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Can Contact Center Agents Replace In-Store Employees? - Verint Monet - ContactCenterWorld.com Blog

Can Contact Center Agents Replace In-Store Employees?

One of the unfortunate realities resulting from America’s increased preference to shop online has been a decline in the quality of customer service at many retail chains and stores. With more resources now devoted to ecommerce sites, businesses are often relying on fewer in-store salespeople. 

Over time, that will just motivate more people to stay home and shop. And that may require contact center agents to do much more than take orders and payment information, especially in situations where the easy inquiries and basic functions are turned over to chatbots. 

Tomorrow’s contact center agents may need to fulfill more of a sales role. They won’t be just asking customers for the size and color of a garment they wish to purchase – they will recommend clothes that would be flattering based on each customer’s age, complexion and personal style. For someone starting a do-it-yourself home improvement project, the agent might work with the homeowner on the list of items needed.

This takes us far beyond the standard contact center scripts. And it will require agents who are trained to take on these responsibilities. Such agents will expect to be paid more for their expertise, or receive a commission on the sales they make. 

It doesn’t mean that every agent must be trained in marketing, but they should be made aware of the marketing tenets that customers associate with good service. 

With a workforce management solution, agents can pull up past purchases, the caller’s location and previous contacts. With speech analytics, agents will be in a better position to tailor each call to a customer’s preferences. And by using analytics, raw call data such as recordings can be fashioned into actionable insight. 

By providing experienced agents with the right technology solutions, your call center can serve as one of your most effective marketing and sales outreach efforts. 

Source: http://www.monetsoftware.com/blog/Workforce-Management/post/can-contact-center-agents-replace-in-store-employees

Publish Date: August 29, 2018


2024 Buyers Guide Workforce Management

 
1.) 
Alvaria

Alvaria Workforce
Alvaria Workforce (formerly Aspect Workforce Management) is a high-performance contact center software solution that provides the forecasting, planning, scheduling, employee self-service and real-time agent tracking to ensure that all agents and supervisors are productive, engaged in their work and delivering an exceptional customer experience.

2.) 
Alvaria

Noble ShiftTrack WFM
Maximize the efficiency of your contact center and meet/exceed customer expectations with workforce engagement tools that help you accurately forecast workloads, match the right resources to your needs and keep agents motivated. More than just scheduling agents and tracking shifts, Noble’s ShiftTrack WEM solutions optimize labor costs, manage capacity more effectively and improve service levels.

3.) 
Calabrio

Calabrio ONE
Calabrio ONE offers contact centres the complete toolset to unlock the tremendous value buried within customer interaction data and use it to transform the entire business. One seamless solution combines a fully integrated workforce optimization suite with powerful voice-of-the-customer analytics tools deployed—in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment.

Capture every customer interaction across all channels. Extract predictive and prescriptive insights. Elevate customer experiences, improve employee engagement and increase operational efficiency. Then, extend customer-centric strategies across the business to accelerate sales, drive innovation and move your business forward.

4.) 
eGain Corporation

eGain Solve
Rated #1 by analysts and trusted by some of the biggest brands in the world, eGain Solve helps businesses design and deliver smart, connected customer journeys across social, mobile, web, and contact centers. You can sell smarter, serve better, and know more.

5.) 
MFE International

Agyletime Cloud Workforce Management
Agyletime is an enterprise grade true Cloud WFM and t is channel agnostic .
Its ease to Use , easier onboarding, forecasting and better scheduling.
You can integrate to CRMs such as SFDC, Zendesk, ServiceNow and others and to telephony systems such as AVAYA, CISCO, Genesys and other cloud telephony systems ; to independent Chat systems to aggregate data for WFM omnichannel forecasting, scheduling, optimisation and reporting.

6.) 
Pointel

Genesys Workforce Management
WFM Voice Self-Service allows agents and supervisors to access and update workforce management information from any telephone. Leveraging the Genesys Voice Platform and its open standards-based techonologies such as VoiceXML, robust applications can be developed to provide "anytime, anywhere" access to WFM planning and scheduling and real-time fuctions. These valuable additions to the standard WFM solution can be tailored to meet the unique needs of the contact center.

WFM Voice Self-Service can be deployed either in enterprise premises or hosted in a service provider's network.

If the client is a Genesys Voice Platform customer, they can run WFM Voice Self-Service on the Genesys Voice...
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7.) 
Vads

VADS Workforce Management
VADS Workforme Magaement is a smart tools that gives connectivity to the workers while working remotely. An intelligent workforce management system that aims to improve operation efficiency with the end goal to provide first.

8.) 
QPC Ltd.

QPC WFM - Calabrio/Teleopti Specialism
QPC has a long and successful history of delivering tried and tested innovative workforce management systems, and the training and consultancy needed to ensure organisations can leverage the customer service and operational efficiency benefits workforce management principles and automated workforce management systems can deliver.
 



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