September is National Preparedness Month, a crucial time for businesses to evaluate their emergency response plans and ensure they're ready for any unforeseen events. From natural disasters to power outages and technology failures, emergencies can strike at any time and disrupt business operations. One reliable way to ensure business continuity and effective emergency response is by integrating an answering service into your preparedness strategy.

Are you struggling to manage your business's call volume due to temporary staffing shortages? Are you concerned about how this may impact your customer satisfaction and business processes? If so, outsourcing to Intercon Messaging may be the solution you need.

At 10:30 pm, our team received the notice that we all had been dreading… "There is an out-of-control wildfire southeast of Drayton Valley... all residents, including all the Town of Drayton Valley, must be prepared to evacuate within 30 minutes notice…"

Regardless of what time of day or night it is, property managers know that when tenants have an emergency or they think they do, they’re going to call. There's nothing like getting a non-emergency call in the middle of the night, and this is precisely why many property managers outsource their call answering to a professional answering service.

With an emergency response answering service, you can prepare for unexpected emergencies, disasters, inclement weather, and anything else that can compromise your business operations. Most importantly, you can still be available for your customers, employees and vendors when they need you the most.

How often do you get frustrated when you call a business, and nobody picks up? It costs money and missed opportunities, not to mention that it reduces customer satisfaction. It can also impact your reputation as a responsive business if customers can’t get in touch with you. Luckily, there is a solution, outsourced telephone answering services.

Being an effective vendor-partner requires full engagement in a business relationship. Vendors and clients should equally participate in a mutually reciprocated collaboration. Being a committed vendor-partner is what truly sets the stage for a successful and productive long-term business relationship.

As the name says, call forwarding means that you can redirect your existing number to another and ensure no call goes unanswered. This feature offers plenty of benefits and helps organizations effortlessly streamline their call volume. There are also many ways to customize call forwarding and only forward when the call is unanswered.

Have you ever stopped to think about how much a missed sales call could cost your business? Let’s take a minute and do the math . . . Multiply the amount of your average dollar sale by the number of hang-up calls you get on your voicemail. This ballpark number is a good benchmark for how much revenue you could be leaving on the table and giving up to a competitor.

We all know that emergencies come in different forms depending on the type of business or industry. However, when these urgent situations occur, your phone must be answered quickly, with all information gathered accurately, so the correct on-call person or manager receives an immediate dispatch call or notification.

An answering service is an effective solution to ensure service continuity while you begin to scale your business. Our virtual receptionists are available 24/7 to support you with after-hours answering, appointment scheduling and even emergency response answering services — just to name a few.

Many business owners are challenged with the lack of staff and limited availability of their employees. One of the best ways to recover in these unprecedented times is by outsourcing certain roles to professional service providers such as a 24 live answering and receptionist service.

During these troubled times let us help provide the calm in the storm. Intercon Messaging, a telephone answering service, has been providing calm professionalism during the storms (many types) for over 23 years. Our long term strategy has been to calm your storm, whether during a business transition, a time when you were growing like crazy and could not manage workloads, or during a time where your receptionist is out of the office handling other priorities.

Who’s watching your business when you’re not around? Who’s monitoring your alarms and ensuring everything is as it should be at all hours of the day on every day of the year?

The number one priority of Intercon Messaging is to be easy to do business with. Intercon’s core services include alarm monitoring and live call answering. They are here to help you stay organized and on top of things. And they can help to take the pressure off when things get busy or when you just need a break.

The first rule of business is to always be there when your customer needs you. But sometimes that’s not quite as easy as it sounds. People are busy and time is money. In today’s increasingly demanding marketplace your customer might decide he needs you at any time of the day or night at any time of the year.

As your business grows and the number of phone calls increases, you may find that you can’t handle the volume. A phone answering service may be just the ticket. Read on to learn about the difference between an automated and a live phone answering service.

There’s more to being a live call agent than simply picking up the phone. A skilled live call agent is a special kind of person who comes with a unique set of abilities and the right amount of training. In this blog hear from some of our front end staff on what goes into being a great live call agent.

You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers: Behind the scenes at our answering service.

It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, it often seems that just as you’re getting down to the task at hand the telephone rings. Then you have a decision to make. Do you drop what you’re doing to answer the call? Or do you push on in the hope that the caller will either leave a message or call you back?