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Since the trend of keeping virtual receptionists to work is not a new one, today's need for cost saving has brought up the question whether to go for on-premise virtual receptionists or the hosted ones. As clear by the terms, the on-premise virtual receptionists are those that who work within a workspace while the hosted ones are those who work from their space of convenience. In order to work with the virtual receptionists, one needs to look into the costs that go into hiring each kind of a receptionist and whatever suits can be worked out with. Here is a comparison of hiring on-premise virtual receptionists with hosted virtual receptionists.

An OCS (Online Charging System) has become an integral part of telecom billing as it allows for both event based and session based charging in real time. It calculates charges for a particular call on the basis of CDRs (Call Data Record) and updates the result on the billing system. This telecom charging system is capable of handling account balance of subscribers, ensuring credit limits and authorizing resources on the basis of transactions.

Vcare OCS is one of the best platforms for charging usage in real-time. It allows for convergent billing by serving as a centralized function for charging all services. The OCS calculates usage based on CDRs and updates the result on the billing system.

Washington D.C., United States: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney once again, come face to face clashing over their beliefs on outsourcing and the American economy. While Obama maintained his stance of stopping to outsource, Romney stood firm on the point that loss of jobs in the United States was not due to outsourcing but due to manufacturing jobs given to other countries.

When talking of outbound sales or lead generation, the most important thing that comes to one's mind is the team. On the team, not only the progress relies but also the budget does and since outsourcing cuts the costs to half and saves a great deal of time, it is indeed, an excellent option to go for. It shifts the marketing stagey from a non-core and time consuming task to rather practical and productive tasks and this brings the money to the best of usage. Lead generation is one such service that works wonders if outsourced. It not only helps build contacts but also successfully ends up closing sales, thus benefiting the business at given time as well as in the long run. However, just beginning with it would not do and there is a certain way of going about it and it is only through a proper planning that outsourcing lead generation can work out well for a business. Here are a few steps that business owners might want to consider or take care of as they fall into an alliance of outsourcing lead generation process.

New Delhi, India: It has been estimated by call center gurus in India, one of the leading outsourcing economies in the world alongside China, Philippines and Pakistan, that the cal center industry will get a boost in 2012 after having seen a sharp downfall in 2011.

When you talk to somebody on the phone, you judge him by the manner in which he communicates. Likewise, a customer also judges your customer care services purely on the grounds of communication; nothing else works in that context.

If your MNVO wants to have any chance of success, you need to have an excellent OCS to charge your customers accurately and regularly. One of the biggest hurdles that MNVOs face is the fact that they are constantly having to prove their worth. People are still used to working with bigger telecom companies and might be suspicious of an MNVO. Those of us who operate in the space understand that MNVOs are the wave of the future, but some of your customers are still skeptical. That's why it's so important to make sure that your billing is on point. Otherwise, you'll look like an amateur and run the risk of losing customers!

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We have several diverse charging profiles and get set up to more than one thousand one of kind blends of convergent charging, so you can tailor our items to accommodate your particular needs. You never need to utilize what doesn't work for your organization.

The OCS calculates usage based on CDRs and updates the result on the billing system. By charging all services in real-time, the OCS ensures that there is no revenue leakage in your telecom billing.

While it is the right of every firm and business to select the best path for it to work on, outsourcing has been a popular strategy in recent times that has been taken up by many. Nonetheless, this very fine strategy often meets problems on the industry level as a few players enter into the path to create restrictions and problems but since this is a norm, it does not have to be afraid of. Outsourcing of financial services is one task that is no alien to such conditions but with the increasing trend of outsourcing, things are now becoming safer in this regard.

In recent years, the companies and firms giving business development consultancies have grown at large. Researches and studies have shown that with the increasing number of such companies, the newly established businesses are apparently open to more choices but caution needs to be taken. Many of such companies are not as large as they promote themselves and range from smaller to self-employed, one-man consultancy firms that can neither premise time nor funds and are giving consultancies based on prior knowledge rather than professional knowledge and these are the firms that one needs to be careful of. For a consultancy firm to be successful, reliable and productive enough for modern-day business scenario, it is important to have proficiency in the following areas:

The trend of ordering food is common place all around the world. Today, food has become a commodity that is extremely frequently ordered and its business is at times, more dependent on orders than on dine-in or takeaway. This is because food is now needed not only in homes but also at large in offices and since the trends have changed a lot, people no more have time to go out and buy stuff. They therefore prefer picking up the phone and ordering what's on their mind. Telephonic shopping is becoming a norm in many other areas too but the way it has taken over the food industry, nothing else has.

For any business, technology is something that matters a lot. Especially for call and contact centers, technology has to be the top priority. This is because it is one thing that connects the contact center with the customers, the client businesses as well as the whole wide world; something that is immensely important. Lack of technology would never allow the contact centers to connect to the customers properly and hence, gather and give out the right information. Owners of contact centers have to be immensely careful about this one issue because the life of a contact center, pretty much depends on technology.

When it comes to workspaces, it is a point of no surprise that at some time and somewhere, a conflict is going on. Be it a high rate of competition or professional jealousies, a conflict can occur in workspaces at any time and in any way. It is however, not necessary that the conflict is a physical one or is evident in a rash manner but can also be silent. Also, it can exist between anyone from two or more than two people to different departments. When it comes to the relationships between the bosses and the managers and their employees, a conflict is most likely to be there. However, it is not necessary that the employees always show it off whereas in the case of employee to employee conflict, signs of a conflict could be shown. In order to be able to tackle a conflict within a workspace, one has to know what a conflict exactly is.

For any company or business, it is highly important to think the way customers do. This is the only way, according to latest research and study, to be able to gather and retain a loyal clientele or else, the customers might move on to another company. This is something that no business owner can afford and ironically, in today's highly competitive environment, customers have a wide range of choice and hence, move on if they do not feel satisfied with one company. It is therefore, important for all business owners to think in the way the customers do and be able to provide what they expect.