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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 December 10, 2012 in Call Center Management • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • Net Promoter • Research • retention • Strategy • The Taylor Reach Group

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The recent release of the CX Snapshot Report on Financial Service contact centers provided insight into the challenges that many of these organizations face related to securing new customers. Acquisition calls were placed to the call centers to secure new credit cards should be a fairly straight forward process yet this isn’t always the case. […]

Posted on December 07, 2012 in Call Center Assessment • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • Financial Services • Net Promoter • Quality • Research • Strategy • The Taylor Reach Group

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Failure to Forge an Emotional Connection Restricts Financial Services Sales Potential Toronto – ON (PRWEB) December 06, 2012 The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (Taylor Reach) and Contextual Strategy Group, LLC (CSG) announced today the release of a CX Snapshot℠ report on Financial Services call centers. Taylor Reach and CSG completed calls employing an ‘acquisition scenario’ […]

Posted on September 26, 2012 in Call Center Performance • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • News • Research

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Recent American Express Global Customer Service Barometer research has found that Canadians are fed up with poor Customer Service: Of 1,003 Canadians 18+ who responded to a customer service survey: 32 per cent said customer service is getting worse. 39 per cent hung up the phone on a customer service representative. 21 per cent stormed […]

Posted on August 23, 2012 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Strategy • The Taylor Reach Group

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Hospitality and Property Management Vertical Best for Corporate and Call Center Alignment Snapshotz benchmarking of call and contact centers world wide released the results of analysis of more than 600 call centers highlighting the connection between corporate goals and a centers objective. Center directors and VP’s when asked about the connection between the business and […]

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 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 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 […]