Save On Phone Bills Through Technology
And Answering Services
_There are so many advances in telephone service, that it is hard to keep track. Many people are doing away with home landline phone service in a conventional sense, and are using VOIP Services, Cell Phones and Blackberries or Professional Answering Services instead.
These can offer cost savings on home phone service and free long distance in the case of VOIP phone service.
Self-employed people or service oriented businesses, such as plumbers and electricians are using a telephone answering service to answer calls 24 hours a day. This saves the expense of having to hire and train a receptionist to answer calls, or the hassle of getting interrupted during a service job where you can’t get to or hear the cell phone.
With some of the VOIP, or voice over internet phone services, you can have voicemails forwarded in a text message to your cell phone. Professional answering services can do the same thing, while giving the customer a friendly, professional voice to explain the problem to or forward their urgency on service calls.
Often, you can save money over a traditional landline by using either of these options. Of course, home phones still over telephone answering machines and some phone companies have a privacy manager or call notes that will answer the calls for you and then you call to pick up the message, much like having a professional answering service. These additional services do cost additional on your landline or home phone bill.
Professional answering services can be given instructions on basic calls or give a timetable as to when to expect a return call. The personal touch is often appreciated by the customer, the 24 hour availability allows them to leave a message anytime, and you can call in for messages from anywhere at all hours.
These services can be worth the monthly fee and save you from needing a receptionist, home phone or business phone line.
If you opt for a telephone answering device, you need to be sure that you don’t have kids at home that will answer and cause you to miss important calls, or answer and not take messages in a professional manner. Of course, you can teach them to take messages, but that doesn’t always mean they will remember to give them to you.
The other thing to keep in mind is the message that you leave on your answering device. Be sure it is not too long, preferably under a minute. On home phones, be careful that the greeting does not divulge too much personal information, such as your name, if you are on vacation or away, etc.. These types of calls can tip off criminals with ill intent.
The thing to keep in mind is that with the technology available today, there are ways to save on your phone bill. You can have a more professional business or personal image with a professional answering service that can answer calls 24 hours and you can check with them at your convenience.
You can also save money by looking into VOIP phone service, which normally includes free long distance, voicemails can be text messaged to your cell phone, and you can check them from any computer with internet capability.
These can offer cost savings on home phone service and free long distance in the case of VOIP phone service.
Self-employed people or service oriented businesses, such as plumbers and electricians are using a telephone answering service to answer calls 24 hours a day. This saves the expense of having to hire and train a receptionist to answer calls, or the hassle of getting interrupted during a service job where you can’t get to or hear the cell phone.
With some of the VOIP, or voice over internet phone services, you can have voicemails forwarded in a text message to your cell phone. Professional answering services can do the same thing, while giving the customer a friendly, professional voice to explain the problem to or forward their urgency on service calls.
Often, you can save money over a traditional landline by using either of these options. Of course, home phones still over telephone answering machines and some phone companies have a privacy manager or call notes that will answer the calls for you and then you call to pick up the message, much like having a professional answering service. These additional services do cost additional on your landline or home phone bill.
Professional answering services can be given instructions on basic calls or give a timetable as to when to expect a return call. The personal touch is often appreciated by the customer, the 24 hour availability allows them to leave a message anytime, and you can call in for messages from anywhere at all hours.
These services can be worth the monthly fee and save you from needing a receptionist, home phone or business phone line.
If you opt for a telephone answering device, you need to be sure that you don’t have kids at home that will answer and cause you to miss important calls, or answer and not take messages in a professional manner. Of course, you can teach them to take messages, but that doesn’t always mean they will remember to give them to you.
The other thing to keep in mind is the message that you leave on your answering device. Be sure it is not too long, preferably under a minute. On home phones, be careful that the greeting does not divulge too much personal information, such as your name, if you are on vacation or away, etc.. These types of calls can tip off criminals with ill intent.
The thing to keep in mind is that with the technology available today, there are ways to save on your phone bill. You can have a more professional business or personal image with a professional answering service that can answer calls 24 hours and you can check with them at your convenience.
You can also save money by looking into VOIP phone service, which normally includes free long distance, voicemails can be text messaged to your cell phone, and you can check them from any computer with internet capability.