If you Googled 'best answering service', there's no shortage of companies that would show up in your search results. What might be different about us is that our service quality is independently verified. As a family-owned answering service, we take an incredible amount of pride in what we do.
The reason we take part in these independent quality assurance programs isn’t for a trophy or a logo to put on our website. We do it because we want to have an outsider's view of how we're running our business. We do it because one of our core values is 'We are Committed to Quality". Having said all this, we are incredibly proud to have earned the ATSI and CAM-X Award of Excellence for 2023. Our team has earned both awards for a record setting 13 years in a row!
It is extremely important to us to provide the best telephone answering services to you. It's something we take very seriously.
So much so that we have a full time staff dedicated to evaluating and coaching our team. They listen to call recording and grade them on various components to ensure the caller experience is second to none.
We also take part in two separate secret shopper programs. These programs are specifically for telephone answering service companies. The programs are through the US and Canadian call center organizations, ATSI and Cam-X.
These 'secret shopper' calls occur over a six-month time frame. What is unique about the program is that participating call centers are rated on 20 random calls over six months.
The criteria for scoring includes:
Here are the areas that are covered some of the areas that we focus on to provide you with the best answering service possible.
This is one of the most important items as you never get a second chance to make a great first impression. It measure how quickly the telephone call answered.
Telephone answering services must have enough staff on hand at the right times in order to provide excellent service.
A successful passing score on this category is that the call is answered within 3 rings, or 18 seconds, by a person. If a call rings longer than this, it is out of tolerance.
We measure the friendliness of our team when they speak with your callers. It all begins by answering your phones with a smile in our voice.
Throughout the call we make sure to use at least two pleases and a thank you. When concluding the telephone call, we give the caller a 'reassuring close' to the call to give them peace of mind that their needs will be met.
Being polite and friendly when answering your phones is important. Making sure we are gathering accurate information for you is of equal importance.
We verify spelling, telephone numbers and pertinent information. This ensures that you get clear and accurate messages.
Our grading categories include:
It is very important that we are knowledgeable about your business and how to serve you.
We test our team to make sure they are know how to handle your phone calls, which questions to ask and if needed, how to escalate important calls when it's urgent.
In short, we want to make sure we are living up to your expectations.
In short, it's the 'wow' factor. We've all heard about the importance of customer service. This implies we are simply serving the customer's need and nothing more than that.
Our answering service strive to go above and beyond caller expectations.
When possible we like to deliver extra value to our customers in the least expected ways. One of our favorite companies to emulate is Zappos. They built their business around providing customers with a fantastic experience. At Ambs Call Center, it is our goal to do that for your business.
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