Can someone give me the standards for training new CSRs, ongoing training, re-training for CSRs with complaints? I am looking for time spent training, monitoring, how often for refresher courses, process for retraining those who receive complaints from customers?
Call Center management, call center training, Call Center Representative
Are there any standad methodology for management of call center? Are there any industry specific? Like banks, telecommunication or insurance?
Call Center management, Call Center metrics, Call Center ROI/TCO
Is it possible to route emergency calls based on the Cell of origin? In a private network, there is one subscriber who wants all emergency calls originating in one specific area to be routed to a special emergency desk. All other emergency calls within the network would be routed to a different...
What is the financial industry average for cost of contact for an inbound call center?
What measures can be taken to reduce AHT in the Call Centre (Inbound) Environment?
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Hello, currently we use Cacti and Cisco in our call center. Our client is asking us if there is a way that they can dial in and listen to live calls as they are coming in. Is there a way that we can help our client? My understanding is that this is not possible with Cacti and Cisco, but I want to...
We are a small call center of 28. We can be failing our MSI goal of 80%, but only have an occupancy rate of 70% or below. Shouldn't we be at 100% occupancy if we are missing MSI? Does someone in an AUX state effect our Occupancy rate? Our hours of operation are 8am-5pm. Thank you.
What are the best measurable metrics to use when evaluating a Customer Service Call Center? Thank you very much.
I'm interested in a virtual call center. I've looked at some of the larger firms like LiveOps, and I like their technology and business model. But I'm a small company, and the the firms I've found don't want to work with me. What suggestions might you have for me? Thank you.
I work in a 3rd party call center and would like to start a new business which is INBOUND but i don't know the process. I am going to have a business presentation with client very soon. Hope you can share with me the process.
Hello, I am putting together a Call Centre for a non-profit organization. I will be running 10 workstations and 10 VOIP phones. I have acquired 10 CP7960’s. What switches and routers do I need to put this call centre together and run the phones with power over Ethernet? Thank you.
Just wanted to know, what is the standard number of calls to be monitored and evaluated in emergency call centres? I mean, say, you are taking 1.6 million calls per month. Thank you.
Is there a 'Best In Class' ratio for Call Center facilities/ seat utilization? I've seen 1:3 used. Would you know the source and context of this ratio? Thank you.
We are a municipality-owned and unionized gas distribution utility with 500 residential customers. We are exploring the idea of outsourcing our call center operations which mainly includes inbound calls (billing, collections, service) and outbound calls (collections). We are regulated by a Public...
What is the average occupancy rate for outbound (lead generated) based call centers?
I want to start a new call center business in Egypt. I have no clue about how to market this business into other countries. Also, I need to know how to calculate the costs of 100 seat center. I'm totally new to this field of business. What would be the competitive prices to offer to prospects?...
I am looking for the best solution to calculate FTE's for a outbound campaign. This is manual campaign, no dialer. Each customer will have 3 numbers to be reached at. If phone number one is not successful, then the agent will go to the next number and so on until a contact is made or all three...


