Blog: Business Education

Need to schedule meetings across time zones? Our tips for time zone scheduling can help you successfully set up meetings for teammates, clients, and more.

Whether your pet care business is burgeoning and just getting its legs or you’ve been in business for a long time, you can take advantage of a partnership with a modern answering service so that you can deliver better service to your clients. There are several types of answering services today, and they’re not all created equally. Choosing the right one means knowing what to look for.

The holiday season is the perfect time to show clients your appreciation and nothing says “we value your business” more than a gift. The right gift can set the tone for the rest of a relationship and keep your business top of mind all year long, so to help you put your best foot forward, we’ve compiled a list of the best business gifts you can give your clients this holiday season.

Entrepreneurship has become increasingly popular. Hundreds of thousands of people across the globe have recently been inspired to start their own businesses. And with the holiday season quickly approaching, you now have the perfect excuse to celebrate those hard-working entrepreneurs in your life (or give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back.) To help you get a headstart on your holiday shopping, we’ve compiled a list of the best gifts to give business owners.

Being the director or owner of a childcare business is definitely a full-time job. You have classrooms to monitor, families to take care of, new tours to schedule, compliance issues to think about—the list could go on and you’d still never get it all done. What are you to do, though, when you’re so busy that you just can’t get to the phone?

If you own a cleaning business, you probably spend a lot of time hiring, scheduling, and at clients’ houses. Which means you’re not always ready and available to answer the phone. Whether you’re elbow-deep in kitchen grease or just running the vacuum and don’t hear the ringer, there are plenty of times that you’re just going to miss the call. Fortunately, you no longer have to settle for letting people leave voicemails and then carving out time to call them all back.

As a consultant, you already spend a fair amount of your time on the phone with clients, companies that hire you, and others who need your input and assistance. Unfortunately, you’re also not going to be able to answer every single call. However, as a consultant, you also understand the value of finding people to assist you with your needs. Enter the professional answering service.

Financial planning businesses are all about efficiency and streamlining—at least when it comes to money. If you take that same approach with your day-to-day operations, you can find a lot of different ways to make improvements that you may not have known before. For one thing, are you still trying to field all the phone calls that come into your business on your own? Perhaps you’ve brought in a single receptionist to assist, only to find out that you’re still not quite hitting the mark.

You’re not always going to be available to answer calls—that’s just a fact of life, and especially in business. With any luck, your tutoring business is thriving, and you’ve got a full schedule of students just waiting for your assistance. And you’ve probably also got a great outreach campaign in place that’s consistently bringing in new leads. You’re well on your way to success. But who’s answering the phones and handling all those leads?