If you’re like any other growing business, your team members likely spend a substantial amount of time focused on the procurement of new customers, and the increase of revenue in your existing market. However, you must also question whether this is the most optimal use of daily operational activities performed by your in-house staff.
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When it comes to outsourced call center customer service, there remains a perennial debate over whether a premises-based or virtual approach is the superior staffing model.
OnBrand24, a leading provider of domestic outsourced call center services, has announced the addition of a new “Semi-Dedicated” model to its portfolio of customer service options available to clients. The new service gives companies the specialized skills of dedicated customer service representatives at lower cost.
Hiring new call center customer service agents is an involved process in which job candidates are assessed for offering the right experience, educational and skills qualifications to deliver the customer experience that OnBrand24 inbound services clients expect.
Once the hiring process is completed, the next step is our extensive customer service call center orientation and training process. In fact, new hires don’t actually begin handling inbound phone calls, emails and chats for our clients for several days.
It’s said that you never have a second chance at a first impression. In the cold-calling world of an outbound sales representative, this is typically the case. A first impression with a decision maker, however, doesn’t happen unless you actually reach that decision maker. The Sandler Sales Training methodology instills a protocol in sales representatives providing a framework to follow to bypass gatekeepers, reach decision makers, and convert suspects into paying customers.
Are you a getting tired of reading blog after blog about, Omni-channel Customer Service, Voice Analytics, Measuring FCR, Gamification, etc.? How about if we do a little blocking and tackling for a change and look into true costs for a call center customer service agent.
If you’re on a sales prospecting call and things are going well, often times the temptation is to try for the sale right then and there. Let’s face it; getting the sale on the first call isn’t very likely. It’s pure magic when it happens, but it doesn’t happen all that often. Instead, set an internal goal of appointment setting, not closing. It’s a much more attainable goal, and getting your prospects to sign on the line which is dotted has a higher likelihood of success in person.
Think of it this way. You might refer to a feature when describing why you made a purchase, but the feature isn’t the reason why you bought it, the benefit is. And the reason why is benefits are what's in it for you. Features are usually the clever invention that provides the benefit.
November 20, 2014 – The U.S. Commerce Department announced that American consumers spent $78.1 billion on e-commerce purchases in the most recently completed quarter, with e-commerce representing 6.6 percent of all retail sales.
That’s a jump of 16.2 percent in e-commerce consumer activity over the third quarter of 2013 and more than 4 percent above Q2 of this year.
