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Answering Machine P4P
HOW TO EARN HUNDREDS OF EXTRA DOLLARS WEEKLY BY:
RUNNING A HOME BASED
ANSWERING SERVICE
Your Best Opportunity To Turn Your Phone Skills Into Cash!
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 3
GETTING STARTED 5
TYPES OF HOME–BASED ANSWERING SERVICES 8
HOW TO OBTAIN CLIENTS 10
YOUR “HOME” OFFICE 12
TEN EASY STEPS TO ORGANIZING YOUR BUSINESS 14
THE ART OF NETWORKING 17
MARKETING YOU MUST DO 19
ADDITIONAL TIPS FOR SUCCESS 24
START–UP COSTS AND HOW TO FUND THEM 27
GETTING HELP FROM THE SBA 29
FINANCIAL AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS 41
INTRODUCTION
Do you enjoy talking on the phone?
Does your voice have a friendly, cheerful tone?
Are you well–organized?
Do you need a few hundred extra dollars each week?
If you answered “yes” to each of the four questions listed above, then you are a great candidate to pursue one of the most lucrative and easiest home–based businesses that exists today! It’s very inexpensive to set up and, depending on your individual ambition, you’ll earn thousands of dollars each year without having to leave the comfort of your home.
Ironically, it’s the advancement in technology that’s creating this exciting opportunity. Fancy, complex phone–answering systems have left customers talking to computer generated voices, leaving messages on “voice mail” and pressing numerous telephone numbers to work their way through to conversing with an actual human being.
While these systems “free” people up from the phones in a business, they frequently frustrate clients and potential customers to the financial detriment of the firm.
Unable to easily reach a human voice, many individuals simply go elsewhere for the services they need.
Fortunately for everyone, employers are recognizing this problem and solving it by contracting people like yourself to answer the phones when they can’t. That personal touch you can offer can mean the difference in obtaining or keeping a client. As a professional answering service business, you can take messages, deliver specific messages to callers, clarify the intent of calls and even arrange meetings with customers.
This booklet will illustrate how you can set up this type of home–based answering service business. It’s your chance to talk— and earn money doing it!
GETTING STARTED
Business needs for an answering service can vary considerably. A company may need a phone to be answered all day, part of the day, after hours only, or 24 hours a day. You can enter this profession at any level you choose. The amount of equipment you’ll need to get going will also fluctuate depending on how much time you want to devote to your home–based answering business.
Most often, businesses need their phones covered during an “extended” work day, say 8:00 A.M.– 8:00 P.M., with an answering machine taking over the other, less likely, 12 hour call period. Twelve hours can be a long day if you’re going it alone, so you may wish to solicit businesses that generally are looking for the phones to be answered from 9 AM to 5 or 6 PM. This makes it more likely for you to do the job yourself and work it easily into your family’s schedule, too.
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