Call Center Blog

October 21, 2014 - OnBrand24 has stepped up its credit card and consumer protection infrastructure on behalf of its inbound customer service call center clients and their customers. The company has earned a Merchant Level 1 PCI certified call center services provider. This ranking, rare among outsourced call center services providers, was certified by CompliancePoint, Duluth, GA, a qualified security assessor (QSA) company that offers consulting, audit and training services that help businesses mitigate risk and ensure compliance with the complex array of state, federal and international laws.

“Our clients place great trust and faith in us to properly and securely protect their customers’ credit card and purchasing data, and this is a responsibility we take very seriously,” said Mark Fichera, CEO, OnBrand24. “With the security breaches that have taken place at Target, Home Depot and, more recently, a potential breach at Staples,it’s important that we take every measure possible to ensure that customer data is handled in the most secure manner. This is a critically important aspect of customer service.”

Running a customer service call center services organization – whether it’s an in-house group or an outsourced provider – is a major challenge. So much of our time gets consumed with technology considerations and with the financial end of the operation that it’s a good idea to regularly pull together the leadership team and examine the quality of the customer service that the organization is delivering.

June 20, 2014 - Relying on a third party call center services provider to handle that most valuable of business interactions – talking, emailing and chatting with customers – requires a leap of faith that many customer services, sales, marketing and operations managers find difficult to make.