Live Receptionist Services - Full Virtual Office

Live Receptionist services provide professional and reliable offices and services to small businesses, home offices and traveling business people and even larger corporations looking wanting to start-up in new markets and locations. 

The choice of a Live Receptionist Service can be an entire office solution for some professionals and has proven to be a cost effective way for your company to projects the professional image needed to compete today. 

With a Live Receptionist Service you can expect to get professional business address to use on business websites or business cards, a live receptionist in the lobby who can greet clients, mail forwarding services, live answering and call forwarding services from the live receptionist, optional directory listings, access to high-end, fully equipped conference rooms and a variety of business support services.

The Live answering aspect of this type of services means that your clients get to speak with a well educated, live receptionist who is trained on your company and your specific needs. This particular type of call answering is the practical alternative to callers getting an automated system, answering machine, voicemail or a rushed business owner with no time to answer questions. 

With live receptionist services expect to get a toll-free or local telephone number, live answering from a live receptionist who can screen, prioritize and transfer calls directly to you, voice mail, electronic fax to email, call forwarding services, appointment scheduling, email, conference calling platform and numerous other perks. 

Sounds expensive doesn't it? Well guess what, it really isn't - Many of these receptionist services, also know as virtual office services are available for under $60 per month.

You can find more detailed information here on Live Receptionist Services

Click to Call

Click to Call is an innovative feature many business professionals are opting to use. It's a feature that's placed on your site enabling your website visitors to immediately contact you via phone. You can establish how all these calls are handled via an online interface panel that you fully control.  

The best part of the Click-to-Call feature is that it allows your Web site visitors and email recipients to call you with the click of a mouse and at no cost to them. You have the option of placing this code in your email signature so that everytime a person receives an email from you, they have the choice to respond to you by phone. Again, direct these calls the way you want such as voice mail or perhaps to another individual handling those particular callers for you! The options are endless!

Click to Call is a merely button icon or text code to embed in your Web site, email signatures, online ads or any online document. When a reader clicks the link, he/she will be immediately connected by phone to your business, free of charge. Again, as outlined above, you’ll always have Call Screening and Call Controller options for those incoming calls. Don't forget, you can also create those answering rules to route the calls to employees, departments or voicemail boxes per your requirements.

See a Live Click to Call Button in Action Here:

Click-to-Call

Enjoy,

Barbara Cipak

My-Telework-Tools.com

Telecommuting and High Gasoline Prices

Telecommuting has not only become an option for those seeking effective time management solutions, but also an option for those battling higher gasoline prices. 

According to a 2007 survey by the Society of Human Resource Management, nearly 48 percent of employers provide a choice of telework to their employees a least one time per week. There are other methods used to lesson the pressure, including 4 day work weeks, carpools and money towards fuel and travel costs. 

IBM has embraced the notion of telework and similar options since 1992, with positive results. The company says some 40 percent of its global workforce of 386,000 have an option to work from a remote location. 

Virtual technology today allows an employee to securely hook-up to their company's system and be just as productive away from the office as they are at the office.  Larger companies, with a global vision tend to focus on results, and with results in mind, where an individual works becomes irrelevant so long as productivity is maintained.  Many organizations, such as IBM,  have found that a flexible work option encourages an increase in production.

According to Matthew Kazmierczak, vice president for research at the AeA (formerly known as the American Electronics Association),  high energy costs are fueling more interest in telework. "This is win-win for the employer and the employee, and new technologies allow this to happen in a greater way than in the past," he said.  About 2% of US adults telecommute full time and 9% telecommute part time, according to a  2006 survey by the University of Maryland and Rockbridge Associates.  In this 2006 survey the potential for telecommuting was said to be about 25% of the workforce, and that if more companies jumped on the band wagon, there was a potential savings exceeding 3 billion dollars - and that was before the severe jump in gasoline prices that we see today.  

For now, telecommuting still ranks lower than carpooling or travel reimbursement, however, the new direction of gasoline prices may have a direct effect on the mindset of this proven successful option for employees and employers.