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.
Call center services are useful to :
1. Reduce capital investment
2. Reduces requirement of manpower
3. Helps in business expansion.
Call centers have become the entire 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.
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 call centers where the agents perform both functions.
Call centers provide 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 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.
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 gaining of long-term clients through the design, production and placement of media messages through media channels.
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January 17, 2009 at 5:16 am
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