Business Continuity: What’s the Importance of Backup Systems in your Call Center?

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If you are working twice as hard just to keep up with half of your business, then you might just need a call center. If you are missing professional calls while you’re dealing with a different aspect of your business, then you might just need a call center. And finally, if your phones go down, … Read more

Business Continuity: Staffing During Inclement Weather with Live Receptionist Services

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Let’s set the scene: it’s a windy, rainy afternoon, a storm for the books and suddenly, with nothing more than a flicker and a zap, your power goes out. Pitch black, no telephones, no internet. What do you do? For a typical household, this marks an inconvenience and bustling about to grab the candles and … Read more

How to Avoid Missed Leasing Opportunities with Live Answering Services

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We’ve all been there, an insane day, phones ringing off the hook, lines and customers for miles, or so it seems. And without live answering services this can be overwhelming for both you and your staff, making even the best customer service sag. Often, if there is just too much for your personnel to handle, … Read more

Why Sending Your Customers to Voicemail Is Hurting Your Business

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Having a team of customer service reps available around the clock is costly, especially for small companies. For companies looking to give off the feeling that they’re always available, using voicemail seems like a viable option, but sending customers to voicemail may actually be hurting your business.    Highly Impersonal One of the biggest problems … Read more

Finding the Secret to Great Customer Service

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It is no secret that providing great customer service helps distinguish businesses from the competitors in their respective markets and industries. In fact, it can be the deciding factor when a potential customer is “on-the-fence” about making a purchase when all other things are equal in regards to the quality and pricing of products and … Read more

Five Small Business Expansion Strategies

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As your small business grows, you have opportunities to expand your operations and make your business bigger. There are several different expansion strategies you can use to help keep your business growing and still be able to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Establish a customer support call center. Retain the services of an experienced outsourced telephone … Read more

Reasons You Should Outsource Your Call Center

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For owners of small- and medium-sized businesses, one of the biggest questions they need to determine is whether it is better to set up their own internal call support or outsource their call center to a service that specializes in providing customer support. There are many reasons to consider, and the following are among those … Read more

Five Ways to Add Value to Your Business

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In today’s markets, businesses of all sizes are constantly looking at different ways they can add value to their business to help grow their operations and increase their bottom lines. One of the key things you need to do to determine where you can bring value to your business is to take a look at … Read more

How to Personalize Your Customer Service Experiences

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What makes a business great today is not the quality of the products or services they sell but, rather, the level of customer service experience provided. Let’s face it. The overall quality of products and services has gotten to the point where it is pretty much even between competitors. As a result, businesses have to … Read more

How to Handle Emergency and High Volume Calls

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Managing your customers’ expectations can be challenging during situations where there are emergencies and high call volumes. With emergencies, unless you have an after-hours answering service, you may not even be alerted to a problem until the next day when you start listening to voice mails or checking emails. With outsourced emergency call handling, you … Read more