Nowadays, customer services become more crucial in any business, customer use phone calls, chat box, and email to approach customer services department. Therefore, more and more businesses are outsourcing their customer service to third-party call centers, but before you outsource to third-party, check out these six tips from customer service and outsourcing pros.
1. Services quality
An outsourcing company that provide inbound, outbound, sales and other services such as live chat or emails, you have options to easily expand and add extra services and campaigns when you need them.
2. Operations reporting
You will hope your outsourcing provider be up to date on any information.
Some companies will only provide very basic summaries of how many calls were made and received. A good call center offers more in-depth reporting such as: call recording, data on successful transfers, dropped calls, other dispositions and the trend with suggestions.
3. Irregular operations handle
When any irregular event happens, you will hope that your services provider has the capability to handle properly. Therefore, a good outsourcing company will always have a plan to handle any unknown circumstances.
4. Staff ability
Well trained customer services agent is important to company because it represent the company brand image. So, outsourcing company that can provide quality training, comfortable working environment is a plus for professional services and help you to as your partner.
5. Cost efficiency
Outsource companies usually have per hour rate, so you can scale your expenses according to your current needs. Furthermore, you can expect smaller prices from contact teams based in countries with a lower living cost.
Call center establishment make company have to invest a lot in the beginning. Now, you do not have to spend a lot to establish a call center to serve your customers, outsourced your call center can scale your expenses according to your current needs, also saving on team recruitment, team management and equipment. Hence, outsourced customer services to professional company can achieve cost efficiency and more flexible in management structure.
6. Flexibility structure
You don’t want to get stuck in a contract that doesn’t allow for any growth. That limits growth within your own company. Companies that outsource call centers should have the ability to grow as you grow and can handle fluctuating call volumes.
Eason Sourcing: Your partner in global customer services
Eason Sourcing has been providing customer-driven offshore outsourcing solutions to global companies since 2011. With our solutions we would be able to create value for our client in Japan, Vietnam and other parts of the world by providing comprehensive services like Inbound call, Email support, Chat support and Market research. In years of call center experience, we provide high-quality services to enhance client brand image and strengthen the relationship between end customers.