Call Center Services - An Ever Increasing Demand

Are your company's call center services all that they could be? Even centers that were state of the art a decade or so ago might be out of date and inadequate today. As technology expands, so do clients' expectations regarding communication. Nowadays, a client will normally expect to be able to contact a company representative more or less twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, either by phone, fax or email. Clients expect a quick response and courteous, efficient service regardless of how the communication is carried out. Though the technology to support this level of service is readily available, it can be a challenge for call centers to keep up with. Moreover, the quality and scope of outgoing calls remains important, as global competition for clients is fiercer than ever.

Here are just some of the services that inbound and outbound call centers need to provide to be competitive in today's buisness world. Agents must be able to take orders, process transactions, respond to requests for services and information, and provide effective help for clients who are having problems with the company's products. A sort of 'help desk' is often necessary, with two or three tiers of agents who can respond to various requests and queries. Regarding the outbound function of the call center, market research, polling and sales calls are conducted on a near-constant basis. Supervisors are needed to monitor the agents, and outcomes of calls are tracked and reported by various means. Usually, this requires the call center to have on-site supervisor stations, as well as up-to-date means of tracking and reporting. These fairly traditional services are only the beginning; nowadays, a call center may also be required to respond to letters, faxes and emails, use computer telophony integration (CTI), and provide service through voice recognition programs for those times when the call center is 'closed'. However, that really is the point - a modern call center should never really be closed at all. Increasingly, clients may reside in different time zones, and they have the right to expect service at any time. Even within a given time zone, there is an expectation of constant availability. This, along with the proliferation of means of communication and the need to integrate and respond to information from various sources, adds to the modern call center's tasks.

The need for all of these services puts considerable pressure on the modern call center, not to mention the company itself! For this reason, some small and medium sized companies may find themselves unable to meet all of these demands for service on their own. Some companies may resist outsourcing their call center needs, perhaps feeling that the personal touch would be lost. According to call center service providers, however, they needn't worry - the modern call center is more than able to provide knowledgable, personal service to clients. It has been proven mathematically that a single large call center is more effective - in terms of cost and service - than multiple small centers. It is easy to understand why this makes sense. The larger the call center, the more able it will be to provide the full range of services needed today. Some technological solutions are expensive to acquire and update, but if their cost can be absorbed by a large call center that services multiple companies, everyone can take advantage of the technology without having to individually acquire all the hardware and software. Moreover, in a large center, training and supervision becomes streamlined and effective. Individual agents gain expertise at a rapid pace; being exposed to a range of clients, their learning curve is huge.

All in all, there are many reasons to consider call center outsourcing, not the leas of which is the demand for an increasingly comprehensive range of call center services. Nowadays, companies really have no choice but to give clients what they want and need. A modern, fully equipped call center can help you do just that, at a reasonable cost and with updates available as often as you need them.

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Customer Service and Call Center Outsourcing, What's The Buzz?

The buzz is all about customer service and call center outsourcing, also known as BPO (Business Process Outsourcing). According to Gartner, the outsourcing market in Europe has grown with over 6%, BPO with 10%. The market for offshore outsourcing (to low wage countries) is growing with a whopping 40% this year! However, the subject of outsourcing is not without controversy. So what's it all about?

In the 90s, growth was the motto for organizations. Eat, or be eaten. Through the continual increase of stock value this could be easily financed. As a result, businesses were acquiring activities that are, on the surface anyway, only loosely related to the original business goals, and to each other. The demise of world economy and the burst of the Internet bubble changed all that.

In these days of tight budgets and heightened attention on ROI (Return on Investment) and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), companies are taking a good look at what they are in business for, and what they are best in. This focus on the core business has lead to the selling of complete branches of companies. Now, businesses go even further by taking a look inward, in search of generic processes to outsource. Finance, Human Resource and Customer Service are now the focus of outsourcing, which was more or less the playground for IT support in recent years.

Outsourcing, the utilization of resources outside an organization, is not a new thing. Barter trading, the oldest form of trading, was in fact just that. One person traded a skill (or a product made through that skill) to get access to another person's abilities. In the old days, it made perfect sense to let an activity be done by the person most skilled. And old becomes new, as they say.

Benefits of Call Center Outsourcing

It makes sense that a company who's core business it is to organize and execute a call center, is more likely to do a better job at it (although that's not a given)! It's like hiring someone to put a floorboard in your house. You may be able to do a decent job yourself, but they are a lot quicker at it! So efficiency is a clear benefit.

Being in the call center business, call center service providers are more likely to be able to hire skilled and experienced personnel. And, since a service provider (usually) services more than one company, there is more support personnel to go around. This helps continuity, as your service isn't jeopardized if an employee decides to leave. Also, since the customer service reps are probably working for more than just your company, you can benefit of lessons learned from other contracts.

Ah, didn't I mention the money? The #1 reason for outsourcing is, of course, to lower costs. Outsourcing companies can have lower rates because of the greater efficiency, but also through economies of scale, which actually means that fewer personnel is needed for servicing the combined contracts than when each company would organize it themselves. Plus, they can easier mix more junior and senior staff, which is a near to impossible feat if you have just two customer service reps!

The money question is getting even more interesting if we take the possibility of off shoring into account. Outsourcing to low wage countries like India is bringing extra financial benefits into the equation (but also some pitfalls, as you'll see later!). The different work moral is also often viewed as a benefit. For example, in India, workers are very disciplined, and organizing a 24/7 service is easier than in Western countries.

Outsourcing Pitfalls

Outsourcing projects often fail on unclear expectations at both the customer and service provider. When considering outsourcing make sure you yourself have a clear image of what the level of service is that you are expecting. Be as specific as you possibly can. Pick out the elements that are most important to you and think about how this would best be managed. Measurable performance indicators are better.

Remember that outsourcing is a game of trust as well as money. If, when negotiating service levels, you feel that you have to stamp out every eventuality in a contract, I'd advice against outsourcing. I would, however, put an opt-out into the contract, in case trust is lost between the outsourcing partners. Believe me, no partner would want to get stuck in a contract between two distrusting partners. For the rest, focus on measurable Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and a clear payment scheme to protect your bottom line.

Anxiety for outsourcing is often fed through the loss of operational control. Remember, you no longer handpick customer service personnel, and you are much more limited in directing the service. Also, you may have to fit in the standard approach of the service provider. But the trade-off for the loss of operational control is more managerial control. But this trade-off only happens if you negotiate your service levels properly, as mentioned earlier.

And then off shoring... With the advent of off shoring, a lot of vendors are now operating the market. But if you're selecting a partner, don't rely on the reputation of the vendor alone, but do make sure that you deal with the people who will be managing your service. Take special attention to the level of experience of these people.

The cultural differences can be enormous, especially when outsourcing to India. Don't make assumptions, but be very specific in your business needs. And India, although the buzz is all about it, is not the only low wage country in the world! You could consider outsourcing to low wage countries that are not so far away, for instance Spain or Mexico.

Another element to take into account is this: if your business is adding only minimal value or profit to the service provider, you risk receiving substandard service levels. If this is the case, it's probably safer to steer clear of off shoring.

Conclusion

Looking at both the benefits and pitfalls of outsourcing call centers and customer service, it is clear that there are clear opportunities for reducing the level of costs for organizations. However, do not downplay the risks. If an organization is inexperienced in managing customer service, the risks for failing are very real, as tight management and KPI evaluation is very important. But in the end, it's all a matter of trust. Ask yourself: do I trust a partner, this partner, with a piece of my business?

About The Author

Erwin Steneker is a senior support consultant with over 12 years of experience in both sales and IT support. Check out www.customerservicepoint.com for articles on quality Customer Service, CRM, help desk software tests and more.

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Should Your Company Outsource to an Inbound Call Center Service?

The holiday season often brings an increase in incoming calls for many businesses. If your business is becoming overwhelmed, outsourcing to an inbound call center service or a phone reply service is a great way to not only handle the holiday influx but to continue to handle growing call volumes without investing a great deal of time and money to add to your internal staff.

Years ago, inbound answer services and phone respond services were considered completely different animals. Your business fit into one or the other category but not both. Today, many phone respond service providers have much of the same technology and range of services as do answer service providers.

Consider the following benefits of outsourcing your call center needs to an inbound & outbound outsourcing service or phone reply service.

Meet Your Needs -- Many outsourcing center and phone reply services offer a variety of support services, such as multi-lingual call-answering and/or translation options. You may also be able to find an inbound call center service or phone reaction service that specializes in your industry.
Save Money - Yes, save money. If your company is growing, then you need to consider how you are investing your capital to maintain growth. Your infrastructure and salary expenses can be reduced considerably when you use these services or phone reply services instead of investing in staff and technology yourself.
24/7 and 365 -- Call support every day, all day can be very expensive in terms of hiring and/or managing reliable staff for all shifts as well as absorbing the expense of turnover. However, this is the core business of an inbound call center service or phone response service. They are well equipped to have experienced agents ready at all times, along with having backups in place to compensate for unplanned absences.
Test the Waters -- You do not need to send all of your calls to an inbound call center service. You can route some of your calls and see if the service is right for your business. This is a perfect time to use a phone respond service, which often is smaller than an inbound call center service yet offers the same capabilities.
Budget for Call Volume -- You may know how many customer calls your staff fields on a regular basis, as well as the amount of time each call takes. However, a more accurate number helps to accurately budget for the expense. It is possible you may find you only need to use an inbound call center service or phone respond service during high call-volume times like holidays or certain seasons.
Customers First -- While it is easy to see how efficient and cost effective an inbound call center service or phone retort service can be on your balance sheet, it is even more important that the service provide superior customer care to your clients. To ensure this, you have to provide a detailed description of how your business manages calls. The best inbound call center services and phone response services work with your current system -- and with you -- to develop a plan and training to provide that high level of customer service you are looking for.
Inland or Offshore -- Once you decide on an inbound call center service or phone respond service, you then need to determine whether you want your call center operations to be located offshore. The main reason businesses choose offshore call centers is to save money. However, there are some "costs" associated with such a move. English is usually a second language to offshore agents who answer incoming calls. That may make it more difficult to provide the level of customer service your clients are used to receiving from your business. The language difference and location can also impact the amount of time you can dedicate to properly training the agents handling your calls. Customer services and phone response services in the United States may cost a few cents more per minute but may provide a comfort level for you and your customers that gives you a better return on your investment.

Consider the options available to your business by outsourcing your incoming calls to an inbound customer service or a phone answering service. Whether you are facing increased call volume because of the holidays or seasonal variations, you may benefit from testing the waters to see how an inbound call center service or a phone answering service can help your business grow.

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Industry Case Studies - How Inbound Call Center Services Can Benefit Your Company

Call centers are devoted to handling a large volume of incoming calls, but inbound call center services include more than taking caller messages-they literally function as a customer service department and extension of your business. Inbound call center services include gathering information for order processing, checking order status, and providing answers to any questions customers might have about offered services and products, and more. Also consider that it's not just traditional order-placing businesses that benefit from inbound services-many other companies rely on inbound call center services to gather both specific and complex information from callers and potential customers in order to make sales and sell services.

Inbound Call Center Services: Bankruptcy Counseling

When declaring bankruptcy, an individual must complete both a pre-filing and post-filing bankruptcy counseling session to receive their confirmation certificate. These services are often available online and accessible 24/7 as courses to be completed on a company website. Bankruptcy counseling companies also provide a number for questions that can be answered by an inbound service providers, who are available at all times to answer any bankruptcy related questions and provide general assistance. Inbound call services for bankruptcy counseling businesses also record and collect all information as is appropriate so the necessary certifications can be filed on behalf of customers, making things easier for both parties-the business and the customer.

Inbound Call Center Services: Emergency Related Businesses

Inbound call center services are crucial for emergency related businesses, specifically the food-service industry and restaurants.Call centers specialize in responding to customer calls and coordinating necessary repairs rapidly. When emergency calls reach an inbound service provider, agents follow instructions provided to reach an appropriate contact, then arrange for a repair time while coordinating with the customer and seeing the repair process through to completion. Technicians also benefit from these services-for the heating and air conditioning industry, callers report an emergency and inbound agents reassure that the problem is being addressed. Then, a technician is dispatched or a future appointment is booked. The same services are available for pest control, animal control, seasonal emergencies, and more.

Inbound Call Center Services: Apartment Hunting and Online Businesses

Online businesses offering membership benefits to individuals also profit from inbound call center services. Apartment hunters, for example, pay monthly fees to receive information related to apartment hunting, as it becomes available. Online businesses providing these services include a toll-free number for visitors to call if they have questions or need assistance paying online or gaining membership-in many cases businesses accept payment over the phone. When inbound agents receive phone calls, they go beyond providing customer service, acquiring new leads, and sales closing, they also address caller questions and follow specific instructions as provided by you-callers are encouraged to sign up for services, become members, and agents work to finalize sales.

Inbound call center services are capable of covering a wide variety of business needs across many industries, and agents are able to customize services to accommodate a company's specific requirements, information, and customer-service.

Designed to handle a high volume of calls professionally, inbound agents receive the training necessary to provide exceptional customer service, recover information quickly, and dispatch individuals as is appropriate, as well as capture new leads, close sales, provide helpful information, and follow any instructions or methods you recommend and provide. Inbound services work to fully understand your business, to provide that level of understanding and customer service to customers. Learn more about the kind of support your business needs to grow and how inbound services can increase potential client conversion rates, with professional call services and both customized and cost effective solutions.

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Learn About the US Call Center Answering Service

Is your business concentrated within the United States? If so, then you have reasons to be happy. Why? There are several answering services on offer in the United States. Apart from the multi-national companies offering answering service to the business clients, there are some home-based businesses which employ people to offer such services.

The multi-national call center companies employs more than thousands of the customer care receptionists, representatives based worldwide. A quick search online will help you to reveal those service providers who have been in services for several years, long before the actual start of the e-mail or other similar technology.

More about answering service in the United States

Some of the major and the high-end answering service solution in the United States provide a range of quality services. Receiving and sending telephone messages and calls happen to be a major service of the outbound and inbound call centers operating in the current market.

Businesses related with information technology happen to walk through numerous problems. Customer support services as offered by a call center include a lot more variety. These include answering and resolving the customer queries and even working on them through advanced techniques.

The US answering service also covers market research and intelligence for the convenience of the customers. Whatever may be the needs of the businesses, offering market research and intelligence brings about a lot of features that ensure higher customer satisfaction.

The web reception services also happen to be one of the relatively new offering and are offered by very few companies. The website reception service features include a list of the web chat services, where a live customer service agent will communicate with the prospective clients via the online chat.

In the United States, there are few companies that offer a virtual PBX system. This is an advanced system that adds to the levels of professionalism to the home-based businesses. In addition to the home-based businesses, the single person business functions also find it convenient to use the new PBX system.

Answering services as offered in the firms based in the United States also include sending email and fax services. In the current business scene, email and chat support has developed to be a key tool to ensure continuous communication with the prospective customers.

Specialized and effective team of answering service professionals serves different industries. Some of these industries include utility sector, medical, funeral homes and more. A lot of transcription services covering business, legal and medical sectors are essentially covered by the US answering service provider.

Most of the businesses that require 24 hour continuous customer service as well as the capability to catch up with the customer calls when the company needs stand vital in every respect. It is through the inbound call center answering service that the companies can actually get hold of the customers and solve their queries. It's the 24-hour service that offers the service providers the ability to catch hold of the callers when the company phone lines may be found to be busy. Additionally, skilled answering service offers the feeling that the service provider cares about the services offered and provide a free access, creating the win-win situation all the way.

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Call Center Offers Non-Voice Services - What Are They?

Most businesses take help of BPO vendors to gain a competitive edge and also to liberalize the ever- growing cost of the in-house services. Selecting to outsource help you to take leverage on the quality of work that these highly-skilled, trained and proficient call center agents are known to offer to the business firms. These agents lay more emphasis on attaining 100 percent of customer satisfaction and customer retention. So let's discover the ins and outs of the business process outsourcing services.

A BPO offers a range of customer services and methods. Now a BPO mainly offers call center services, technical helpdesk support and the back office services. Furthermore, the call center services as offered by a BPO can also be categorized into two parts- non-voice services and the voice services. The voice services are divided into outbound services and inbound services, including a number of specialized service features falling under each category. On the other hand, the non-voice services are further divided into three parts. In this article, you find a brief discussion on the available non-voice services.

First of all, the non-voice services of a call center are segregated into Chat Support Services, Technical Helpdesk and the Back office support. Each of the three parts includes a range of other related service features.

The Chat Support:

This is one popular kind of non-voice service offered to your customers. It includes the live chat/talk facility on your business site, aimed at transforming your business goals into reality.

SMS Chat support:

It is through SMS chat support services that you will be able to reach out to your targeted and existing customers. Increased return on investment (ROI) and brand reinforcement with the improved text edition service features are also offered by a call center.

E-mail Support and Management Services:

It is one modern service that happens to make your business witness sales turnaround with well-detailed and finely designed email management support. Boost your business graphs by means of sending the strategically crafted product or service emails to a large number of prospective customers.

The Technical Helpdesk:

The technical support services help your business to reduce costs if any technical issues or anomalies take place. It is a 24/7 well-designed service that can easily be availed by telephone, chat or through e-mail.

Now the technical helpdesk services are usually available under different categories. These include:

•Application/Network technical Support

This non-voice call center service is especially based on offering technical assistance for any kind of application or on network arising in case of issues pertaining to the computer hardware and other software problems.

•Post-Sales and Pre-sales Technical support: This is the service that helps customers to deal with any kind of technical query or problem, regarding the before sales or the after sales of any service or product.

Back Office Support:

One of the cost-effective and customer-centric customer care services is back office support. It also falls under the category of the well-accepted offshore services. These include services like document management, data entry, building accounts and database.

It can be rightly said that outsourcing of the BPO services are gradually developing into an integral part of the working procedures of each and every company. Their valuable contribution helps in ensuring operational success, work control, skills, cost and time factors and proper management. This is something that can never be denied.

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A Brief Note on Voice Services in a Call Center

Call Center services as offered in a BPO company can well be differentiated into two main parts- Voice based services and the non-voice services. In this article, you will know what those voice services are. The voice based services of a BPO are further categorized into two inbound call center services and the outbound call center services. The inbound services are usually seen as an improved and better version of the voice-mail facility of the phone. You will be receiving calls from your existing as well as your potential customers concerning queries, complaints, orders, plan structure and others.

Inbound services as offered in a customer care center are found to encompass few of the following work areas. These include:

Phone answering:

Answering service or phone answering help you manage calls regarding your offered services and products. These services are carried out through the live phone support involving the most cost-effective parameters irrespective of the territorial borders and time.

Customer Service:

Bridging the major gap between you and all your targeted customers, the customer service will be helping out to portray a better image so as to strengthen your brand in the prospective market. Hiring customer service from a BPO will be the right way to save costs. Hiring offshore live agents working 24/7, you will not miss the opportunity to miss out a call of any single customer.

Technical Information on Product or service

One of the most crucial part of promoting your service or product is to gather some technical know-how. The call center representatives are given required trainings including specifications of any product or service. Moreover, the agents are strictly monitored by the respective project manager so as to ensure quality operations and assurance.

Order taking

It is through the well-trained workforce that processing of all kinds of formalities needed to be placed on an order for your service or product can be carried out.

Together with the above voice based services, there are other voice services offered by a customer care center. Some of these services include support line, order hotlines, technical and helpdesk support, direct and emergency response, handling the call overflow, consumer response, claims processing and others.

These are few of the additional customer care services that are being outsourced at reduced rates categorized under the inbound services.

Outbound call center services

The outbound services are primarily taken to be telemarketing. Well-trained executives are found calling the potential customer base in order to consolidate on to his or her decision. You will also get increased sales and also more leads at a time. Scheduling appointments, loyalty and the satisfaction surveys and the demand assessment on behalf a company happens to be an important part of the given outbound services.

Debt Collections

In this regard, a continuous reminder is set to defaulters of the pending dues by the customer care representatives.

Verification Calls

The calls on verification include checking out of the similarity and the consistency of the data offered by the company database.

Sales support and lead generation

Increasing your prospects and in the process improving sales with the essential BPO service.

Telemarketing services

Telemarketing services happen to be the way to manage market promotion and boost customer relationship with the BPO telemarketing processes and services.

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The Profit Side of Outsourcing Call Center Services

Taking the help of BPO service providers not only gives you a competitive advantage but also liberates you from ever increasing cost of in-house services. You outsource and don't have to compromise on the quality of work as call centers employ highly skilled, proficient and trained staff only. These lay main emphasis on achieving 100 percent target and customer satisfaction. Let's identify the Ins and Outs of BPO services and take a deeper insight into their customer services and techniques they offer.

Mainly, BPO provides:

I. Call Center services

II. Back office services

III. Technical Help desk Support

The Call Center services of BPO can be differentiated into two major parts:

I. Call Center services

1. Voice Services

2. Non Voice services

Voice services of BPO, can be again divided into two that are:

a) Inbound Services: These services can be seen as a better and improved version of your phone's voice mail facility. You receive calls from your potential or current consumers regarding orders, queries, plans structure or complaints. These encompass following areas of work:

Customer Service: Bridging the gap between you and your customers, these services help you portray better image and strengthen your brand in the prospective buyers. You hit the gold mine by saving cost by not hiring live agents in-house. The off -shore agents work 24X7 and you don't miss your one call or single customer.

Phone Answering: You can manage your calls concerning your products or services though live phone answering facility in cost effective parameters irrespective of time and borders

Order Taking: The well trained staff process all the formalities required to place an order for your product

Product Technical Information: The most complex part of promoting your product is the technical know-how. The agents are trained according to your product's specifications and monitored by project manager for quality assurance in operations.

Along with these, Order hot lines, Support line, handling call overflow, Help desk & Technical Support, Emergency and Direct Response, Claims Processing and Consumer Response are also significant services being outsourced at a reduced rate under the Voice - Inbound Services category.

b) Outbound Services: Generally outbound is taken for telemarketing. A trained agent calls a potential consumer to consolidate his decision making ability about your product. You get increase in sales and more leads, at one time. Demand assessment, market surveys, loyalty and satisfaction surveys or scheduling appointment on your behalf is part of outbound services.

Verification calls: This includes the checking of consistency or similarity of data provided by the company from the company's database.

Debt Collections: A constant reminder to the defaulters of their pending dues by call center agents.

Telemarketing Services: Manage your customer relationships and market promotions with BPO's outbound telemarketing services.

Lead generation and sales support: Increase your prospects and kick sales up a notch with this BPO service.

2. Non Voice services - These services can be segregated in three parts:

Chat Support Services: Provide your customers a live talk facility on your website and transform your fog bank business goals into beacon!!

Email Management and Support Services: Turnaround the sales & success graphs by sending strategically designed and well detailed product e-mails to large number of prospects

SMS chat support Services: Increase your ROI and reinforce your brand with enhanced text editions services.

II. Technical Help desk Support - These technical support functions help you and your company to reduce the cost if anomalies or some technical issues arise. It's 24X 7 services and can be availed through email, chat or telephone. These services are available under these categories:

Network / Application Technical Support: Voice or non voice based technical assistance on for network or application like in case of Software problems or computer hardware issues.

Product Support: To aware your prospects or existing buyers about the technical side of your product.

Previous and Post-Sales Technical Support: This service helps your customers to handle any technical query before or after sales of a particular product or services.

III. Back Office Support- This customer - centric and cost-effective service is among one of the very popular offshore services. Data entry, Document management, Building database& Accounts receivables are major operations of back office support.

Call Centers Outsourcing BPO services are becoming integral part of every organization's working procedures. Their vast contribution in operational success, proper management or control of work, qualities, skills, reduced time and cost are factors, that can't be ignored.

Vcare Call Center India is leading outsourcing company in offering high-quality, cost-effective call center, technical help desk support and back office services to all sized businesses across the worldwide. The Company offers a complete range of call center services to help clients achieve higher customer satisfaction and increase revenue growth.

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Looking For Strategic Call Center Services Partner? Your Search Ends Here

A call center is a centralized office of a company that answers inbound telephone calls from the customers or handles outbound calls on behalf of the company. It also responds to queries by way of faxes, internet chat and e-mails. Call centers have become the integral part of almost all-major businesses worldwide. Majority of businesses uses call centers to provide standardized and uniform services to consumers and through which, they make a consistent effort to interact with their customers. Some businesses even service internal functions through call centers that act as help desks and sales support centers. Call centers operates as customer interaction centers for meeting customer needs in real-time.

There are mainly two types of call centers-inbound and outbound. An inbound call center takes incoming calls and outbound call center makes calls to outside parties. There are also blended customer service centers where the agents perform both functions providing both inbound and outbound services-call handling services that include customer support, operator services, directory assistance, credit services, inbound and outbound telemarketing and web-based services.

Inbound call center services

Inbound services include answering services, telemarketing, customer service, technical support, order taking and help desk. The telephone is an effective and efficient way to serve customers and taking orders. As you know, every missed call is a missed opportunity. Whether you need to answer thousand calls in a day, you will find call centers takes the load off you and becomes a professional and cost-effective extension of your business. An answering service is a business service that answers its client's telephone calls and conveys messages to the clients. The customer support agents in call centers are there to respond to your clients/customers in a timely and professional manner. Call centers cater to your customer support needs and an answering service will give you confidence when you are away from your office knowing that your calls are being answered promptly and professionally. Customer care services offer many benefits for businesses like questions can be answered, issues can be lodged and registration keys can be issued. Products and services trouble shooting, software problems, hardware problems, internet service problems etc. are all solved by call centers.

Out bound call center services

Outbound service includes lead generation, sales, appointment setting, surveys and market research etc. Lead generation is one of the most common activities conducted by the call centers. It is an essential business process that facilitates consistent acquisition of long-term clients through the design, production and placement of media messages through media channels. It usually involves an offer where the viewer is asked to call a toll-free number for more information of a product. With recent advances in call center technology, integrated tele services campaigns are quickly become the most direct path to success. Likewise, surveys assume great significance to know more about the market. The outbound call center services can help increase brand loyalty and make customers-for-life by implementing various sales programs that can be used for new product launches and upgrading the older ones.

Why use call center services?

Call center services are useful to-

1. Reduce capital investment

2. Reduces requirement of manpower

3. Helps in business expansion

A call center is the focal point of customer service for most companies today. Using a variety of state-of-the-art technologies, call centers connect the customer and the organization to provide better professional customer service in real time. Here both the customers and the businesses are benefited by the services of a call center.

Eloans Universe is a strategic outsourcing option, delivering skilled people and industry-leading technology to all clients in need of call center services that includes inbound and outbound telemarketing, telephone answering services, chat support data entry services, medical transcription, lead generation, tech support services among others.

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Bloom Energy attracts data center operators in Cali

Silicon Valley’s fuel cell maker Bloom Energy continues to add customers looking to power part of their data center operations with distributed, cleaner power in California. On Thursday, the U.S. division of Japanese telecom giant NTT, NTT America, said it will install five Bloom fuel cells at one of its data center facilities in San Jose, Calif.

Nine-year-old Bloom Energy sells an industrial-sized fuel cell (which looks like a large refrigerator) that uses a chemical reaction to produce electricity. The Bloom Boxes suck up oxygen on one side and fuel (usually natural gas or biogas) on the other side, and produce power on-site for companies in a more efficient and less carbon-intensive manner than using the grid (depending on what fuel the company uses).

NTT America says it will use biogas (gas generated by decomposing organic material) produced at a California dairy farm as fuel for the Bloom fuel cells. That means NTT’s fuel cells won’t emit as much carbon as many of the Bloom fuel cells that are being powered by natural gas.

Five Bloom fuel cells have a capacity of 500 kilowatts, which is the equivalent power for about 500 houses or five large office buildings. Each Bloom fuel cell costs around $700,000 to $800,000 before subsidies, so NTT is spending a couple million dollars on the installation.

Data center operators are looking for ways to make their facilities more energy-efficient and greener as a way to cut growing energy bills and also to highlight company sustainability. While fuel cells are still not commonly used to power data centers, Bloom has been slowly growing its customer list of telcos and Internet companies that want to use the Bloom boxes for part of their data center operations.

Earlier this month, AT&T said it plans to install a whopping 7.5 MW worth of Bloom fuel cells (that’s 75 fuel cells) at 11 AT&T offices in California. AT&T said it would use the fuel cell power for data centers as well as administration offices and facilities that house network equipment.

Fuel cells likely won’t be used as a main, or stand alone, power source for a data center. As we pointed out on GigaOM Pro (subscription required) last year, data centers need a power source that is so-called “five nines” (99.999 percent). Google has said the Bloom Box it was using on its campus had an availability rating of 98 percent, which translates into around seven days of downtime a year: no good for a stand alone power source for a data center running web sites that can’t go down.

Bloom has also found success with data center operators in California because state subsidies make the Bloom boxes a lot more economical in California. Customers in the state include Google, eBay and Adobe .

Top image is NTT’s installation, and the bottom is the installation at Adobe.

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Intel buys networking chipmaker because the data center is now the computer

Updated: Surely but slowly, Intel is coming to the realization that cloud, not PC, is where computing’s future lies. And perhaps there is no better testament to this move than the most recent acquisition of an Ethernet silicon company. As data centers become increasingly important hubs of computing, companies from an earlier era — from Verizon to Intel — are making bold moves into the data center.

Intel’s decision to buy Fulcrum Microsystems is important and needs to be underscored. Why? Fulcrum makes silicon for Jayshree Ullal’s and Andy Bechtolsheim’s 10 Gigabit, high-performance switch company Arista Networks. The move is a forward-thinking one by the computer chip vendor, as virtualization continues changing the computing landscape. Fulcrum has been around for more than a decade and has raised at least $35 million in venture capital in its 11-year history. From Intel’s release on the acquisition:

“Intel is transforming from a leading server technology company to a comprehensive data center provider that offers computing, storage and networking building blocks,” said Kirk Skaugen, Intel vice president and general manager, Data Center Group. “Fulcrum Microsystems’ switch silicon, already recognized for high performance and low latency, complements Intel’s leading processors and Ethernet controllers, and will deliver our customers new levels of performance and energy efficiency while improving their economics of cloud service delivery.”

Intel’s moves here come amid a shift in the way applications think about architecting their services. Where once a server was an individual computer that ran applications, for cloud computing and large web scale applications such as Facebook, Google or Twitter, they are now components in a much larger system. Google first outlined this shift, but Facebook recently has built upon it with its Open Compute project that basically rethought the way the social network built its hardware and deployed it in a data center and then opened up that design for input and adaptations.

Open Compute left Intel’s (and AMD’s) chip business alone, while putting the margins of systems purveyors such as HP and Dell at risk. However, as other silicon companies such as ARM, Tilera advance, Intel must rethink its value proposition beyond the x86 CPU, much like its customers Dell and HP are now rethinking their value proposition beyond making servers. It’s also looking ahead to the changes that virtualization has wrought in the networking world, where efforts to separate the software that controls where packets go from the switches do the physical routing. This shift is occurring in part because as the data center become a computer, it needs a new way to communicate between nodes (servers). Thus, the rise of fabrics inside next generation servers and inside the data center.

And so back to Intel, which has seen this happening and wants to make sure it has the ability to provide the computing and networking brains inside the new version of the data center. For Intel, the acquisition of Fulcrum enables it to own one more component inside a rapidly commoditizing — but rapidly growing — market. So perhaps we’ll see Intel design a single system on a chip that offers what essentially is a data center on a chip.

Update: Looks like Arista’s Ullal agrees. She emailed GigaOM saying that deal was great for the industry because it validates the concept of merchant silicon as opposed to the specialized chips that Cisco and other networking vendors built. It also moves Intel into the networking sector helping it diversify. Now switch builders can choose from silicon from Intel, Broadcom or Marvell. She added, “This is great for Arista as Fulcrum now has backing of Intel (and truly address the enterprise to cloud networking migration in a mainstream manner). Arista has been one of Fulcrum’s top customers.”

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