You can find all types of freelancers, including live answering services, at odesk.com. It is a site for freelancers and contractors to find each other. There are both Americans and foreign people on this site.
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Yes, there are live answering services in Austin. One is Hastings answering service. They can be found at www.hastings.com.
There are several websites where an individual could register for a live telephone answering service. Examples would include Answer Connect and Voice Nation.
Some companies that offer live phone service answering are Application Service Provider Definitive Database, Business Review or Customer Solution Services.
A good phone answering service will offer live operators 24 hours a day along with a full featured voicemail system. I hired an answering service for my pottery business and it has worked out great.
Live answering services give consumers and clients the feeling that a business values them and their concerns. Automated systems are impersonal and difficult to navigage. If you can swing it the investment in live answering will pay off in the end.
www.voicenation.com is a site you can go to to get live answering services. Also try www.answeramerica.com if your business is in the US.
A virtual phone service is an automated system that is basically an answering system that requires no "live" operator. It is much like the answering services of old only automated.
Hamilton Telephone Answering Service offers live 24/7 answering service, customized greetings, remote receptionists, pagers, voicemail, and alpha dispatch. You can find all of this information on their webiste: http://www.hamiltontas.com/services.htm
You can expect to pay at least $30 a month for a live business answering service. Pricing depends on the hours you need coverage and what you expect them to do.
By the word freelance itself, it means you are free to work anytime, anywhere. There is no specific place where you have to live.
Doctors Answering Service - Provides Doctors with telephone answering service after hours for emergencies. They take and relay emergency messages for the doctor. SEE www.aliveanswer.net/doctors-answering-service.html