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Alert Wins CAM-X Silver Plus Award for Fourth Consecutive Year

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Now a four-time winner, Alert Communications has earned the CAM-X Silver Plus Award for four consecutive years.  CAM-X extends congratulations to the Alert Communications staff and their proven quality service and customer dedication. 

For the fourth consecutive year, Alert Communications has been honored by CAM-X with the exclusive 2011 Award of Excellence.  This award is presented annually by the Canadian Call Management Association (CAM-X), the industry’s Trade Association for call center service providers.  Alert was recently presented with this Award at the CAM-X 47th Annual Convention and Trade Show, which took place at the Hyatt Regency in Montreal, QC.

Independent judges are contracted yearly by CAM-X to evaluate message services in North America over a period of six months.  Scoring criteria includes response time, courtesy, accuracy, and overall service to clients.  If a call center scores 80% or better in all categories, they receive the coveted Award of Excellence.  This well established CAM-X award program is now in its 22nd year.

Live agents provide better customer service than an automated system or callers waiting until the office reopens for business.  The CAM-X Awards of Excellence program raises the bar for call centers to deliver the best customer service experience possible.

Says Tom Sheridan of CAM-X, “Participation in the CAM-X Award of Excellence program helps make for a great first impression for all callers, even when contact is made after business hours. The CAM-X Awards of Excellence program raises the bar for call centers to deliver the best customer service experience possible.  We congratulate Alert Communications for their achievements.”

Founded in 1964, CAM-X began as a national trade association for the representation of live answering services.  The Canadian Call Management Association now encompasses companies across North America who specialize in call center services, contact center service, inbound telemarketing and order entry, voice messaging, paging, emergency dispatch, internet-based services, fax, and more.

We’ll continue to show our clients and callers the same commitment and enthusiasm in the upcoming year. Thank you CAM-X for recognizing Alert for another year!

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ATSI Awards Gold Call Center Certification

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                            Contact:  Charlene Glorieux

Executive Director
Association of Teleservices International
(866) 896-ATSI
www
.atsi.org

ATSI AWARDS GOLD CALL CENTER CERTIFICATION

(Ventura, CA May 10, 2011) – Association of Teleservices International (ATSI) is pleased to announce that Alert Communications has re-qualified for the Gold 24/7 Call Center Certification Award for which they were originally awarded in 2007. 

The Certification indicates that Alert Communications has met or exceeded high standards in the following areas: business practices, life safety, operations, including normal and emergency procedures, 24/7 preparedness, proficient recovery techniques, personnel hiring, training and ongoing evaluations through a peer review program focusing on 99.9% annual run time. The award of this certification is based on a set of nearly 60 criteria needing to be met or surpassed.

“Alert communication has based its corporate culture around customer satisfaction, and we are very pleased to receive the recognition from ATSI.” said Frances Starr, CEO of Alert Communications. As a nationwide, bilingual call center, Alert Communications has over 40 years of experience providing customer service, designing accounts in all types of organizations, and creating client workflow efficiency.

ATSI, based in Atkinson, NH, is an international trade association established by and for entrepreneurs in the TeleServices business. This includes telephone answering services, voice-mail services, telemarketing services and any other business, which provides enhanced communication services. www.atsi.org

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Small Business Answering Services Enable You to Instantly Respond to Click to Call Web Leads

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Click-to-call, also known as click-to-talk, allows a person to click on an object to request an immediate connection with someone in real-time either via phone, Voice-over-Internet-Protocol or text. Click-to-Call service helps reduce website abandonment, increase lead conversion and improve online marketing analytics. Additionally, small business answering services enable you to instantly respond to your click to call web leads.

Using Click-to-Call Service for Your Business

When a customer enters their phone number into your Click-to-Call, both your phone and your customer’s phone will ring and you’ll be on the phone together.

Click-to-Call turns website clicks into phone calls, by making it simple for customers to ‘call me now’. Small business answering services enable you to instantly respond to your click to call web leads.

Key Features to Look For in your Click-to-Call Services

  • Instant and easy web configuration In just minutes you can embed a Click-to-Call link into your website.
  • Hidden Click-to-Call for web form lead generation Do you ask your website or landing page visitors to submit their contact info into a web form? With Click-to-Call, you can automatically call back customers and prospects as soon as they submit the form.
  • Advanced phone call routing functionality Many Click-to-Call providers can route callers based on your schedule, or connect callers to a regular toll-free or local phone number.
  • Complete call tracking reports about each call You may want reports about each call, including the referral source and keyword of traffic to your website, the page the web visitor called from, the duration of the call and more.
  • Insert as a link in a web page, email, PDF, or application You can easily use a Click-to-Call anywhere you can insert a link, including a website, email, PDF, social network profile and more.
  • Ideal for web form verification When visitors submit information into a web form, trigger an immediate call to verify a phone number, ask survey questions, offer an opportunity to opt-out, and much more.
  • Works on any website or content management system Using Joomla, Drupal or WordPress? No matter how you’re website is built you can implement Click-to-Call by simply copying and pasting a few lines or code.

Another thing to consider, if your business is open on the internet 24/7, then who’s answering your click to call when you’re not available.  Using your phone companies call forwarding feature forward your telephone line to a small business call center when you’re not available and ensure you never miss a new client opportunity.

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Consider the Benefits of Business Answering Services

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

In real estate, it all boils down to three things — location, location, location. In business, it’s not so simple when you’re looking to turn prospective customers into paying customers.

Moving customers from the first to the second category basically boils down to how great an experience they have with you starting with their first phone call. So what can you do to favorably impact their overall experience? Consider business answering services.

People like reaching and talking to other people, not machines. If you don’t already have a business answering service, give it some thought so your phones are covered during lunch hours, while you’re out on service calls or attending to other customers, or after hours and on the weekends.

As soon as your business answering service takes that first call, opportunity is knocking, so take advantage of it. Depending on the answering service options you choose, you may be able to immediately receive call messages and/or have calls patched through. Quick response to potential customers is sometimes all it takes to win their business.

If your business receives emergency calls, then be sure your business answering service knows how to handle them, too. Set up specialized protocols so the answering service can gather the information you need from callers to make the right decision quickly. Once potential customers are interested enough in your company, it’s up to you to impress them enough to become paying customers.

Your knowledge and enthusiasm combined with great customer service will win you repeat business and/or great word-of-mouth advertising. Choosing the right business answering service is just one way to get things started.

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