Answering Service Blog

Like most, you know about the great benefits of using a telephone answering service. What you might not know are the secrets to getting the best service possible at the lowest cost. Here are eight tips to reduce your answering service bill.

  It's 2022 and websites are supporting an increasingly large amount of the sales process for brands. When a customer or prospect uses the phone to contact your business, they are looking for answers that they couldn't find online. And whoever answers the phone for your business might be the first and only point of human contact that they have with your company.

When purchasing a new service or product, one of the first considerations that comes to mind is price. With price comes value, and everyone wants to maximize their value. While Amazon has spoiled us with the ability to find the cost of almost anything, the cost of business services such as answering phones are harder to grasp.

There are many things that prospective buyers of telephone answering service expect. At the top of the list, are a prompt answer, minimal hold time, and timely call escalation.  In our 89 years in existence, we’ve never faced something so impactful as the Coronavirus pandemic. I’m proud of how dedicated our team has been, showing up 24/7 to help our clients and their callers. It hasn’t been easy, and we’ve all been working overtime to help our customers.

Ambs Call Center is humbled to accept the exclusive ATSI 2021 Diamond Plus Award of Excellence for best answering service. This annual award is presented by the Association of TeleServices International (ATSI) an industry trade association for telephone answering service providers. Now an 18-time winner overall and 11 consecutive year winner, Ambs Call Center was presented with the award at ATSI’s 2021 conference in Kansas City, MO.

So you’ve made a decision to use a telephone answering service. Congratulations! It may be one of the best business decisions you’ll make all year. Now the question becomes, “How do I call forward my phones to the answering service?” Never fear, we’ve outlined some of the most common call forwarding methods.