Business development is the ultimate goal of every entrepreneur; increase in lead generation and conversion of the same to business are the joy of business owners. Since business doesn’t grow all by the operation alone, customer relationships take the undebatable position in business development.

A call centers also known as contact center is a centralized office used for receiving or transmitting a large volume of enquiries which could be via telephone, mail and other measurable platforms. It could literally be termed “information bank” of every organization.

Contact centers controls wealth of information to uncover trends that may influence the profitability of businesses, provide ideas for new products and services and mitigate problems before they start impacting business operations.

 Types of Call centers or contact centers

Inbound, outbound and automated are the three major types of call centers for any business; Businesses can adopt any of these three types of call centers for the business according to their capacity.

Inbound Call Centers: this type of contact center is used to carter for customers service enquiries, observation and transaction via chat support, email responses, technology support and loyalty programs. It could be stationed in the corporate office or outsourced.

Outbound Call Centers: This is the major center mainly use or sales, promotions and market research. It can provide election polling, warranty extensions, appointment scheduling for cable television, call backs for online price quotes, and following up on leads for products and services sales.

Automated Call Centers: It is an advance call center; this is involved the use of advance technology elements to automate the operations of the customer service representative on the computer devices. This provides a dramatical support to reduce the overall TAT and streamline your customers waiting on an IVR.

Is there any difference between call center and contact center?

Literarily, call center deals with voice calls while contact center controls the management of every contacts. Operationally, most call centers have the capacity to handle queries across various platforms like mail, live chat, messaging etc.

Now, it is rare to see an organization separating call center from contact centers, it is therefore positioned to be the same while the names can be used interchangeably.

IMPORTANCE OF CALL CENTRE TO BUSINESSES

In case you are wondering what, you start to gain with call center in your business or how it will transform your operations, here are few undeniable benefits of call center;

1. It helps to boost your brand reputation and representation
2. Call center enhance customers loyalty and confidence
3. It helps to increase sales and avoid lost opportunities
4. Call center provides competitive advantages
5. It aids smooth communication flow between your organization and your customers
6. Call center ensure smooth analytics of customers expectation and satisfactions. Etc.

WHY SCIMITAR GLOBAL SERVICE LIMITED

At Scimitar Global Service Limited, it is not just about the software, structural, or the setting but we believe in professionalism which is not limited to skills but spread across creative problem-solving, customer centric, empathy, transparency, accountability, integrity, ownership, reliability and other virtues that constituted our values in our area of operation.

You have much to gain when you partner with us to bring your closer to your operations. We are not far away just make a request for a demo and we are right at your corridor. Looking forward to receive your request.