The New Role of a Contact Center

Revenue Generating Contact Center

As you can imagine, the role of contact centers has changed significantly over the years. From what began as a relatively simple process that involved much scripting and low levels of expertise, contact centers have now evolved into something much more involved. The role of a contact center has become more focused on customer retention and generating profit. … [Read more...]

Growing Data Demand Met With Concerns from Businesses

Data Demand

As consumers become increasingly tech savvy at exponential rates, the demand from them has been met with concerns from businesses. The greatest thing that consumers are looking for right now is data – at minimum, they want to know about a company’s products, services, and social media connections at rapid rates, and many companies are struggling to meet these … [Read more...]

Using Social Media For Customer Service, Are You Ready?

In the recent Winter 2010 issue of the USA800 Instant Replay Newsletter, we spoke about the compelling reasons to offer Live Chat as a Customer Service Channel. Specifically: An average chat costs half as much as a phone call. Consumers who chat find it satisfying. Customers who chat generally spend more than non-chat customers. Our customer demographic … [Read more...]

Giving Back – Important for Business

As our company grows, I believe that we have an increasing responsibility to give back to our community.    I view our contact centers as big, happy families.  Our employees, from front line agents to top level management are employee owners, so everyone in our family has a vested interest in making our clients successful.  Part of our culture and part … [Read more...]

Social Media Luncheon to Benefit Children’s Mercy

As I mentioned early on in this blog, we know that social media is changing the face of customer service and the customer experience.  At USA800 we understand this and have begun to incorporate social media channels into our contact center service experience to improve our own brand and extend those advancements  to our customers. We have all witnessed kids … [Read more...]