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Chủ Nhật, 8 tháng 5, 2011

Enjoying Call Centre Extra Convenience

By Adriana Noton


A new industry that has offices mushrooming in developing countries today is the call centre. It is an establishment that accommodates requests and queries as well as relays and submits messages through a telephone. It is owned and managed by an independent company specializing in communication for a clientele's consumer queries, IT services and product support. It uses advance IT and telecommunication technology and services for better access and faster response between its clientele and their customers.

This service is offered locally and overseas. Outsourcing services are becoming commonplace for economic reasons. The offshore counterparts enjoy cheaper workforce and lower operating cost and therefore are able to offer cheaper services making them a sensible choice for partnership. Many countries in Asia and other parts of the globe are booming centres of this industry.

The first country to offer offshore service is India and now is the leading service provider. It has an advantage of having one of the lowest labor and operating cost today and has much freedom on pricing making it a favourite source of service. Although it is an English speaking country, its English accent may not be easy to the ears especially for those who are not accustomed to it.

The primary reason why countries such as the US contract offshore Business Process Outsourcing or BPO is the relatively inexpensive service being offered. The countries mentioned above has laborers that are willing to do a job dirt cheap salary. Another reason would be the spoken language of the locals like Mexico. Getting a person fluent in Spanish is a convenient way to better communicate to the target Hispanic consumers in the US, who may be potentially the beneficiaries of their service.

BPO offers its business clientele convenience by specializing in active customer relationship in behalf of their business client that is otherwise not the main concern of the company. BPO allows for building and maintaining healthy customer relationship. It also minimizes company costs that may have invested on in-house specialized customer services. It also extends company hours by making after office hours customer calls and other relevant processing available.

BPO offers convenience to its business clientele by giving extensive answering service such as live support, a virtual receptionist, a customer care, a telemarketer and telemarketing system and a lot more. Its specialization removes the extra burden imposed on its business clientele servicing its customers in the best possible way keeping it on the mainstream as a sought after partner of businesses.

A simple set-up of this business requires a computer, a fast internet connection, a telephone line, a corded telephone without buttons on the handset, a telephone headset with microphone, web browser, email account, Instant message account, back-up power supply, and a quiet working station. Some of this tools are indispensable partners to a centre's agent.

Aside from the many types of equipment, this business may not be able to do its function well without the technology to aid it. This IT and telecommunication technology is evolving according to the needs and demands set by the nature of the business. A software to make easy access to the data on the computer and to input them is one important concern. An agent may also be helped by speech recognition software. This tool helps by analyzing speech and digitalizing it to be converted into a text. Over-all, the innovations created for this specific industry is geared towards the betterment of customer care.

Often, a call centre offers flexible solutions to small or medium scale businesses catering their basic to the most complex needs that can evolve along the way. The service carries a promise to translate into more sales and more satisfied consumers.




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