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

How to Market Your Business on a Small Budget

Running A Small Business With A Low Budget

You’ve taken the leap and started your business, but now comes the true test: getting your name out there. Coming up with enough money to develop and execute a full-blown marketing campaign is an uphill battle, especially for startups and small companies, but the good news is that there are plenty of low-cost marketing tactics … 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

The Advantages of a 24/7 Live Phone Answering Service

How do your customers reach you when they need help or assistance with your products or services? Business owners of all size businesses need to carefully evaluate and consider this question in order to ensure they are providing their customers with the highest levels of customer service possible. Depending upon the type of business you … Read more

Verify Call Center Security Standards

Protecting the personal information of your customers is something call centers need to take seriously. Many contact centers are often surprised to discover they are not compliant in all areas of security when it comes to protecting both customer and employee data. Whether you outsource your call center services, have your own in-house call center, … Read more

Call Centers for Doctor’s Offices

Physician practices are not always that familiar with the benefits of using a call center for their office. They might assume call centers are just for retail businesses, and have misconceptions about calls having to be answered overseas or about not being able to receive emergency calls and messages in a time fashion. However, call … Read more

Five Secrets of Outstanding Quality Assurance

Quality assurance isn’t a game of “gotcha” that you play with your employees. The very best quality assurance programs for answering services and related businesses are collaborative, coaching programs that provide support to employees when they struggle and encouragement when they succeed. To establish a quality assurance program that elicits buy-in from employees and achieves … Read more