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Transforming Agent Training
In today’s fast-paced business environment, agent training isn’t just a box to check during onboarding; it’s a continuous journey that evolves with organizational needs. Yet, many companies face challenges in maintaining this continuity, resulting in operational inefficiencies, reduced employee engagement, and diminished customer satisfaction. This post explores the critical importance of bridging the gap between…
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Outbound Contact Rate with Daniel Foppen
Daniel Foppen, Head of Product & Product Marketing for Convoso, has over 20 years of CX experience and joins the Contact Center KPI podcast to share his predictions about outbound contact rate. While other KPIs matter, contact rate should be a priority according to Daniel. If your contact rate continues to decrease, that means you’re…
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Maximizing Call Center Agent Performance
The performance of call center agents directly impacts your top and bottom lines. With customer expectations continually rising, ensuring peak agent performance is more essential than ever. One way forward-thinking organizations are addressing this need is by leveraging innovative technologies, including agent assist tools and advanced analytics. This blog explores how companies can maximize call…
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What You’re Missing When It Comes To Call Coaching Techniques
In the fast-paced world of customer service and sales teams, every phone call is an opportunity to make an impression on customers and prospects. One of the ways to improve these conversations is to take a look behind the scenes. AKA… what is happening with your call coaching sessions? An even better question is, “What…
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Career Growth: From BDR to AE
The career path in SaaS sales is generally BDR to AE to Manager and/or Director of Sales to CRO (if your desire is to get that high in a sales org). Like any other career path, there are steps and milestones for each along the way. Today, we’re going to focus on the first two…
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The Downside to Yerkes-Dodson and Parkinson’s Law in Call Coaching
Today we’re going to dive into the explanation of procrastination when it comes to call coaching and other tasks that shouldn’t take long but end up costing us hours each week. Have you heard of Parkinson’s law? If not… this is essentially what it is: If you have ever been given a deadline, and waited…
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Everything You Need To Know About Conversational Intelligence Software
Just as the title says. Everything you need to know about conversational intelligence software. Our last blog which had everything you need to know about real-time call coaching software was a hit. So we thought… Why not do the same thing for conversational intelligence software? Luckily, the conversation intelligence market has depth and a lot…
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Is Our Definition of Agent Coaching Broken?
As we begin exploring these differences, I think the better question would be “What is coaching?” One must first have a basic understanding of what coaching is before applying it to the art and science of the contact center world. I can personally think back throughout my professional career, my time playing sports, and my…
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What Sales Coaching And A Dinner Date Have In Common
Here is what a dinner date with four personality types and sales coaching software have in common. Imagine you are a waiter at a high-end steak house in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Let’s say it is Kevin Rathbun Steak. The hostess just sat a group of four in your section. They look like young, successful professionals…
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Understanding the Customer Journey
From the first time they saw your company to what made them buy and what keeps them as a customer. Most companies want the outcome of understanding their customer’s journey without doing the leg work. Sure that will take you somewhere, but it won’t be far. Our advice – spend the time and understand this.…
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Q&A with Cole Ackerman, Director of Sales Development
Today we’ve got the inside scoop on the one and only Cole Ackerman. Cole is the Director of Sales Development at Abstrakt! Cole lives and breathes sales and can have a conversation with anyone. From his SaaS sales experience at PandaDoc and OfficeSpace Software, he brings a creative approach to Abstrakt. Learn all about why…
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Objection Handling Tips & Tricks That Actually Work
DOWNLOAD THE EBOOK Here is a glimpse of what to expect in this eBook of objection handling tips… Before you can expect to be a pro at objection handling, you have to understand that the best salespeople spend time preparing. It’s that simple. But most people aren’t willing to do the work to separate themselves.…
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