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7 Workload Hacks Call Center Agents Use and How to Spot Them

Have you ever wondered if your call center agents are using clever tricks or strategies to lighten their workload and maximize their breaks? In this blog, we’ll explore seven common hacks that agents use and show you how to identify them using Brightmetrics. Discover how you can ensure optimal productivity in your call center or contact center while still allowing your agents their well-deserved rest breaks and avoiding burnout.

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How Call Center Analysts Can Drive Success with Improved KPI Reporting

In the bustling realm of call centers, data collection and analysis act as guiding beacons, illuminating pathways to enhance performance and continuous growth. Yet, the journey from raw data to meaningful insights is only half the battle. Call center and contact center analysts often need effective ways to communicate insights to executives, managers, and employees. But here’s the twist: bridging the gap between insights and impact demands more than data wizardry. It requires a language that resonates across all levels of the organization, a language that turns numbers into narratives and graphs into actionable insights. 

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AI for Your Contact Center: Is It Worth the Hype?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm and is upending business processes. Goldman Sachs recently reported that as many as two-thirds of jobs in the U.S. and Europe are exposed to AI automation in varying degrees. So with the slew of AI for contact center software available, how will it change the current landscape? In this article, we delve into the impact of AI in contact centers and what it could mean for the future of work in this industry.

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Unraveling the Top 3 Challenges of Interpreting Your Customer Engagement Data

In the fast-paced world of contact center customer support, interpreting valuable customer engagement data can be a daunting challenge. As your company grows and scales, managing contact data becomes increasingly complex. By integrating an advanced communications and contact center analytics solution, your support team can consistently offer quality customer service and maintain optimal internal communications. We look at the main challenges encountered in interpreting customer engagement data and the advantages of implementing a systematic analytics approach.

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Combatting Challenges in Your Omnichannel Contact Center

Omnichannel contact centers aim to serve customers across different communication channels. By adopting this strategy, a contact center can streamline its communication channels and serve more customers in less time. However, an omnichannel approach can pose challenges for the contact center. Gartner Marketing Research reports that half of the companies that tried implementing this approach have failed. In this article, we will discuss the potential barriers to success and ways to overcome them.

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The 2 Key Analytic Functions That Drive Contact Center Customer Satisfaction

While there are many organizational methods of improving your customer satisfaction (CSAT) score, such as continuous agent training and prioritizing customer satisfaction, modern analytics technology can significantly reduce the time (and cost) required to ensure satisfied callers. There are 2 key data-driven functions to achieve and sustain a high CSAT score in your contact center – historical data and real-time perspectives. 

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3 KPIs Insurance Industry Call Centers Should Track

Contact centers get a bad rap. Most customers would rather spend their time on a variety of other tasks than contact their insurance customer service center. In fact, nearly a quarter of Americans surveyed would rather shave their head than speak to a customer service rep, while 22% would prefer to spend a night in jail. However, insurance company call centers or contact centers can drastically reduce wait times and change their customers’ perceptions by providing excellent and speedy customer service with the help of measuring the right KPIs. 

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5 Ways to Avoid Customer Churn in Call Centers

Customer retention in call centers can be an uphill struggle. However, call center customer churn can simply relate back to your center’s service level, agent performance, and overall customer experience. Here are 5 simple ways call center teams can ensure they satisfy their customers with every interaction and maintain customer loyalty.   1. Figure Out the […]

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4 Agent Performance Tracking Metrics You’re Overlooking

Your call center’s success depends on employing agents who can satisfy customer needs effectively and efficiently. Tracking agent performance metrics gives you a data-driven strategy for measuring your agents’ activity and contribution to the customer experience. Below we’ve listed four metrics that your team leaders may be overlooking, or at the very least, underestimating, for call center agent performance. 

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5 Things To Consider When Building Your Contact Center Dashboard

Building contact center dashboards can be grueling and for a good reason. These dashboards must highlight correct, relevant, and up-to-date information in order to best inform your teams. But with the sheer volume of interaction data available, one can easily get lost in the details. When building your dashboards, follow these tips to ensure the most critical data is visible and actionable at a glance.

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