The purpose of a phone answering service is to receive your telephone calls when you are away from your phone. A phone answering service is invaluable if you are frequently unavailable.
Qwest has an answering service. It is an additional cost every month but its just like having an answering machine and you can check your messages from anywhere. There is also live phone answering services available through Telassistant if that is the preferred route.
The cost of a phone answering service depends on the volume of your calls. It may cost less for you to have your line forwarded to the answering service of your choice.
Basically with a phone answering service you are able to provide great and high demand support for your purchasers and capture sales of potential clients. The result will in fact be a reduced payroll cost.
I would check with the same business telephone company that provides your service to see if they have an answering service offered because you may get it at a lower price when you bundle the two.
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.
An answering service is a service provided by a third party company where a live person sceens your calls and provides you with messages at a later time. More detailed information can be found online or with the specific company providing the service.
You actually program a computer, rather than a phone. What happens is that the computer sends the call to a predefined number based on the extension dialed in the virtual answering service. Then, when someone dials in to the virtual answering service, your phone rings, wherever that phone might be.
The good ones are Verizon and Time Warner cable are giving good phone answering service again its all depends on your type of service i would go for Verizon.
There is a company called Live Answering Network (also called LAN), that provides a 24 hour answering service for businesses in the United States. Check out their website for a 7 day trial.
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.
It depends on where you are located, and what type of business you are running. I would suggest calling your local phone company and asking them for recommendations.