From Serebra Learning Corporation
The Customer Service Agent in Action 
...CSAs) working in nearly 80,000 call centers in the
United States. Call centers are burgeoning in
Europe and the
Pacific Rim as well, and experts predict that the number of
CSAs will grow by 20 percent each year. Worldwide, revenues for the call center industry could soon reach almost $60 billion. The magnitude of these numbers suggests the important role that customer service agents play in
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Professional Skills for Customer Service Agents 
As a customer service agent (
CSA), the focus of your job is to solve customers' problems within a short amount of time. To do this, you have to understand the optimum methods for professionally processing a large volume of customers representing many different personality types. This can be a challenging task. You can successfully handle an agent's workload while satisfying customers by mastering
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Managing Challenges in Customer Service 
...ge working day in a call center, customer service agents (
CSAs) handle dozens of customer calls. The calls may range from simple requests for product information to urgent demands for solutions to complex problems. The callers may range from quiet, logical, and professional in their manner to noisy, impatient, and infuriated. CSAs are expected to meet the challenges of handling all of these
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Cross-selling in a Customer Service Call 
If there's one advantage most companies have learned to appreciate in recent years, it's "flexibility". Technology, the economy, and global events have forced companies to cope with a host of new challenges by being flexible. Flexibility is a key factor in customer call centers. As a customer service agent (
CSA), you handle dozens of calls a day, effectively helping customers by providing
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