Saturday 5 January 2013

Communications

Telephone Systems:

Success in business need a lot of effort. Sometimes, even after investing a huge amount of money we cannot get the desired results. This implies that resource has to be channeled in the right direction to achieve success. The success of any business depends largely on its ability to satisfy customers.

Customers become satisfied when they receive a proper response to their queries. A company capable of providing a prompt solution to their clients has a long list of happy customers.

However, to be able to do that you need adequate staff and facilities. But what if you do not have them? Telephone answering service provides an excellent solution to deal with this situation. By using the service, your customers can have 24/7 access to your service through calls without having you to answer them. They employ trained telephone professionals who will answer your business calls professionally..


 

This will help to create a positive impression on your customers. Moreover, on using the script (that you provide), customers will think they are speaking to the company representative. This service is really helpful for small business owners who cannot afford to hire more staff and at the same time miss business calls.

Your virtual telephone receptionist operates from the office of the telephone service provider they work for. So, you need not clear any additional space for work in your place of business. Each call comes with some hidden opportunities for your business. Business answering service allows you to attend all your client calls. 

In the present economic scenario, you might prefer to answer all calls by yourself & use your answering machine to record missed calls. This will definitely save costs but what if your customers do not call back or leave messages. In the cut-throat competitive market, it might also happen that you missed a valuable sales opportunity just because you weren't there to answer it.



A small saving in cost might lead to huge loss in business. Relying on answering machine for unanswered calls has many disadvantages. Answering machine can record only as much information as provided by customers but cannot initiate a healthy exchange of information. 

They cannot answer customer queries or alert you on emergency calls. However, on using telephone answering service your virtual receptionist may conduct a general enquiry (with your permission), record all information correctly, and send you an instant alert of all calls through mails or messages. Failure of equipment is another factor that might affect your business if you depend on answering machine.

Now, if you think using business answering service will be a costly affair then you are wrong. There are many reputed companies in the UK which offer cost-effective packages on call answering service. You can avail the service on pay per call basis if you do not expect a huge amount of calls for your business.

And, if your business is in the growing phase and you receive a huge volume of calls everyday then you can avail the monthly packages.

There are certain reputed companies that offer call answering service starting at just 0.80p per call. So, stop relying on machine and double your profits with telephone answering service.

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