the beginning or has tight out-of-the-box integrations.

Engagement 96

Engagement Contact Center Call Recording Metrics 96

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Twenty years ago began a shift to contact center outsourcing to offshore locations, especially the Philippines and India, and away from the local market where customers on the other end of the phone were located. Brands had a very clear business case to cut contact center labor costs by outsourcing to lower-cost offshore locations.

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Contact Center 2010 Competitive Advantage Call Recording 48

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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Omnichannel Customer Experience Contact Center Social Media 95

Talkdesk

MARCH 14, 2018

Three talent trends emerged from Deloitte’s 2017 global contact center survey that point to the need to rethink the way contact centers handle staffing. These initiatives are all supported by the Talkdesk Enterprise Contact Center Platform , illustrating our overall dedication to improving agent effectiveness.

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TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2024

Similarly, call center agents are measured on their average handle times. These two metrics are closely related, as longer handle times will naturally result in longer wait times for customers. Chat Interactions Contact centers aren’t just for the phone. Some IVR systems can be difficult to navigate.

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Call Center Customer Service Average Handle Time Customers 124

Talkdesk

MAY 12, 2020

Because it’s not restricted to a browser tab, it’s a flexible tool that allows for easy, convenient access when making and receiving calls. Set your availability A contact center agent’s day is dynamic. You’ll be constantly moving between being on calls with customers, updating customer contact information and more.

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Call Recording Contact Center Call Center Information 86

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. Your partner will undoubtedly have a suite of standard operational reports.

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Customer Care Roadmap Call Recording Fashion 156

Clarabridge

AUGUST 15, 2017

Contact center efficiencies are intrinsically linked to the customer experience your company delivers as a whole. Once you improve the customer experience, you’ll find that your contact center metrics improve too. The post 5 Ways to Cut Costs in the Contact Center appeared first on Clarabridge.

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Contact Center Multi-Channel Call Center Call Recording 45

Talkdesk

JUNE 21, 2019

One important way to reduce these important call center metrics is by reducing the amount of work it takes to wrap up previous customer interactions so that your agents are freed up to handle the next one. In this blog, we outline what call wrap up time is and actionable steps you can take to reduce it in your contact center.

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Calabrio

MARCH 4, 2025

Together, these conversation intelligence functions combine to support customer service and sales teams, such as those in a contact center, with actionable insights on patterns of behavior, opportunities for improvement, and areas of risk. Let’s break this down.

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Contact Center Multi-Channel Insights Sales 40

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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Call Recording Customers Sales Contact Center 85

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.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Call Recording Metrics Feedback 40

InteractionMetrics

JUNE 24, 2015

But they only capture the tiniest slice of the actual customer experience, especially when it comes to the experiences customers have with contact centers. According to CallMiner, companies may have 45 times more phone calls than survey responses per year. At Interaction Metrics, we see that customer experience is complex.

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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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Banking Contact Center Customer Service Customer Experience 52

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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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. 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. per call, for a total of 1.25

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Metrics Customer Service Contact Center Call Recording 40

ViiBE Blog

MAY 13, 2021

Call center technology refers to these different software and hardware tools used to run a call center. Management systems keep track of call volume, route incoming calls, and perform data analytics in real-time. So what exactly do call centers do? What does a call center do?

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Call Center Technology Contact Center Net Promoter Score 52

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.

Customer Service 59

Customer Service Contact Center NPS Financial 59

Kustomer

AUGUST 8, 2022

Steve Richards: (02:29) Yeah, so the thing is with customer experience, so many call centers and contact centers have done a lot — omni-channel communication, they’ve done a lot to be able to measure and understand more what’s going on within customer experience right now. I get a kick out of it.

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Customer Service Call Center Contact Center Measurement 86

CSM Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

Re-assess performance metrics and coaching techniques to guide agents in delivering fast, efficient service with empathy. On a purely practical level, this matters because many larger businesses operate multiple contact centres using multiple telephony systems that increase the risk of creating harmful data silos.

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Contact Center Call Recording Customer Expectations Customer Centricity 52

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. Executive dashboards : Create catchy visual dashboards to show the key metrics that are relevant for you. Speech-to-Text analysis (WIP) : Instantly analyze voice recordings and extract insights.

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Thematic

JULY 15, 2024

For many decades, traditional analytics methods were used to analyze contact center data. How conversational analytics fits into the Voice of the Customer (VoC) Contact center managers and quality assurance specialists are moving from speech analytics to conversational analytics.

Net Promoter Score 62

Net Promoter Score Social Media Effort Score Call Center 62

Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The ability to have intelligent, personalized conversations with customers is the reason we at Talkdesk are equipping agents with a smarter contact center platform. Likewise, in a world of unpredictable connectivity, it’s common for customers to suddenly lose service and need to call back into your contact center.

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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? What metrics do they follow? But beyond this metric there are other ways businesses measure their performance such as: Customer Satisfaction Rate. Cold Calling Service.

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Definition Call Recording Sales Contact Center 52

Kustomer

JULY 16, 2020

Yeah, so the thing is with customer experience, so many call centers and contact centers have done a lot — omni-channel communication, they’ve done a lot to be able to measure and understand more what’s going on within customer experience right now. Steve Richards: (02:29). I get a kick out of it.

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Customer Service Call Center Contact Center Sales 52

Pointillist

OCTOBER 22, 2018

An even smaller number, 21%, were confident that they shared these metrics in an actionable way. Make your CX metrics actionable. Next, I’ll describe four ways you can use AI to improve your understanding of your customer experience data and five ways to make your CX metrics actionable. Make Your CX Metrics Actionable.

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Measurement Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Hotels 40

Thematic

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Contact centers are the frontlines of customer interaction. That’s where contact center sentiment analysis comes in. Applying AI analytics to your contact center data can tell you how your customers really feel and help you improve the overall customer experience.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Social Media Average Handle Time 62

Cyara

APRIL 21, 2020

A little while back, Cyara’s Senior Strategic Accounts Director, Kelly Zunker, wrote a post on our blog about how much a SEV1 costs an organization. The piece covered the general definition(s) of a SEV1, or Severity 1 error, presented SEV1 examples, and explored the costs of a SEV1 error considering three main factors: Extended caller hold times.

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