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How Guadalajara’s Talent Pool Can Improve Your Hiring
For years, when West Coast operations leaders talked about tech and support talent in Latin America, the conversation defaulted to…
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Support Team Attrition Cost: What It Really Adds Up To
Every operations leader I work with can quote their attrition rate. Very few can quote what it actually costs them.…
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Evaluating Outsourcing Total Cost of Ownership in a Vendor Contract
Procurement gets the rate down four percent and everyone celebrates. Eighteen months later the program costs more than the in-house…
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Scaling Support Quality: Why It Drops When Teams Grow Too Fast
The pattern is consistent enough to set a watch by. A team doubles headcount over two quarters to keep up…
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Service Level Agreement Review: Read the SLA Before You Sign
A service level agreement should make expectations concrete. A good one does. But I have read enough of them to…
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How Language Barriers in Customer Support Quietly Inflate Handle Times
Nobody budgets for this. There is no line item called “extra minutes because the customer and the agent were working…
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Site Visits Still Matter in Outsourcing Due Diligence
Somewhere in the last five years, visiting a vendor’s floor stopped being standard practice. Video walkthroughs replaced it, then never…
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What to Look for in an Outsourcing Partner Training Program
Every vendor deck has a training slide. It is usually four weeks of onboarding, a certification badge, and a number…
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Support Quality Metrics That Actually Predict Performance
CSAT is the metric almost every support operation tracks. It is also the metric most likely to give a false…
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Reducing Customer Support Costs Without Cutting Quality
Most attempts at reducing customer support costs start from the wrong assumption: that cost and quality trade off against each…


