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Posted on July 04, 2018 in Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Hiring a call center consultant • Insourcing • Offshoring-Outsourcing • Opinion • Site Selection • Strategy • Success • Tax Refund • Taxes

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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 […]

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 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 September 01, 2011 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Planning • Research • Strategy • Technology

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Can Snapshotz deliver $ savings in the public sector? This public sector organization employing 55 agents conducted a review of their centre using the Snapshotz Online tool and support from Customer Services Audit. Initially not expecting to find anything new as multiple databases and an archaic CRM tool were big bugbears. However it was decided […]

Posted on July 26, 2011 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Education • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Newsletters • Occupancy • People management • Quality • Research • Strategy • Technology • Telecommunications • The Taylor Reach Group • Turnover

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Floral distributor executive wins Snapshotz call centre audit draw The winner of a draw held in Toronto for free usage of the Snapshotz call centre audit tool is Amas Tenumah, Vice-President, Operations for Teleflora, a floral distribution network. Tenrmah receives a single-user license for Snapshotz that will be applied in the Teleflora Oklahoma City call […]

Posted on February 23, 2011 in Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • retention • Strategy • Turnover

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Staff Retention By Colin Taylor I was chatting earlier today with a conference organizer who wanted to get my opinion as to what the ‘hot’ buttons were regarding potential conference topics that they could offer. This was reminiscent of other similar calls I have fielded over the years and one of the top 3 topics […]

Posted on October 29, 2010 in Call Center Consulting • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Education • Financial Services • Planning • Purchasing Decisions

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Operational Indicators: Financial MetricsCost per Call / Cost perMinute Operating & Capital Expenditure / FTE – In the last three posts we discussed various operating indicators. Those indicators were measuring and representing the efficiency of the operation. In this post, we step beyond the pure operation point of view and will look at some of […]

Posted on September 16, 2010 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Reach • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Lists • Networking • Occupancy • Offshoring-Outsourcing • Opinion • People management • Planning • Purchasing Decisions • Quality • retention • Root Cause Analysis • Sales • Technology • Telecommunications • The Taylor Reach Group • Turnover

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We recently were asked this question by Call Center Life, a magazine serving the Turkish call center industry and wanted to share this content here… Question: Can you briefly describe the “to do’s” and “not to do’s” when managing a contact center as a part of the customer satisfaction? Answers: One of my matras has […]

Posted on July 19, 2010 in Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Root Cause Analysis • Strategy

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Anyone that operates a call center consulting firm has heard this question before: what is the cost of poor service to my organization? According to recent research the answer may be $243. Is one call, email or chat in your center worth $243? That’s the cost that a Greenfield/Ovum study found in a 16 country […]