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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 [...]

How Does Your Call Center Rate? – Find Out Now!

The Snapshotz Online comparator is designed to serve as a guide for contact center management to get a view quick view of where their center sits vis-à-vis other centers in the same vertical worldwide.

The comparator is drawn from data across the 400 plus centers that use Snapshotz as an audit and benchmarking tool.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You Can’t Manage What you can’t Measure

You can’t manage what you can’t or don’t measure. A call center audit can provide great insights into how the center is actually operating, which maybe different than how it is expected to operate. In this webinar we examine the call centers alignment to business goals and objectives employing real-world results from more than 600 [...]

Alignment, Engagement & Supporting the Brand- Snapshotz Research

One of the great benefits of the Snapshotz call center audit tool is the insight that can be gained into the operation of not only your center, but also to the broader community that has deployed Snapshotz. To date more than 600 call center globally have utilized Snapshotz to audit their call and contact centers [...]

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 [...]