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Detroit, MI-Announced today by John Robinson, president of Answering Service, Inc. (ASI), the company is the first in the teleservices industry to offer a software-based information product designed exclusively for funeral homes.

The user-friendly, web-based software available through ASI, which answers phones for many funeral homes, allows the funeral home staff to enter and maintain a database of information on all of their funerals and memorial services; this information is then available to call center telemessaging staff to provide up-to-the-minute information to callers who need arrangement information.

Mr. Robinson says, "Since details are so important in the funeral business, with anxious callers needing time-sensitive information, we are pleased to offer the the Telescan product.  It will not only make it easy for us to provide accurate information to callers, but it  will increase the efficiency of internal communications among the staff within each funeral home.  This is just one more product that helps ASI continue its 81-year tradition of innovation and quality service."

ASI, founded in 1928 by industry maverick John Engerson, was the first 24-hour call center in Michigan.  The company's second president, George Robinson expanded the business by opening several branch call centers and also helped design and implement new equipment that was used nationwide by our industry for over 35 years.

Today, along with 80 of Metro Detroit's finest telemessaging secretaries and support staff, the children and grandchildren of the company's third president manage  the company's tradition of quality service and innovation-providing a full array of telemessaging services to clients throughout the area and nationwide.

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Why We Are Never “Just” the Answering Service

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Why We Are Never “Just” the Answering Service
By Mari M. Osmond

We have all been blessed to be part of a business that truly touches many people’s lives on a daily basis. No, we never get our photos in the paper or a simple “Thank You” for a job well done. But yes, we are the real silent heroes to many. Quietly we go about our work and make sure that others are taken care of. Here is a sample of what can happen in an Answering Service on an ordinary day…

A Grandmother places an order for her first grandbaby for that very special toy that will become a family treasure for years to come.

A home owner did not lose all of his possessions because we paged the plumber to fix the leak in his pipes.

A woman, who is terrified on a dark and lonely road, talks to us and knows that help is on the way.

We answer a silent intruder alarm and a precious life is saved.

A transplant team is assembled at 3am for the long awaited kidney transplant for a six year old girl.

A woman who has lost all desire to live is cross-connected to a trained professional who gives her hope for tomorrow

A minister is called to the bed of a man, so he will not die alone.

Yes, we do make a difference every hour of every day. That is why it is so important never to accept the phrase “just the answering service”. Instead, with pride, tell that person about the very special place called an Answering Service.

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What a touching article, I am convinced that you can give the personal touch my new business will need. There is nothing like a real voice on the other end of the line!!
Posted @ Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:51 PM by Lisa
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