When people usually hear €tis the season€ they associate it with the holiday season. To a landscaper it means that they are starting to get busy. Although their job is basically to improve natural beauty of a piece of land, landscapers, especially in the northern part of the USA, only have a small window in which to work their craft. With the warming temperatures and spring looming, nature's beauty will start to take effect with the blossoming of a range of plant species.

Running a business can be a daunting task and temperatures rising will bring an abundance of calls the landscaper's way. Most landscaping companies are small in staff and there is a good chance that everyone is out on a job when the vast majority of these calls start coming in. This is a challenge for these business owners to professionally handle their incoming calls should everyone be out or after business hours. Having an answering machine or a caller reaching voice mail is very impersonal and leaves that caller questioning the ability of that particular business especially if called during normal business hours and might prefer doing business elsewhere. Studies have shown that the caller is more pleased when he or she hears a live voice.

It is a good idea for Landscapers to consider hiring a live answering service. There are many benefits to a virtual receptionist service and most small business owners can ill afford not have one. A good provider helps a business manager to avoid hiring a full time employee and paying high wages and all the other liabilities that come with being a business owner. Your new hire will only work eight hours a day whereas most answering services these days operate 24 hours a day and weekends and weekends. Many people call businesses when they get home from work so this is a solution rather than a problem.

Live telephone answering receptionists usually greet caller's with the business name, thus projecting a professional image to existing and prospective customers. Besides being sure that you are not missing phone calls, the services can also give you a more credible appearance than you had before with an answering machine or voicemail.

In addition to a live voice a live answering service can also provide other valuable services. They have the ability to actually transfer callers directly to a staff member as well as scheduling appointments for potential new customers as well as existing clients. Further, the technology of today even allows them to track where new customers are coming from and which they are responding to.

The owner of the landscaping business who has acquired a live small business answering service now has the ability to put their business well ahead of the competition. 24/7 your callers will speak to a live voice thus giving the business a system in place to professionally represent the company as well as giving callers peace of mind that their calls will be returned promptly.

Most small business owners are surprised to learn that a virtual secretary service is generally very affordable and rarely runs more than a couple hundred dollars each month. Compared to the cost of an actual employee and the down economy, this is now becoming a serous consideration and tens of thousands of people now opt to use these widely popular services.

In conclusion it might do most businesses well to consider phone answering service.