eliteIQ means your callers never have to wait on hold. There’s a better way…
“This is the best queue system I’ve ever encountered!”
Mr M, Happy Caller
“eliteIQ was fast and kept the calls flowing and the queue size down.”
Marie, Happy Agent
“Very efficient – like clockwork.”
Mrs S, Happy Caller
eliteIQ is a revolutionary approach to call centre queuing. Our optimised queue system works with your existing technology to minimise wait times and maximise answer rates. It can be deployed within minutes without installing additional hardware, and delivers the following benefits:
- Abandonment slashed.
- You will answer more callers without hiring additional staff.
- Wait times are reduced.
- Complaints about queueing cut to fewer than 1 in 1000 calls.
eliteIQ deploys automatically whenever there are more incoming calls than agents. Instead of waiting on hold (or hearing the engaged tone), your callers are given an individual estimated wait time, and advised to hang up and call back after that time. When they call back, our patented system recognises the caller and restores the caller to the front of the queue for immediate service.
The eliteIQ approach gives you all the advantages of agent-call-back systems at a fraction of the cost, and with none of the disadvantages.
Traditional call centre queues are not optimised. When things get busy and queues build up, standard queue systems create a competition between callers, where the caller who is prepared to waste the most time waiting on hold is the one that gets through.
This means that without eliteIQ, your agents only speak to the most frustrated of callers.
This also means that fewer callers get through, as most will hang up in anger after just 45 seconds of waiting (Source: Avaya). Your traditional queue system therefore maximises wait times, and minimises your answer rate – the exact opposite of what it should be doing.
eliteIQ has a proven track record optimising call centres all around the world. You will be amazed at how easy it is to deploy, without making changes to your existing set-up. We are sure of our ability to deliver significant improvements at your call centre, so we offer a no-obligation Free Trial – just give us a call on 0844 875 8833.
You could be answering up to 41% more of your callers today.
“I’m very happy with the system. I was told to call back in seven minutes and got through straight away!”
Mr K, Happy Caller
“Brilliant idea! Much better than holding on to the phone.”
Mrs I, Happy Caller
Your callers will thank you for choosing eliteIQ.
eliteIQ is an intelligent queuing solution for contact centres which deploys automatically whenever there are more calls than agents.
Instead of your customer waiting on hold or hearing the engaged tone, they hear a message telling them they can either stay on hold or call back in, for example, five minutes when they will be at the front of the queue.
When they call back eliteIQ recognises the phone number and restores the caller to the front of the queue. The caller is passed to the next available agent. It couldn’t be simpler!
You’ll increase call throughput without increasing staff
Your callers will be grateful that their time and money are not being squandered
Your agents will be fully utilised, dealing with satisfied callers
All call centres face the challenge of peaks in the number of incoming calls.
With traditional on-hold queues the average caller will hang up after just 45 seconds of waiting on hold. This means call centre activity can be divided into two categories:
Peaks, where there are more callers than agents available; queues form and callers are lost.
Troughs, where there are fewer incoming callers than agents available; queues empty and agents are idle.
With eliteIQ callers have the choice of waiting on hold or calling back after a certain amount of time in order to be placed at the front of the queue.
In practice, over 80% of callers are happy to hang up and call back, preferring this method to waiting on hold.
This lengthens the acceptable wait time allowing your call centre to spread peaks of demand into the troughs, ensuring that agents are utilised and callers are happy.
For the call centre this means that more calls can be answered with the same number of agents.
This leads to reduced cost per call and increased revenue without incurring additional staff expenditure.
As staff salaries account for 70% of call centre costs, eliteIQ represents a particularly inexpensive way of increasing call throughputs.
Complaints about waiting on hold increase the average call duration. When on-hold queues form, this reduces the effectiveness of your agents just when it’s most important to deal with callers quickly.
People who spend a long time waiting on hold spend a long time complaining about it too.
With eliteIQ, even callers who choose to remain on hold are far less likely to complain as they know they have the option to hang up and call back without losing their place.
In a recent deployment of eliteIQ, less than 1 in 1000 callers complained about the wait time.
Reductions in average call duration of 8% to 10% are commonplace with eliteIQ, so you can expect increased call throughput.
eliteIQ is more efficient than other callback solutions that focus on calling back your abandoned callers when things get less busy.
With eliteIQ, the caller calls you, so your agents never waste time playing “phone tag” with callers who are no longer available.
If a customer calls and does not use the call-back feature of eliteIQ the captured CLI (caller line identity) can be viewed by the agent to call the customer back. Using elite Intelligent Call Back ensures that 100% of calls are handled.
Most companies find it between four and five times more costly to acquire a new customer than to retain their existing customers.
Not answering your repeat callers’ means losing the opportunity to sell more products and service.
Answering your callers keeps them loyal and more likely to do business with you again in the future.
Deploying eliteIQ shows your customers that you really do care about their time as well as their business even before your agents can answer their call.
Think Again...
eliteIQ’s unique approach to queuing is different from any that you may have encountered before.
Do you have time to supplement your existing solution?
If not, we have made eliteIQ a snap to deploy; either on-site (just plug it in) or at the network level with our fully managed hosted service.
The eliteIQ family of solutions provides a simple yet flexible way of solving the complex problems faced by busy contact centres.
Business performance indicators show that caller satisfaction and agent morale are all improved.
The British love affair with queuing appears to be at an end as our seemingly endless vat of patience finally runs out. A new Barclaycard study into the art form that queuing has become has found that 68% of shoppers would rather abandon their purchases rather than wait in a queue.
The study found that 41% of shoppers will queue for longer than two minutes, that women will queue for twelve seconds longer than men will (no surprises there) and unexpectedly, people aged 18-25 will queue for two minutes longer than people aged 55-64. Which shows that the young now have more patience than the older generation.
Retail managers have taken positioning tills so that they hide queues as more and more customers refuse to even enter a store if there’s a queue. We can see the same thing happening over the phone too. Once call queuing starts, customers tend to hang up the phone. Which is why Elite IQ is such an innovative way of dealing with our new lack of patience.
Did you know that the average adult spends approximately five hours and 35 minutes a month queuing? That ends up as almost three days a year and five months, two weeks and five days in an average life time. That’s quite a lot of time to spend waiting in a queue when you could be doing more worthwhile things.
Most people sped the largest amount of time queuing up for the weekly shop at a supermarket and a lot of people also spend a fair amount of time on hold, on the phone. Luckily, in this technological age of ours, there are a few things we can do to spend less time waiting in queues!
Since the growth of the internet online shopping has become a great alternative to actual shopping. Why? Because there are no queues to wait in! And advances such as EliteIQ can stop the problem of call queuing – you simply ring back after a certain amount of time to get to the front of the queue. All you have to do now is decide what you’re going to do with all that extra time on your hands!
So, the recent eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland has grounded all planes in the UK. A huge volcanic ash cloud continues to spread and it’s just generally chaos - you’ll either have to swim or grow wings and fly yourself home at the minute. Try to get through to your airline, your travel agent or any business that deals with any possible way to get you home, and you’re likely to find that you simply can’t get through. This is where eliteIQ shines through the foggy gloom.
OK, so we’re not saying that our call queuing system will get rid of the ash cloud, stop future volcanoes erupting or get you home. What it can do is create a little bit of order when you’re trying to get through to someone who may have the solution to your problems. eliteIQ is an intelligent call queuing system. When you call a call centre and all the lines are busy and you’re generally put in a call queue, eliteIQ gives you an estimated wait time and lets you ring back in that time, placing you at the front of the queue. So you don’t have to spend the whole day on the phone, getting more and more angry. It’s often the little things that make the biggest difference!
...Elite sent to me-
A way to queue my calls effect-ively!
Give your customers an early Christmas present and intelligently queue your calls. Instead of your customer waiting on hold or hearing the engaged tone, they hear a message telling them they can either stay on hold or call back in, for example, five minutes when they will be at the front of the queue.
When they call back eliteIQ recognises the phone number and restores the caller to the front of the queue. The caller is passed to the next available agent. It couldn’t be simpler and both you and your customers can have a Merry, stress-free Christmas!
Queues are a necessary evil in the world of business when people require the same set of services such as payment for goods via a call centre. Although a large number of people wanting the same service necessitates the existence of a queue, consumers tend to judge companies by the speed they reduce the queues. This is why it is imperative that companies who are prone to call queues invest in the best queue-reducing technology available.
No matter how good the on-hold music is, customers would rather not be on hold at all. That’s why so many companies are seeking the benefits of eliteIQ. Rather than having your customers growing unhappy on hold, eliteIQ saves their place in the queue and allows them to call back after an allotted time. No one likes to queue, so why not make it as easy as you can, for you and your customers.
I actually can’t think of anything more annoying than waiting in a queue, whether it’s on the phone or in a supermarket. There’s something about queuing that just goes against the grain, don’t you think? So let’s not act like a flock of sheep – instead, let’s say hello to individuality and give a warm welcome to Elite IQ!
With Elite IQ you can say goodbye to call queues – if you ring up and there’s a queue, Elite IQ simply holds your place and tells you when to call back, be it in five minutes or five hours. This thing will revolutionise queuing systems worldwide.
Elite IQ. As good as pushing in.
The dulcet strains of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue float through room, evoking images of ballet performed against the backdrop of a starry night, serene and tranquil…until of course, the sound of grinding teeth and smothered curses mars the picture. Welcome, to being placed on hold, the tenth circle of Hell.
Well, repent - for Salvation is at hand! Yes indeedy. Say hello to Elite Intelligent Call Queuing, the orderly call queuing system! The caller has the option to stay on the line and listen to Gershwin (personally I’d rather chew glass) or call back – joy of joys, the system records your place and once you call back you can re-take your place! No more classical tunes, no more Christmas hymns – Hark the herald Angels sing, glory to Orderly Call Queuing!
At the beginning of June 2009, Elite Telecom launched their new Elite Intelligent Call Queuing System.
Elite Intelligent Call Queuing contains all the advantages of an agent call back system, leaving all the disadvantages behind. When there are too many incoming calls for the agents to deal with, the customer hears a message giving them the option to either stay in line or to call back, and when they do call back they will return to their place in the queue!
The advantages of Elite Intelligent Call Queuing are many, the disadvantages - none. Get intelligent!