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Two Trends in Quality Assurance- What’s Ahead for Call Center QA

Traditionally call center quality assurance has focused on the back end of the activity, assessing the call after it is completed. This is a little like closing the barn door after the horse has left. It also means that we must accept that any issues or problems that impacted on the specific call assessed [...]

Snapshotz Monthly Newsletter- Thousand Flowers in Bloom- Millennial Myths Busted-The Language of Leadership

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The Snapshotz Online Download April 2012 What’s on the menu of the April issue of ‘Download’ • Snapshotz: “Enabling a thousand flowers to bloom” • Millennial myths busted – learning’s for contact center management • “There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished [...]

Why Most Call Center Customer Service is So Bad?

By: Colin Taylor

We have all had the experience, we phone our cable company, wireless provider or our utility and Bang! The pain and suffering begins: “Your call is important us, Please hold”. Well if my call was really important I would have thought you would have answered it. Of course some hold messages [...]

How Does Your Call Center Rate? – Find Out Now!

The Snapshotz Online comparator is designed to serve as a guide for contact center management to get a view quick view of where their center sits vis-à-vis other centers in the same vertical worldwide.

The comparator is drawn from data across the 400 plus centers that use Snapshotz as an audit and benchmarking tool.

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Check Out the New Issue of Customer Reach

Is Your Website a Call Center Tool? Millennial Myths & The Call Center, News, Views and “How to’s”

In This Issue Is Your Website is a Call Center Tool? Millennial Myths & the Call Center By Colin Taylor Coming Events Call Center Wishes Can Come True…No Genie Required Trends for 2012 from Snapshotz & Customer [...]

The True Costs of Turnover

The following statistics are food for thought when we consider the real costs of turnover in our organization.

Halogen Software shared the following information “The cost of losing good talent is particularly acute and one of the most direct calculations that demonstrates the impact of poor talent management. • HCI research shows that at a [...]

Millennial Myths & the Call Center

By Colin Taylor

I read an interesting article by Jennifer J Deal at strategy+business looking at five myths we hold about Millennials. For the past number of years we have all heard horror stories about organizations that gave away iPads, spot bonuses, socially conscious and social responsible activities, but still had staff leave for [...]

New Video – Your Website as a Customer Support Tool

Just uploaded a new video to our YouTube channel on optimizing your website as a Call Center and customer support tool. Check out the video here

Is Your Website is a Call Center Tool?

By: Colin Taylor

Recent research by Forrester has shown that 72% of customers prefer to visit your web site and serve themselves when they have a customer service issue. This is a large percentage and is disconnected from the perceptions of most organizations related to the activity in their contact center. This figure clearly points [...]

You Don’t Know What you Don’t Know

By: Colin Taylor If I asked you today is the top things you could do to improve the operation of your call center, you would probably have a pretty good idea. That is because you are responsible for the center operation and you live and breathe it each and every day. Now if I asked [...]