Category Archives: Customer Relationship Management

This relates to the process of keeping, managing and selling to your client base using call centers

The Quality Management Process

At Blake and Associates we strive to keep our finger on the pulse with regards to customer related trends as well as maintain high standards of quality and consistency in our call centers. This is achieved via a quality management lifecycle process. Continue reading

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The Right Fit

Packing tips to enhance your travel experience. Continue reading

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Finding the sweet spot

Tracey Swart banks on her people skills to manage relationships with clients and colleagues. Continue reading

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Managing your customer’s life cycle

Blake is an inbound and outbound contact centre, with a cradle to grave Customer Lifecycle Management approach. Blake’s services include: Initiation outbound sales inbound sales up selling targeted campaigns cross selling campaigns Retention loyalty programmes customer retention campaigns back office processing … Continue reading

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Why consider Blake as your partner?

Blake & Associates have been in operation for the past 20 years. Blake trades and is represented on 3 continents. In Africa we have a number of sites situated in South Africa. We also have a presence in Namibia, Botswana … Continue reading

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Looking for a business process outsourcing leader?

Blake’s vision is to be the premier provider of contact centre solutions in the Customer Lifecycle Management arena. Blake leverages unique people, technology and business intelligence to enhance CLM strategies with tailored value propositions. Blake was established in 1990, now … Continue reading

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Make 2010 your year of smiles!

Whether you’re speaking with an existing customer, or contacting a prospective new customer, or calling a colleague or a friend, put a smile in your voice. You can really tell when someone is smiling as they speak, even over the … Continue reading

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Outsourced Call Centres save time and money

If your business has outgrown itself, and you find that your resources are stretched, a call center can help you reclaim time and money. A call center operates to handle calls, and a bilingual call center is essential when you … Continue reading

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Liberating Staff for Success

In ‘Freedom, Inc.‘ Brian M. Carney (a member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board) and Isaac Getz focus on the corporation, where a rigid, top-down management style too often makes workers miserable, stifles innovation and, not least, leads to … Continue reading

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Blake gets social

Sometime in the past two years, the wireless industry decided that social networking could be a killer feature for mobile phones. Facebook has been happy to oblige, with 65 million people already regularly using mobile devices to access Facebook, making … Continue reading

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