5 Outsourcing Predictions for 2013

The world environment is constantly changing and those changes may affect your company’s decisions for the next 12 months. Let’s take a look ahead at some of the expected trends in outsourcing industry for 2013. 1. Social media connections keep rising. The business of relating and connecting to customers through social media keeps expanding rapidly. […]

How outsourcing customer service can benefit your consumer goods and retail company

Economic recession has affected nearly all industries across the globe. Particularly, consumer goods and retail companies are actively looking for ways to cut down costs in order to increase revenue. Experienced CEO’s are now seriously considering outsourcing parts of their business but, is outsourcing the right move for your company? We all agree that now […]

Top 10 Tips for Outsourcing Success

Do What You Do Best and Hire the Rest Entrepreneurs and small businesspeople are always looking for creative ways to accomplish more of their business goals for less money. One strategy that can help you save time, money and frustration as you start and build your business is to outsource as much work as possible […]

Is Customer Service Worth Paying for?

It’s nearly impossible to get customer service these days without waiting in line, on hold, or for a technician to show up within an eight-hour window. But now companies are promising shorter wait times, 24-hour access and other privileges – to those customers willing to pay for it.

Social media in the call center

As a call center professional, you have come to expect, accept, and perhaps even thrive on the fact that this is an ever-changing business environment. This is a world where getting to the end of your task list is something similar to reaching the end of the rainbow to find the pot-of-gold. For many of us, […]

How to Market to People Not Like You?

Book Review Kelly McDonald reveals diversity marketing strategies and how to approach different demographics in her new book, HOW TO MARKET TO PEOPLE NOT LIKE YOU: “Know It or Blow It” Rules for Reaching Diverse Customers. McDonald introduces diversity marketing by targeting those who are different from a core audience, rather than those who share […]

COUNTRY PROFILE: A More Mature Mexico Develops a Bigger Vision

The rise of Mexico as an sourcing destination should come as no surprise, but the next few years will determine whether the country has the right vision and the right strategies to cultivate new sourcing centers in under-developed, but potentially fertile BPO pockets.

World IPv6 launch day set to aid net address switchover

Leading internet firms have set 6 June as the World IPv6 launch day. IPv6 is the new net address system that replaces the current protocol IPv4, which is about to run out of spaces to allocate. Web companies participating in the event have pledged to enable IPv6 on their main websites from that date.

The Truth About Cloud Economics

The financial reasons for the huge growth of cloud services seem crystal clear: cloud computing simply allows us to pay for what we need only when we need it, right? But the truth is, companies adopting cloud computing often miss the risk and depth of change needed to embrace a cloud economics model as they […]