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Check out the latest news and updates, including helpful information regarding telephone answering and call handling, from the Answer4u blog.

Supporting Lockdown Critical Services With 24/7 Call Answering Services

It's been a strange week for the team here at Answer4u. Most days we deal with a variety of industry calls, with no clear common denominator, but since the Coronavirus outbreak and subsequent [...]

How Are After Hours Telephone Answering Services Beneficial For Small Businesses?

An after-hours telephone answering service can be beneficial for small businesses and start-ups. In this article, we explain some of the main benefits.

3 Steps To Finding The Perfect Out Of Hours Call Answering Service

Out of hours answering service companies offer an invaluable service, ensuring your customers are able to speak with someone who can help handle their query 24 hours a day. Every business will have [...]

4 Benefits To Your Business Of Using A 24 Hour Virtual Receptionist

Many businesses of all sizes are overloaded with incoming calls. Whether they are genuine enquiries or cold calls, these businesses spend a large chunk of their valuable time on calls that lead [...]

What a New Survey Tells Us about Business Phone Etiquette

What makes people do things on the phone that they would never do in front of someone in real life? From yawning loudly to sounding bored, these practices and others add up to seriously poor phone [...]

Why the Phone Matters in Customer Experience

Plenty of people talk about customer experience in business, but what exactly is it? Wikipedia defines it as “the product of an interaction between an organisation and a customer over the duration [...]

Five Fascinating Phone Facts You Simply Must Know

The phone is such a popular form of communication that it’s all too easy to take it for granted. After all, around 95% of households in the UK now own a mobile phone! While landline phone ownership [...]

The Business Risks of Taking Phone Calls at Work

If you were asked to make a list of the risks which affect businesses, it’s probably safe to say that phone calls wouldn’t be anywhere on it. How could taking phone calls at work possibly be a bad [...]

Why a Call Handling Service is a Big Business Advantage

Pssst! Like to gain a little extra advantage over your competitors? Of course you would. Business can be challenging and we’re all looking for fresh ways to stay in the fast lane. But how do you [...]

The Hidden Emotion Behind a Business Phone Call

Emotion? What could emotion possibly have to do with business phone calls? Surely a phone call from a customer to a business is just a straightforward exchange between two people? Many of us would [...]