Establishing A Call Center In Pakistan

Lately I have been extensively involved in the research of call centers in Pakistan. It seems to me that setting up a center is relatively the easy part ; running it effectively; achieving profitability and attracting long term customers/clients is the difficult part. Operations, technology setup, bandwidth, LD, co-location, business development, marketing and HR ; all these issues are full blown subjects of study in context to call centers.

Please share your opinions/experiences in context to call center business in Pakistan or elsewhere. Anyone with extensive experience in this area who is also interested in establishing a call center in Pakistan?

Re: Establishing A Call Center In Pakistan

I ran US operations of what is now one of the top 5 Indian BPO companies. ask away..

Re: Establishing A Call Center In Pakistan

Good to know that matsui but yarr BPO companies provide variety of services i.e. data processing / management, technical support / IT helpdesk, sales & back-office, inbound call center, outsourcing consulting, Tele-Marketing (Inbound/Outbound) etc.......but do you have any experience related to “call centre business” in particular? If so, i will ask you some other related questions. Thanks

Re: Establishing A Call Center In Pakistan

Yes... contrary to popular belief, 80% of work done in INdia is still voice based work. BPO is just and umbrella term including voice and data processes.

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I only have peripheral vision into desi call centers - for what it's worth these are what I've heard as issues:

  • accent
  • attrition rate
  • don't flaunt your location
  • train your people to not to react to redneck taunting
  • watch out for privacy laws if you wanna be in business for over 3 days