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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 & [...]

What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers

What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers By Colin Taylor In the daily operation of our call and contact centers we throw around metrics and performance measures like they were candy. It has been said that call centers produce more data and more measurement opportunities than is possible in almost any other communications channel. But [...]

Floral distributor executive wins Snapshotz Call Centre Audit Draw

Floral distributor executive wins Snapshotz call centre audit draw

The winner of a draw held in Toronto for free usage of the Snapshotz call centre audit tool is Amas Tenumah, Vice-President, Operations for Teleflora, a floral distribution network. Tenrmah receives a single-user license for Snapshotz that will be applied in the Teleflora Oklahoma City call [...]

Customer Reach Newsletter June 2011

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CUSTOMER REACH® VOLUME 8, ISSUE 6 JUNE 2011 ISSN 1718-8938 Inside this Issue

Workforce Management Demystified Floral distributor executive wins Snapshotz call centre audit draw What Call Center Metrics mean to Customers Upcoming Events Why does ‘Tunnel Vision exist among clever [...]

The US Contact Center Decision-Makers’ Guide, 2011 Now Available

“The US Contact Center Decision-Makers’ Guide, 2011″, the major annual report studying the performance, operations, technology and HR aspects of US contact center operations, is now available for download, free of charge. A detailed structured questionnaire was asked to hundreds of contact center managers and directors, and the result is the 4th edition of the [...]

10 Relatively Serious Predictions for 2011

John Cockerill 1. There will be a future however bleak or rosy, it will still be. Take off the rose colored glasses and stop forecasting historical plus 5%. That is what a demand forecast is for. Get one now. 2. Politicians will still get elected; and we all will complain regardless of who is elected [...]

Taylor Reach client Terasen Gas announces new Call Center

Terasen Gas has announced their new call center in Burnaby BC.

Taylor Reach executed a site selection project Terasen Gas and other projects including technology acquistion, and multi-channel strategy. Read the In-Sourcing Case Sudy here

The Do’s and Don’ts to Achieve Customer satisfaction in your contact center

We recently were asked this question by Call Center Life, a magazine serving the Turkish call center industry and wanted to share this content here…

Question: Can you briefly describe the “to do’s” and “not to do’s” when managing a contact center as a part of the customer satisfaction?

Answers: One of my matras [...]

Operational Indicators – Sevice Levels & ASA

By Turaj Seyrafiaan In the last Indicators post we discussed one of the most important operational indicators: Average Handle Time or AHT. In this issue we continue with other operational indicators dealing with the efficiency of the center, i.e. “Service Level”, “Average Speed of Answer (ASA)” and “Occupancy Rate”. Although each indicator provides different information, [...]