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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.

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Call Center Quality Assurance: Comprehensive Guide
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
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Using Persona Profiles to Personalize Customer Interactions
Using Persona Profiles to Personalize Customer Interactions
Leverage persona profiles to optimize customer interactions, tailoring them to match various customer segment preferences, needs, and characteristics.
Customer Service 6 min read
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Using Emotional Intelligence in Call Center Interactions Can Significantly Improve Customer Service
Using Emotional Intelligence in Call Center Interactions Can Significantly Improve Customer Service
We provide insights into what EI is, how to determine your IE, and how to use EI in call center interactions to improve customer service and…
Customer Service 5 min read
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Agent Self-Coaching: How Agents Can Coach Themselves to Achieve World-Class QA and Csat Scores
Agent Self-Coaching: How Agents Can Coach Themselves to Achieve World-Class QA and Csat Scores
Agent self-coaching creates ownership for improving agent performance. The more agents turn to themselves for the answers, the more self-confident…
5 min read
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Cost Per Call: A More Insightful Way to Calculate CPC?
Cost Per Call: A More Insightful Way to Calculate CPC?
The Cost Per Call is an essential metric for measuring the cost of handling a single call and indicates how efficient and effective your call center…
Customer Service 3 min read
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Personalized Customer Experience: 10 Tips for Positive Memorable Call Center Experience
Personalized Customer Experience: 10 Tips for Positive Memorable Call Center Experience
In this blog, we discuss the benefits of personalized customer experience and explore 10 personalization tips to help resolve issues on the first…
Customer Service 11 min read
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Call Center Scorecard: How to Create It for Meeting Business and Customer Expectations
Call Center Scorecard: How to Create It for Meeting Business and Customer Expectations
We explain what a call center scorecard is, its importance, and how to create a call center scorecard for meeting business and customer expectations.
Customer Service 10 min read
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Call Center Technology Trends That Will Impact Customer Service
Call Center Technology Trends That Will Impact Customer Service
Learn about call center technologies that can help companies transform the way they deliver customer service more efficiently and effectively.
Customer Service 9 min read
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Call Center Quality Assurance Tips – To Improve QA Scores & Csat
Call Center Quality Assurance Tips – To Improve QA Scores & Csat
We thought it would be helpful to share call center quality assurance tips for improving your QA Scores and customer satisfaction.
13 min read
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Call Center Dashboard – Reporting & Actioning to Improve Performance
Call Center Dashboard – Reporting & Actioning to Improve Performance
Call center dashboards that provide the most insights to include customer service QA in real-time and historical data.
11 min read
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Call Center Attrition Rate – Is It Now the Most Important KPI?
Call Center Attrition Rate – Is It Now the Most Important KPI?
As a result of the higher agent turnover, job burnout, absenteeism, and operating cost, you can argue that call center turnover is the most important…
15 min read
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What Is An Acceptable Average Wait Time for Customer Service?
What Is An Acceptable Average Wait Time for Customer Service?
This blog will discuss an acceptable wait time for customers to reach an agent when calling a call center.
Customer Service 9 min read
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What is a Service Culture?
What is a Service Culture?
If the call center's primary focus is reducing costs and not providing great customer service, creating a service culture will be an uphill battle.
Customer Service 13 min read