What to look for in a call center service?

Call center services might seem similar on the surface, but the details of each company’s offerings can vary quite widely. Once you start asking specific questions, the differences among the companies will start to become more apparent. To find out which vendor is right for your business, here are a few questions to ask yourself and features to look for in a call center service.

1- Inbound and outbound services
A major function of call center services is to accept calls to answer customers’ questions about your business’s products or services. Call centers can often provide information or technical support, as well as take orders and process payments over the phone. Many will also dispatch calls to you in the event a customer needs to speak directly with someone inside the company. All of these services fall under the “inbound services” umbrella.

Some call centers also offer outbound services, which include lead generation, such as cold calling and survey-data compilation. These services can also include follow-ups with previous customers to ensure their satisfaction or to further encourage a successful conversion. Some call centers also conduct feedback surveys or engage in customer winback attempts when you’ve lost someone’s business. Traditionally, call centers were viewed as a necessary expense to preserve existing relationships, but
when you consider these additional functions, call centers can actually broaden your customer base, forge new relationships and bring in more money.

Not every business needs both inbound and outbound services, so consider your business’s requirements. Once you know exactly what you need, ask each call center service which inbound and outbound services it offers.

2- Dedicated and/or shared agents?
The best call center services offer both dedicated and shared agents. Dedicated agents are assigned only to your account, giving your company their full time and attention. This is best for those businesses with specific, detailed needs that demand familiarity and consistency from their agents.

For those companies with more general needs, however, a shared agent might be more appropriate. These agents handle multiple clients of the call center, including your company, and don’t necessarily answer your business’s calls 100 percent of the time. These services are often cheaper but effective for those companies that don’t require specified attention day in and day out.

3- Reporting
A call center will be dealing directly with your customers, meaning it could have a great influence on how they perceive your business. Reporting offers you a window into the day-to-day operations of the call center service you’ve hired.

4- What is the call center’s availability?
Another important question to ask is how often agents at the call center are available. Good services have 24/7/365 availability for your customers. Selecting a service that is always available and very reliable should be a major focus for your business.

5- What is my anticipated call volume per month?
Some call center services have minimum volume requirements. These services might not be suitable for a small company that doesn’t expect many customer service calls or doesn’t intend to make many outbound calls. However, for a larger company or one that relies heavily on phone contact with customers, these services might make more sense. Try to accurately gauge your call volume and estimate how many call center agents you might need before searching for a call center service. This is especially important for pricing, since some call centers charge for a package of minutes, rather than by the month.

6- How does a company handle outages?
Call centers are an integral component of many businesses. Downtime can seriously harm your business if your customers are unable to get through to the call center agents. That means you’ll want to partner with a call center that is dependable, with reliable redundancy and a solid disaster-recovery plan so that an outage doesn’t cripple your productivity.

7- Does the company offer multilingual services?
If your business needs to reach a bilingual or multilingual audience, you’ll want to partner with a call center that has fluent speakers on staff. Many call centers offer Spanish-speaking services, and others even offer a wide array of languages to choose from. If you’re in need of a multilingual service, be sure to ask up front which languages the call center can provide for you.

This guide will help you understand the variety of call center services available and determine which one is right for your business in 2018.

Source: http://callcenterpros.com/what-to-look-for-in-a-call-center-service/

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Cloud IT Services GmbH Dialfire Dialfire offers you a complete call center solution that is simple and intuitive to use and adapts to your needs. It's completely cloud-based, saving you the hassle of setting up a phone system and installing software. In addition to predictive dialing and call blending of inbound calls, you can create personalized campaigns through an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. Features include automated workflows and full control over the agent screen. You can see the full list of features here:

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Cloudonix Cloudonix’s smart voice calls enable frictionless experiences that drive better customer care and faster sales by merging voice and data into a complete service context. Cloudonix add Cloud capabilities to your existing on premise Call Center enabling your agents to work from anywhere in the world. Security, Privacy and more – rapidly deployed and cost effective without replacing your existing systems or retraining your team.

3.)	Connectica Solutions, LLC PBX On The Cloud We provide complete Cloud-based PBX/Phone Systems, including predictive and progressive dialers, phone lines in more than 75 countries and low cost international rates. We specialize in the US and Latin American market.

4.)	DiRAD Technologies AI Powered Contact Center Provider, AI Chat & Voicebot, Enterprise Telephony Take advantage of the latest customer service innovations with Contact Center, Virtual Assistant, and Interactive Voice solutions for accessible, 24×7 services across multiple channels.

5.)	Layer One Technologies Layer One Technologies provides information and communication technology (ICT) services to businesses in the greater Charlotte area. Whatever your cabling needs, we have you covered.

6.)	Lexico Telecom SIP TRUNK PROVIDER We provide competitive SIP trunk services with different level of quality, IVR mailing service, pay per call servise, DID numbers service.

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Megacall VOIP services Stay in contact quickly and easily with your international offices through Megacall. Megacall will fulfill all your telecommunication requirements and on top of that go the extra mile and surprise you with new possibilities for your business, speed to action your requests and keeping within your budget. 📞 Virtual Switchboard 🔌 SIP trunk 🔢 Virtual number 📠 Call Center Solutions

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NetSapiens SNAPsolution Our SNAPsolution – UC and Collaboration tools – can be quickly deployed so you can realize your ROI just as quick. netsapiens offers a comprehensive suite of unified communications (UC) & Contact Center (CC) feature-sets to service providers. Custom-built to provide our partners with unprecedented levels of flexibility, customization, and ease of use. netsapiens allows you to control your margins in order to improve your ROI. As a provider of a facilities-based solution, you are able to personally choose your origination, termination, hardware costs, etc. to fit your budget. We also allow you to strategically price your product for a maximum return on your investment by charging on a conc... (read more)Our SNAPsolution – UC and Collaboration tools – can be quickly deployed so you can realize your ROI just as quick. netsapiens offers a comprehensive suite of unified communications (UC) & Contact Center (CC) feature-sets to service providers. Custom-built to provide our partners with unprecedented levels of flexibility, customization, and ease of use. netsapiens allows you to control your margins in order to improve your ROI. As a provider of a facilities-based solution, you are able to personally choose your origination, termination, hardware costs, etc. to fit your budget. We also allow you to strategically price your product for a maximum return on your investment by charging on a concurrent call basis instead of charging per-seat or per-feature. SNAPsolution, SNAPvantage, and SNAPanalytics give you all the tools to start off strong in the VoIP industry while giving you room to grow efficiently within your means. Why Sessions, Not Seats? The era of the mobile workforce is upon us. In fact, Google recently put out an estimate that 80% of the global workforce is now performing deskless work every day! Unfortunately, when it comes to providing Unified Communications (UC) features to these deskless employees, many systems operators, carriers and service providers are stuck investing in their platforms on a per-seat basis. That limits them to chasing only about 20% of the workforce - those with actual seats and desks. Why not expand your addressable market and open your business model to chase up to 5 times as many clients as you are today? If a majority of the workforce today doesn’t have a desk, does it make sense to purchase the UC solutions you want to sell by the seat? We don’t think so. That’s why we’ve created this report titled Sessions, Not Seats. In it, we’ll show you why finding a UC platform, like our SNAPsolution, that charges for sessions instead of seats is the way to go.

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Nuxiba Technologies CenterWare Build a strong business presence and improve customer relationships! Offer custom-tailored solutions throughout your sales cycles and customer interactions and assess service levels and control corporate goal achievement through reports and statistics. Obtain detailed reports based on relevant activity in your contact center, access our quality module to assess calls and performance, apply surveys, develop scripts, record conversations, and more! Schedule a live demo or request a quote today!

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PRILINK Demarc Network Traffic Monitor A lightweight Network Traffic Monitor that privides real-time traffic alerts and tracks all IP and SIP endpoints at Demarc. It analyzes mirrored SIP Trunk and Internet traffic in real-time and compiles Network Traffic Analytics (NTA) for all endpoints giving daily network traffic telemetry, most active endpoint summary, endpoint search table and more.

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Scopserv Integrated Services ScopTEL IP PBX The ScopTel IP PBX solution is a distributed software application that can be installed on both virtual and physical servers, thus offering a multitude of architectural designs from premise-based servers to a centralized data center (DC) hosted WAN environment. The application is distributed as an ISO which includes the customized Linux operating system

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Televergence Long Distance and Toll Free Specialists for Contact Centers Televergence is a facilities based US Nationwide High volume/High Capacity Inbound and Outbound VoIP Carrier for Contact Centers. We specialize in termination (outbound) and origination (toll free and local DID) for the contact center. We have a technical staff that is up to date on the majority of platforms in use today, including asterisk and Vicci dial, as well as many of the currently in use software platforms. Contact Centers generally see cost reduction and containment when using Televergence as their contact center telecom carrier. Televergence is the only active US VoIP carrier certified by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), which enables our services to qualify for meeting corporations Supplier Diversity Needs.

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The Phone Number Testing Company Phone Number Testing and Validation Bulk testing and validation of UK Landline and mobile numbers, with a growing list of other coutries where we can test. If you own a large customer or business prospect sales database, our service helps you to quickly and accurately cleanse all the dead records, by identifying all the dead phone numbers. We offer a free no obligation test trial

 

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