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November 16, 2009

Easing Daily Operations with Answering Service

By Kelly McGuire, TMCnet Editor


When a company deploys a software system, the goal often is to make life easier for the organization, its employees and, ultimately, its customers.
 
By using services such as those from answering services provider ReceptionHQ, companies across all telecom sectors can not only run more smoothly, but also increase overall productivity.
 
Specifically, ReceptionHQ’s “ReceptionistPlus” answering service perfects in-house operations with an outsourced phone system, while allows for less time spent in-house on operations that can clog up employees meeting daily goals, such as transferring calls and answering constant customer requests.
 
With the ReceptionistPlus system, trained professionals handle a variety of calls across all sectors. A task generally done in-house, ReceptionistPlus diverts calls to ReceptionHQ professionals in a platform designed especially for each unique user. The calls transferred to the correct employee within a specific company.
 
Providing a live phone answering service for customers is an excellent way to retain current customers and expand business. With a system such as ReceptionHQ’s answering service, operations can increase and, therefore, so can sales. “When a person is able to get a hold of someone at your business at anytime, day or night, it adds professionalism and opportunities for business,” company officials said.
 
Not only will overall operations increase by implementing ReceptionistPlus, but customers will be more satisfied with a system knowing that no matter what time, or what location, someone will always answer the phone.
 
“Customers love knowing that they are part of something big, and by offering a live phone answering service at all hours of the day you are telling them that your business is needed and their inquiries are important,” company officials said.
 
It’s not just large enterprises that need a successful answering service system in a company either. SMBs find that their business has the need for a live phone answering service, but they’re not sure how to go about setting the service up. And, while ReceptionHQ officials said it is possible to hire people and train them to answer calls, that process requires a good deal of work, but that hiring a company like ReceptionHQ to answer calls around the clock.

Kelly McGuire is a TMCnet Web editor, covering CRM and workforce technologies, and anchor of its daily TMC Newsroom video broadcast. Kelly also writes about eco-friendly "green" technologies and smart grids, compiling TMCnet's weekly e-Newsletters on those topics, as well as the cable industry. To read more of Kelly's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Kelly McGuire



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