Colin Taylor
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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 [...]

Customer Interaction, Service & Experience – January 11

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

Alaska Airlines ranks high with WSJ TheNewsTribune.com The Wall Street Journal’s Middle Seat blog is out with its 2011 [...]

Self Service – Of Cents & Sensibility Part 1

Self Service – Of Cents & Sensibility Part 1 By: Colin Taylor A 1% improvement in customer satisfaction in utilities is worth 4.6% in market value growth so says Claes Fornell of the University of Michigan, producers of the American Customer Satisfaction Index. So if good service pays such high dividends: why is there so [...]

Consumers believe service on the way down

Consumers believe service on the way down A new study has found that more than half of Australians believe customer service levels have declined in the past five years. The study by consultancy AMR and customer feedback platform Feedback ASAP, is based on a survey of 521 Australian consumers. According to the report, 58.5% of [...]

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The Snapshotz Online Update August 2011

A Snapshotz of August: Conversations and contributions from International contact centre figures A Snapshotz of August: Technology trends in a nutshell, knowledge and skills for the modern contact centre manager, Industry voices and positive health in the contact centre, why customer service is viewed [...]

Can a SaaS Based Call Center Tool Deliver Real Savings?

Can Snapshotz deliver $ savings in the public sector?

This public sector organization employing 55 agents conducted a review of their centre using the Snapshotz Online tool and support from Customer Services Audit. Initially not expecting to find anything new as multiple databases and an archaic CRM tool were big bugbears. However it was decided [...]

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 [...]

How Easy is Your Call Center to Deal With?

“Simplify, simplify”, said David Thoreau and that is good advice for today’s call center and contact center operator. In our call center consulting practice we have seen many organizations that added too much complexity into the process that created barriers and obstacles for customers to overcome. [...]

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 [...]

The Help or Helpless Desk?

A new study, “Help Desk Efficiency Report 2010,” from 1E, a software/services company found a remarkable number dysfunctions in the Help Desk of the 1,000 plus IT professionals who participated in the study. These challenges include: * 44% of users feel that ordering software from their Help Desk is inefficient and time consuming, * 2/3 [...]