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November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 by Leigh McKenney

Managing High Call Volumes During the Holidays

You guessed it, it’s that time of year again. Contact center leaders across all industries are preparing their teams for the inevitable spike in customer calls and digital interactions in the coming weeks. If this holiday season is anything like last year’s, customer service teams should brace themselves. In fact, contact center call volume was up 41 percent year-over-year during the five days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday in 2021. This year could break all records. The question is: Are your contact center agents ready for the holiday season rush?

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 by Azure Beatrice

Elevating Your Call Center Reporting for 2023

Changes in technology and consumer expectations will influence how successful call centers operate in 2023 and beyond. You can stay ahead of emerging trends by refining your call center reporting strategy and making adjustments to metrics as needed. Of course, you’ll get the best results when you focus on the call center metrics that matter most to today’s consumers. Consider these call center reporting tactics to stay on top of performance and customer satisfaction benchmarks in the coming year.

October 6, 2022 by Azure Beatrice

5 Easy Ways To Improve Customer Experiences in Your Call Center

According to a customer service study, 72% of customers will tell six or more people if they have a satisfying experience with a company. Meaning, a single bad interaction with your organization’s call center team could not only risk your customer loyalty but also customer referrals and positive word of mouth. Here are 5 easy ways to improve your call center operations and enhance your customer experience.

September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 by Leigh McKenney

What is Average Speed of Answer, and Why You Should Be Tracking It

An abundance of key metrics can be used to gauge the efficiency of an organization’s call center or contact center operations. The Average Speed of Answer is often one of the most popular metrics to measure, but can also be challenging to decipher. At the basic level, Average Speed of Answer is about finding the fastest path to answering a customer’s questions.

in Agent Performance / Analytics and Reporting / Call Center Best Practices / Data Analytics / KPIs / Reporting / Updates

July 28, 2022July 28, 2022 by Peter Hornberger

What is CSAT Score & How to Measure It for Your Contact Center?

CSAT score or CSAT is a customer satisfaction score. This metric is typically measured by surveying customers at various points in their buying journey. CSAT scores can be measured after a purchase, whilst onboarding for a new service, or after an interaction with customer support. The score itself is vitally important to organizations. CSAT helps businesses determine in which areas they are excelling and which they could improve to ensure their customers are satisfied with their experience.

in Agent Performance / Analytics and Reporting / Business Intelligence / Customers / Data Analytics / KPIs / Reporting / Updates

June 23, 2022July 13, 2022 by Azure Beatrice

5 Reasons You Need Better Analytics for Your Mitel MiVoice Business System

Having the right data is invaluable in making your Unified Communications (UC) system a strategic asset for your organization’s customer engagements. Brightmetrics makes it easy to tap into the vast amount of information that your Mitel system collects with our powerful analytics and reporting software. And starting now, not only do we support the Mitel […]

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022 by Azure Beatrice

Knowledge Is Power With Call Center Analytics

In a call center, few things are as mission-critical as having adequate information. Being able to understand how each individual, team, product, and channel is performing together at any given point in time helps with agile decision-making and building positive customer experiences. The best way to get the information you need? Call center analytics.

May 12, 2022May 13, 2022 by Peter Hornberger

3 Benefits of Real-Time Analytics in Your Contact Center

If you work as a contact center manager, you probably have experienced the following scenario: You have several agents out on their scheduled lunches when your website experiences an issue and there is a sudden influx of calls. Your agents that are still logged on are managing the influx to the best of their abilities but you are watching calls getting abandoned and wait times climb. It is stressful for everybody involved and you know this situation could quickly escalate and have serious down-the-line consequences.

April 8, 2022August 19, 2022 by Azure Beatrice

5 Strategies to Improve Tone in Your Call Center

When you are communicating in person, we have much more than words on our side to help us get our point across. Body language, facial expressions, hand movement and gestures, and of course, our tone of voice help us deliver our message the way we intend it to be understood. So much of human communication is non-verbal and helps our brains figure out the context and meaning of messages. When we communicate over the phone and no longer have those nonverbal cues on our side, suddenly our word choice and our tone of voice become increasingly significant.

in Agent Performance / Business Intelligence / Call Center Best Practices / Customers / Genesys Cloud / KPIs / Mitel / Reporting

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 by Peter Hornberger

Contact Center vs Call Center: 3 Key Differences

If you have ever read any of our other blogs (which we highly recommend) you might notice that we use the terms call center and contact center interchangeably. We do this because we provide software that can benefit both call centers and contact centers but there is actually a difference in business application.

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