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7 Reasons You Need a Consultant when Looking for a New Call Center Site

By: Colin Taylor

Why would you want to retain a consultant? Common wisdom would have it that all they do is “borrow your watch and tell you the time”. What can a consultant really bring to the table that can assist your center and your organization when you a looking at moving or establishing [...]

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 [...]

What is the role of contact centers in customer satisfaction?

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 – What is the role of contact centers in customer satisfaction? Colin Taylor – Contact and call centers are the primary conduit through which companies and increasingly everyone else [...]

The future for Call Center Industry In Canada

Many call centres in Canada serve the United States market and these centres saw job cuts as a result of the recession in the US and significantly increased operational expenses as a result of the strengthening of the Canadian dollar. The political backlash in the US of outsourcing and specifically off-shoring has lead to protectionist activities [...]

The evolution of a Business Process Outsourcer

By Colin Taylor As many of our regular readers will know I have been in this business for more than a few years, having started by selling magazine subscriptions through outbound calling for a Toronto based Service Agency in 1976. The industry has changed significantly since this time. The essence of the services being delivered [...]

Customer Reach November 2009

In the November 2009 issue:

Beware my Son the Consultant– Is everyone a Consultant? – By Colin Taylor Tribal Engagement: Redefining Customer Engagement – By Joe Tawfik Inside TRG – TRG adds ContactCenterWorld.com news feed to website Case Study – In this regular column we review the successes that TRG is part of – Assisted a Major [...]

Inside the Mind of the Outsource Agency

By Colin Taylor, Founder & CEO Anything you are doing today could be outsourced. This article is not about whether you should or shouldn’t outsource: that is a business decision only you can make. Rather this article strives to provide some insight into the outsource agency’s mind and what lies behind their contact delivery and [...]

ATA reaffirms support for anti-offshoring Bill, calls for amendments

Australia’s peak Contact Centre body the ATA has reaffirmed its support for Senator Steve Fielding’s proposed anti-offshoring legislation.

The ATA has also called for further amendments made to the proposed Keeping Jobs from Going Offshore (Protection of Personal Information) Bill 2009, to ensure that any organisations using offshore contact centres be accredited under the Australian [...]

Lots of empty call center space out there

According to King White at Site Selection LLC, there are more than 200 empty call centers on their database in representing more than 1.3 million square feet. By my calculation this would also represent approximately 75,000 empty seats and 100,000 jobs lost. This is one of the clearest indications that recession is biting in the [...]

Dell to charge for US based support calls

So Dell believes they have found a solution to the level of dissatisfaction that customers feel when dealing with their offshore contact centers. For just $13/month or $99 a year you can speak with US based support agents with a wait time of two minutes or less. Those customers who do not enrol in the [...]