Local Phone Service: The Latest Offerings

| Saturday, November 12, 2011
By Frank Hart


It's just a fact, and that is that what's available today in the way of phone services and the actual technology that goes into phones is vastly superior when compared to decades past. All you have to do is look at a 10-year-old phone compared to today's latest model to see how fast things are moving up. It's the same thing too when it comes to services the are available now as well, and this is why so many business owners and managers are completely unaware of all the options they have.

Outsourcing for instance is the latest tool that a lot of businesses are now using to cut labor costs, and when most people think of outsourcing what comes to mind is manufacturing. The truth here though, is that now thanks to advanced technology a business call center can now even be outsourced, and just last in manufacturing moving the phones and the people who operate them off-site can be a huge money saver.

Now for sure the first obvious benefit that a business going to see when they do this is the bottom line savings on labor. It's simple. Rather than having to write paychecks week after week they can hand it to a service that operates overseas where labor costs are substantially less. But it's not just labor though because it can also free up office space that can then be used for other things. This means even more savings.

Then how about this? If you have a one shift daytime operation, and that includes your phone call service counter moving that end of your business off-site allows you to switch to 24-hour service. So what does 24-hour service mean? Well for it sure means that you'll have 16 more hours of fielding calls but what you may not also realize, is that it means you can start targeting overseas business prospects in different time zones.

Generally speaking companies that specialize in providing these types of phone services are also able to offer a higher level of professionalism as well to clients and customers. Their employees have gone through extensive training in preparation for a call service job, and can you say the same thing right now about the employees who are managing the phones in your company? Just something else to think about here.

Then the last thing to consider here is actually something that's really becoming popular, and that is what has come to be known as business genre specific call services. This is outsourced call services that are handled by operators who've undergone extensive training in the operations and language of a specific business. They're able to perform far more functions than your typical operator, such as taking orders, filing sales leads, etc.




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