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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 [...]

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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 & Customer [...]

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 [...]

Greg Smith channels Jerry Maguire or Does He Protest to Much?

By: Colin Taylor I read with interest Greg Smith’s op-ed piece in the NY Times where he publicly resigned from Goldman Sachs.

As I read the piece I was struck by a number of things: first, that he seemed to be channeling Jerry Maguire that great 1990′s movie most famous for the line “Show [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Customer Interaction, Service & Experience – January 17

Below are some of our favorite blogs and posts on call centers, customer service, and customer experience that we have come across in the past few days. Hope you enjoy reading them as well. Let us know your thoughts comments and suggestions- we appreciate the feedback.

Customer service needs friendly return Delaware News Imagine how [...]

Who said all the Call Center Incentives were Gone?

Just read the Site Selection Groups’ Economic Incentives market Report for December 2011 and it became very clear to me that incentives can still be a significant inducement to business locations and drive localized economic development.

The December reports references 186 projects garnering incentives of more than $750 million. The largest project listed is [...]

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 a [...]