19 Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover
Employee turnover is a fact of life in the contact center. The better armed you are with strategies the more effective you’ll be at managing it.
Contact Center
“Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics”
Mark Twain once said,
Making Screen Pops Pop
Screen pops are basically any technology, including interactive voice response (IVR), automatic number identification (ANI), or computer telephony integration (CTI), that presents corresponding data
Home Is Where the Rep Is
You’ve heard time and again how consumers have more choices now than ever and have access to more information than ever. Technologies such as the Internet
Calculating the High Cost of Employee Turnover
What does it cost you every time you lose a valued employee? Have you considered all the factors (hard dollars, soft dollars, direct costs, indirect costs) you should include? If you haven’t, then it will be very difficult to assess which retention strategies will be profitable for you.
9 Questions for Choosing the Right Home-Agent Provider, Part One
In evaluating providers of home-based agents, many organizations make the mistake of focusing on tangibles such as skill-based routing, digital recording, real-time reporting, e-mail and chat capabilities, and redundant system configurations.
Live from NCOF: Developing and Applying Multichannel Contact Center Benchmarks
Schaumburg, IL–We all know the importance of benchmarking: It sets a standard by which to measure your performance and build a baseline from which you can improve. But with so many metrics in the multichannel contact center, which ones should you be measuring?
L.A. Confidential: Contact Center Roundtable
In February, Multichannel Merchant escaped the winter storms of the Northeast and jetted to sunny West Hollywood, CA, to discuss contact center management with a group of multichannel executives. Although the participants represented diverse merchandise categories, the challenges they face running a contact center and improving customer service are universal.
Knights Direct Calls Up Efficiencies
Have you ever purchased a piece of technology but felt you weren’t getting all you could from it? That was the case at Knights Direct. The parent of the
A Strong Case for Call-Center Certification
During a recent best-practice study, a call-center certification tale piqued my curiosity. I must admit to becoming a little jaded because of all the call-center certifications that have come and gone in my 20-plus years in this industry. But the one was different.