Tag Archives: Quality Assurance Outsourcing

Why You’re Not Just Doing B2B Appointment Setting

By A.J. Windle, Director of Client Engagement

B2B Appointment Setting

Have you ever changed a tire? Well, I’d argue that the B2B appointment setting is pretty similar, at least in the process. Let me explain what I mean.

When someone says to you “I had to change my tire”, do you stop and consider how much work goes into something so simple and critically necessary? Changing a tire requires involves several steps and having the right tools.

First, you are going to have to brave the weather, and if you live where I do that could be a lot of work in itself! Second, it is necessary to make sure you have the right tools to do the job. Changing a tire requires a jack for the car to lift it up, a spare tire, the lug or socket wrench and potentially some gloves if you’d like. Finally, you have to jack up the car, take off the lug nuts, pull the tire off, put the new tire on, replace and tighten the lug nuts, release the jack and put everything back where it came from. What seems simple in thought is much more complex.

B2B appointment setting is very similar. It seems easy at first glance. However, if you misjudge the task as easy, then you will most certainly be disappointed. At Quality Contact Solutions we are experts at B2B appointment setting and here are a few items you’ll need to keep in mind to make sure your B2B appointment setting program doesn’t go flat.

B2B appointment setting is the same way. It seems pretty easy at first glance. However, if misjudging this task is easy, then I’d say you will most certainly be disappointed.

At Quality Contact Solutions we are experts in setting qualified appointments. Here are a few items you’ll need to keep in mind to make sure your B2B appointment setting program doesn’t go “flat”.

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Call quality monitoring best practices: Making the case for collaboration

By Marcia Jenkins, Senior Operations Manager

Question: Do your call center agent supervisors and quality assurance analysts partner for success?

Call quality monitoring best practices In this article, you’ll learn why best in class call monitoring is based on collaboration between supervisors and quality assurance analysts. In fact, there are 3 primary components of building collaboration.

Here’s the most common issue. All too often, quality assurance is a remote department rarely seen and never directly heard from. In my experience, a really great call center team works to integrate the feedback to the agents to ensure a consistent message is delivered to the agents. Quality assurance is not on an island or behind closed doors. Quality assurance is part of the team. Continue reading →

Why use call monitoring in your call center

By Marcia Jenkins, Senior Operations Manager

For Quality Assurance and Training purposes, this call may be monitored… One of the best practices for ensuring quality and consistency of customer experience is to utilize call monitoring.

What is Quality Assurance Call Monitoring?

What is call monitoring? The agents are making calls, a quality assurance analyst listens to live or recorded calls. A top-notch quality assurance analyst ensures the agents have the help and feedback they need to grow and improve on their calls. This reduces turnover on the team and helps ensure a good customer experience.

Call monitoring also provides key info to the client. What are the trends from the customers? What offers are working? Where might the “Script” need to be reworked? A good quality assurance team will provide inside information to ensure a positive ROI. Continue reading →

Call Center Monitoring Checklist: Brief is Best

By Heather Dubas, Senior Operations Manager

Call Center Monitoring Checklist

I don’t know about all of you, but I LOVE the buzz of a call center floor! I remember hearing it for the first time after being out of the industry for about 10 years and it was so crazy– I did not realize I had missed it so much until I was standing in the middle of all those busy, energetic agents making calls. Those agents are the front line of any call center and if we don’t have excellent and exceptional agents, then we have nothing to provide to clients. There are some very key processes that your team can follow to ensure that you have the best of the best for agents and having a solid Quality Assurance process for call center monitoring is one of them.

Most call centers have their own Quality Assurance person or team, and some outsource the duty. Either way, the process should not be time consuming and it should be easy to execute by the QA team as well as easy to understand by the agent and client. Here are some reasons why you should develop a QA checklist that is short and concise for call center monitoring. Continue reading →

Overcoming Challenges with Telemarketing Services in 2018

By A.J. Windle, Director of Operations

Telemarketing Services Goal for 2018 2017 was a fun, busy, exciting, and ever-changing year in our telemarketing services company. Looking back on the year has allowed our team to focus not only on our accomplishments but also evaluate and improve on ways to overcome our clients’ challenges (the key reason we exist!).

Here at Quality Contact Solutions we partner with clients everyday who are looking for ways to help them overcome their business challenges. They turn to Telemarketing Services because they need a more productive channel than they are currently using. In some cases, they have aggressive growth goals and have heard what we can do. Some clients want to test a new strategy. Whatever the specific challenge is, at its root, is the necessity to retain and grow the business year over year. This was the biggest challenge of 2017 and with no doubt that focus will be continued in 2018. Continue reading →