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Alicia Marie Beatty

Alicia Marie Beatty
Content Marketing Manager at Hiya

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Q&A: Why does it help to 'Report a Number' if scammers ...

Great question!
Alicia Marie Beatty
Mar. 4, 2022

Landline-Based Caller ID vs. Branded Caller ID

It’s 1995. You’re at home with your parents and the phone rings. You trot over to the landline to see who’s calling. Though only 15 ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Mar. 3, 2022

Hiya’s 2022 State of the Call Webinar: The Highlights

Last Thursday (2/17), Alex Algard, founder and CEO of Hiya, Inc., presented the first look at our findings for our 2022 State of the ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Feb. 23, 2022

Basics to Know About Call Authentication

The massive amount of robocalls are frustrating for everyone involved — customers and contact centers alike. Customers don’t want to answer ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Feb. 17, 2022

Do You Really Need an Outbound Dialer Software?

In the robust environment of a call center floor, one of the biggest challenges call center managers face is preventing agents from ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Feb. 9, 2022

State of the Call 2022 Webinar

There is no doubt that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the workplace and our collective understanding of what ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Feb. 1, 2022

What to Know About Inside Sales Power Dialers

Contact centers are continually looking for ways to increase their productivity and close more sales. One major roadblock is the number of ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Jan. 31, 2022

10 Outbound Call Center Tips

Whether you’re a contact center, sales team, or customer experience department, the odds are high that a large percentage of your time is ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Jan. 27, 2022

Customer Contact Week Las Vegas

Happy 2022! As we get ready to hit the ground running in the new year, we’re excited to look back on one of our most exciting events from ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Jan. 19, 2022

What's the Best Caller ID Solution for Your Business?

But first — what’s the deal with Caller ID?
Alicia Marie Beatty
Jan. 13, 2022

KPI Tracking for Contact Centers

Running a call center without tracking your performance is like running a business without keeping track of revenue. Seeing how well your ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Jan. 5, 2022

What Is a Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT)?

Excellent customer service is a key component of good business. In every industry, customer service is one of the key drivers of conversion ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Dec. 16, 2021

Improve Your Credit Union Call Center

As members turn to conduct their financial businesses over the phone and online, it’s increasingly important for credit union call centers ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Dec. 14, 2021

Sales Call Center Tips

When faced with the onslaught of day-to-day sales activities, it’s hard to take a step back and fine-tune your approach. As sales increase, ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Dec. 8, 2021

What Is STIR/SHAKEN?

STIR/SHAKEN is a framework designed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reduce robocalls by verifying the digital signature ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Dec. 3, 2021

Understanding the Impact of Reputation Monitoring

Contact centers have a direct impact on the reputation of a brand. It makes sense--if customers have poor experiences during the calls they ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Dec. 2, 2021

The TRACED Act: What Call Centers Need to Know

Did you know American and European phone service subscribers received an estimated 157.4 billion spam and fraud calls in 2020 alone? With ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Nov. 24, 2021

VPP vs. CNAM: What’s the Difference?

Is your branded call service running technology from the ‘70s?
Alicia Marie Beatty
Nov. 23, 2021

Q4 Holiday Scam Calls

The holidays! Filled with sugar, spice, and everything nice! Or, is that the Powerpuff Girls? Regardless, it’s a time many look forward to. ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Nov. 19, 2021

Omnichannel Strategies for Contact Centers

Omnichannel communications happen when a business plans to interact with the customer at all touchpoints of the selling process. ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Nov. 15, 2021

The Call Delivery Report

Here at Hiya, Accountability is one 3 core values that we stand behind in our Hiya Customer Bill of Rights. It’s important that our ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Nov. 12, 2021

Contact Center Compliance Rules and Guidelines

Call centers must follow the rules and regulations instituted by law. Failing to adhere to these can be detrimental to the business. Below, ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Oct. 26, 2021

Improve Your Call Center Environment

A productive contact center takes time and effort to cultivate, but as productivity increases, so do your customer’s points of contact with ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Oct. 19, 2021

10 Call Center Solutions Considerations

Despite the rise in popularity among different forms of communicating continuing to grow , the phone call remains the preferred method of ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Oct. 4, 2021

How to Manage a Virtual Call Center

Every day, more and more businesses are making the transition to remote work. The increased popularity of a remote-first environment is ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Oct. 1, 2021

How to Measure and Increase Call Center Productivity

What Is Call Center Productivity? Contact centers are constantly looking to be more productive. Higher productivity translates to better ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Sep. 29, 2021

Call Center Matrix

Contact centers, like all businesses, are driven by performance. They can only succeed when everyone on the team understands how they are ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Sep. 27, 2021

5 Key Healthcare Call Center Metrics

2020 put the healthcare industry front and center on the world stage. The global pandemic raised the world’s understanding of disease and ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Aug. 25, 2021

What Are Sales Optimization Best Practices?

Optimizing your call performance strategy can be a difficult, arduous task--made even worse if your team is constantly hiring and training ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Aug. 17, 2021

10 Essential Call Center Resources

Without a well-run call center, your company loses the ability to solve customer problems, get the answers to vital questions, and make ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Aug. 16, 2021

Top Sales Initiatives to Accelerate Growth

It’s common for outbound call centers to experience a natural ebb and flow in growth from time to time. And it can be difficult for teams ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Jul. 23, 2021

Call Center Best Practices for Insurance

In the age of near-limitless insurance options, staffing an outbound insurance call center may seem like a difficult task. After all, even ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Jun. 18, 2021

How Enhanced Caller ID Helps Your Contact Center

It doesn’t matter if you have the best information or most urgent alerts for your customers, they won’t pick up the phone if they don’t ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Jun. 17, 2021

Call Management Software

We live in an increasingly digital world, which means customers have more choices than ever before when it comes to communicating with ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Jun. 15, 2021

What Is TCPA Compliance?

Let’s face it—we all hate spam calls. But imagine it’s 1990; around 12:30 am, in the dead of night, you hear it—the dreaded ringing of the ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
May. 7, 2021

What Is SOC 2 Compliance?

With great data, comes great responsibility. When SOC 2 Compliance was introduced, it was in direct response to the growing need for ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Apr. 26, 2021

Caller ID Displays Throughout the Ages

Do you ever think about what you’d do without caller ID? Would you ever answer the phone without knowing who was calling? Aside from the ...
Alicia Marie Beatty
Sep. 19, 2020
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