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Contact Center Industry News
VPI Empowers Quality Management with Analytics

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Analytics-Driven Call Recording, Quality Monitoring and Coaching

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The Trend to At-Home Contact Center Agents

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Complimentary New Resource Guide

Contact Center QA Guide: Building a World-Class Quality Assurance Program

Authored by Renowned Analyst Donna Fluss from DMG Consulting

Whether you’re looking to breathe new life into your existing quality assurance program, or considering starting from scratch, this guide is an absolute must-read for every contact center professional. Offering nearly 100 pages packed with valuable information, this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide is the most comprehensive contact center QA resource guide available today.

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Contact Center Industry News

VPI Empowers Quality Management
with Analytics

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The ongoing recession has made customer retention, always an important metric, more important than ever, as many companies struggling to stay afloat are making that effort the business strategy du jour. To help contact centers fight that never-ending battle, VPI (Voice Print International) has unveiled VPI EMPOWER™, its newest suite of solutions to elicit more insight from recorded customer calls.

On-Demand Webcast

Analytics-Driven Call Recording & Quality Monitoring

Presented by Analyst Ted Lubowsky from DMG Consulting

Analytics is changing the way companies do business and dramatically improving contact center operations in today’s challenging economic climate. The new breed of cost-effective, “out-of-the-box” analytics tools can help you automatically assess the vast number of customer interactions and rapidly identify the important ones that should be listened to, evaluated and coached on.

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The Trend to At-Home Contact Center Agents


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"I forget. Did we institute a home agent program?"

According to IDC, home-based agents are expected to number 300,000 by next year. Several case studies have shown that agent-related expenses decrease by 10% to 15% and agent retention rates to increase as much as 30%. These quantifiable benefits, accompanied by customer experience improvements, make at-home agent programs a winning strategy for many companies.

Download the Complimentary White Paper: Call Center At-Home Agent Best Practices: Essential Tools for Managing Employee Performance, Service Quality and Customer Experience, authored by DMG Consulting, to learn how to deploy a successful a remote agent program.

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