Picture this: You’re sitting in your office, neck deep in emails, documents, and spreadsheets. The phone rings. Do you pause what you’re working on and answer? For many busy professionals, the answer is no. Too often, people assume that voicemail is enough coverage for chaotic moments. The reality? A missed call that rolls to voicemail… Read more »
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Benefits of Having a Bilingual Virtual Receptionist
Clear communication is at the heart of every great customer experience. Without open lines of communication, customers and staff alike may grow frustrated, confused, and eager to end the conversation. While you might offer stellar communication in English, our nation is growing increasingly diverse. Fail to speak with customers in their preferred language and you… Read more »
The Importance of Call Screening for Small Businesses
When opportunity knocks, you’ve got to answer the door. When opportunity calls, you pick up. Every call you receive is a potential opportunity – potential being the key word. While it’s possible a ringing telephone may bring new business, there’s just as good a chance that the person on the end of the line may… Read more »
4 Tips to Improve Your Customer Service and Ensure Customer Satisfaction
When it comes to building a successful company, quality products and services matter a lot. In their quest to create the very best offerings, though, many entrepreneurs forget about the customer experience. You can design the most unique, in-demand product in the world, but if your customer service isn’t up to snuff, your brand will… Read more »
4 Signs You Need a Virtual Receptionist
The Great Resignation has business owners everywhere rethinking their staffing decisions. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers are finding it difficult to maintain a reliable staff. Indeed, many are working with a skeleton crew. Stretched thin, these teams are often overworked, frustrated, and burnt out. Too often, this frustration bleeds over into the customer experience…. Read more »
Tips for Appointment Scheduling on the Phone
Setting appointments requires a great deal of organizational skill. While it can be a relatively straightforward process, even the most basic of appointment requests can be complicated by games of phone tag, last minute cancellations, and messy paper calendars. Given how important accurate appointment setting can be for a business, it’s important to meet these… Read more »
How to Do Your Customer Service Audit
Customer service drives your business forward and therefore should be given priority in your overall operations. However, when companies are performing well, customer service complacency can occur. While focusing on meeting their quarterly financial objectives, developing new projects and services and coming up with marketing strategies to bring in more leads, they may actually lose… Read more »
Main Reasons Why an Answering Service Can Help Your HR Team
Human resources departments are among the most important – and most overlooked – aspects of any organization. They set the tone for the entire company, outlining professional standards and expectations for everyone in the organization. Human resources professionals oversee staffing, employee compensation and benefits, as well as the defining and designing work itself. While no… Read more »
What are the Biggest Impacts of Bad Customer Service?
In an increasingly globalized economy, the customer experience is often the only thing separating you from your competition. Bad customer service has become more damning than ever. One poor experience can have a butterfly effect-like impact on your entire organization. A bad experience can lead to a bad review which evolves into a bad reputation…. Read more »
What is an Answering Service?
Missed calls cost money. They also reduce overall customer satisfaction. For these reasons – and many more – businesses are turning to answering services for coverage. Such a service can help your organization optimize its communications while increasing profitability. Dedicated answering service receptionists work tirelessly to get to know your business and function as an… Read more »