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14 – What’s up: How you answer the phone MATTERS!

October 27, 2014 by Nick May

How you answer the phone MATTERS!Nick and Johnny of Small Business Naked

On this episode, Nick and Johnny prank call a few businesses for your benefit.  No, not just for a laugh, but they did have a few of those.  Your phone is an important part of your marketing mix, and your customer service experience.  Nick and Johnny call competing businesses to see how they answer their phone, if they answer their phone, and then turn the table on each other.  Wait to you hear what happens!

For most small businesses, the phones are an afterthought, or just an expense.  But we find that there is money to be made in answering the phone…all the time.  If you don’t answer your phone, you are wasting marketing money in your small business.  Because if you don’t answer your phone, your competition will be answering theirs.  If your potential customer doesn’t get someone when they call, they will go on to the next company to call.  If you put customers first, you will make an effort to answer your phone all the time.

If you spend money or time to market your business, and it goes to voice mail, then you have just wasted that money.  Thrown it out the window!  Don’t wast good marketing money.

Nick uses Ring Central for his phone.  Great VOiP phone service.  You can find our more about them on our resources page. 

 

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