Designing the Best Call Center for Your Business

Designing the Best Call Center for Your Business examines all key aspects of opening and expanding a live agent call center, with in-depth coverage on facilities and workstation design; site selection, including communications and power backups; finding the right property; and staff recruiting, training, and retentionIt covers domestic and international call centers and those that handle online as well as voice interactions. The book also explores what functions and value call centers can offer businesses, including outbound and inbound sales and customer service and help desk. It examines and suggests how to cope with hot issues that could affect the center such as customer hostility to outbound cold-calling and unsolicited emails.