Maureen Quigley-Hogan is the next generation of call center worker. Wearing pink slippers and sitting at her desk in her home office in Virginia, she takes a call from a woman in New Jersey who has a ...

Outsourcing call center operations has become a common practice for businesses looking to improve efficiency and reduce costs. However, maintaining high-quality customer service in outsourced call ...

David is a best-selling author, speaker and trainer. He is also CEO of IPD, a world-class marketing agency based in Tampa, Florida. Lead generation has changed and transformed many times over. In the ...

Smart businesses recognize the value of outsourcing, as this can lead to huge cost reductions. Some lack the internal resources to meet customer expectations, while others can no longer handle the ...

Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat was one of a number of best-selling books published in 2005 that looked at globalization. One of the most significant trends in this new global economy is ...

How to Use Call Center Outsourcing and Protect Your Brand Your email has been sent When done right, the only thing customers notice about call center outsourcing is faster service. Discover how to do ...

Even if you have a well-oiled, in-house call center, there are many benefits of outsourcing certain aspects of it, if not the entire operation. When was the last time you re-examined exactly what this ...

Internet service provider EarthLink is laying off most of its call center employees and outsourcing the work to domestic and overseas companies, in an effort to cut costs. The company on Tuesday said ...

Last October, I wrote about mounting consumer dissatisfaction with offshore call centers. I suggested that some companies would come to the realization that they could differentiate their company ...