The road to choosing an outsourced contact center provider is usually a long one. It’s a strategic decision to protect your brand and put customer care in the hands of experts so you can focus your organization’s resources on your core competencies. But it’s a lengthy process loaded with informal conversations as well as the […]
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Running a successful strategic sourcing process for high value services like outsourced customer service is a complex undertaking. The process extends from building and running an RFP competition, through delicate negotiations, and right down to crafting the service level agreement. The senior strategic sourcing professional must be an expert in not only his or her […]
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Some of our most popular blog posts are the ones that help potential clients navigate their way through the procurement process for contact center services – especially content that looks at what questions to ask potential vendors. The first quarter of the calendar year is typically a busy time in the world of contact center […]
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The evolution of the self-serve customer service solution isn’t exactly headline news as we enter this new year. We all know that many, if not most, consumers today prefer to avoid interacting with a live customer service representative if a self-serve option is available. But when a complex situation pushes a consumer to their wit’s […]
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One of our most popular blog posts focuses on which contact center predictions from the past few years have come true in the world of outsourced customer service. In this post, we thought we’d take a look into the metaphorical crystal ball ourselves and try to identify some major shifts coming our way over the […]
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As experts in forecasting, we know call volume spikes are inevitable and not always predictable. From extreme weather to product recalls, there’s an infinite number of scenarios that will flood your contact center in an instant, resulting in increased average handle times, wait times, and customer frustration. To preserve customer loyalty and sustain healthy CSAT […]
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So you made it through the contact center RFP process and your selection team made their final choice. Is the headache over? Can you finally hand over the metaphorical keys and let your new contact center outsourcer take the wheel? That would be nice, wouldn’t it? But we’ll be the first to admit that unfortunately it […]
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The world’s online footprint continues to expand at astonishing rates, leaving us with big shoes to fill when it comes to online customer service. This is especially true in the B2C sector, where, as Twitter recently published, tweets aimed at B2C organizations are growing at 50% per year, with more and more people turning to […]
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Ever try to predict the outcome of anything? It’s no easy feat. Sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke said predictions about the future can be a “discouraging, hazardous occupation.” Either you sound believable, but are proved pitifully shortsighted or you sound loony, and are proven right too late. For prediction-makers, it’s often lose-lose. But we’ve been […]
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Thanks to emerging customer support channels like social media and live chat, as well as evolving technologies like speech recognition, there are more ways than ever for customers to initiate (and resolve) a service inquiry. And when they have options at their fingertips, customers are showing a growing preference for self-service options using automated IVRs, […]
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