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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 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 Management • Contact Centre Ops • News • Offshoring-Outsourcing • Site Selection

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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 […]

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 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 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 December 21, 2011 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Net Promoter • People management • Quality • Strategy

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New tool from Leading Call center consulting firm allows call centers to listen to their customers tell them how they are performing and measures true Customer Satisfaction, FCR and Net Promoter score. Toronto, ON (PRWEB) December 21, 2011 Colin Taylor, The Chairman and CEO of The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. today announced Customer Quality Reporting, […]

Posted on December 02, 2011 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Planning • Strategy • The Taylor Reach Group

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Just recorded this presentation and insights around call center audit value, purpose and opportunities. On the journey to meet your customer experience and organizational goals it is essential that you can judge where you are at as well as where you are going. A contact center audit provides that assessment, guides your journey,… You can […]

Posted on November 22, 2011 in Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Contact Centre Ops • Planning • Self Service • The Taylor Reach Group

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Self Service of Cents and Sensibility Part 2 By: Colin Taylor In part 1 of this three part series we looked at the history of service service, the challenges organizations and customer face when trying to interact via self service, the most popular and preferred self service channels, costs and effectiveness and declining success rates. […]