January 27, 2012

Improve Call Center Performance By Adopting A New Attitude

Improve Call Center Performance By Adopting A New Attitude

By Jeremy P Stanfords 

Modern businesses have come to realize that the key to a healthy profit margin is not just cutting expenses. It also involves finding new sources of revenue. A customer service or technical support department has contact with far more customers than marketing staff, so the most effective call center solutions include ways to turn those contacts into revenue opportunities.

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Give an Employee Referral Program a Try

Give an Employee Referral Program a Try
By Paul H. Croteau

Any organization that has recently been through the recruitment and selection of a new employee, knows full well that competition for staff at all levels is creating more and more challenges. After all, when employees are fully satisfied in their current job, it will take a good deal of persuasion to entice them to examine the potential of a new opportunity.

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What Are the Necessary Benefits a Call Center Agent Should Have?

What Are the Necessary Benefits a Call Center Agent Should Have?
By Mary D Cruz

Many of us are not aware of the repercussions of working in a call center company. Being a call center agent is not a simple job. Some people took it lightly as the easiest job nowadays because a bachelor's degree is not a requirement.

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Offshore Call Centers Vs In-House Call Centers

Offshore Call Centers Vs In-House Call Centers

By Ella Greens

Call centers are extension units of businesses to handle the operations efficiently. The specialization areas of BPO services involve handling the business calls, telemarketing, lead generation,back office support, telemarketing services, technical help desk support and non voice services to help you stand out in the clustered market place by connecting you with potential customer base and satisfying their queries and questions on 24/7 basis.

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Call Centers: Empowering Customer-Business Relationships

Call Centers: Empowering Customer-Business Relationships

By Ella Greens

Customers can create or ruin your business. They make your business by buying or choosing your services and ruin it by going to your competitor.

So true, isn't it?

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Customer Support Services Call Centers

Customer Support Services Call Centers

By Marcus Peterson

The customer is the lifeblood of any business, and it is only right that business owners and managers provide optimum customer support through the quickest and most accessible medium – the telephone.

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How to Run Inbound and Outbound Call Centers Successfully


How to Run Inbound and Outbound Call Centers Successfully

By Cally Parkar
 

Call centers have become one stop source and solutions for all the business needs of companies. Companies seeking excellent customer services are hiring inbound contact centers to offer customer centric services such as answering calls, resolution of the queries and to provide technical assistance.

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Recent Call Center Trends

Recent Call Center Trends

By Ivana Lewis

Call center trends are known to change every now and then. You cannot run a BPO unit by isolating yourself from the developments taking place all around you. While it's true that the traditional methods of telemarketing services are known to bring results, the modern means are necessary to keep with the times.

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Employee Training and Development Tips

Employee Training and Development Tips

By Tony Jacowski

Employee training is inevitable. It needs to happen in order for businesses to get ahead and not only keep up with, but also surpass the competition.

Because of this, business owners are always searching for new and innovative ways to make training more interesting and fun while promoting the good fortune of the company. This can prove to be a daunting task, but it is not an impossibility.

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Team Building for Specialist Teams

Team Building for Specialist Teams
 By Alan Hunt

Specialist teams tend to have less diversity within them than your average team, if there is such a thing. Highly specialised jobs tend to attract quite similar individuals to them. As a result, teams of people who all have the same core speciality, whatever that might be, often face a similar challenge.

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Computer Training – Should You Train Gen Y Employees?

Computer Training – Should You Train Gen Y Employees?

By Michael J Phillips

Should you train Generation Y? This might seem like a silly question; after all, they seem so good with technology already! In fact you might be double-booking that new intern as your in-house computer tech (come on, admit it!). The thought of spending actual money on training them might seem like a waste. But is it?

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Hierarchy Bothers BPO Units

Hierarchy Bothers BPO Units

By Ivana Lewis

The BPO world is going through a change. Third world call centers are trying their best to boost up their quality so that they can compete with their counterparts in America and Europe.

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