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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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Call Center Quality Assurance: Comprehensive Guide
Discover the definition, the difference between Manual and Auto QA, and the top 10 best practices of Call Center QA to ensure exceptional customer service in every interaction. This guide explores the essential role of QA in contact centers, focusing on how monitoring and evaluating customer interactions against set standards helps enhance service quality and improve customer satisfaction.
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Top 5 Myths About First Call Resolution
Learn the top five myths about First Call Resolution (FCR), based on our over 25 years of experience working with leading North American call centers.
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Call Center Burnout Rate Problem: Defining, Measuring, and Tips for Recovering From It
In this week's blog, we cover 7 tips to measure and recover from call center agent burnout, one of the call center industry’s biggest problems.
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Efficiency vs Effectiveness: Using Quadrant Map Data Visualization to Measure Agent Performance
Learn how call center managers use quadrant map data visualizations to know if their agent's performance is at its peak for efficiency and…

Customer Service 9 min read
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Customer Quality Assurance – Call Calibration: Comprehensive Guide
This blog provides a comprehensive guide on the importance of call calibration, including tips on conducting sessions to help agents improve customer…
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What Are the Industry Standards For the Top Call Center KPIs?
This blog specifies some industry standards for the top call center Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Customer Service 10 min read
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Call Center Agent Turnover Problem: The Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting and Top 3 Tips To Improve It
Based on our research with over 500 leading North American call centers, we have determined the top 3 tips for improving agent resignation and quiet…
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What Call Center Leaders Should Do to Lessen the Impact of an Economic Downturn
As most leaders know, treating the call center as a cost center hinders their ability to deliver great customer service.
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Top 10 Most Popular Customer Service QA Blogs in 2022
We share our Top 10 most popular blogs in 2022 that can help your call center improve customer service QA performance in 2023.

Customer Service 5 min read
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Top 10 Qualities of the Best Customer Service QA Performing Call Center Agents
Here are the top 10 qualities that make for a successful call center agent to provide great customer service quality assurance.

Quality Assurance 8 min read