May 17, 2012

Telemarketing: An Excellent Medium For The Acquisition Of Leads


Telemarketing: An Excellent Medium For The Acquisition Of Leads
By Belinda R Summers
What is a lead? How can it be defined? In marketing terms, it can be viewed as a person within a target company that voices or shows interest within the goods and services that another business is trying to sell to them. And the target company itself can be labeled as the prospect.
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9 Steps for Coaching Call Center Agents


9 Steps for Coaching Call Center Agents
By Mark Crosley
The call record method is, in my opinion, one of the best approaches to coaching agent phone calls and ensuring quality. Here’s a 9-step plan for effectively coaching call center agent phone calls:
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The 7 Closing Habits of Highly Effective Tele-Sale Reps

The 7 Closing Habits of Highly Effective Tele-Sale Reps

By Jim Domanski

Ever notice that some tele-sales reps consistently out sell other reps?

Why is that? Why do some reps continuously lead the pack in terms of sales and revenues and others don't?

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Pay for Performance – Some Basics

Pay for Performance – Some Basics

By John H. Williamson
We have all heard about Pay for Performance (P4P) and some of our companies have implemented a P4P program and are seeing positive results. But what is P4P and how does it work best? There are forms and incarnations of P4P that work better than others. Here is my take on it.
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Why call center quality monitoring creates better trained agents?

Why call center quality monitoring creates better trained agents? 
By Adi Sarig
It is a known fact that an effective call center monitoring system and efficient agents go hand in hand. The more effective the system is, the better trained the agents are. What call center quality monitoring does is it brings in front all the positives and negatives of the agent.

That way, they are able to hear the recorded version of what they spoke earlier with the customers.

One cannot deny the fact that even the best executives make mistakes while handling customer calls. No one is perfect to solve all the obstacles of a customer there and then. However, when they hear themselves later with the help of the quality monitoring system, they tend to realize better the solution to the customer's problem at that time.

In earlier times, call center supervisors had to sit next to the agents to monitor their pros and cons and then explain to them on areas of improvement. However, the same is not the case anymore.

With the advent of later call center quality monitoring system, supervisors get to access numerous ways to monitor the agents under them. The process that earlier used to take hours of monitoring now takes only minutes to be successfully completed.

Supervisors get to list out the areas of concern of every agent and provide training in the same areas which, in-turn creates better trained agents that deliver faster and better.

Furthermore, call center quality monitoring gives the supervisors the access to E-learning for providing better training to the agents which is a much faster way of learning and improving.

The agents are sent their training material through the web and they can learn as per their convenience. Apart from these, an effective call center quality monitoring system records the customer complaints and grievances and provides data to solve them in the most effective and efficient way.

Apart from the individual training procedure, another benefit of the system lies in the fact that those agents that are going through similar areas of concern could be trained together.

This not only proves to be a cost effective method for the call center but also saves valuable time of the call center that could be used in some other productive areas. In this context, a common E-learning training package could be sent to all the trainees for faster working of the training procedure.

The faster the agents learn, the better it is for them as well as the same gives them a hope of promotion soon in coming time. It can also be said that because of the call recording and monitoring system, agents do not take their work lightly or casually as they know the same could bring to them moments of embarrassment later when their recording calls would be monitored by their supervisor.

All in all, better training of the agents as a result trained agents further results in reduction of faulty calls and reduces turnover. Improved call handling skills result in less frustrated calls and better response by the customers.

This helps in achieving the business goal of reaching higher levels of success faster.

On the whole, call center quality monitoring helps in delivering the return on investment faster. An effective call center quality monitoring helps the organization realize the return on investment much faster which, on the whole, results in increased sales, less faulty calls, more satisfied customers and a better customer-call center relationship.

The role of better trained agents in the same also cannot be denied.

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What Are The Basic Mistakes Of The Lead Generation Procedure?

What Are The Basic Mistakes Of The Lead Generation Procedure?
By Mark Assle
There are lots of companies that works with the false hypothesis that makes the job critical for business process outsourcing companies as far as the logistics are concerned. In this particular article we are going to examine some of the blunders that are being committed by the call centre service personnel.

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Call Center Outsourcing – Business with a Flavor of Modernization

Call Center Outsourcing – Business with a Flavor of Modernization
By Chris Shetler
Everything in the present world needs an innovative concept so that the specialty is always appreciated by a community that is related to your specialization. Today's business is purely based on a formula that has to rule customer's mind at any condition.
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Tips on Answering Call Center Interviews

Tips on Answering Call Center Interviews
By Hazel Rabor
This may sound cliché but the first thing that's really helpful when being interviewed for a call center job is to just be yourself. Doing so will make you feel more relaxed because the result of this would be honesty on your part. [Read more...]

3 Reasons Why Soft Skills Are No Longer “The Redheaded Step Child”

3 Reasons Why Soft Skills Are No Longer "The Redheaded Step Child"

By Wally Hauck
Soft skills are those personal attributes, attitudes, and communication methods that enable people to have high quality interpersonal interactions. Soft skills have been the "red-headed step child" of the C-Suite leaders for a long time. They have been dismissed and/or ignored because they were thought to be unimportant or even unnecessary.
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Leadership – Inspiring Baby Boomers to Remain Engaged

Leadership—Inspiring-Baby-Boomers-to-Remain-Engaged

By Mike Krutza with Co-Author: Jodi Wiff
So tell me, what do you think about leadership? Yes, it may be a simple question but comes with a not-so-simple answer. Is it just about merely barking orders here and there?

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Social Media Can Help Contact Centres Enhance Customer Service

Social Media Can Help Contact Centres Enhance Customer Service
By Martin Hofschroer
Contact centres can enhance customer service by employing a wider range of communication channels.
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How to Not Approach Customer Service

How to Not Approach Customer Service

By Dan Jenkins
This article is about avoiding tactics that will get you less customer service than you need. Perhaps the point of this article is this: Customer Service Representatives are people, not companies. If you want the help of a person, don't treat them like a company.
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