Sunday, January 4, 2009

A Look Inside An Answering Service

If you are like me, you want to know what life is like in a call center. If your imagination is a bit outdated, you may picture an operator with a bun in her hair pulling random wires out of a telephone board. The current version of an answering service is much more technically advanced with computer terminals, operators on headsets, and all types of other fun stuff. So, without further ado, here is what life looks like inside a call center!




28 comments:

jasonbulloch said...

How does this work?

: Through your training and guidance, our staff becomes your staff. We use the latest technology to seamlessly connect your callers to you where ever you are. Your call answering service announces the caller's name and what the call is regarding and give you the option to take the call or not. You may even give us a message to relay back to the caller. It is just as if we are sitting in the same office as you and intercom you when you receive a call. All of this happens invisibly to the caller.

Magellan Solutions said...
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Sonia said...

The topic is a sensible one giving people not only a picture of what’s on the other end of the line during phone conversations, it also gave an overview on the services call centers offer. Technology, evidently, took a large part of the culpability of its evolution and success, thus, picking up the pace of promoting and expanding a company’s dealings at the same time benefitting the customers through first-rate customer care.

Sonia Roody

Doris Dimaggio said...


In our call center service we face many things, and also decorate a lot of life. This is our life inside the call center.

Doris R. Dimaggio
customer service call center

Unknown said...

Thanks so much for sharing this information! I have been looking into answering service for my home! Can you tell me where I might be find more information like this? Thanks for sharing!

Unknown said...

I need to get into answering service business. know of any good ones?

Unknown said...

I am really glad I found this post about answering service. A friend of mine told me he worked at a company that provides these services, so I was curious and I am looking it up to see what it is.

Hilary Kimbel said...

Thanks so much for answering some questions I have had about an answering service... I feel like this has really helped me!

Unknown said...

It's nice reading about call answering services!

Virtual Receptionists

Anonymous said...

I've worked at an answering service and I found it quite enjoyable because I found value in helping people.

Unknown said...

That is interesting, because I have been considering applying for a answering service job, there is one a block from my home, I honestly think that I would do decent at it though.

Unknown said...

Wow, great video. I have always been so against having a 24/7 answering service until recently. My company is growing and I don't have enough time to answer my phones, and take care of my customers in the office.

Unknown said...

yeah i agree with what Adam had said in his comment. Its true that some companies don't have time to provide the service with quality. For qulaity Call Center Services visit this link.

Unknown said...

That is interesting, I have always wandered what it would be like inside a answering service center. I think that I could actually do pretty well with it.

S said...

Contracting out are becoming more and more popular answering service. It saves the customer money in several ways. No staff, no benefits, no equipment etc.

Unknown said...

I have always wondered what an answering service looked like. I was stuck with the same image in my head. This makes a lot more sense. My brother works at a call center and he would never tell me what he did.

Aaron | http://pwcmessagecenter.org

Unknown said...

I didn't realize other people were interested in that as well! I have always wondered, although I didn't think it was still women with their hair in buns pulling switches. This is a great look at the changing dimensions of answering services. Technology has done a lot.

Jenn | http://www.tel-us.com/services/live-phone-answering-service/

Unknown said...

I didn't realize other people were interested in that as well! I have always wondered, although I didn't think it was still women with their hair in buns pulling switches. This is a great look at the changing dimensions of answering services. Technology has done a lot.

Jenn | http://www.tel-us.com/services/live-phone-answering-service/

Unknown said...

I used to work for a call center where we only had inbound calls. It was great being able to wait for people to call you, rather than make calls. Generally people actually wanted to talk to you.
Edmond Vandergraff | http://www.tel-us.com/services/call-center-solutions/

Unknown said...

What an interesting look into a call center! That's so different from just a few decades ago. I never thought it would change that much. http://www.apello.com/Live_Answering_Service.asp

Unknown said...

It's useful to know how a call answering system works. The company that I work for hired an answering service to help take our calls. There are days when none of us are in the office, so it's nice having a service that will make sure that our calls are answered and our clients are taken care of.
Bill Li | http://www.tel-us.com/services/live-phone-answering-service/

Unknown said...

My friend needs to find a service like this for his business. He wants to make sure that everyone's calls get answered. I think that it's amazing how these work. http://www.atc-service.com/Services

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Unknown said...

Thanks for the post. I do not know very much about call centers and I was thinking of employing a call center to help boost my business. I will look for a company that will help me out. I want to use a call center.

http://www.apello.com/Live_Answering_Service.asp

Unknown said...

I have a small business that I just started. I do not have need of an answering service yet as we are just starting out. However I do see a point in time when this would be a good idea. There is nothing I hate more than when I call some company and they send me to a machine. http://www.answerall.com

Jiya arora said...
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Jiya arora said...

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Jiya arora said...

Yes, of course, in today’s world, answering service has emerged as an important business feature due to limited time period and budget constraints. Answering services, helping you provide better customer service without overloading your existing staff or requiring you to hire new personnel
At Go4Customer, we have live answering service operators who are trained to handle your customer queries and provide best customer support.