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Remote Call Centers: Tools, Tips & Best Practices for Remote Contact Center Managers & Agents

Callminer

However, there are a number of important guidelines and tips you can keep in mind to help ease your center’s workforce into remote working and mitigate contagion risks. Make Lulls in Response Time Clear to Customers. Best Practices for Better Remote Working. Establish and Maintain Clear Communication Practices.

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When is Interim Management the Right Choice for Your Contact Center?

Taylor Reach Group

When your contact center manager leaves, or you create a new management position, you should always look for a long-term replacement, right? While a long-term replacement is often the right move, sometimes it’s better to transition with an interim manager. Reasons for Interim Management. By Peg Ayers.

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What is First Call Resolution? Benefits, Challenges, Examples, & Best Practices for Improving FCR

Callminer

Definition of First Call Resolution First-call resolution (FCR) is an important contact center metric and element of customer relationship management (CRM). The term is self-explanatory: a contact center’s ability to resolve customer problems, questions or needs the first time they call, with no follow-up required.

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The Power of Hyper-Personalization in the Contact Center

Fonolo

Customer service is all about meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Contact center managers know this implicitly. But did you know that hyper-personalization in the contact center is one of the best ways to delight your customers? Customers want to feel seen.

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The Contact Center Stack – Here’s what you need to build a modern contact center

Taylor Reach Group

The path to contact center modernization has never been straightforward when it comes to its navigating technology infrastructure. Costly,” “crowded,” and “confusing” are how business owners typically describe the process of selecting the right platforms to power their center. Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

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Top Reasons Cloud-based Is Better Than On-Premise For Contact Centers

Hodusoft

Top Reasons Cloud-based Is Better Than On-Premise For Contact Centers. Contact centers are becoming increasingly important to modern business, and they are the central hub in a company to assist with customer retention and building brand loyalty. What are cloud-based contact centers?

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Managing Contact Centers Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

DMG Consulting

Managing Contact Centers Through the COVID-19 Pandemic. Employees, particularly those who are paid an hourly wage when they show up and are not paid at all when they don’t, which is the case for many contact center agents, are facing a tough decision. This is DMG’s second column on the COVID-19 pandemic.