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Home working, customer care insights from ITEXPO West

September 17, 2008

While managing the SIP in the Contact Center Certification track at ITEXPO West yesterday I came across two excellent insights courtesy of the speakers and the attendees...on how to manage bandwidth at home agents' premises, and that you don't have to be live with customers to give excellent customer service
Posted in Call Center CRM, VoIP

Are You Prepared for the Next Disaster? Probably Not

September 12, 2008

There no excuse other than sheer carelessness leading to negligence not to have a solid, tested, business continuity/disaster response plan. Firms that do not are putting their employees' lives at risk along with their businesses. They are a needless part of the problem that professionals like my son, who is a paramedic and who is out there every day saving lives do not need when responding to emergencies. I hope the DMG Consulting/Empirix paper shakes people up. If one more contact center decides to sit down and write or revamp their plans as a result of it then some good will have come.
Posted in Call Center CRM

There's No Place Like Show...Like ITEXPO West

September 10, 2008

Yet when all is said and done there is still nothing like going to a conference/trade show floor and checking out the solutions and the exhibitors one-on-one, face-to-face, to get realtime information and answers to your specific needs via your multitude of senses. For those reasons I strongly encourage you to attend ITEXPO WEST and make time to visit the show floor to visit the exhibitors to see what's new and what will be new in the way of solutions that could help your organization be the best it can be.
Posted in Call Center CRM

Come to Class at ITEXPO West!

September 8, 2008

One of the coolest aspects of IT EXPO WEST is TMC University
Posted in Call Center CRM

Labor Day Message: Treat Your Workers Well and Be Rewarded

August 28, 2008

When heading off for the Labor Day weekend, think of the people who make it possible: those who work for you like your contact center agents and supervisors for whom Labor Day is a workday where they deliver the customer service that we all depend on. And when thinking of your staff examine ways in which you can treat them better, so that they can become more productive and loyal that in turn leads to higher revenues, lower costs, and greater customer satisfaction. You may even be recognized by your peers for the results that you have achieved.
Posted in Call Center CRM

SpeechTEK Notes...

August 22, 2008

Several notes from SpeechTEK, held earlier this week in New York City...The industry is waiting for 'G', as in 3G, to enable integrated voice/visual (web/video) solutions to mobile customers...Legislation/regulations are affecting offerings...Personalization, speech analytics, and call avoidance coming key...Concerns/questions about security of automated speech authentication
Posted in Call Center CRM

Forget SpeechTek: The Buzz Is With Aumtech/MS Speech Rec

August 18, 2008

I could be wrong but what Aumtech and Microsoft have done is arguably the single most important development yet in speech rec: by putting together the tools that are there.
Posted in Call Center CRM

Must see (and hear) speech rec webinar Thursday Aug.14

August 11, 2008

Speech recognition has long been a 'tomorrow' technology, promising the ability to deliver contact center functionality without having contact center agents delivering them, resulting in reduced transaction costs. While the applications have reached a level that they are sufficiently rugged, user-friendly, and widespread to the point where they have trained us to speak to 'them', they have--until now--still been too expensive to be deployed outside of major and deep pocket enterprises. Until now...that is.
Posted in Call Center CRM

Canada's Do Not Call

August 1, 2008

In just less than two months from now, Canada's new Do Not Call registry will go live. This new regulation, and others, will have at last some enforcement teeth in the way of steep fines. These methods will help clean up the telemarketing industry that unfortunately like any other field has a few bad actors, poor managers, and greedy companies. Telemarketers will also benefit by using the DNC to generate a higher lead/sale per prospect ratio by not calling people who clearly don't want to buy by phone.
Posted in Call Center CRM

End of the Line for Toll-Free Numbers?

July 31, 2008

Today is the 'last run' for the toll-free number connecting New Jersey Transit, the third largest transit agency in the US, with its customers. Yet could this be the beginning of the end of toll-free numbers in North America?
Posted in Call Center CRM, E-Business, VoIP
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