Why It's Feasible To Hire Someone To Man Your Business Chat On Your Behalf

| Wednesday, August 31, 2011
By Fiona Campbell


The online business world is a bit of a jungle. You're never exactly sure what is going on or who is creeping up on you. It's highly competitive and you're never able to tell precisely what your competitors are up to. When something comes along that promises to afford you some sort of advantage -and all indications are that it works- you are compelled to give it a try simply based on the fact that your competitors are likely to give it a try.

We've all heard the sales pitch about internet lead generation and about how offering some form of live business chat on your website will be a watershed moment that sees your daily traffic start to yield valuable sales leads. The arguments are persuasive not because they seem revolutionary but because they make sense. If you have a question, you want to be able to ask someone. It is psychologically reassuring to be reminded that, ultimately, you are dealing with human beings and not merely cleverly coded collections of CSS, flash and HTML.

The problem of course is that for a chat system to generate results somebody needs to be there to answer it. Posting an unmanned chat is like having a large stopped clock mounted directly above the door of your business - better that it not be there at all unless it is going to deliver on its implicit promise. The internet never sleeps, and if your web site does business with people all over the world, or merely all over the Us for that matter, you can expect, and reasonably so, incoming chats at all hours of the day.

## I cannot be online 24/7. How can I possibly make this work?

The missing piece of this particular puzzle is the use of live chat operators. Visitors to your site have no way of knowing who is answering their chats and, frankly, they don't care. So long as their chats are answered professionally and courteously and their questions are answered they'll be happy.

## Who will be talking to my customers?

There are companies online who use trained chat operators to man chats for their clients. These operators are educated professional individuals trained to offer excellent online customer service.

## How will they possibly know what to say?

Do you currently have a FAQ page on your site? Even if a live chat operator did little more than answer those questions fully and completely you would be further ahead. It is easy to give a trained chat operator the available resources to answer 90% of the questions they are likely to face. Any question which can't be answered can be forwarded to you or someone at your site.

## How can I afford that?

There are literally thousands of web sites turning to live business chat nowadays. The organizations that provide operators understand that these websites vary not only in needs but in budgets. Don't forget that a trained chat operator is able to simultaneously man chats for multiple sites at once and hence needn't cost you an arm and a leg.

There's a commitment required in order to take proper advantage of a business chat system, and it's not a commitment that is easily met. Luckily it is possible to hire live chat operators to cover your chat system remotely.




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