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Line of business (LOB) is a general term which refers to a product or a set of related products that serve a particular customer transaction or business need. In some industry sectors , like insurance , "line of business" also has a regulatory and accounting definition to meet a statutory set of insurance policies.
The call logging trial proved successful and while it was initially designed to gather phone call data and cost of billing details specific to the customers' call's, a hidden benefit emerged such that local management were also able to see a pattern of the types of calls being generated, i.e. calls to and from certain businesses in addition to ...
A Firestone customer service representative in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. Customer service representatives, customer service advisors, customer service agents, or customer service associates are employees who interact with customers to handle and resolve complaints, process orders, and provide information about an organization’s products and services.
A call centre is an office with the capacity to field many telephone calls for a company. [1] Types of call centre work can include customer service and telemarketing. Factors that have made India attractive as a hub of call centre work from the English-speaking world include its convenient time zone, low labour costs, and large English-speaking popu
Voice logging is the practice of regularly recording telephone conversations. Business sectors which often do voice logging include public safety (e.g. 9-1-1 and emergency response systems), customer service call centers (conversations are recorded for quality assurance purposes), and finance (e.g. telephone-initiated stock trades are recorded for compliance purposes).
The term "call center" was first published and recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1983. The 1980s saw the development of toll-free telephone numbers to increase the efficiency of agents and overall call volume. Call centers increased with the deregulation of long-distance calling and growth in information-dependent industries. [11]
Most office telephone systems have some facility for recording calling volumes, and incoming call timing. Dispatch centers use Automatic call distribution (ACD) groups which can be evaluated for metrics such as average wait time, abandoned calls, and calls per hour. These numeric data can be entered into spreadsheets for analysis of trends.
A message center or “message desk” was a centralized, manual answering service inside a company staffed by a few people, usually women, answering everyone's phones. Extensions that were busy or rang “no answer” would forward to the message center onto a device called a “call director”.