Colin Taylor
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Canadian Call Centre Growth

And this just in a A Cheektowaga company plans to hire 40 workers for a new call center in Fort Erie.Northstar Location Services Inc. will open its first Canadian operation on June 1 at the Crossroads Travel Centre, according to the Niagara Falls Review.

New call centres were announced recently by Wipro who is [...]

US Call Center Industry sees Negative Growth

The month of April saw the US call center industry actually contract by approx 675 jobs after months of positive growth. The net reduction was cited in the April 2012 Call Center Openings & Expansions Report, published by the Site Selection Group. Based on major announcements of openings expansions and closings the report saw global [...]

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 [...]

Transcom to Close Sault Ste Marie Call Center

In addition to the closure of their St Catherines Ontario call centre announced earlier this month Transcom has now announced its intention to close its Sault Ste Marie, Ontario call centre. At the same time Transcom is expanding its operations in two centres in the Philippines. The company says that these events are unrelated and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Shouldn’t 911 calls be answered?

911 call centers generally have a service level of 100/5 that is to say they answer 100% of calls within 5 seconds. This is the level of service that everyone expects when we call a 911 center.

A news story on the week end told a different story. In Harrison Township Ohio they recently launched [...]

Travel Update

Wow,That has been one tiring week and a half. Spent one week in Ireland meeting with a number of major call and contact center operators. Great meetings, the change in the economy is staggering over the past 20 years!The price of everything is expensive, beer and a club sandwich at $ 25, homes are multiple [...]