Telephone answering services are sadly ineligible for “Best Script” at the Academy Awards, otherwise, Focus Answering Service would be using those little golden guys left and right to hold our invoices in place and prop open the doors to our offices. In today's...
You’re not the only game in town. None of us are. Sad but true. Thanks to the Internet and social media, competition in all industries is fiercer and more prolific than ever. And before they can do business with your company, there are many questions your customers...
We all receive a lot of telephone messages every day, some more important than others. Think about that sweet message from a child who just wants to say goodnight to Daddy. Or the urgent message from a young wife who has just gone into labor. Can you really put a...
Are you currently weighing the costs of outsourcing your business’s phone needs? It’s understandable. But consider this – if your small business answering service’s efforts were strictly relegated to making sure your calls don’t reach voicemail – they would still be...
The Pareto Principle states that – for many outcomes – roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes. Other names for this principle include “The Law of the Vital Few,” or “The Principle of Factor Sparsity.” Most business owners recognize it as the 80/20 Rule,...
More than 90 percent of consumers say customer service is the key to continuing a relationship with a vendor. Taking steps now to improve customer service can keep your clients from moving on (and marring your reputation along the way). Start with these three steps:...
Meetings get a bad rap. Lots of complaining about some people droning on and others not contributing. Lots of parroting about how boring they are. Let’s take an honest look at how important scheduled video meetings are – especially now. Most of us are currently off...
Employees can occasionally procrastinate. Unfortunate, but true. The agents employed by a quality answering service simply do not have that luxury. In fact, the most important thing to remember if you are considering hiring an answering service, is that the team is...
Call forwarding solutions allow businesses to utilize their established phone number when working with a telephone answering service. Call forwarding is achieved with a unique toll-free number assigned to you by your answering service, and a designated forwarding code...
Some people work from home full-time, and that’s simply part of their job description. Like any workplace routine – being in the house, not a cubicle, is second nature to them. By now, they’ve created distinct processes for shutting out the everyday normalcy of being...