Call Center Consulting

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 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 […]

Posted on February 27, 2012 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact Centre Ops • Opportunity • Research

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With much more of 2012 to go, the February issue of ‘Download’ is packed with valuable information enable you to drive the year forward!  Megatrends for 2012: Contributions from Rod Jones an industry veteran of 35 years and our partner in South Africa  A white paper published by the Contact Center Pipeline on […]

Posted on February 13, 2012 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Planning • Research • Strategy • The Taylor Reach Group

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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 […]

Posted on February 02, 2012 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Planning • TRG

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We are already 1 month into the new year and how is your call center performing, really? Are you achieving your goals? How do your metrics and KPI’s compare to your peer centers? Do you know? What if you had a one time opportunity to invest $50,000 in your call center, would you know where […]

Posted on January 18, 2012 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Emergency • News • Opinion • Strategy

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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 […]

Posted on January 16, 2012 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Performance • Customer Experience

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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. Personalizing customer experience at every touchpoint KMWorld Magazine The […]

Posted on January 12, 2012 in Economic Development • Incentives • Opinion • Research • Site Selection • Strategy • Tax Refund • Taxes

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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 a […]

Posted on January 11, 2012 in Call Center Management • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Legislation • Research • Social Media

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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 […]

Posted on December 19, 2011 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Contact Centre Ops • retention • rewards/recognition • Strategy • Success

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The Download The Snapshotz Online Update December 2011 A Snapshotz of December 2011 In spite of the trying economic conditions globally we had had a 250% growth in customers employing Snapshotz over 2011 and have forecast to double growth in 2012. Over two thirds of Snapshotz users have a subscription purchase. Snapshotz today can still […]