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Is Your Contact Center Properly Staffed?
Peak volume doesn’t have to be elusive for contact center supervisors. By understanding when it happens, you can ensure that you always have appropriate staffing. To best determine when peak volume is for your contact center, you’ll want to pay attention to specific metrics. Learning from your data will help you staff efficiently and improve customer experiences.
February 22, 2021
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Contact Center Financial Services Real Estate
Interface Tech Picks Intermedia Cloud Solution
Introducing the Intermedia Business Innovators series – where Intermedia honors business leaders who are improving customer care, employee engagement, and business operations through innovative thinking and decisive action. Hear the stories from the business innovators first-hand.
February 4, 2021
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Contact Center Omnichannel Strategy
Companies that execute a flawless omnichannel strategy are able to give customers what they want – consistent, personalized experiences. People don’t want to repeat themselves every time they talk to a representative, and they want fast resolutions to issues via their channel of choice.
January 13, 2021
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Efficient Contact Centers: Custom Call Flows
Every organization wants its contact center to be as efficient and effective as possible. Serving the needs of your customers shouldn’t be complicated or too technical to improve. With the right Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) software, you can implement customizable call flows. With this technological feature, you can see dramatic improvements in your contact center operations.
January 5, 2021
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Intermedia Debuts Easy-IVR for Interactions
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems are critical to every contact center. Anyone that’s ever called customer support knows the drill. They can be very helpful tools for customers, providing quick answers to questions or getting them to the right agent. On the backend, they are extremely valuable to contact center operations for routing and enabling self-service.
November 18, 2020
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Contact Center Financial Services Real Estate
Pearson-Kelly Partners with Intermedia
Today’s customers engage providers in channels and being able to address these interactions is paramount to customer satisfaction.
October 1, 2020
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Credit Counseling Moves: Hosted Contact Center
Credit Canada’s Keith Emery shares the journey of his nonprofit credit counseling service and its successful transition to a hosted contact center solution.
July 22, 2020
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Contact Center Analytics for Remote Performance
Contact center managers regularly monitor their teams to ensure the utmost productivity in delivering fast issue resolution for customers with a friendly, approach. But what happens when the team, who may typically sit in the same office environment, suddenly becomes 100% work from home.
May 26, 2020
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Is Your Remote Contact Center Properly Staffed? Learn What Metrics Can Help You Understand Peak Volume
To ensure your remote contact center is able to handle peak volume times, you need to always have the right number of agents ready to answer calls. Adequate staffing is essential for providing callers the best possible customer experience. You also don’t want to make the mistake of overscheduling and wasting resources. So, what metrics should you look at to understand peak call volume?
May 19, 2020
5 mins to read
Contact Center Unified Communications
Types of Business Communication Needed
For many companies, in as little a few days, business models shifted from tried and true operations to everything happening over the phone. We are all in uncharted ground, where distancing has become the prime directive and in-person interactions are by necessity curtailed. Phone call volume has soared to unprecedented levels, resulting in widespread busy signals, and the demand seems unlikely to abate any time soon.
May 13, 2020
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Scaling Healthcare Patient Communications
Many healthcare institutions are faced with a sudden and dramatic increase in patients without the help of additional resources. They have the same number of doctors and nurses on staff but are now dealing with hundreds of thousands of inquiries due to the pandemic. So how do you streamline your operations to handle this increase, all while enabling remote care teams to provide telehealth services? L.A. County Department of Health Services faced this very scenario and knew they had to scale their contact center fast in order to meet demand.
April 2, 2020
3 mins to read
Effective Communication in Healthcare
The new paradigm isn’t coming – it’s already here. Across North America, caller volume to hospitals, clinics, and health services lines is spiking to record highs. The influx exceeds most estimates, often overwhelming available resources and causing long wait times, unanswered calls, and frustrated patients.
March 30, 2020
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