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Staff Utilization: Finding the Right Balance

Quality Contact Solutions

There are lots of ways to measure your call center staff utilization. We all want our agents busy, but not too busy, right? Staff utilization, also referred to as agent utilization is simply the percentage of time an agent is spent handling customer interactions. Staff utilization is not just calling, is it?

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Is Outbound Telesales Making a Comeback?

Robert Davis

Although telemarketing is undergoing a revival, it has had its ups and downs since the beginning. The big surge in telemarketing operations happened in the early 1980s to mid-1990s when the industry grew from employing a half-million agents to 4.5 Likewise, the number of telemarketing operations in the U.S.,

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Is outbound telesales making a comeback?

Robert C. Davis and Associates

Although telemarketing is undergoing a revival, it has had its ups and downs since the beginning. The big surge in telemarketing operations happened in the early 1980s to mid-1990s when the industry grew from employing a half-million agents to 4.5 Likewise, the number of telemarketing operations in the U.S.,