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SYKES Names Symphony Ventures Co-Founder Ian Barkin Its New CSO/CMO

Sykes

The acquisition of Alpine Access in 2012 also differentiated SYKES with an established, reliable and secure home-based service option that allows for rapid scalability and flexibility. engagement solutions and services with an emphasis on inbound multichannel demand generation, customer service and technical support to its clients’ customers.

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14 Questions you Need to ask when Considering Call Center Consolidation

Taylor Reach Group

Organizations today look across their customer-facing organization and see a cluster of Call Center or Contact Center activities: sales, technical support, customer service, returns, billing, collections etc. This post was published in 2012 and updated in 2018. Consolidating Contact Centers.

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

Source: Human Resource Management; Issue: 51(4); 2012; Pages 535-548. He is one of ICMI’s Top 50 Thought Leaders on Twitter and on HDI’s list of Top 25 Thought Leaders in Technical Support and Service Management. According to Gallop, 69% of employees would work harder if they were better recognized.

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SYKES Ranks #1 for Vision & Go-to-Market Strategy on Hfs Research Front Office Customer Engagement Operations Report

Sykes

The acquisition of Alpine Access in 2012 also differentiated SYKES with an established, reliable and secure home-based service option that allows for rapid scalability and flexibility. engagement solutions and services with an emphasis on inbound multichannel demand generation, customer service and technical support to its clients’ customers.

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Buddying Up – Putting Virtual Employee Assistants at the Heart of Agent Development

TechSee

For every customer episode – paying a bill, getting technical support with activating a device, etc. If a company’s culture supports healthy work rivalry – as is the case at Microsoft – success lies in full transparency and comprehensive reporting to ensure a level playing field.

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Evolution of the support rep: from outsourced to in-office

Kayako

A great indicator of this is in 2008 odesk.com had 2,500 job postings 2,500 for “virtual assistant”, and by 2012 that number had risen to 25,000. Today Upwork.com shows 53,000+ for virtual customer service work alone.

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8 BIG RYG Speakers to Follow on Twitter

ChurnZero

Godard Abel, G2 Godard ( @godardabel )is CEO of G2 , a business software review website he co-founded in 2012. Her expertise spans Account Management, Professional Services, Technical Support and Success Operations. Previously Godard served as CEO of SteelBrick which was acquired by Salesforce in 2016.