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SQM is dedicated to helping call centers improve their First Call Resolution, customer and employee experience, and lower their operating cost. To help you with that, we have developed blog posts based on research and best practices for people, processes, and technology to improve customer’s experiences doing business with your call center and employees working in your call center.

What separates our call center customer service blogs from other organizations is that they are based on customer, employee, and operational research. SQM blogs are based on our research for conducting over 500 VoC benchmarking studies with leading North American call centers on customer service on an annual basis.

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First Call Resolution (FCR): A Comprehensive Guide
Uncover the definition, benefits, measurement, and tips for improving one of the most crucial call center metrics – first call resolution. FCR is a metric that measures a contact center's ability for its agents to resolve a customer's inquiry or problem on the first call or contact.
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Call Center Customer Satisfaction: A Comprehensive Guide
We have developed a comprehensive guide for defining, measuring, tracking, benchmarking, and improving customer satisfaction to deliver great call…
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Tips for Removing Deflators that Hinder Delivering Great Customer Service
Deflators can be very damaging to the call center and organization. Unfortunately, SQM's experience is that most call centers have not removed…

Customer Service 3 min read
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Top 5 Misconceptions About Call Center Customer Satisfaction
SQM's opinion of the top five misconceptions about call center customer satisfaction is based on over 25 years of customer service benchmarking and…

Customer Service 6 min read
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Asking Customers if their Call Reason has been Resolved
Learn the benefits of the agent 'asking the customer if their call reason has been resolved'.

Customer Service 2 min read
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Call Center Metrics and World-Class Targets
Based on SQM Group’s tracking and benchmarking studies, we have determined the call center metrics and world-class targets that are all essential call…

Customer Service 2 min read
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Top 10 Call Center Metrics & KPIs for Measuring Performance
SQM has developed the top 10 call center metrics which includes five quality and five financial metrics to measure the call center’s efficiency and…
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Assigning Dedicated Agents to Specific Customers
Some call centers have successfully implemented a CX differentiation strategy by assigning dedicated agents to specific customer types in B2B or B2C…

Customer Service 3 min read
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Meeting with a Lunch Box
The "meeting with a lunch box" is an effective approach for helping make an emotional connection with agents while communicating customer service…

Customer Service 2 min read
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Ranking Agents Performance for FCR and Csat
Ranking supervisors and agents for their FCR and Csat performance is an opportunity to create high accountability, motivation to improve, and a…
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First Call Resolution and Customer Satisfaction Comparison by Industry and Call Reason
SQM Group identifies how call center industry figures shows a comparison of Voice of the Customer (VoC) and Customer Satisfaction (Csat) benchmarking…
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How is Your Call Center Voc Performance Compared to Other Industries?
Check out SQM’s recent VoC customer service benchmarking results for 2021. See how you stack up compared to others in your industry.

Customer Service 3 min read
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Power of Senior Management Representing the VoC Impact
Do your call center senior managers funnel customer First Call Resolution and Customer Satisfaction post-call survey data and feedback to non-call…

Customer Service 3 min read