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Guest Blog: 4 Easy Ways to Achieve Difficult Customer Contact Goals

ShepHyken

Task: Measure Agent Effort. Reducing agent frustration is indeed the most surefire way to boost agent satisfaction, and measuring agent effort is a crucial first step in that process. As an example, evaluate abandonment within your web self-service channels. Goal: Delivering a Consistent, Omnichannel Experience.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. With many of these channels and tools enabling self-service, old-school KPIs are no longer sufficient. Complex calls take longer, of course.

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How To Manage The Average Handling Time (AHT) For Contact Centers?

NobelBiz

However, it is obvious that insufficient training, incompatible interfaces and other factors might result in an increase of Average Handling Time. Of course, there are rational answers to this organizational challenge, including reducing call center AHT while also ensuring quality work and performances.

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How to build a successful outbound lead gen strategy for contact centers

NobelBiz

Companies now have to invest in data, technology, and omnichannel communication to supplement the lack of contact in the voice strategy. In this respect, one of the best practices in the industry at the moment is to break the boundaries of voice-only outbound campaigns and go for what is known as the omnichannel approach.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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How To Calculate Cost Per Call In A Call Center

Magellan Solutions

It measures the overall efficiency, including the ratio of agents to calls. When you outsource, you can choose an omnichannel call center service to reach and serve more customers. However, determining its cost per contact becomes too complex, especially when your staff handles multiple channels at once.

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How to Coach Your Customer Service Reps to Drive Actual Performance with Steve Richards

Kustomer

Richards notes that measuring just to measure and having data is not going to help improve the situation. So I think what happened previously is NPS and C-SAT, and everyone’s been doing first call resolution for average handle time, for average, forever, hold times, all those kinds of things.