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Always There for You: How an Answering Service Supports Real Estate Agents

In today's competitive real estate market, an answering service provides you with a trusted and affordable alternative to hiring an in-house receptionist, drastically reducing your costs and customer service challenges. You won't have to worry about the expenses associated with hiring, training, and retaining a full-time employee or managing a digital phone system yourself. Instead, you'll have access to a team of professionals who are ready to serve your clients round the clock.

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The Power of First Impressions: How Virtual Receptionists Support Your Business

Your business's success hinges on the power of first impressions. And in today's digital age, a virtual receptionist is your secret weapon to nail that first impression every time. Virtual receptionists are not just automated voices but real people offering top-notch service around the clock.

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Improving Patient Experience: The Benefits of Hiring a Healthcare Answering Service

In the healthcare industry, patients expect to receive prompt and efficient service. They want to be able to access information and schedule appointments quickly.

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Why Experienced Businesses Don't Cut Back Their Customer Service Budget

Consumers often say that customer service is not what it used to be, and thanks to innovative customer service solutions, like those offered by Intercon Messaging, the opportunity to retain customers and secure new ones along the way, has become easier to do.

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Of Course…The Answering Service Industry is Still Alive

Yes… text, email, voicemail and mobile apps work, but they can't demonstrate the understanding, empathy or compassion that an agent can. A heart emoji will never replace the kindness, patience and experience of talking to a person. Human input can go a long way in understanding service expectations and customer needs in a world driven by automation and artificial intelligence.

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Outbound Reminder Services That Support Lotteries, Elections and Other Professional Services

As an affordable alternative to hiring additional staff for your organization, this type of outsourced service can assist with streamlining your calendar, improving office efficiency, as well as increasing sales, and generating new leads.

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Property Managers Benefit from After Hours Service

Regardless of what time of day or night it is, property managers know that when tenants have an emergency or they think they do, they’re going to call. There's nothing like getting a non-emergency call in the middle of the night, and this is precisely why many property managers outsource their call answering to a professional answering service.

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Top 5 Benefits of Using a Live Telephone Answering Service

How often do you get frustrated when you call a business, and nobody picks up? It costs money and missed opportunities, not to mention that it reduces customer satisfaction. It can also impact your reputation as a responsive business if customers can’t get in touch with you. Luckily, there is a solution, outsourced telephone answering services.

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Appointment Scheduling Services For Medical Offices

This past year has shown us that the need for available healthcare services is at an all-time high. COVID-19 has spurred the demand for urgent patient care and created new challenges for many healthcare administrators and medical offices.

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How To Successfully Optimize Your Customer’s Journey

We all know the primary driver of every business is client satisfaction. We also know that it's not always easy to achieve. Nowadays, consumers not only expect excellent service; they also expect to speak with a live person who can address their needs quickly. This is the differentiator between good service and a great customer experience.

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4 Reasons to Use Call Forwarding for Your Business

As the name says, call forwarding means that you can redirect your existing number to another and ensure no call goes unanswered. This feature offers plenty of benefits and helps organizations effortlessly streamline their call volume. There are also many ways to customize call forwarding and only forward when the call is unanswered.

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Three Ways to Improve Customer Service and Retention

Customer-centric organizations benefit from improving their service delivery through the use of a professional call center. Generally speaking, businesses of all sizes aspire to be as responsive as possible regarding customer service but need a solution to streamline their processes when communicating effectively.

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The Harvesting Season Is Here! What Farmers and Machinery Dealerships and Farm Supply Companies Can Do to Get More Business

Let’s say you have a farming client whose field worker is operating a large piece of equipment, and suddenly it breaks down and production halts. The foreman or field supervisor immediately calls you for emergency service, but you can't answer the call. They call your competitor, and you've just missed a profitable service call.

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Answering Services For Businesses With Limited Staff

Many business owners are challenged with the lack of staff and limited availability of their employees. One of the best ways to recover in these unprecedented times is by outsourcing certain roles to professional service providers such as a 24 live answering and receptionist service.

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Increase Your Competitive Edge With An After-Hours Answering Service

In order to stay competitive and satisfy customer expectations, even small and medium size businesses must provide a point of contact outside of normal business hours. An after-hours answering service can be the solution to streamline customer needs with your service delivery. Don’t risk missing another call and losing out on new business.

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Reduce Labor Costs By Using A Live Virtual Receptionist Service

In times where payroll costs are high and work hours are limited, an outsourced live virtual receptionist team makes for an effective way to reduce labor costs. According to Forbes, one of the key pillars for business infrastructure comes from implementing a virtual team that can provide telephone answering, take messages and dispatch to your on-call technicians.

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The Ringing Telephone, The Value of A Call

What if each call is worth $200.00, that call turns into having that client every month of the year for $200.00 = $2400.00 per year. With one more call like that every month, 24 months later you still have all those new clients for $200.00 each per month = the potential increase in revenue is substantial.

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How Do You Find The Right Work/Life Balance?

The approach of the Alberta Family Day weekend is a reminder of how difficult it can be to set aside time to be with your loved ones. All of our lives are so busy; it’s hard to find the time to catch your breath. That’s especially true if you’re an independent business person or work in a field like real estate.

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Call Forwarding Can Save Your Business

It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, it often seems that just as you’re getting down to the task at hand the telephone rings. Then you have a decision to make. Do you drop what you’re doing to answer the call? Or do you push on in the hope that the caller will either leave a message or call you back?

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That Missed Call Could Cost You Big Time!

Only you can tell exactly what the impact of that missed call is on your bottom line. It very much depends on your business. It might be as low as a hundred bucks for a retail store. For a plumbing company or an electrician though, the cost is likely to be well into the hundreds of dollars, not to mention the missed chance for possible repeat business.

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