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TELEDIRECT WINS ACCOLADES

By Clarice Chiam

Teledirect, a WPP-owned third-party regional contact centre offering customised telecommerce solutions and consulting services has capped off the year by winning a Gold award for Outsourced Call Centre of the Year at Singapore Call Centre Awards 2005 and Silver for the same accolade at the Regional Call Centre Awards 2005.

Laurent Junique, Teledirect CEO said that the company was “pleased” with the accolades, attributing the company’s success to a “strong focus on sales acceleration, core values of integrity, teamwork, creativity and initiative, and focus on hiring the best and helping them become better.”

Junique added that the company measures client and end user satisfaction levels regularly and follow a “strict quality assurance methodology”. “we have a team that specialises in detecting deviations from quality guidelines, and everything we say over the phone is planned so as to provide maximum control to our clients- after all its out customers’ image and reputation at stake.”

He described telecommerce as a communication method that “sits at the intersection of Direct Marketing, Telemarketing and Customer Service”. “Telecommerce basically means carrying a commercial relationship from a distance, communicating to the right audience at an appropriate time with their preferred communication mode- telephone, e-mail, web, fax or mail,” he said. Teledirect primarily services clients from the financial, telecommunications and IT sectors.