Friday, March 29, 2013

Hire An Answering Service To Take Care Of Your Customers' Needs More Efficiently

Most big companies nowadays hire someone like the Answering Service Los Angeles to attend to calls from their current and potential customers.  One of the complaints I commonly hear from customers in dealing with merchants, is not getting a real person to answer the phone.

I honestly don't feel comfortable leaving messages on the phone.  I hate it when I need to call and I am directed to different numbers and have to be put on hold for a long time only to be told later that everyone is busy at the moment.  Customers, especially those unhappy ones, don't have that patience.  It makes them feel that the business is not so concerned about their customers.

Businesses fail to realize that one unhappy customer could create a great negative impact on the business, considering how much a customer can do online to tarnish their reputation, through social media networks like Facebook and Twitter and other fora.

On the other hand, a happy and satisfied customer could do a great deal in promoting a business.  The word of mouth is very powerful.  Businesses should make their customers feel that each is important no matter how much they bought from them, if any.  They should take care of them otherwise, they will never see these customers in their store again.

There are so many stores around, the competition is tight.  You need to be concerned with the needs of your customers, if you want to keep them.  Customer service is very important.  Communications system plays an important role in the success of a company.

Hiring answering service is a great idea.  It would make customers feel that they are talking to a real person, not a robot or a machine that does not have empathy.  Also, with an answering service, your important job could not be interrupted unless it is really important that needs urgent attention.

If you hire a secretary to attend to calls, I think one or two are not enough, depending on the size of the company and the volume of calls.  It is also cost efficient.  If you do the math, hiring a secretary is more expensive.

Hiring an answering service is more efficient, convenient and more cost effective for the business.  It does great favors not only for the business but for the customers as well.

This is a sponsored post however; all the points and views are my own.

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