by Uttam Pegu on August 11, 2011
Many people do not like IVR ( Interactive Voice Response) system simply because it is a ‘machine’, not human and they do not like the idea of ‘talking’ to machine! But there is an IVR application with whom many would like to deal with, instead of dealing with an human agent, the service is IVR [...]
by Uttam Pegu on June 1, 2011
Recently, Tata Docomo, India is advertising about IVR used in its customer care where it says that in order to keep it simple, they allow caller to speak to human agent quickly without going through maze of key-presses, listening lengthy and boring menu announcements! Well, one line comes to my mind quickly, if you want [...]
by Uttam Pegu on June 3, 2010
While outbound IVR systems are being widely used now a days for many promotional activities, but outbound IVR potential as smart predictive dialer is still to be tapped. While many acknowledge that, outbound IVR has many advantages over predictive dialer, call centers still deploy predictive dialer for making outbound calls and then transferring the calls [...]
by Uttam Pegu on March 9, 2010
Everyone involved in IVR industry may have heard reasons why normal users, customers ‘hate’ using IVR ( Interactive Voice Response) Systems. There are many reasons why people hate using IVR and how IVR could be made more user-friendly with good VUI design practices. I thought I would update top five things about IVR that people [...]
by Uttam Pegu on July 4, 2009
Predictive dialer can be termed as smart auto-dialer. Auto dialer dial out telephone number and handover or transfer the call to human agent in a call center. Once the dialed number answers, the call agent or telemarketer starts speaking as per the outbound call center function. Now there can be many situations where the process [...]
by Uttam Pegu on March 22, 2009
IVRS is supposed to be force multiplier in the filed of customer service in a call center. But is your IVRS increasing customer satisfaction or has become an irritant to your caller ? Here are five Tips to make your IVRS a force multiplier in your call center. 1. CRM Integration You must integrate your [...]