Tag Archives: Contact Centre

Blake Call Centre Training

Blake Collections Training Call Centre training has recently come under the spotlight through a television segment on Carte Blanche Extra. Blake and Associates offers bona fide call centre training, and Blake has many opportunities for career advancement to those with … Continue reading

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South Africa’s attractive call centre offering

The SA Government has long seen the importance of business process outsourcing as a high-priority sector, due to its growth and ability to absorb many graduates and school leavers. Continue reading

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Excellence in Customer Service

National Customer Service Week, a week devoted to the importance of customer service and the people behind it, traditionally starts on Monday 4th October and runs the length of the week. How can you, as a Blake call centre agent, give excellent customer service that goes beyond this week of customer service focus? Continue reading

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Training Reduces Staff Turnover

The average turnover in a contact centre is between 40% and 50%, a costly problem that is generally tolerated rather than solved. How can this be rectified? Continue reading

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Entrepreneur Spotlight: Howard Blake

TABJ’s Anna Guy speaks with the very passionate, very innovative founder of Blake & Associates, Howard Blake, about his experience growing the company, and in turn, South Africa’s economy. Continue reading

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Jobs at Blake

Blake has positions available for call centre agents. We offer you a platform where you can gain the skills and experience required to build a successful and rewarding career within the Contact Centre Industry. Blake is an exciting, innovative company … Continue reading

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Improving empathy in the call centre

Blake is a premium contact centre specialising in debt collection, and as such, having call centre agents who are able to demonstrate empathy is an important factor in maintaining good customer relationships. So what role does empathy play? Continue reading

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Pick-up in civil summonses for debt

Blake and Associates is respected as a highly successful contact centre, specializing in debt collection, as part of an end-to-end Customer Lifecycle Management process. A Fin24 article shows that according to the latest figures from Statistics SA, the total number … Continue reading

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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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Howard Blake – one man starts multi-million rand empire!

Howard Blake started off with a little more than a typewriter, a scooter, and sheer determination. Hard work and the will to succeed created the success story that is Blake Holdings – the multi-million rand international conglomerate. Continue reading

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