Is your company growth reaching the volumes that there are not enough hands in the office to answer all of the calls that are flooding your lines? You never want to turn business away but what else can you do? What exactly is a call center (known also as a call centre) and how can you benefit from one?
Do you need to save more time, and the overtime money that you have been paying out for far too long? No matter how much you try you can not be in the office 24/7/365 and neither can your employees so saving time is important just like saving funds are. What if there is a place available to handle such a request that you need along with the level of service you would give? If you try to have your local employees’ work extra hours to man the phones it’s going to cost more, you want to save money not lose it.
When you decide to launch a large advertising campaign are you going to be prepared for the growth that comes along with it? What happens if you go from “decent sales” to “an explosion of sales” to the point you cannot keep up with the demand?
All hands on deck – even if you have a dozen employees dedicated to answering all calls, what happens during peak time? The time when the phone lines flood and you still do not have enough hands to answer those phones. Having a full staff dedicated within a call center means there will always be more available “just in case” rather than having a potential client on hold for 20 minutes waiting for someone’s line to free up they disappear with disappointment of never be answered at the same time you lose a sale.
Some people still want to talk to a real person, not an automated system that gets confusing and not someone who cannot really help them. If you can still provide real support with real people clients will always be appreciative of this.
Is your office in your home? Do you need to sound a little more professional even when you deal mostly with the back end issues and not the hands on day to day issues of your clients? Why not take the time to hire a professional call center to deal directly with your calls so that you can spend more time doing what you do best, the management.
You could be all management but you still need someone who is all customer service oriented. This still allows you to be hands on in taking care of your normal duties and allows the customer to get the information they need before ordering with your company.
The other possibility is that inquires vary between different positions within your company that you just may not have enough people to handle the call needs, then what train more people? A call center can be equipped from the start to handle all phone inquires needs; no matter the level of support may be needed.
2 comments:
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Call center is one of the most outsourced BPO services and business firms have different strategy for them to save cost that is why buyers tend to consolidate their call center providers.
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