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On-Site vs Virtual Procurement: The Best Way to Find Your Contact Center Outsourcer

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It seems so long ago now that Lockdown Life has faded into some barely-remembered bad dream, but the global changes it triggered are still top of mind, especially the ongoing dialogue/debate about the relative merits of work-at-home versus work-in-office. Pro Tips: Remember, the folks on the call are in competition with each other.

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70 Customer Care RFP Questions (An Updated List + RFP Template)

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(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. How many physical centers do you operate? What is unique about your agent training regimen? For remote training?

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The State of B2C Complex Customer Care

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With everything shifting so quickly, many customers were more tolerant of longer wait times and challenges in achieving first call resolution. All this adds up to the fact that the work trickling down to Tier 1 and Tier 2 agents is shifting in complexity. That said, this move results in a different level of work for Tier 2 agents.

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60 Customer Care RFP Questions for the Contact Center of Today

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If you’re faced with the decision to find a new customer care outsourcer in the post-pandemic era, now’s the time to dive in. How many physical centers do you operate? List address & number of employees for each location) What percent of your workforce is remote/work-at-home? How many full-time employees do you have?

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What’s the True Cost of Your In-House Contact Center? (And How Does It Compare to Outsourcing?)

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So, we’ll take a comprehensive look at the cost of ownership of your in-house contact center – both intangible and tangible expenses – and how it compares to the cost of outsourcing. But the truth is that an “agent hour” encompasses much more than basic labor costs – and compensation is only the beginning. Yes, you can.

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What’s the State of Work-at-Home in Customer Care in 2017?

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They had been outsourcing their customer service to a call center with a predominantly “work-at-home” (WAH) model and one of the first questions they asked us was about work-at-home agents. We won the business with a solution that was based entirely on using agents located in our center.

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5 Evolving Contact Center Technologies and Where the Next Year Will Take Them

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Contact center technologies are certainly in the mix of acceleration. The most recent publication from Ryan Strategic Advisory surveyed contact center leaders about the state of the industry. We dug into their sentiments and expectations about the future of five key contact center technologies. Contact Center Data Analytics.