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The 2021 Marketing Game Plan Shift – From “Buying From” to “Buying Into”

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That’s a sharp contrast from a car ad that I remember from 2004, which featured a Honda and a Mitsubishi car driving on a bridge and one was able to stop a meter ahead of the other, which was enough to not fall into the collapsed part of the bridge. Let me give one more example, this time from a small business in … Eastern Europe.

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The Manager’s Guide to Call Center Service Levels

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With so much riding on this metric, it’s shocking to see how many call centers choose their service level arbitrarily, or with minimal consultation. Rockwell, which got out of the call center business in 2004, was one of the pioneers of the technology. Because using the 80/20 rule for call centers is doing exactly that.

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Why an 80/20 Service Level is Wrong for Your Call Center

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With so much riding on this metric, it’s shocking to see how many call centers choose their service level arbitrarily, or with minimal consultation. With so much riding on this metric, it's shocking to see how many call centers choose their service level arbitrarily, or with minimal consultation.