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Throwing Shade

Jimmy Hosang & Paul Banks

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Startup life is brutal.There are so many mistakes.Doing that in the call centre industry is even harder - it's an industry of tight margins, productivity and well-established competition.Join Jimmy Hosang, CEO and Co-Founder at SaaS Startup MOJO-CX©, and his Co-Host, and Senior Solutions Consultant, Paul Banks as they discuss everything from recent events, to SaaS Startup fails and wins, Technology, and contact centre myths and truths.
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This weeks episode sees us discussing the recent rebrand of The Modular Analytics Company to MOJO-CX© and some of the underlying reasons behind it. We talk about unexpected complications for the rebrand as well as the positives to come out of all the hard work, and also cover our approach to exhibiting at the Call & Contact Centre Expo in November,…
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Finally, we're back! In this week's episode, Jimmy and Paul discuss the early stages of the SaaS funnel, from initial prospect through to Sales Qualification, and the dangers involved in getting it wrong. From RevOps to ContentOps, the episode is packed with takeaways an considerations for others in the SaaS space, as well as a discussion on how TM…
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In this episode, we carry on from episode 14 - where we talked about the business cash flow, and all the issues we'd found with it... into how we 'fixed' the funnel. Paul talks about how that looked as the sole SDR/AE working in full stack enterprise sales for the first time, and Jimmy looks at it from the view of a founder who could see where it n…
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A frank discussion (as ever) with Jimmy on life in a startup. Today's show focuses directly on cash (or the lack thereof, at times) in a small business, as well as what are the lessons to be learned there? Jimmy talks through some of his mistakes, and how the business learned the hard way at times! Lots to take away from this episode, and the follo…
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Jimmy walks through his vies on why product market fit is essential for any new startup, especially in the tech space - but also having the SME knowledge to guide that. He discusses the path he took with TMAC, and the consideration that bootstrapping may have been the wrong path, based on the experience and knowledge of the initial founding team - …
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In this episode, Jimmy discusses some of the early challenges he faced in the startup world - from not having a level of volume leadership experience he felt he needed, to finding team members that filled the gaps in his abilities. How do you find people for a startup, when you're bootstrapping? How do you get a good mix in the team? Which characte…
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Join us for the latest episode where Jimmy and I tackle the growing problem of 'agent vulnerability', and how recent changes have meant that employees in contact centres (and many other industries) are more exposed than ever... but are they being treat as a 'problem to be solved' by well-meaning management? The second half of the show sees us delve…
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This week on Throwing Shade, Jimmy Hosang talks about the origins of 'Channel Deflection' (or 'Channel Containment'), and how it stemmed from a push towards 'self service' for most customers... The question is... was 'self service' an idea that the consumers themselves pushed for, or was it a perception on behalf of the business, to justify a push …
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This week, as most of our listeners are taking a break from work for Easter, are suffering from various illnesses, we decided to take a break from the contact-centre relevant element of the podcast, and focus solely on current events. Today's episode sees Jimmy and I tackle the complexity around Chancellor Rishi Sunak, his wife Akshata Murty and th…
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In Episode 4, join Jimmy as he walks us through some of the most common failings and challenges for a Speech Analytics project, the causes of these, and some simple ways in which they can be circumvented, removed or resolved. In the second half, we talk about the moment the Oscars turned a corner in their history - Will Smith's (alleged) slap of Ch…
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In the second episode of Throwing Shade, hosts Paul Banks (@WhoIsPaulBanks) and Jimmy Hosang (@JimmyHosang) discuss all things Net Promoter Score, followed by taking some time to talk about the recent events in Ukraine. This episode was recorded on the afternoon of February 28th ----- Timestamps (00:30) - NPS (29:30) - Ukraine ----- Links Jimmy on …
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In the first official episode of Throwing Shade, hosts Paul Banks (@WhoIsPaulBanks) and Jimmy Hosang (@JimmyHosang) take an in depth look at Remote Working, and then turn their attentions to the recent events surrounding protests in Canada. ----- Timestamps (00:30) - Brief intro to Throwing Shade (03:30) - Remote Working (31:00) - Canadian Protests…
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