Telephone Answering Services for Small Businesses

There is an increasing demand for telephone answering services for small businesses and sole traders. This is down to the rapidly growing numbers of people choosing to work for themselves rather than for a large business.

However, the cost of hiring your own office space and fitting it out with all the telecommunications equipment needed, as well as hiring the staff to man your office, can be seriously prohibitive. Instead, it can work out to be far more cost-effective to forgo a traditional bricks and mortar office and hire a professional telephone answering service to handle your incoming business calls for you.

For example, at The Answer Centre, our clients come from lots of different backgrounds, but all want the same thing – to be able to have their business calls answered quickly and professionally by a highly trained virtual receptionist.

In fact, all of the services on offer from The Answer Centre are perfectly crafted for the busy entrepreneur, sole trader or small business owner. We offer you a top-rated telephone answering service with a fully personalised virtual receptionist, along with business address and mail forwarding services and smart state-of-the-art meeting rooms that you can hire by the hour.

Professional Image

We understand how important it is for your small business to create the right first impression with your existing clients as well as to prospective new customers. This is why you can impress your callers with our professional telephone answering service. Their call will be answered by a trained virtual receptionist from our small and friendly team.

You can use our answering services for when you are unavailable to take calls yourself, for example when you are in an important meeting or driving between appointments where it would be impractical to take phone calls. You may prefer us to handle all of your incoming business calls to create the impression that you have an established head office in a prestigious location. It is up to you when and how often you would like to use our flexible call answering services.

How our call answering services work

When a caller rings your number, their call will pass to your virtual receptionist. Their call will be answered in a friendly and professional manner using your preferred greeting. The call can then be passed to you or one of your colleagues on a specified number. If you are unavailable, a message can be taken and will be forwarded on to you immediately either by email or via text message.

We will know when an incoming call is for your business because we will issue you with a unique telephone number for your clients and customers to use. When your number is called, your receptionist will see a screen notification and will answer the call with your company greeting. The caller will think they are speaking to your own personal company receptionist!

Why not try out our phone answering services for yourself – free of charge! We can offer you a two-week free trial of our service so you can see for yourself how valuable and cost-effective our phone answering services are.