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Stop Phone System Hacking and Fraud
When small business owner Bob Foreman opened the phone bill for his company it totaled a stunning $166,000! Bob’s firm, Foreman Seeley Fountain Architecture, had become the latest victim of phone system hacking and fraud.
Live Receptionists Provide Call Center Advantages
A growing trend spreading through businesses nationwide is the adoption of computerized receptionists. But what do clients think about having their calls answered by an automated system? Do they appreciate the convenience, or are they frustrated by automated responses?
Five Questions to Ask Before Buying Phone Answering Services
Making the move to an outsourced call center, or switching from an ineffective answering service to a high quality provider, can yield significant benefits for many businesses. Yet not all telephone answering services are created equal.
When researching phone answering services, asking these questions can help ensure you making the right decision before purchasing call services.
Closing Internet Leads into Paying Customers
The Internet can give your company more exposure to prospects than ever before. However, it has also introduced more complexity into your sales cycle. Closing Internet leads and turning them into paying customers requires a well thought-out process.
How Strategic Sales Planning Will Make the Most of Your Sales Efforts
Businesses often approach sales on an ad hoc basis, but here’s the dirty little secret…even when the economy is in a recession, that doesn’t mean that money simply disappears; it just moves to different places.
Help Desk Management Tips to Shape Successful Employees
As a Help Desk Manager, you want to make sure your employees are able to do their jobs to their fullest potential. So, what are their fundamental needs? Here are two important places to look into to help your employees succeed.
Holiday Telephone Coverage Made Stress-Free
Here we are again. It’s the holidays. I want to put emphasis on the plural “s” of “holidays” because with so many packed into a two month span, it is hard to keep your sales and customer service staff in the office.
The Road to Entrepreneurial Success: 8 Concepts to Guide You
I come from a family of entrepreneurs. I am an entrepreneur myself and I have worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs that have been clients of my call center.
The popular press puts forth a million-and-one ideas about what makes an entrepreneur successful. It’s not that these articles don’t have any merit; they just tend to be very heavy on the “conceptual” and rather light on anything “concrete”. They throw around terms like – vision, innovation, strategic thinking, etc.
The success or failure of many of the entrepreneurs I have worked with has often come down to these eight very practical concepts.
Countdown to July 4th
You can’t afford to lose sales opportunities or tick-off clients, but you want to enjoy the holiday yourself. Here’s your go-to check-list to help you think through your telephone holiday coverage so you can plan ahead and have a more enjoyable Independence Day.