Today, customer is the king and it is necessary for organizations to treat their customers in the same manner.
Organizations rely on their contact center department for keeping their customers satisfied. These contact centers, also called as call centers employ various agents who handle the incoming as well as outbound calls on behalf of the company and solve the queries of their customers.Continue reading
The ever evolving technology has changed a lot of things in our lives. For instance, it has provided a wide range of new communication channels and mediums for us. SMS, email, web chat and social media are among the most common modes of communication that have evolved with technology in the last decade. Organizations have also grabbed this opportunity and have started providing customer support services on these channels.
Scripting has become a very normal thing for call centers and they have become too dependent on them. However, saying that scripts are evil or bad would be wrong. There were no scripts when the first dialers came and the agents had to respond to the callers as soon as they picked up the call and then move forward with the call. It didn’t mattered what type of caller was on the other end, the agents handled each caller without any scripts and they did pretty well then. However, today scripts have made it easier for call centers to deliver quicker and better customer services.Continue reading
The technology, and the world as a whole, is changing at a very rapid pace. The way people communicate with each other has changed a lot in past few decades. With the advent of telephones, mobile phones, computers etc, people started using these channels for communication purpose. Today, these channels are extensively used by customers for contacting businesses and service providers.
Among all the metrics measured at call centers, Average Handling Time or AHT is the most commonly used metric used at major call centers for measuring efficiency. We, at Bluechip CallCenter , also use it extensively, in collaboration with various other metrics, at our delivery center for measuring our performance.