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20 Mar
Posted by madWAHM as Articles, Working From Home
When looking for legitimate home-based work you should consider working for a Virtual Call Center, outsourcing firms that provide phone support using home-based workers, as a home-based call center agent. It’s really not as complicated as it sounds. It’s simply the concept of a company routing their incoming customer service calls to your home phone.
There is no selling involved! These are incoming and inbound calls only. Home based agents are NOT telemarketers (sales callers that cold all people during dinner with high pressure sales pitches).
Typical call center agents perform duties, such as, taking and logging orders, processing transactions, providing customer assistance and making various types of reservations. For example, you could be taking orders for flowers, catalog items, office supplies, etc…, for and on behalf of today’s most popular and biggest names in the wireless, internet, retail, restaurant and other industries.
Virtual call center services are being sought and gaining popularity as companies seek alternatives to running and operating traditional in-house call centers or offshore outsourcing.
Connected by the technology of high-speed internet connections and call routing software solutions, companies are discovering that they are able to deliver premium customer service more efficiently and productively than their in-house counterparts. What’s more, home-based call center agents have proven to be highly motivated, largely due to being able to work from their homes on flexible and convenient schedules that allow them to plug-in and take calls at home, day or night – with some shifts being as short as 15 minutes. These advantages result in lower turnover rates than with in-house employees that are committed to set and long hours working in cubicles or offices.
Home-based call center agents work particularly well when companies need greater flexibility to support fluctuating call volumes during peak seasons or specific blocks of time, such as, during infomercials, sales events, ticket sales, fundraising events, etc…
Working as a home-based call center agent provides a legitimate way for stay-at-home moms, individuals with disabilities, retirees, college students and those who care for elderly or ill family members to earn a steady and realistic income of $8 to $20 per hour. And, since all agent hiring, training and scheduling is conducted online, you don’t even have to get out of your pajamas to get a job!
Where to start? So far, I’ve researched, found and listed 57 virtual call center companies that hire home-based customer service employees and staff.
If you know of or find any others, please let me know and I’d add them to the list.
19 Responses
Lisa C
March 29th, 2008 at 7:12 am
1Thanks for this! I was interested in researching companies who offered this kind of work.
Found you through entrecard!
Working At Home Online Jobs
April 5th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
2I found your site on faves.com bookmarking site.. I like it ..gave it a fave for you..ill be checking back later
Maria
June 6th, 2008 at 10:12 am
3Great post , home based employees are really in thing these days .They add
lot of value to the bottom line .Thanks again for the fab list
Angela
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:37 pm
4Hey!
Your blog is nice, love the layout.
I’m a mom who works from home, liked this post a lot.
I’m new the the whole blogging thing, but would love to get some feedback from someone like you who is established. Mind checking out my blog? I’d totally appreciate it.
Keep up the good work! Added your feed!
-Ang
RIKAYAH
July 30th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
5YOUR LIST IS GREAT THANK YOU. YOU CAN ADD CLOUD 10 CORP. THEY ARE A REPUTABLE COMPANY, AND THEY ARE ALSO HIRING NOW.
Sharley
September 25th, 2008 at 2:14 am
6This is really great! I’ve been working at home for several months now, not as a call center agent though. It works well for me.
Louise
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 am
7I wonder whether virtual call centres will replace traditional call centres in the future. Home based work is seeming more popular these days, especially for mums.
Mary Vacanti
November 4th, 2008 at 8:36 am
8Thank you for the list. This is something I never thought of looking into. I imagine the pay is pretty good, and once you get started it seems like pretty easy work.
David Allison
November 4th, 2008 at 8:40 am
9Hi,
It looks like I am the first guy to leave you a response. I am looking for someone who has had some success to refer my wife to. She is very skeptical of internet marketing in general, but she wants something to do from home. If this blog is still active, please respond. I would love to have her hear from you.
Thanks,
David
David J Carne
November 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
10Hey! nice layout, I like the length of your story also, very interesting comments, and “food for thought”
john
November 4th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
11Wow, quite a list, I wonder if gender is an issue with any of them…?
Home Phone Services
November 20th, 2008 at 3:32 am
12Ya traditional Call Centers are taking place of the Virtual Call Centers..Because people are more convenient to work from home specially mummy and students….
Home Phone line
November 24th, 2008 at 3:20 am
13i am an retired army officer who started working from home different types of work….i liked ur blog…
Peter
March 16th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
14Thank you for sharing your wonderful blog as it has so many great ideas and informative material. By the way, have you checked out this site, yet?
Sales Outsourcing
April 28th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
15that sounds like a pretty decent setup. i don’t think i could handle cold calling people like that, but if it was all inbound it would be slightly better and being able to do it from home would be a bonus.
Call center Outsourcing
May 6th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
16virtual call centers are a win win situation for both, the companies as well as the employees. employees save a lot of time working from home and utilize the saved time in other creative works. those with dependency issue are highly benefited with home based call center outsourcing.
Genesis Pure Business Opportunity
May 18th, 2009 at 3:29 am
17Who says you have to go to an office to be a call center agent and earn good money? Not anymore…thanks for the heads up
Inbound Call Centers
February 17th, 2010 at 6:53 am
18That is a really great idea to earn some cash in your spare time. Thanks for sharing the list of companies hiring virtual call center emploees.
Call Center Services
February 25th, 2010 at 7:07 am
19Wow that’s a great way of earning some extra cash. Thanks for sharing the list of companies that are looking to hire virtual agents
Cheers!
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