December 5, 2014 - For retailers and e-commerce companies, maximizing the value of live chat customer service involves several basic principles that make all the difference when you add chatting capability to your retail site.
Nov. 12, 2014 - Call center customer service is important work, rewarding work and it can also be frustrating work. A big part of being professional within a call center services setting is handling frustrating situations with angry callers in a patient way that is intended to resolve the situation in a way that retains the customer’s loyalty and good will.
It can be difficult for the customer service representative to keep his or her composure with an angry or rude caller, and to remain professional throughout a full day of handling inbound calls. But it’s what is required of call center work, remaining professional at all times.
The conference, held by the International Customer Management Institute (ICMI), was centered on boosting call center operations, on utilizing advanced technology and putting in place effective IT strategies, personnel management and lowering staff turnover, training and overall operations.
Sept. 24, 2014 - As with nearly all aspects of life, technology is revolutionizing outsourced call center services. And as with so many other things, it’s hard to comprehend how the call center did its job, back in the day, without technology accessible to everyone.
Sept. 22, 2014 - If you put an employment listing for a call center customer service agent on craigslist you’ll probably get a good response. Many of them will be those looking for their first “real” job – people who, to date, have worked at grocery stores, fast food restaurants, worked construction and so forth. Now they want something else so they figure they’ll give call center services work a try.
September 11, 2014 – It’s trade show season for the call center industry. At least it is for this call center company. Over the next eight weeks, we will exhibit at five conferences that are both national and regional in nature. We hope to see you at one of them:
Running a customer service call center services organization – whether it’s an in-house group or an outsourced provider – is a major challenge. So much of our time gets consumed with technology considerations and with the financial end of the operation that it’s a good idea to regularly pull together the leadership team and examine the quality of the customer service that the organization is delivering.
August 29, 2014 - Are we a call center or a contact center? This has been the topic of long and loud debate around our company. Which one are we?
July 25, 2014 – The work of a customer service representative or cold calling B2B lead generation specialist at an outsourced call center is not easy. It is challenging to maintain the quality standards established by clients, productivity requirements are high and there are many processes and procedures that agents need to be able to perform.
