Thursday, 4 August 2011

Improvement and Change in Call Centers and Outsourcing


Ever since the US credit crunch, off shore outsourcing industries the world over have suffered a blow. But still many countries including India are quickly getting back on track with huge number of new contracts for this industry and therefore the revival, especially after 2010 is even making changes in call center service requirements and operations.
Outsourcing particularly with call centers once could be just about telephone calls, email, faxing or chat. Now the focus of outsourcing companies has moved from cost verses quality concerns to concerns about extra services and value addition. This can include brand projection and handling social media.
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are a very important mode of interaction between business to business and business to customer relations. Managing social media for large organizations is now becoming a more professional and demanding task. Some are home shoring their profiles activities to individuals who can run social media more effectively. These profiles make or break business image with other businesses and customers. Apart from that the customer relationship management on such visible online avenues needs to be top notch.
Results in outsourcing, especially in call center service have improved. This can be particularly attributed to three factors. Firstly is the competitiveness between outsourcing firms that lead to improvement. The past experience of service failures from incapability or incapacity of not harboring of professionalism and organizational maturity has lead to more responsibility for survival. Lastly the availability of track records and undisputable quality assurance methods would help you get the best of the services you are looking for.
Call center service will never lose out because it saves clients a lot of investment and risk from employment that competing international firms cannot afford. While they focus on improving marketing strategies, improving service and product delivery, why not leave the customer care to call centers? There are no risks from recruitment because it is the responsibility of the call center to hire and replace call center agents. Therefore the only basic cost is just about the hourly rate. Equipment costs and space cost are also saved. Good call centers have enough infrastructure and human resource to cater to any additional tasks and requirements if they ever occur.
 Call center outsourcing services also benefit from being professional and specialized in a lot of cases. Call centers have years of proven experience in different areas like real estate, online shopping stores, travel flights and packages and more. In fact you will be able to find any sort of outsourcing service in some part of the world that could relate to your business.
Off shoring could be the biggest business to business change that has happened due to globalization. There is always someone waiting on the phone or as a virtual assistance to complete all those digital tasks or errands that could be done online. No matter how small your business is, or how simple or intricate your task, specialized and growing outsource firms are gaining sufficient skills to have the best package ready for the biggest companies to smallest emerging entrepreneurs. 

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