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- Call Centers - Inbound<br />

- Queue management (time, etc.)<br />

- Staffing and skill measures<br />

- Multi-product sales<br />

- Segmenting calls<br />

- Document imaging (quantity/cost)<br />

- Customer satisfaction<br />

- Toll lines used<br />

- Expected service level measures<br />

- One-stop service<br />

- Call reduction<br />

- Call back rates<br />

- Technologies Used to Support Call Center Operations<br />

- Cell Center Per<strong>for</strong>mance Measures<br />

- Key metrics<br />

- Time to answer<br />

- Abandon rate<br />

- Length of tree - loss rates<br />

- Time tolerances<br />

- % of work off-line/time off-line<br />

To receive detailed in<strong>for</strong>mation on the content and focus of the study contact the ICCBC<br />

Director via phone at 281-440-5044, or via e-mail at info@iccbc.org." I submit this<br />

info "as is" - I have no idea if the study was per<strong>for</strong>med or completed - you investigate and<br />

determine if they have info to help you get the answers you seek.<br />

-Wes Bucey<br />

16698 A Model <strong>for</strong> Customer Service<br />

Greg Bloemke<br />

Aug-07-03<br />

I enjoyed this article and am wondering where one might go to learn about how success<br />

has been achieved in an incoming only Customer Call Center. Where might I go to read<br />

about successful award winning call centers? Is there such a place to learn about their<br />

methods and proceedures and how they set up their successful center? Again, this is <strong>for</strong><br />

an inbound customer service center, not an outbound telemarketing call center.<br />

16688 What I Learned on My Business Trip (QP 08/03)<br />

Gary Mach<br />

Aug-06-03<br />

Author William C. Parr accurately details some of the customer service frustrations many<br />

of us see almost everytime we travel or enter a retail establishment. While I commend his<br />

decision to write about it, I think hw should also send copies of the article to both the

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