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August 27, 2008

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CRM Consulting
Call Center Outsourcing
Call Center Technology
Back Office Services
Workforce Management
Software
Site Selection Services
Call Center Incentive Solutions
Call Center Training
Scripted Messaging
Voice and Data Solutions
Organizational Consulting
Customer Satisfaction
Monitoring and Recording Solutions
Do-Not-Call Solutions
Predictive Dialing Solutions
Executive Search
Investment Banking
Mystery Shopping and Remote Monitoring
Web Training
Call Center Consulting
IVR Technologies
Live Chat, Email Management, and Website Analytics
Call Center Skills Assessment
Call Center Employment Testing
On-Demand Call Center Software
Language Proficiency Assessments
DNC Lists
Customer Interaction Management Solutions
Employee Performance Management
Online Information Resource
Online Education Resource
CRM Solutions
Online Certification
Real-Time Communication Services
Call Center Software
Web Self-Service Applications
Employee Retention
Voice Solutions
Desktop Integration
Staffing Solutions for Call Centers
Third Party Verification
Customer Survey Solutions
Computer Telephony Integration
Automatic Call Distribution
Buyer's Guide - Main

Call Center Consulting

TalentKeepers®, Inc. is the #1 leader in award-winning call center solutions that get proven results in reducing agent turnover and improving productivity. We consult with call centers all over the world, attacking turnover through organization, job, leader, and team factors, cutting attrition and improving productivity.

TalentKeepers' solutions consistently achieve strong results by focusing on the relationship between employees and their leaders through a proven system called RetentionWorks™, winner of ACCE’s “Best in Show” award. RetentionWorks™ is an integrated solution actively engaging leaders and team members through the use of assessment and diagnostic tools, development modules, support tools, and processes to help monitor the drivers of turnover. With our help, you can build a culture of retention that keeps your best talent, boosts productivity, and cuts labor costs.

RetentionWorks™ includes a number of solutions, including:

• Retention Analytics - measures, tracks, and reports the impact of the critical factors that contribute to turnover
• Retention Leadership Series - leads people and organizations with the explicit intent of improving employee retention and productivity, builds positive relationships that contribute to reducing unwanted turnover, and encourages employees to be fully engaged in their work
• Employee Engagement Series – actively engages employees in retention strategies that leads to a culture of retention and team building

For more information, please visit our Web site at www.talentkeepers.com  or contact Mara Schwartz at mschwartz@talentkeepers.com.

 

Groupe Impress Plus
Groupe Impress Plus is a Call Center performance service company. Our goal for your organisation is to increase your overall Call Center performance and your bottom line profitability by increasing the quality, productivity, employee retention rate and facilitate promoting from within. This will lead to IMPRESSive customer service, therefore making the customer’s experience one he looks forward to repeat!!

Our turnkey solutions include:

  • Customized Mystery Calling
  • Accurate & Consistent Call Evaluation (including recording of call and detailed reports)
  • Customer Satisfaction Assessment
  •  In House Training Solutions
  • Recruitment, Training and Placement services:We offer personalized customer service courses and we place our candidates after the training.

The training is an intensive course on customer service covering all aspects such as: phone techniques, customer contact center etiquette, evaluation methods, customer retention techniques, coping with stress, as well as the basic computer skills in the workplace.

Our Team has over 15 years experience in call center management, operation management and customer service management in different industries such as Telecommunications, Finance, Travel, Retail industry, Food industry.

Let us help you IMPRESS your customers.

Partnering with Groupe IMPRESS Plus Inc. is a WIN WIN situation.

Groupe Impress Plus Inc
327 Curé Labelle Suite 303
Laval (Montreal), Quebec H7P 2P2 Canada
Phone :450-628-7605 / 1-866-619-1269
Email : info@impressplus.ca
Contact : Guylaine Blanchette President
www.impressplus.ca

 

Tompeters!company

One First Avenue 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02129
Phone: 617-242-5522

Fax: 617-242-5520
Email: info@tompeters.com
www.tompeterscompany.com


Call centers are the key to culture! Tom Peters wrote In Search Of Excellence in 1983 and ever since, he has ranted about how technology is changing the “culture game”. He bellows that we must stay competitive – whether a large or small enterprise by attracting the talent who reinforces the culture.

Every call center has a very unique culture that allows employees to be successful, or not! Culture is very powerful. When understood and effectively used, companies remain competitive. When not used, there is a huge drain on resources. Figure this out. Learn everything about your call center culture because knowing your culture is the essence of employee retention.


With turnover costs at an all time high across industries, tompeters!company gives unparalleled cost reductions - up to 50% - when you measure your culture and match your applicants.

There is a lot of stuff out there…so note this! tompeters!company software is the only statistically valid measurement tool on the market today. The research was conducted over the last 18 years at Stanford and Berkeley Universities. Most importantly, our software is user friendly and time efficient, taking 15 – 20 minutes per user at $50.00 per assessment. We call it: Re-imagine! Corporate Productivity or R!CP. Your return on investment accumulates quickly. Your savings include:

Reduced Costs in Recruiting and Training
• Increased Retention and a Top Performer Employee Base
• Employee Engagement


tompeters!company software defines the profile of your culture and uses this to match new applicants to your call center environment. Want impact? Take a risk and try this approach. Impress your CEO with a 50% reduction in call center costs. Call us; 617-242-5522 or email us at info@tompeters.com to explore unlimited possibilities.


OKS-Ameridial Worldwide
OKS-Ameridial Worldwide was founded in 1987 and is a premier global provider of contact center and business process outsourcing solutions. OKS-Ameridial provides a comprehensive mix of Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer customer relationship management solutions that help its clients increase their revenue and profitability. From customer acquisition to retention and growth, from customer service to customized market research, OKS-Ameridial delivers a fully integrated suite of solutions using its global network of onshore, near-shore and offshore operations.

OKS-Ameridial has been ranked as a "Top 50" teleservice agency since 1992 by Call Center Solutions magazine. In 2006, OKS-Ameridial received the #1 ranking in the "Best in Class" award for Teleservices Agencies as selected by customers from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC).


With over 12 production and sales centers all around the world, OKS-Ameridial Worldwide serves as a contact service company offering the very highest quality services, with extremely economical pricing.

OKS-Ameridial holds membership in the following industry associations: American Teleservice Association (ATA), Direct Marketing Association (DMA), The Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals in Business (SOCAP), Sales and Marketing Executives (SME), and Northeast Ohio Direct Marketing Association (NODMA).

Please contact us at 800-445-7128 or visit our web site at www.oksameridial.com

AlignMark, Inc.
AlignMark, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative human resource products and services created to assist call centers improve their revenues, profits and other key operating metrics through improved talent acquisition & deployment; talent development; talent benchmarking & certification; and talent affirmation & differentiation. Our vision is to help our call center clients optimize their investment in human capital by offering leading-edge, cost-effective solutions to their most challenging business problems (e.g., low unemployment, aging workforce, job growth, turnover, etc.). Through our expertise -as leading industrial/organizational psychologists and technologists, proven products and custom solutions, we are able to help our clients achieve and sustain both a “mindset” and real capability to implement and consistently execute talent management strategies and practices which yield impressive improvement in the key metrics that determine their success.

AlignMark, Inc. has been a leader in the human capital field for over 30 years, having pioneered the introduction and application of employee and management assessment (for selection and development) in the workplace that dates back to the original assessment center work at AT&T in the late 1960’s. Since then, AlignMark has assessed hundreds of thousands of employees using it’s technology-based assessment solutions. The AccuVision Call Center Simulator is the most recent edition to AlignMark’s growing family of technology-based assessment solutions. Why should you use this powerful assessment tool to select and develop your agents?

1. Greater Accuracy in Hiring…2 to 3 times more predictive of performance than other typical assessments.
2. Reduces Turnover
3. Streamlines the selection process (i.e., time to fill and cost-per-hire are reduced)
4. Compliant with EEO/ADA requirements.

The AccuVision Call Center Simulator is often combined with AlignMark’s proprietary web-based agent sourcing and screening system (called AccuWeb) as an integrated agent acquisition and deployment system that yields a significant increase in the number of qualified, interested and talented agents. The combined system is user-friendly, administratively simple, powerfully predictive and ultimately, all the key metrics you use to measure the overall success of your call center are positively impacted.

For more information:

Visit: www.alignmark.com
E-Mail: jmattone@alignmark.com
Call: 800-682-4587 (x3525) or 407-659-3525
Write: John S. Mattone
AlignMark, Inc.
1057 Maitland Center Commons Blvd., Ste 200
Maitland, FL 32751


Synergy Solutions
Synergy Solutions is an outsourced provider of premier customer contact services that has been continuously recognized for its commitment to quality and ethical teleservices and customer care. Our mission is described as "Synovation" - combining synergy and innovation to create the next generation of customer contact solutions. We employ the power of team and the spirit of innovation to provide our clients with flexible applications and speed to market and this winning combination has fueled our rapid growth. Synergy Solutions offers inbound and outbound live agent call center solutions from seven U.S. facilities including full bi-lingual Spanish and French capabilities as well as access to over 4000 seats in the Philippines. Specialized verticals include financial services, healthcare, insurance, telecommunications, energy, publishing and political advocacy/voter contact.

Contact:
Lori Fentem, President
Synergy Solutions, Inc.
602-296-1600
info@callsynergy.com

PowerHouse Consulting
PowerHouse Consulting is an internationally recognized management consulting firm specializing in Call Centers and Telecommunications Technologies. Our seasoned consultants possess the knowledge and experience to bring quick, practical, and cost-effective solutions to each engagement. Our services include: Strategic Planning, Call Center Assessments, Outsourcing Relationship Management, Call Center Technology Assessments, Learning Resources, Telecom Assessments, System Procurement, and IT Infrastructure Services.

PowerHouse has demonstrated success in developing solutions to business problems. Through PowerHouse’s flagship service offering, the Customer Experience Optimization Program©(CEOP), organizations benefit from consulting that enables them to combine strategic planning initiatives and operational assessments into one seamless and streamlined process. To ensure clearly defined outcomes, CEOP utilizes a comprehensive, carefully designed approach to assess the linkage between strategic goals and operational execution. Beginning with leadership and organizational goal setting and continuing with an assessment of day-to-day operations, organizational structure, people, performance, and technology, CEOP examines what is in practice and compares it to the validated and succinctly outlined strategic goals. The end result is a custom roadmap, a plan of action to remove the disconnects and create a highly tuned, performance oriented, customer focused organization that possesses a stronger and more sustainable competitive advantage.
PowerHouse consultants are highly qualified leaders and team players with tremendous depth of Contact Center expertise, business knowledge, and practical experience. We approach each project with enthusiasm and hit the pavement running. Our mission is to simplify complex business processes while providing exceptional quality of service based on real business drivers. Many of our clients, some of which are Fortune 500 companies, have returned to PowerHouse for follow-on engagements as their business needs have grown and evolved.
PowerHouse Consulting was founded in 1987 by Kathleen Peterson, the internationally acclaimed Call Center Consultant and recognized industry visionary. She is actively involved in client consulting and is a sought after speaker.

To learn more about PowerHouse Consulting please visit our web site at www.powerhouse1.com, or call us at 603-472-6616, ext. 234.




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