You may recall in February we announced that Transera was acquired by BroadSoft, the technology innovator in cloud communication, collaboration, and contact center solutions for businesses and service providers across 80 countries and the market share leader for cloud unified communications. Since then, the Transera team has been hard at work with our new family Read More
A CRM’s Role in Improving Call Center Efficiency
Implementing a good customer relationship management software is crucial to the success of a call center. The very purpose of running a call center is to interact with customers, and a CRM makes those interactions easier to manage, store, and analyze. Read More
7 Craveable Qualities of a Customer Service Representative
Offering customers the best possible customer service requires a certain set of skills from customer service representatives. Read More
Contact Center Comics For a Quick Laugh
Sometimes working in or managing a contact center can be taxing. Customers can be disgruntled, and sometimes things just don’t go the way you would want them to. The trick to staying motivated and enjoying your job is to find the funny side of certain situations that are common in a contact center. So, just Read More
Analytics and the New Customer Service
Cloud-based analytics is rewriting the rules when it comes to how enterprises deliver superior customer service. As customer data continues to proliferate, much of a company’s success depends on its ability to quickly integrate and analyze the information across a spectrum of digital interaction channels. The right solution makes interactions across all of these channels possible through Read More
Don’t Leave Me!: Do Your Teams Know How to Prevent an Abandoned Call?
Customers do not appreciate being put on hold, and if left on hold for too long are likely to abandon a call. Abandon calls create excessive expenses for contact centers and are a waste of agents’ time and resources. Preventing abandoned calls ensures that contact centers save time and money, and ensures that customers stay Read More
4 Reasons First Call Resolution Should Be Your Goal for 2016
First Call Resolution, or FCR, is crucial to the success of a contact center. When customers are able to have their needs addressed properly the first time they call a contact center, everything from customer satisfaction to sales improve. Contact center management should make First Call Resolution a metric by which they measure success, and Read More
Best Practices for Call Center Monitoring
Customer satisfaction is key to the success of a call center, and customer satisfaction lies in the hands of call center agents. To ensure that customers are receiving the best possible service, call center managers should monitor calls for quality assurance. To make call monitoring effective in improving customer satisfaction, call center managers must create Read More