Customer Service Outsourcing

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Top 10 Things to Assess on Your Contact Center Vendor Site Visit

by Blue Ocean in Blog, Contact Center Outsourcing, Customer Service Outsourcing

  Choosing a strategic partner to deliver an outsourced customer care solution is a significant business decision – maybe one of the most significant decisions you’ll make in your career. You’ll task your team with running a tight procurement process to assess potential contact center partners. Undoubtedly, that will involve a number of stakeholders on […]

 

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The 5 Biggest Challenges Facing In-House Contact Centers. Is Outsourcing the Answer?

by Blue Ocean in Blog, Contact Center Outsourcing, Customer Service Outsourcing

  For many organizations, in-house customer care feels like the right choice. It keeps you close to your customers and ready to serve them with your comprehensive knowledge of your products or services. But doing it all in-house also comes with its pain points, and, if customer care is looked at internally as just a […]

 

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Why SaaS Leaders Should Outsource Their Customer Success Program

by Beth Bartlett in Beth Bartlett, Blog, Contact Center Outsourcing, Customer Service Outsourcing, SaaS

When we are talking to organizations in the sales cycle, we will often hear from SaaS companies that the customer success role is too complex, too critical, too deeply embedded in their internal operations to ever be outsourced. We are here today to say, with respect, they’re wrong. It’s kind of ironic because many (most?) […]

 

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What’s the True Cost of Your In-House Contact Center? (And How Does It Compare to Outsourcing?)

by Blue Ocean in Blog, Contact Center Outsourcing, Customer Service Outsourcing

  Too tired to read? Listen to the audio via our podcast here: It’s a question we get asked a lot, and it’s one of the hardest ones to answer because it’s rare and challenging to determine a true apples-to-apples comparison, especially when there are intangible impacts like damage to brand when things go sideways. […]

 

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ESG and the RFP: How to Assess Your Outsourcer’s ESG Efforts

by Blue Ocean in Blog, Contact Center Outsourcing, Contact Center RFP, Customer Service Outsourcing

The first mainstream mention of ESG as a concept came from the United Nations in 2004 in their report titled “Who Cares Wins.” The report urged stakeholders to consider environmental, social, and governance factors in their financial processes and investments. Simultaneously, worldwide attention on issues of sustainability and diversity began to take off and haven’t […]

 

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Championing the Championship: Outsourced Customer Care for a National Sports Association [A Case Study]

by Blue Ocean in Case Studies, Contact Center Outsourcing, Customer Service Outsourcing

  Every year, this national sports association holds their annual pro championships. However, along with everything else in the world, the pandemic forced them to cancel the 2020 event. In 2021, the championship went forward but with many restrictions. By 2022, fans were starved for action. As a result, record numbers of attendees and, consequently, […]

 

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