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Frustrations in the Contact Center and How to Avoid Them

Frustrations in the Contact Center and How to Avoid Them

Contact centers can be one of the most important aspects of your business and also one of the most frustrating. Between maintaining agent satisfaction, technology integrations, and customer sentiment, creating a highly-functional, top-level inbound contact center can...

How AI in the Contact Center Actually Works

How AI in the Contact Center Actually Works

AI in the contact center is not a new concept, but it has often been viewed with trepidation by agents as something that is coming to replace them entirely. While AI is an incredible and rapidly evolving technology an agent-less future is nowhere near on the horizon...

How Do Call Centers Use Text Messaging?

How Do Call Centers Use Text Messaging?

The way call centers approach customer engagement has changed. Gone are the days when phone calls ruled the call center. Business text messaging has been on the rise.  Table of contentsHow Do Call Centers Use Text Messaging?Increasing a digital presence Providing...

10 Best Practices to Get the Most Out of Speech Analytics

10 Best Practices to Get the Most Out of Speech Analytics

Speech analytics is a tool that allows you to analyze the contents of a call, enabling you to monitor and improve agent performance and customer satisfaction.  With only around 11% of businesses currently using speech analytics capabilities, a large percentage of...

How to Improve Average Handle Time

How to Improve Average Handle Time

Average handle time (AHT) is a metric used to measure the amount of time each call or live chat takes in the call center. How is Average Handle Time Measured? Average handle time (AHT) is the amount of time an agent spends handling a customer inquiry from beginning to...

How to Reduce Agent Turnover

How to Reduce Agent Turnover

Agent turnover is one of the most expensive problems in the contact center. According to Harvard Business Review, the organizational costs of employee turnover range between 100% and 300% of the replaced employee’s salary. In addition, it typically takes 8 months for...

5 Customer Service Skills Every Agent Needs to Master Now

5 Customer Service Skills Every Agent Needs to Master Now

It goes without saying that communication skills are essential in the contact center. In person communication involves nonverbal cues like eye contact, posture, and facial expressions. But, the nature of the contact center cuts out vital parts of communication. An...

How Should You Structure Omnichannel Teams in the Contact Center?

How Should You Structure Omnichannel Teams in the Contact Center?

In an omnichannel world, customers interact with agents in a variety of ways. Whether through a call or chat, customers expect the same level of customer service and support. Before there were multi-channel options, a contact center hired agents that specialized in...

The Past, Present, and Future of Speech Analytics

The Past, Present, and Future of Speech Analytics

Speech Analytics is on the verge of becoming a billion-dollar industry within the next few years and the number of applications it has in the modern contact center have grown wildly.  But how did we get here? Where exactly are we now? And, where are we headed...

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