Opinion

Posted on November 21, 2012 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • Offshoring-Outsourcing • Opinion • Quality • The Taylor Reach Group

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By Colin Taylor Following the “Customer Experience is the New Marketing” webinar I did last week I received an interesting question…“Have you found that international 3rd party call centers automatically put you into a negative customer experience for US based customers?” How would you have answered this question? We know that research has shown that […]

Posted on November 16, 2012 in AHT • ASA • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Centre Ops • Opinion • People management • The Taylor Reach Group

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By: Colin Taylor We recently asked this question and thought that the topic was worth sharing. Let me know whether you agree with the response and how you would handle this issue in your contact center. Here is the question: “ What is your position on announcing what number ‘in queue’ a customer is, through […]

Posted on November 15, 2012 in Chat • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • Opinion • Planning • Social Media • The Taylor Reach Group

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By: J.D. Fairweather There’s gold in them thar hills, or so you would be led to believe by the social media pushers who drive companies to open up their service and support departments to the social stream. While the popularity of this format cannot be denied, I would like to take a minute’s pause from […]

Posted on November 07, 2012 in Contact Centre Ops • Economic Development • News • Offshoring-Outsourcing • Opinion • The Taylor Reach Group

Tags: #cctr• #custserv• call center closing• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Operational Management• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group

. The Canadian Press Published Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 1:43PM EST Another Canadian contact center is closing. This time it is Teleperformance in Cornwall Ontario. While the reasons were not disclosed I would guess it is due to the strength of the Canadian dollar and the relative uncompetitiveness with US locations. CORNWALL, Ont. — It […]

Posted on September 09, 2012 in Incentives • News • Offshoring-Outsourcing • Opinion • Site Selection

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #custserv• call center jobs

Last week TeleTech announced they were laying off 216 people at its Halifax call centre, which received almost $12 million dollars in job creation grants a decade ago. Marriott also announced last week that they are closing their Fredericton NB centre, laying off 260 staff. Both of these announcements reflect the impact of the change […]

Posted on April 26, 2012 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Opinion • Strategy • Success

Tags: #callcenterDIY• #cctr• #custserv• Alignment• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Good Customer Service• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group

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 messages can […]

Posted on March 22, 2012 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Opinion • Planning • Strategy • Technology

Tags: #callcenterDIY• #custserv• chat• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• email• Strategy• Taylor Reach Group• web forms

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Posted on March 20, 2012 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Facts and Figures • Opinion • Planning • Strategy • Technology

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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 […]

Posted on March 15, 2012 in Contact Centre Ops • Opinion

Tags: culture• goldman sachs• Greg Smith• Lloyd C. Blankfein• muppets

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 Me […]

Posted on March 08, 2012 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Opinion • Planning • Strategy • The Taylor Reach Group

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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 […]