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Tracer Call Center Recording and
Quality Assurance
Call Center Definition
Call centers are a
combination of people,
process and technology
organized to achieve a
specific mission through
telephone-based
communications
Strategic Makeup
The type of call center defines its
goals
These goals dictate the critical
processes
People are selected to align with
critical processes
Technology is used to enable/improve
critical processes or drive meaningful
efficiency
Two Primary Types of Centers
Profit Center
Cost Center
A profit center directly contributes revenue and
profits to the company
A cost center does not contribute revenue, at least not
directly, to the company
Need drivers by type of call center
• Drive revenue growth
• Develop processes to scale with demand
• Maintain or improve operating margins
• Verify applicable regulatory compliance
• Control costs
• Develop processes to reduce or deflect demand
• Maintain a defined level of customer satisfaction
Critical Processes
• Compliance
• Agent training & development
• Best practices identification
• Agent training & development
• Escalation / dispute handling
• Satisfaction measuring
Value Equation: Profit Center
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Call Recording in Profit Centers
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Recording for Compliance
Compliance Requirements
• FTC Telemarketing Sales Rule
• FTC Telephone Order Merchandise Rule
• Various SEC and FINRA regulations
Value of Compliance
• Revenue protection
• Avoidance of penalties and fees
• Avoidance of bad press
Solution Drivers
• Reliability
• Efficiency of data
retrieval
• Security
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Reliability
• Multiple storage options including RAID
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• Complete set of alarms
Efficiency of Data Retrieval
• Powerful search on any call data
• Instant playback
• Email recording
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• Permissions-based architecture
• Encrypted media streaming
• Valid recording authentication
Recording for Best Practices
Best Practice Identification Process
• Reactively monitor agents who produce exceptionally good
or bad results
• Reactively monitor teams producing exceptional results
Value of Best Practices Identification
• Increase revenue by sharing good sales technique
• Increase revenue by reducing bad practices
• Control cost by reducing wasteful practices
Solution Drivers
• On demand accessibility
• Live or historical
monitoring
• Ability to share examples
with team
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On Demand Access
• Network access using browser
• Easy to use search and playback
Live or Historical
• Live monitor over network
• Auto monitor specific employee
• Retrieve to playback by employee
Sharing
• Email recording with text notes
• Bookmark key moments
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Personnel Development Process
• Establish performance standards and metrics for critical
processes
• Systematically evaluate performance
• Base training, promotions and changes on performance
reports
Value of Personnel Development
• Increase revenue through improved performance
• Control training costs by focusing on those demonstrating
ability
• Control personnel costs by reducing non-performers
Solution Drivers
• Recordings linked to
evaluations
• Reporting on evaluations
• Graphs for easy analysis
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Linked Evaluations
• Customized quality evaluations
• Assign evals to teams and supervisors
• Self and supervisor evaluations
Evaluation Reporting
• Report by agent
• Report by team
• Comparisons, trends, etc.
Easy to Read Graphs
• Bar, line and pie graphs to quickly
convey quality data
Comparisons,
Graphs
for quick
trends,
interpretation
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Evaluations
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Tracer: A Complete Solution
As a solution, Tracer can address all levels of the
value equation in a profit center
Compliance and protection through reliable recording, efficient
retrieval and authenticity verification
Best practices identification through reactive monitoring of live
calls and recordings along with email sharing
Personnel development through consistent processes using custom
evaluation forms, reports and graphs
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