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4 Ways Call Center Technology Improves Any Office

When companies start to worry about collecting all the software necessary for the day to day, they usually remember the crm, the program for managing the company’s accounting, etc.. However, there are other types of tools that any office that pretends to grow really needs to incorporate to its day to day, or if not, this is not going to happen.

Here we’ll show you 4 ways call center technology helps your office:

1. Text Messages

SMS text messaging is the most effective way to be in constant communication with your customers. Whether you need to send an appointment reminder, a promotion or an offer.

2. IVR (Interactive Voice Response)

The ivr make the life of the agents much easier. On the contrary, thanks to the ivr, the client, by pressing keys on his terminal, can move forward on what he needs, to finally be transferred and attended by the right person. There is no need to stumble from one department to another and with the loss of time it entails.

3. Dialer

dialer automarcador

Of the dialers used by Neotel that are 3: progressive dialer, predictive dialer and Robot call, we recommend that you watch the following video where Neotel informs about the differences between the three types of dialing.

4. Call recording

 

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The call recording module may seem strange to some people. Why do you need and need to record both incoming and outgoing calls in your company? Well, it’s just a matter of improving the quality of your staff. The only way to improve as an operating agent is with a training that corrects the mistakes that are made. With Neotel’s call recording system this is possible. «What else can I use besides listening to the conversations of my agents?» For security reasons. Surely this is not the first time you have seen yourself in a situation in which a customer claims that he has been given information over the phone that the agent who attended denied. Good. Now with the Neotel call recorder this is not going to be a problem anymore.

Every day companies migrate more and more of their business technology to Neotel’s call center system. But if you are still in doubt about whether or not our telephony tools can be beneficial for your business, here are 4 great reasons to finish deciding.

What are the essential elements in Call Center Technology?

Let’s discuss a little more about technologies in call centers:

Call Center Technology – Where is your business?

Call center technology evolves day by day. Whether you are starting from 0 or on the contrary you already have your call center constituted, but with shortcomings at the level of professional software and what you need is to fill these gaps by adapting their tools and software, when looking for a company that offers call center systems and software for call centers is very important to make a preliminary study, in this case the client who wants to hire, and ask yourself questions such as «where do I want to get», «what are my goals?

Reports and Analysis in real time:

Not all software for call centers in the market give real time information to the user who manages it, with truthful data and / or graphics. Neotel call center tools integrate all this and much more. Because in Neotel we know that for a call center it is not enough just not to have the best software to work with, no matter how effective it is in terms of performing the task for which it has been designed. In addition, at Neotel we know that call center software users want access to detailed reports where they can analyze everything about their work.

 

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Inteligencia Artificial:

AI can be used to improve the customer’s user experience.

Self-service:

Today’s customers don’t seek help for their problems. They themselves want to solve them without external dependence. With systems like ivr, customers can solve their doubts by clarifying them without having to depend on anyone else.

People don’t like to wait. With the ivr option, pressing a button the client can clarify his query quickly.

 

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Predictive dialer:

A predictive dialer system is used to automate the action of making outgoing calls to a list of numbers previously loaded into the system. The predictive dialing system is capable of calculating which agent is going to be available to answer the call once it is able to connect to one of the recipient telephones.

CRM (Customer Relationship Management):

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With a call center your staff will come into contact with a large number of people. Managing them effectively with a contact management program is a very effective way to do this. Every day it will be necessary to access customer data and with a crm program we would be using the most advanced customer management technology available today.

 

 

What is IVR?

The ivr systems were already designed in the 1980s, although it was not until the year 2000 that they made the definitive leap in the companies. Nowadays it is very rare to find a company that does not use this system in its business. However, when it comes to an ivr there are a number of issues that are important to know and deal with and these are the ones that we are going to make known in this article.

Interactive Voice Response or IVR is a system of options menus from which a virtual secretary, which in reality is a locution, directs the caller through a panel of options consisting of pressing numeric keys on the phone, in order to finally connect the caller to the corresponding department or agent.

How to ensure that people do not hate your ivr experience

When creating an ivr menu it is imperative (if not advisable) to follow the guidelines below.

When someone calls, what they are definitely looking for is a solution. They don’t want to get lost in a maze of options.

The new ivr systems allow the inclusion of nested menus. However we must be careful when configuring multiple levels. If we fall into the error of creating too many options within too many levels and sub-levels we risk making the person calling us dizzy and abandoning the communication by hanging up the phone.

Waiting music

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  1. Think of the music that best represents your company. When a person is relaxed their heart beats at approximately 80 beats per minute so a well-chosen music will take that same calming effect on the person on the other side of the line.
  2. Start with a welcome message that guides the caller, for example: «Your call is on hold and will be answered…» with background music.
  3. It has been proven that waiting music can make the person waiting more patient. Choosing the right waiting music helps the person on the other side of the line make their experience more enjoyable.

Flow of ivr

For the caller, you may need to contact an agent as soon as possible. It is important that within our ivr we give customers the option of being able to leave it to be transferred to a real person as soon as possible:

  1. Maintain existing commands. If you return to the previous menu, it should be the same for all levels.
  2. If the caller is entering an invalid entry, make a couple of attempts before putting him or her with a live person.
  3. For the first level use 4 or fewer options. For the second and third levels use 3 or less. Less time at each level followed by an intuitive menu indicates to the caller that the company cares about them and their problem.

A greeting message

  1. Avoid the use of jargon.
  2. Try to avoid too long greetings. They do not help the person waiting. Don’t forget that at the end of the day they call with the intention of talking to a real person and not a machine.
  3. Short, clear messages.

The menus of ivr systems generally reproduce a sweeper along with a menu of options. The idea is basically, through the options dialed by the caller, to route you to the appropriate department or person to solve your problem or address your situation.

2 Neotel Software Call Center features you won’t miss

Here are the two qualities that any call center software should have and that Neotel customers demand more when using their tool:

IVR (Interactive Voice Response)

The ivr is very comfortable to show pre-recorded locutions to customers when calling them. Thanks to the ivr, customers are automatically transferred when they call with the appropriate agent to deal with their issue.

Call recording function

 

WHAT IS IVR (INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE) AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

This function is very necessary to increase the level of quality as far as customer service is concerned. Call recording is also very useful when you need to communicate some kind of information to a customer so that he accepts or not, and that everything is recorded and recorded, including both the communication and the acceptance or denial by the customer.

The Virtual Switchboard is the most logical step to move from SMEs to a great competitor

The Virtual Switchboard allows several calls to be answered simultaneously. With it, there are no longer excuses in your company to keep calls unattended.

The image is very important for any company. Not to mention Customer Service. What do you think will happen when 5 customers are calling simultaneously to your company and you do not have infrastructures to be able to serve them all?

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The Neotel Virtual Switchboard allows you to receive multiple simultaneous

With functionalities such as the IVR, the Virtual Switchboard facilitates things and brings us closer and better to customers. Thanks to intuitive options menus, customers who call our company can decide which department they wish to contact: Customer Service, Commercial, Support, Accounting, Management, etc.

Do you need a Virtual Secretary? Well, with the Neotel Virtual Switchboard you already have one

No customer who calls our company will like to have to wait, this is obvious. Although with a waiting music, this one is better. True? Thanks to the Neotel virtual PBX you can configure the music on hold that you want to be heard by your customers.

 

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Time passes faster when we listen to music than when there is silence. Depending on the image you want to give your customers when they call, you can choose one music or another.

Setting the waiting music in the Neotel Virtual Switchboard is very simple

Set up a welcome message that turns out to be professional. This is another advantage of having a virtual switchboard in your business.

It is not enough for the client to listen to any welcome message. If we want to show a professional image, our message should go according to this image.

Set up welcome messages with the Neotel Switchboard

With the Virtual Switchboard, we demonstrate an image of professionalism that faces the outside world. Only with the welcome message are we already helping to create that image of professionalism.

With the Neotel Virtual Switchboard your company will see how sales multiply

For users when we call a company and hear a welcome message and music waiting, we immediately relate this image to that of a large company. It does not matter if our company only has 3 employees. Only with these small features we are already improving the perception that customers are going to have about our business. And the image is, as we have said before, really important in the current work world.

We associate welcome messages, waiting music and options menus to large companies.

In our minds we all have the preconceived idea that only one company that is really big is the one that is going to have this type of characteristics in the telephone service to its customers.

The only way to improve the user experience in calls is with a virtual switchboard like the one Neotel provides.

When the method of communication between company and customers is the telephone, we must ensure that we are on the front line and make use of the most advanced technology available in the market. If we really want to differentiate ourselves from our competition.

If in your company you already take care of details such as smells, cleanliness of the place, etc., why not improve your Telephone Support with your customers?

In Spain there is a very high percentage of SMEs with respect to the percentage of large companies. Sometimes it is not easy to make a hole in the market. However with the Virtual Switchboard we are earning an extra.