Become a Customer Service Representative
Make a meaningful difference every day while working from home as a Customer Service Representative
As a Customer Service Representative, you won’t just be answering calls and questions – you’ll be supporting dignity, confidence, and quality of life. The customers you’ll interact with often face very sensitive, personal challenges related to incontinence, and your compassion, patience, and professionalism will make all the difference.
By guiding them to the right solutions and helping them with their orders, you’ll help people feel more secure, comfortable, and empowered in their daily lives. If you’re a resident of Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and you’re someone who values meaningful conversations and takes pride in helping others with care and respect, this is more than just a work from home opportunity – it’s a chance to make a real impact!
This remote opportunity pays independent contractors $12 per hour.
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What to Expect
What You’ll Be Doing
- Answering incoming phone calls
- Building rapport with customers while providing friendly, empathetic support
- Maintaining professionalism throughout all customer interactions, especially when discussing sensitive topics such as incontinence
- Assisting with a variety of routine transactions such as answering questions regarding order status, changing addresses or other information, confirming auto-shipment dates, changing or cancelling auto-shipments, and handling reorders
- Helping to save the sale when customers call to cancel an order
- Maintaining accurate documentation
- Following established policies and procedures
About You
Prior customer service experience is required. Sales or ‘save the sale’ experience is helpful but not required.
You’ll do great in this role if you’re a friendly, empathetic individual with excellent written and verbal communication skills and a genuine passion for helping people. It’s also essential to have:
- Ability to maintain professionalism while conducting conversations about sensitive topics like incontinence
- Great active listening skills
- A service-oriented mindset
- Strong attention to detail, including the ability to maintain accurate documentation
- The ability to multitask, stay organized, and adapt to change in a fast-paced environment
- Good computer skills, including the ability to navigate multiple computer systems during customer interactions
- A high degree of reliability and punctuality
Your Home Office Environment
To be a Customer Service Representative, you will need a Windows PC. Chromebooks and Macs cannot be used. You will need a computer and equipment meeting the following specifications, at a minimum:
- Access to high-speed, hardwired internet (no Wi-Fi or Satellite, please)
- A PC with Windows 11 (Macs and Chromebooks are not supported at this time)
- At least 8GB of useable RAM
- 500MB of free hard drive space
- An Intel Core or Intel Pentium 4 Processor
- Up-to-date antivirus software
- Dual monitors, each capable of displaying at least 1024 x 768 pixels
- A USB noise-cancelling headset
- A webcam for your Certification experience
Where NexRep Contracts
This contract opportunity is only available to residents of Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. We do not currently contract with anyone outside of the US.
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Remote and Flexible.
As a Customer Service Representative, you’ll enjoy flexible scheduling, where you use a self-scheduling platform to select when you work and when you don’t, within the client’s hours of operation.
Current hours of operation are Monday-Friday, 8am to 8:00pm ET and Saturday-Sunday, 9:00am to 6:00pm ET. Please note that our third-party client requires that independent contractors service at least 20 hours per week, including some hours on Monday and some on Saturday and/or Sunday.
If you’d prefer to service fewer than 20 hours per week or would prefer not to service any hours on Mondays, Saturdays, and Sundays as an independent contractor, you’re free to pursue a different opportunity within the NexRep Marketplace.
Pay and Perks
This customer service role pays independent contractors $12 per hour.
Plus, your remote, independent contractor status allows you to work in the comfort of your own home – or anywhere in the US you can meet the office requirements.
You’ll enjoy significant savings in expenses related to transportation, clothing, childcare or eldercare, and food. You may also qualify for home office tax deductions, but you should consult with an accountant to determine eligibility. In addition, you’ll receive:
- One-on-one mentorship
- Free certification to provide you with the information you need to be successful as a Customer Service Representative. Certification runs for 10 days, Monday-Friday for 6 hours per day. On one of these days, you must attend a meet-and-greet at the client’s facility in the Dallas, TX area, which can be invoiced at $12 per hour. The rest of the certification time cannot be invoiced.
- The chance to achieve better work-life balance
You’ll also be able to take advantage of NexRep Perks, a program that recognizes the service provided by independent contractors to NexRep’s clients and their customers via the NexRep Marketplace platform. With the NexRep Perks program, you’ll have the opportunity to earn Perks points. As those points add up, you’ll unlock access to Perks – exclusive discounts and savings on a variety of common expenses such as health and dental coverages, banking services, legal and technical support, and more!
Please note that NexRep is connecting independent contractors to exclusive discounts and savings opportunities and is not providing employee benefits nor establishing an employee benefit program. Each independent contractor makes their own decision whether to engage with a Perks Partner. NexRep receives no compensation in any form from the Perks Program.
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Next steps to get started
Independent contractors in the NexRep Marketplace tend to be pretty happy
Are content to be working remotely (And that was even before COVID-19 arrived)
Believe NexRep provides opportunities that are among the best in the industry
Would recommend NexRep to others based on their certification experience
Are content with the types of interactions they have with customers
Check out what others have to say about their NexRep Marketplace experience
NexRep’s Mission
NexRep was founded in 2009 with a mission to positively transform the lives of independent contractors within the contact center industry.
If we can succeed in improving quality of life, we believe we’ll see a happier network of agents. We believe happier agents will be more engaged in customer interactions, leading to happier customers. And when customers are satisfied, clients are too.
It all really comes down to one simple idea: everybody wins when we put people first.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Independent Contractor Relationship
Every opportunity within the NexRep Marketplace is a 1099 independent contractor opportunity.
Please note that our third-party client requires that independent contractors service at least 20 hours per week, including some hours on Monday and some on Saturday and/or Sunday. If you’d prefer to service fewer than 20 hours per week or would prefer not to service any hours on Mondays, Saturdays, and Sundays as an independent contractor, you’re free to pursue a different opportunity within the NexRep Marketplace.
NexRep’s independent contractor model is intended to maximize flexibility for both contractors and clients.
Scheduling & Flexibility
You can still provide services when traveling, assuming all of the following are true:
- You are traveling within the U.S.
- You have access to a quiet, distraction-free workspace
- You have access to a hard-wired, high-speed internet connection
- You have your computer and access to dual monitors and a noise-canceling USB headset
Contract Requirements
This contract opportunity is only available to residents of Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. We do not currently contract with anyone outside of the US.
If your contract with NexRep has lapsed or if your prior Independent Contractor Agreement was terminated, you may be eligible to register for another opportunity after a six-month waiting period. Eligibility is determined by the reason for contract termination. A breach of contract would make you ineligible. Any misleading, false, or inaccurate information provided during registration will result in the immediate termination of the Independent Contractor Agreement with NexRep.
To be a Customer Service Representative, you will need the following, at a minimum
- Access to high-speed, hardwired internet (no Wi-Fi or Satellite, please)
- A PC with Windows 11 (Macs and Chromebooks are not supported at this time)
- At least 8GB of useable RAM
- 500MB of free hard drive space
- An Intel Core or Intel Pentium 4 Processor
- Up-to-date antivirus software
- Dual monitors, each capable of displaying at least 1024 x 768 pixels
- A USB noise-cancelling headset
To be a Customer Service Representative, a Windows operating system must be used.
You do not need a landline phone to be part of the NexRep Marketplace. You will need a hard-wired, high-speed internet connection and a noise-cancelling USB headset.
Online Assessment
The online assessment is intended to give you a better sense of what to expect, and to determine fit with the client programs we currently have available.
The assessment takes most people between 20 and 30 minutes to complete.
Not everyone is a fit for the opportunities we currently have available. Clients determine matching criteria. Now that you’ve registered and completed the assessment, when new opportunities become available, we may reach out to alert you to those opportunities if it appears you would be a good fit.
Certification
NexRep never charges Marketplace Contractors a fee of any kind. You will not be charged any fees for certification. Certification is 100% client sponsored.
Certification runs for 10 days, Monday-Friday for 6 hours per day. On one of these days, you must attend a meet-and-greet at the client’s facility in the Dallas, TX area, which can be invoiced at $12 per hour. The rest of the certification time cannot be invoiced.
Money & Benefits
This opportunity has an invoice rate of $12/hr.
As an independent contractor, you will have the freedom to work remotely and the flexibility to set your own schedule. That comes with significant cost-savings on things like gas and other automotive expenses, clothes, and food. You may also qualify for home office tax deductions, but you should consult with an accountant to determine eligibility.