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Call Center Services - A Complete Customer Service Solution




Our Services
  • Order Entry and Status
  • Product Inquiries
  • Returns and Exchanges
  • Cross-Selling/Upselling
  • Managed Live Chat
  • Product Support
  • Order Tracking
  • Surveying
  • Inbound/Outbound E-mail
  • Outbound Calling
  • Appointment Scheduling
  • Virtual Office Services
  • Free Evaluation

    Whether you're a brick and mortar shop or e-commerce website, the strongest way to capture an order is to provide an exceptional shopping experience. Now more than ever, small and medium-sized e-commerce operators are turning to e-commerce call centers like Solid Cactus. Marketing, picking, packing, shipping, phone calls, e-mails, etc… it's often too much for even the most ambitious of e-commerce store owners to manage in-house.

    Solid Cactus Call Center provides custom customer service solutions for more than 100 diverse clients -- from wigs to airplane parts to gourmet peanut butter to plumbing fixtures. We help stores with 1 to 20,000 items fulfill their customer service needs.

    Call Center services from Solid Cactus may be a fit for you if...

  • Your staff dreads the nights that they're "on call." inquiries.
  • Your voicemail box is perpetually full.
  • You're not sleeping much – and your social life is suffering – or non-existent.
  • You've taken yet another customer call on your cell phone while buying bulk extra-strength Tylenol at the grocery store.
  • (You need to buy bulk extra-strength Tylenol at the grocery store.)
  • Your business growth has stalled. Competitors are outselling you because you're too busy taking orders service calls to grow and build your business!
  • Let's face it. – If a customer can't reach you, today's shoppers have a multitude of retailers to choose from. They'll just click to the next site. One or two missed orders a day add up, and missed calls = missed revenue.

    Free Evaluation – Solid Cactus will take a look at how you currently handle customer service and make recommendations to fit your business. We'll look at your situation and provide examples of our current customers whose customer service needs were satisfied by Solid Cactus Call Center.

    Lose the headache, without losing control – You're the expert when it comes to your business – so you'll work with an account manager and help our training team ensure your transition goes smoothly and seamlessly by providing us with exactly how you want us to handle your calls.

    My products are too complicated – what if Solid Cactus' reps can't answer a question? -- Even with extensive training, you're still the expert. If there are questions we can't answer, we'll call or e-mail you and ask -- and we'll even call back your customer with the answer and ask for the order. For those larger, high-revenue stores, we often will provide dedicated representatives who work with you and our trainers to become product "experts" like you, and serve as liaisons between our team and yours.

    Qualifications – Our representatives are required to have an excellent command of the English language, superior oral and written grammar skills, a pleasant, polite phone presence, first-rate sales ability, two-years minimum customer service experience, Internet and computer skills, as well as superior interpersonal and communication skills.

    Training – All agents undergo one full week of classroom training followed by three weeks of one-on-one training and coaching with a supervisor. In these sessions, we review topics such as quality assurance standards and processes, sales practices via phone, chat and email, customer service skills, etc. A major focus is placed on up-selling and cross-selling skills, as well as converting order inquiries to purchases.

    Work Environment – We believe that everyone deserves a good work/life balance as well as opportunity to achieve, and therefore offer our agents flexible scheduling, new skill training and career advancement opportunities, pay-for-performance, contests, promotions, etc. We've even been recognized as the 11th Best Place to Work in Pennsylvania 2007, up from 21 in 2006.

    Technology – We use the latest Voice over IP (VoIP) technology from Cisco Systems including the Cisco IP Contact Center designed specifically for the call center environment. Our headquarters in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. boasts backup call handler servers, four dedicated T1 lines for Internet connectivity, backup power generators, multiple PRIs to provide dial-tone service.


    If you're ready to re-define "customer service" in your business, call 1-888-361-9814 and see what we can do for you!

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