InteractionMetrics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This blog will explore how to improve customer service, common pitfalls to avoid, and metrics that ensure your efforts are on the right track. Tools like chat transcripts or call recordings offer additional insight. Prioritize the Right Metrics Avoid over-relying on generic scores like Net Promoter Score (NPS).

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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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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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Call Center Metrics Multi-Channel Banking 74

Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Workforce optimization (WFO) in the contact center comprises multiple capabilities, including quality management, workforce management, speech analytics, performance management and call recording. You rely on outdated analytics and business success metrics.

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UJET

JULY 7, 2020

Supervisors can monitor metrics and optimize performance. Benefit: Supervisors manage in real-time and adjust queues, agent assignments, and see performance metrics. But these metrics only show a specific perspective of the customer experience. Agents can monitor personal performance and improve support daily.

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SurveySensum

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Limited Flexibility & Cumbersome User Management: CustomerGauge is very NPS-driven, so other customer metrics like CSAT or CES are largely locked out to get a 360 view of customer satisfaction. CustomerGauge offers powerful features, and while its great for many organizations, it might not be for yours.

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Totango

JULY 17, 2024

Chris Dishman Stop guessing, start growing: The customer success metrics that matter If you’re only tracking metrics like usage or churn, then you’re only seeing a small piece of the puzzle. When you track outcome-based metrics that help prove value to your customers, then you can proactively identify areas for growth and expansion.

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SurveySensum

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It Optimizes Agent Performance : Contact center analytics tracks important metrics like average handling time, CSAT score , first-call resolution, etc, essential for identifying high-performing or low-performing agents in need of additional training. Let’s understand each of them.

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

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

However, call quality monitoring is much more than a matter of just checking boxes; it’s about gaining a deep understanding of how your agents are interacting with customers and identifying areas for improvement. It also includes empowering call center agents with effective training, strong scripts, and targeted coaching.

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UJET

JULY 7, 2020

Supervisors can monitor metrics and optimize performance. Benefit: Supervisors manage in real-time and adjust queues, agent assignments, and see performance metrics. But these metrics only show a specific perspective of the customer experience. Agents can monitor personal performance and improve support daily.

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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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SurveySparrow

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Blended Call Centre. Call Recording. Call Scripting. Well, the most reliable attributes of Zendesk remains ticket raising and auto-fill forms that help resolve issues during a call and knowledge base that helps customers use the solution efficiently. Call Logging. Call Recording. Segmentation.

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CX Accelerator

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Or it can come into the company outside the formal survey process like chat or email strings, or call recordings. It can come from outside sources such as social channels, product review sites, or other online communities. It can even be in the form of free text responses in surveys. Set up listening posts where it matters.

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Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Why is First Call Resolution Important? First call resolution is far more than just a metric; it’s a direct reflection of your customer service effectiveness and significantly impacts your business’s bottom line. What are the challenges of improving first call resolution?

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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. Use call recordings and performance metrics to review service delivery and provide constructive feedback.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Features like Workforce Management , Call Recording and even call advanced reporting functions like call tracking metrics are more easily accessible in a cloud environment. But moving those functions to cloud is really just the beginning of the advantages gained in a cloud environment.

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UJET

MARCH 28, 2019

Supervisors track metrics like number of calls taken, number of issues resolved or average wait time, but they might not have the time to listen to every call recording to see where improvements are needed. Customer support agents help customers resolve issues with the extra goal of building brand loyalty.

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Talkdesk

MAY 12, 2020

This way, you won’t receive calls when you’re not available, and vice versa. Save time with click-to-call Agent success often includes metrics around speed and efficiency. Rather than manually dialing a caller’s phone number every time, you can leverage click-to-dial functionality to shave a few seconds off each call.

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

Aspects of Oversight and Optimization Contact center management, or call center management, is the strategic orchestration of all elements within a customer interaction hub to ensure optimal efficiency, customer satisfaction, and business outcomes. But first, you have to capture that activity. And if you can measure it, you can improve it.

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Magellan Solutions

MAY 12, 2023

Reporting The most reputable virtual answering services can provide detailed reports on relevant metrics , including call volume, average handle time (AHT), and first call resolution (FSR). The system can also do call recording for quality assurance purposes used for training and as evidence if there are disputes.

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Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

Quality Management Analysts Quality assurance used to mean hours of listening to customer service reps’ call recordings and checking off boxes if they met all the requirements of a call. It wasn’t very revealing of agents’ real performance — or of any customer service problems that might be brewing.

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InteractionMetrics

JUNE 24, 2015

So companies have a lot more call data than customer feedback data—and these calls are the raw, unfiltered reality of customer experience. However, unlike customer feedback responses, calls are complex—they involve myriad customer personas, situations, and subconscious cues. So what do you do with all this data?

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CSM Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

Regulatory Compliance : Certain industries are subject to stringent regulations that necessitate call recording. Performance Metrics : Analyzing recorded calls can provide key metrics, such as call duration and resolution time, offering insights into overall call center performance.

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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. “FCR Maybe you’ve never measured it.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2018

Thankfully, the answer can be found in the form of call tracking. But simply investing in this handy tool isn’t enough; you need to know which metrics to monitor to get your clients the best results, thus boosting their investment into your agency.

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InteractionMetrics

AUGUST 14, 2024

Here’s how the customer service consulting process works at Interaction Metrics: First, we mystery shop you and your competitors to gauge the current state of customer service at your company. When we can, we augment this with your call recordings, chat documentation, etc. What’s the Customer Service Consulting Process Like?

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UJET

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Working together, these roles make sure that calls are answered, employees are taken care of, and metrics are tracked and analyzed. Call recording and logging to save calls and use them as a reference for future case studies, training, and quality assurance. Show appreciation for your employees .

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Call Experts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The only way for companies to keep up with such expectations and continue moving in the right direction is with the following tools, which are excellent resources for a practical call-handling approach. Call Analytics: Use call analytics tools to track call volume, duration, and customer satisfaction metrics.

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Calabrio

MARCH 4, 2025

How Conversation Intelligence Works The core of conversation intelligences functionality is taking call recordings and running this data through speech-to-text AI models, then analyzing text-based data from emails, chats, surveys, social feeds, and more to make sense of the context of the conversations.

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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. Performance Management generally requires a number of tools like call recording , quality monitoring , coaching , and gamification.

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Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

The only way for companies to keep up with such expectations and continue moving in the right direction is with the following tools, which are excellent resources for a practical call-handling approach. Call Analytics: Use call analytics tools to track call volume, duration, and customer satisfaction metrics.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But these efforts are often minimised by poor quality headphones, incomplete call transcriptions, and clunky systems that all negatively impact mental wellbeing and productivity. And it is only natural for agents to feel frustrated if they are consistently falling behind on their goals.

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Magellan Solutions

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Monitor and Measure Performance To monitor and measure the performance of the phone answering service, you need to track key metrics that indicate how well the professional answering service handles customer calls and how satisfied your customers are with the service.

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InteractionMetrics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Determine the Baseline: Document the status quo by: Examining a statistically significant corpus of your emails, chats, and call recordings. At Interaction Metrics, the average length of our Playbooks is 168 pages. This article in The Harvard Business Review reviews some of the customer service metrics that matter most.

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Thematic

JULY 15, 2024

Data Import Data import is the step where the conversational analytics tool collects the raw data from all sources, call recordings, chat transcripts, social media etc. We call them "Analysis tools" Each one answers a specific question, e.g. Why is customer effort score on the rise?

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Talkdesk

APRIL 28, 2015

Moreover, they can click on an interaction to read notes that the previous agent left about the customer, click on a voicemail to read a voicemail transcription and even listen to a call recording to learn more about the customer.

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