What is an answering service? A telephone answering service’s primary function is to take messages and dispatch phone calls. The answering in answering service refers to the answering of the phone call. However, it’s the services part of the word, when used in combination, that transforms the phrase into much more than it’s primary function. Today, the modern telephone answering service has other capabilities to benefit small businesses like telemarketing, lead capture, and email read and response, among others. Below you’ll find posts from the Specialty Answering Service blog that will help shed light on the other services that many answering services provide. We’ve also selected a few resources we think deserve attention.
What is On-Call and How do Answering Services Use it? Emergency dispatching is a service that many answering services offer, and that many businesses rely on. Read this to see how it’s used!
Lead Capture and Your Answering Service: Need help capturing leads? Read this to learn why answering services are so great at converting leads to more business.
If you're not familiar with the lingo, on-call (also spelled oncall or on call) refers to a system or protocol for contacting an employee or group of employees who are available, if necessary, for work and/or communication after business hours. Answering services use on-call systems to deliver messages to specific employees. If…
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