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

Monthly Download

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

14 Questions You Need to ask When considering Call Center Consolidation

By: Colin Taylor Organizations today look across their customer facing organization and see cluster of call center activities: sales, technical support, customer service, returns, billing, collections etc. These call centers can exist in a companies divisions or operating companies. Even small and medium sized businesses can find that they have five or more call [...]

The Fastest and Most Effective Way to Improve your Call Centre Operation (Promo)

We are already 1 month into the new year and how is your call center performing, really? Are you achieving your goals? How do your metrics and KPI’s compare to your peer centers? Do you know? What if you had a one time opportunity to invest $50,000 in your call center, would you know where [...]

Zappos – The Emperor has No Clothes?

I am not sure if you saw this news story. Zappos got hacked on the weekend and data related to 24 million customer was exposed in whole or in part, see the story below. The most interesting thing about this event from my perspective was the last line in the article which states that due [...]

The Evolution the Call Center Audit – Benefits, How & Why…not as dull as it sounds

Just recorded this presentation and insights around call center audit value, purpose and opportunities.

On the journey to meet your customer experience and organizational goals it is essential that you can judge where you are at as well as where you are going. A contact center audit provides that assessment, guides your journey,… You [...]

#fiveideas The Results are In- Read the Post and Vote on this Weeks Topics

By: Colin Taylor Last week I asked for your help – I wanted to find out the topics that resonate with you the call or contact center operator. I promised that once you voted for your favorite I would write the article post. Well you did your part and I did mine, you can read [...]

Why the Quality Listening program Should Not be a Performance Review

Why the Quality Listening program Should Not be a Performance Review By: Colin Taylor

Let’s look at the numbers. In a customer service call center where the quality assurance program requires the evaluation of 4 calls per month. The average agent will handle approximately 1,600 calls in the month. This means that the 4 calls [...]