Frequently Asked Questions
Since 1998, Worldwide Call Centers (WCC) has helped businesses hire proven contact center outsourcing partners. Our experienced Senior Advisors have guided thousands of companies through the outsourcing process, helping them reduce costs, increase sales, improve customer experiences, and scale operations with confidence. Whether you’re exploring outsourcing for the first time or looking to improve an existing operation, we’re here to provide expert guidance at no cost or obligation. Below are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about contact center outsourcing:
Artificial intelligence is transforming contact center operations through intelligent virtual agents, real-time agent assistance, automated workflows, and advanced analytics. Many modern contact centers combine AI technology with experienced human agents to improve response times, increase efficiency, and deliver better customer experiences. Worldwide Call Centers helps businesses identify outsourcing partners with AI-enabled capabilities that align with their operational goals.
Worldwide Call Centers provides independent advisory services that simplify the outsourcing selection process. Rather than researching dozens of providers individually, businesses work with experienced Senior Advisors who evaluate their requirements and typically introduce 4–5 qualified agencies. These providers compete for the business, giving clients the opportunity to compare capabilities, pricing, technology, and service offerings. Our advisory services are free to clients, with no obligation to proceed.
Improving customer support to your customers is often a difficult task. Human resource & technology issues can complicate the situation even further. Therefore, outsourcing to a contact center partner can often be a great way to pull in talented agents, upgrade to the best technology, and improve customer support with the flip of a switch!
No. Worldwide Call Centers provides its advisory and agency-matching services at no cost to clients. Our global network of participating contact center agencies pays a commission when a successful engagement is established. Businesses can consult with our Senior Advisors, evaluate qualified providers, and compare outsourcing proposals without paying advisory fees or committing to a contract.
Yes. Many contact center providers now offer hybrid customer support solutions that combine trained human agents with AI-powered virtual agents. AI can handle routine inquiries, assist with customer authentication, and automate repetitive tasks, while human agents manage complex issues requiring judgment and empathy. Worldwide Call Centers can help businesses evaluate providers offering the right balance of automation and personalized customer service.
WCC is a contact center consulting company that is dedicated to enhancing the outsourcing process. We do not own a contact center. Our consultants will analyze your unique situation and provide referrals to 4-5 of the BEST call centers available. Over 125 contact center agencies around the world have agreements with WCC, by which a small commission is paid on the revenue generated by each client. Therefore, our consulting services are provided at NO CHARGE to the client. This ensures that our goals are certainly aligned with our clients and our contact center partners. We strive to develop win-win-win outsourcing partnerships that last for years (not weeks or months).
A contact center agency is a professional company with brick & mortar or cloud based facilities. They stand ready to handle all types of customer support, sales, lead generation, or back office processing applications. These contact centers can be located around the world including the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, & Latin America. Their call center agents will answer the phone, emails or messages in the name of your company. Moreover, most clients will never know that you have hired an outside partner. Call center agencies offer a great way to minimize fixed costs, improve customer support, increase sales production, scale operations, and maximize your flexibility.
Contact Center Outsourcing is the process of hiring a call center agency to handle your customer support, sales, lead generation or back office processing. You can outsource to any agency from those close to home or those halfway around the world. We specialize in being the expert third party to this outsourcing process.
Experienced contact center agencies can often increase staffing and operational capacity more efficiently than businesses building internal teams. Scalability depends on hiring availability, training requirements, technology integrations, and service complexity. Worldwide Call Centers helps businesses identify providers capable of supporting seasonal fluctuations, rapid growth, new product launches, and expanding customer service requirements.
Outsourcing customer support can significantly reduce operating expenses, depending on staffing requirements, service complexity, and geographic location. Offshore and nearshore contact centers often provide competitive labor costs, while domestic providers offer other operational advantages. Worldwide Call Centers helps businesses compare qualified agencies, evaluate pricing models, and identify cost-effective solutions without compromising service quality.
The advantages of outsourcing to a professional call center include:
- Flexibility to handle volume that is sporadic or seasonal.
- Decrease fixed costs
- Enhanced agent talent pool
- Scalability to ramp up quickly as business improves
- Improving customer support
- Ability to immediately upgrade technology by utilizing a state of the art call center.
Our team works with a wide variety of solid, professional contact center agencies. WCC partners are generally mid-sized companies that have been in business for at least 5 years. Furthermore, they normally range from 100 to 2,000 seats and are located throughout the U.S., Canada, Latin America, The Philippines, India, Middle East, and South Africa.
Working with WCC presents many advantages for many different types of companies. Here are just a few we hang our hat on:
- Eliminate Trial & Error – It is no secret that you can search trade publications or the internet for call centers; however, we have outsourced millions of hours of call center work over the years and know the call centers that really perform. Most call centers will promise the moon – we know who has delivered!
- Experience – Our Senior Advisors have outsourced hundreds of call center campaigns spanning multiple decades. They have seen just about every type of campaign and are able to leverage this experience to maximize your chances of success.
- Leverage – Some of our new clients have had negative experiences with external call centers in the past. Therefore, our advisors endeavor to make sure that doesn’t happen again! As such, the vast majority of the call centers in the WCC Network have from 2 to as many as 20+ WCC clients. This provides your business with an invaluable insurance policy for your customer service needs. Our call centers have added incentives to perform for every WCC Client – a majority of their business may depend on it!
- It’s Free! – The call centers in The WCC Network agree to pay a modest commission. Therefore, our services are FREE to clients and pricing from the call centers is highly competitive. This creates a genuine win-win-win situation for all parties.
Increasing sales is always of goal of most innovative businesses. However, most companies struggle to find new ways to start the “sales engine”. Outsourcing allows you to dramatically leverage the investments in technology and manpower already made by professional call center agencies. Therefore, our call center partners stand ready ramp the number of telemarketing agents on the phone and boost your conversions. WCC is ready to help you increase sales today!
Internal call center operations can be expensive. Outsourcing can be a great way to turn fixed call center costs into variables ones. This provides valuable flexibility and also ensures that you only pay for the agents you really need on a daily basis. Hiring an international call center in low cost locations like Mexico, Jamaica, India, The Philippines, & Eastern Europe can also save your company even more money.
Outsourcing costs vary greatly based on the location of your partner. An in-depth breakdown of the factors that effect call center pricing can be found here. When you are ready to get some outsourcing proposals for your company, please call to discuss!
Hiring a call center is actually a fairly easy process, especially when you work with us! WCC has been in business since 1998 and we will happily guide you through every step of the process. From initial analysis of the situation, to country selection, and introduction to quality call center agencies, we are “Your Contact Center Outsourcing Experts” and will help you hire a great partner today!
Finding ways to improve customer support provided by your company is vital to long term success. Outsourcing to a professional call center is a great way to improve customer support stats like abandonment rate, average answer time, & average handle time. In addition, most call center agencies have advanced technology to help service your customers more effectively and efficiently.
WCC contact centers are found in any location that can supply a productive workforce at a reasonable cost. In our opinion, some of the best locations today are in the US, Canada, India, The Philippines, South Africa, Latin America, & Eastern Europe.
Telemarketing is the act of utilizing a telephone to market a product or service via outbound calls to businesses or consumers. To this end, many businesses conduct telemarketing operations with internal agents or by hiring an external call center agency. WCC is a call center consulting company that can help your business increase sales by outsourcing your telemarketing to a top call center service in the US, Europe, Asia or Latin America.
Almost every business needs more leads. The problem is generating them at a reasonable cost. Outbound call center agencies (either nearshore or offshore) might be a great way to decrease the cost per lead. These agencies can also allow you to open up new markets and new databases that were not feasible internally. Offshore outsourcing can supercharge your lead generation and increase sales today!
We recommend the following sites for industry information:
- Professional Association for Customer Engagement (PACE) – National organization dedicated solely to the interest of the call center industry.
- National Do Not Call Registry – Federal Trade Commission site promoting the National DNC Registry (for both Consumers and Businesses).
Please visit our page on the Nine Advantages of Outsourcing to find out how WCC can help your company successfully hire a great call center partner.
