Successful Telephone Answering Services are a marriage between High Technology and Old Fashioned Excellent Customer Service

Telephone answering services and call center services are indeed a hidden industry.  They don’t seem glamorous; they typically don’t get mainstream media attention; there are no celebrities talking about their answering services. There’s a point we should talk about.  No one talks about their
Categories: Answering Service, Customer Service

How to use call waiting

Call waiting is a telephony feature of your phone service that allows you to place a caller on hold and suspend one conversation while you engage another caller on the "call waiting line" in another conversation. This is a very efficient use of phone line service that allows you to avoid having to purchase
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Is Customer Service the New Marketing tool

Wow! This idea hit me while writing a piece on Customer Disservice on the Call Center floor. I found that every interaction with a customer or potential customer is a vote for or against your company and services provided. A mistake made fifty years ago may not have seen the light; however, today
Categories: Answering Service, Call Center News, Customer Service

HR Visibility in a 24/7 Telephone Answering Service-Phase Two

We talked about Human Resources as an ideal service department.  Serving our fellow employees in those areas of policy, benefits and job descriptions is pretty obvious. One not so obvious service that I’d like to cover here is helping our hiring managers understand how to define those certain attributes
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How to forward your voice mail to your email

Voice mail messages are typically stored as analog .wav files. This is basically an electronic version of a sound wave. Voice mail systems, for many years, would record an incoming message and make that available to the user on a recorded storage device such as a tape player. For about the past 10 years,
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