PATLive Serves as an Extension of Your Team with New Web and Mobile Apps

PATLive Serves as an Extension of Your Team with New Web and Mobile Apps

PATLive’s team of U.S. virtual receptionists answer calls 24/7/365 for thousands of businesses nationwide, offering a wide range of services on calls such as call transfers, message taking, lead collection, appointment scheduling, order processing, event registrations, and more. And with PATLive’s flexible approach to call handling instructions (and new web and mobile apps), businesses can customize exactly how their calls are answered.   With the number of people working remotely at never-before-seen highs, there…

Virtual Receptionists at work

4 Unexpected Ways a Virtual Receptionist Helps Your Business

There are plenty of advantages to hiring virtual receptionists that you’re likely already familiar with. Having someone else handle incoming calls is an enormous time-saver, and the fact that you can pass off the task to someone who will treat your customers as well as you do is a huge advantage. You and your staff…

Getting Personal With Customers

4 Creative Ways to Provide Personalized Service for Customers

Customers have higher expectations than ever before. Customers know it, and businesses know it, and it’s true all over the world. It’s not enough to simply answer a call fast, or even to just be friendly while rattling off your strict company policies. Customers want more than that. Personalized customer service is the new standard of…

8 Marketing Tips to Promote Your Small Business

8 Marketing Tips to Promote Your Small Business

Marketing is essential if you want to attract new clients, make sales, and scale your business. It can also be really, really expensive. With strategies like expensive Paid Search ads, sponsored campaigns, and costly consultants taking center stage in the marketing world, it’s easy for small businesses to feel intimidated and end up not getting…

Customer service is the new wave of marketing

The Future of Customer Service

Customer service standards have shifted dramatically over the past decade, thanks to a combination of more competition in the market and an abundance of increasingly-accessible technology. All businesses understand that the customer experience is a powerful differentiator, and it absolutely will impact who customers buy from, how long they stay loyal, and even what they’re…

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eBook: How Technology is Changing Customer Service

Customer service today looks vastly different than it did even ten years ago. Ten years ago, mediocre customer service was almost the expected standard, with long wait-times on phone calls or help emails that wouldn’t be returned for days. And sometimes, even if the customer service wasn’t great, you’d still stay on as a customer. …

Holiday customer service

Seasonal Call Answering Service: Boost Your Holiday Business

If you’re like many businesses, you can expect to have a significant uptick in sales and inquiries during the holiday season. More people need help with placing orders, selecting products, or tracking packages. Everything is high stakes, and everything is happening at a higher volume.  This year especially, plenty of our customers are already seeing…