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When it comes to waiting on hold, studies have shown that callers don’t have a ton of time to spare.

A recent survey from Arise Virtual Solutions reveals that over 65% of customers are only willing to wait on hold for a maximum of two minutes before hanging up. What’s more, over 13% of respondents said that hold time, no matter how long, is unacceptable altogether.

The first thing you should do to make powerful discoveries about your customer is successfully adopt a CRM system. The next step is integrating your CRM with a contact center software platform. By combining the data in your CRM with data from your call center, you can get to know your customer even better. Here are some examples of what you will learn:

According to Contact Center Pipeline’s recent survey, the biggest challenge for today’s contact centers is high attrition rates—something that should come as no surprise when considering the average call center faces an average annual turnover rate of nearly 33%. And when asked what conditions must be present to create satisfied employees, 67% of contact center managers said relevant and sufficient training (Jabra). In fact, 41% of employees plan to leave those organizations with a training score of “poor”, as opposed to just 12% from those with a training score of “good”. So what are a few ways call centers can more effectively train and coach their employees to create a happier work environment and reduce attrition rates? Consider the following:

Each New Year brings its own set of unique opportunities to the contact center space, both from a technological standpoint as well as an operational one. And as businesses continue to adopt the latest solutions and best practices to support their employees, customers, and organizations as a whole, many continue to run into challenges piecing everything together and making good use of it all. But what are some of the challenges contact centers are anticipating in the coming months? And how can businesses more effectively manage what they have and mitigate the risk of a potential issue? Let's check out the findings of Contact Center Pipeline’s recent survey, “Contact Center Challenges & Priorities”, revealing some of the biggest challenges for organizations today—and how to alleviate them in 2016.

As customer service continues to overtake price and product as a brand’s key differentiator, businesses are increasingly seeking out ways to streamline processes and implement a more customer-centric approach across their entire organization. And to shed light on the current state of customer service, Microsoft recently released the findings of its annual survey, “2015 Global State of Multichannel Customer Service Report”, highlighting the key communication trends taking place, as well as changing consumer expectations. What was revealed that is of key importance to service organizations are the 6 most frustrating aspects of a customer service experience—issues that can easily be mitigated or eliminated with the help of a few tools and procedures.