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	<title>Call Centre Helper</title>
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		<title>Fifteen great ways to improve your incentive programmes</title>
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Incentive programmes can improve performance by 20 to 40 per cent - but they must address specific needs or you’re wasting time, energy and money.  Spending around two hours of salary cost per month for incentives is usually all that’s necessary.
Bob Cowen of Snowfly tells us how it&#8217;s done.
1. Provide immediate and continuous feedback [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine things they don’t tell you about speech analytics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most companies start in the wrong place and ask what they can do with speech analytics. What they should be asking, of course, is what do they need to know about the conversations they’re having with their customers, what intelligence is there in those conversations and what’s the best way to get at it.
Automated speech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On-hold music boosts call centre service level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abandonment rates could be cut by up to 35% if on-hold music was being played, according to research commissioned by MusicWorks, the business tool aimed at informing businesses of the benefits of playing music. 
The research, commissioned by MusicWorks and conducted by Entertainment Media Research (EMR), is the UK’s first comprehensive study of the benefits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish contact centre in recruitment drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mearns-based contact centre operator, Journeycall, is recruiting additional information agents to handle an increase in contact centre business.
Deputy Managing Director, Trisha Pirie, said:
“Journeycall is a successfully growing business despite the downturn, reflecting our belief that markets for a high quality UK contact centre product continue to be robust.  We’re aiming to recruit an additional ten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interactive Intelligence introduces Interaction Process Automation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interactive Intelligence is introducing a new communications-based process automation product called Interaction Process Automation (IPA).
IPA is designed to reduce costs and provide a quantifiable return on investment for unified communications by automating processes that are far more efficient than their manual counterparts, enabling companies to accomplish more with fewer required resources.
&#8220;IPA is a completely new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HP and Alcatel-Lucent to join forces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HP and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a relationship agreement establishing both parties’ intent to form a 10-year global alliance to help customers leverage the convergence of telecommunication and IT.
Once the definitive agreement has been executed, the companies will jointly market solutions and capabilities that enable end-to-end transformation for service providers and enterprises.
The companies plan to launch a global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New solution for multichannel customer interactions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new solution has been launched that combines web content management, contact centre and advanced analytics capabilities into a single solution for understanding and optimising customer interactions. 
The newest module in Autonomy’s Meaning Based Marketing suite, the solution enables organisations to automatically listen, analyse, optimise, and act on all forms of customer interactions across multiple channels, including social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solution launched for contact centre testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New solution enables large contact centres to validate the quality of the user experience and overall performance to deliver the most business value in the least amount of time. 
Empirix Testing as a Service is a custom, end-to-end solution that tests an entire contact centre infrastructure at full call capacity for any size environment. With TDM and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bright launch The Performance Management Guide 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you are getting the most out of your contact centre?
In this guide (a UK media exclusive for Call Centre Helper), industry specialists Stephen Jacobs and Mats Rennstam from Bright take a closer look at how to measure and achieve effectiveness.   It even features a guest section from Call Centre Helper&#8217;s own editor, Jonty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top tips for dealing with call centre stress</title>
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It seems that finally the message on work-related stress is hitting home and companies are focusing on their most valuable asset, their staff.
There has undoubtedly been a change in attitude over the last few years and well-being is the new black. Maybe it’s wanting to promote a great company image or maybe it is simply [...]]]></description>
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