Call Center Customer Service Blog

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.

14 min read

Top 20 First Contact Resolution Tips

SQM reveals the top 20 First Contact Resolution tips for improving your FCR rate.

First Call Resolution 8 min read

FCR as an Enterprise Level Metric

SQM’s experience is that the FCR metric is limited to contact center leaders and seldom takes place at the enterprise-wide executive level.

First Call Resolution 6 min read

First Call Resolution Strategy

You can make a strong business case for using FCR as an enterprise-wide metric for which all employees at all levels are held accountable.

First Call Resolution 10 min read

The Impact of FCR on NPS

Find the impact that FCR has on NPS and how improving First Call resolution will increase promoters and reduce detractors.

3 min read

Top 10 Call Center Best Practices for Improving First Call Resolution

Top 10 call center best practices for improving First Call Resolution (FCR) are based on our customer and employee FCR research.

First Call Resolution 5 min read

How Has Working from Home Impacted FCR and Agent Experience?

Our 2020 call center research shows that 82% of Agents currently Work From Home versus 2019, where less than 20% of Agents worked from home.

Customer Service 5 min read

Does Call Length Impact Your First Call Resolution Rate?

Our customer experience survey research shows that the FCR rate goes down the longer the call length.

First Call Resolution 4 min read

Top 3 Agent Recognition Tips for Improving FCR

Learn how to improve first call resolution by motivating your employees through recognition.

First Call Resolution 9 min read

Top 10 Tips for First Call Resolution Improvement

Tips for improving First Call Resolution are based on conducting customer and employee research.

First Call Resolution 7 min read

5 Tips for Improving First Call Resolution

It is often said that it is hard to measure FCR accurately but even harder to improve FCR. Find the top five tips for improving FCR.

First Call Resolution 2 min read

Calculate First Call Resolution Rate

Quickly learn how to calculate your First Call Resolution Rate.

First Call Resolution 9 min read

FCR Measurement to Improve CX and Reduce Cost

Understand your FCR rate, identify repeat call reasons, and determine the root causes to help you develop a plan to action and improve your FCR rate.

7 min read

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