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Heating Up Cold Calls: 21 Tools for Tremendous Telephone Techniques
OK, let's heat up the cold-calling debate. Is everyone a salesman? Yes! Do most people have to make cold calls at some point? Yes! Do most people hate to make cold calls? Yes! So, you have two choices; either hire someone (a professional...

How To ‘Cross-Sell’ And ‘Sell Up’ Over The Telephone
Call centres are a land of missed opportunities. Every call whether inbound or outbound is an opportunity to make a sale or to build a pipeline for a future sale. At the very least there is scope for selling a bigger quantity (selling up) or to...

Inside The Mind Of A Telecommuting Employer!
I recently had an employer advertise her job in my newsletter and it got me wondering what employers are thinking when the applicants start flooding in. After speaking with her I was able to get some really valuable feedback and I wanted to share...

NEXTWEST Awarded “Best of Show” at INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO Fall 2004
NextWest, Inc. announced today that the NextContact Call Center Solution has been named a ”Best of Show” winner at Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC)’s INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference and EXPO Fall 2004. The show, held last month at the...

VoIP Telephony: Is It the Right Fit for You?
It’s everything you ever wanted to know about VoIP but were afraid to ask. That may be dramatizing it a little, but as the new technology buzz in business it may be a little intimidating for some potential users. In fact there are many residences...

 
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Changing How Business Answers Their Telephones

We can learn a lot from the most successful airline of the past decade. Southwest Airlines. Imagine, of all the places to take a risk in shifting from extremely professional and serious, to casual and relaxed then the airline industry. Lives are at risk. But they did and the consumers love it. With the humor can a new type of trust. With the casual uniforms came less fear, not more. At scottradio.com this approach to telephone answering is what we do. And we do it well.

America is now conditioned to the automated telephone answering experience. Most of us can recite the words from memory. This drone or common experience has a comfort zone that many companies are fearful to abort. As the buying demographic changes, so must the approach.

Telephone answering script and voice professionals at www.scotttradio.com welcome this new frontier in the business and call center phone experience. “Please listen closely as the menu has


changed” is now a common phrase when we are sent into the automated telephone answering world. Wouldn’t it be nice to be both informed and entertained? Who said it must be bland to be professional? Someone did and too many companies believe this reality.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Scott Perreault is a radio and narration voice veteran with over twenty years of broadcasting and voice work experience. From the writing, production and development of radio campaigns to the recording of a two-hour audio book, Scott has experienced many facets of the voice business. Scott resides in both California and Minnesota. By the age of thrity-three Scott was one of the youngest radio station General Managers in the nation. His journey in the radio communications world began the fall of 1976. Scott continued honing his skills with special communication summer workshops at Bradley University (Peoria, IL) and Harvard University (Cambridge, MA).