Contact centers are the direct point of communication between you and your customers. They influence the perception of your organization and play a role in customer satisfaction with your product or service, directly influencing if customers are going to recommend you to others. It’s crucial to invest the proper attention and resources into your contact center to ensure agents are communicating with customers in a way that reflects your organization’s beliefs and values. After all, customer satisfaction, loyalty, and conversions are directly impacted by customer service.

On Wednesday, April 21st, ComputerTalk presented our April Slice of ice webinar: Navigating iceMonitor 11. In this session, Training and Documentation Specialist Kathika Uthayakumar provided an overview of iceMonitor 11, discussed the new grid view and iceMonitor settings, and provided some helpful tips.

If you’ve ever contacted an organization for customer service, you know how beneficial it can be to have the option to use webchat instead of a voice call. However, the use of webchat can go beyond customer support. An organization’s internal help desk can benefit from the addition of webchat just as much as their customers can. Below you will find just some of the ways webchat can help.

While voice has been the channel traditionally associated with call centers for years, many modern contact centers have now evolved to use webchat capabilities. The flexibility to choose between preferred contact methods is a considerable convenience to customers. But there’s much more to webchat than customer convenience! Adding webchat to your contact center can benefit your organization in more ways than one. Read on to see some of the benefits that webchat can provide:

Managing a contact center can be a difficult task. Between managing queues, de-escalating customer situations, and supervising agents, it can be almost impossible to find the time to drive improvements and find efficiencies to optimize your contact center. Some of the most successful contact centers have figured out how to cut through mass amounts of data to identify what is most important. One way to easily increase efficiencies is to understand the KPIs and metrics that are essential to agent productivity and the customer experience.

The past year has been a difficult and unprecedented time for many organizations. Governments and businesses have needed to adapt to the changing needs of their citizens and their customers, from emergency benefits programs and high inquiry volumes to COVID-19 testing and vaccine roll-out plans. Through all these changes, ComputerTalk has been there for our customers every step of the way.

It has now been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began and almost a year since ComputerTalk began our Lunch and Learn/Slice of ice webinar series. The series began with a single webinar devoted to supporting contact centers through the new changes arising from the pandemic and the transition to remote work. However, that one webinar quickly evolved into a monthly series covering a wide range of topics from how-to and support information to ways to enhance your ice Contact Center.