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Staff Utilization: Finding the Right Balance

Quality Contact Solutions

It helps determine how your agents are operating, allowing management to make better informed decisions. If an agent’s utilization is at 95% while another is at 30%, that’s out of alignment. We’ve all seen it…call after call with little to no breaks can quickly turn into agent burnout.

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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.,