Should Your Contact Center Have A Quality Assurance Program In Place?

Should Your Contact Center Have A Quality Assurance Program In Place?

You might think your company doesn’t need a quality assurance program. After all, there’s just you, your co-founders, and the small staff you hired to take care of the overflow. Your business doesn’t operate solely on passion, hard work, and coffee anymore, but you’re still able to oversee all parts of your process. You can…

How to Keep Your Average Handling Times in Check & Offer the Best CX

How to Keep Your Average Handling Times in Check & Offer the Best CX

A couple of years back, Average Handle Time (AHT) was considered the most important call center metric of them all. That has all changed now. Empowered customers expect an agent to give them a tailored customer service experience that makes a human connection. In addition, with the increasing use of self-service portals such as FAQs…

6 Reasons Why There’s A Need For A Quality Assurance Program

6 Reasons Why There’s A Need For A Quality Assurance Program

You might think of quality assurance (QA) as something needed for manufacturing, not customer relationship management. But as G.M. Hostage of Marriot says, “For a service organization, quality control of employee attitude and performance is pretty much the equivalent of product quality control for a manufacturer.”

Affordable Customer Relationship Management Tools For Growing Companies

Affordable Customer Relationship Management Tools For Growing Companies

Customer relationship management, or CRM, refers to the system used by a business to manage relationships with its customers, staff, and suppliers. The CRM allows the data relating to these relationships, such as customer and prospect contacts, account and service information, and sales leads, to be stored in one central location. This allows you to…