(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 14, 2009 ) Phoenix, AZ – With fall and winter comes flu season, and all eyes this year are on the H1N1 strain. The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology reported in August that the H1N1 virus could affect as many as 30-50% of U.S. residents, leading to as many as 1.8 million hospitalizations. That means thousands, if not millions, of people all around the country will be out of work as they fight the flu this year and companies will be understaffed. Businesses can protect themselves from lost sales and revenue due to employee illness, or even having to temporarily shut down, by including an answering service or virtual reception company like AnswerNow! in their H1N1 disaster preparedness plan.

“An answering service is designed to step in when business owners and their employees can't," says AnswerNow! President Margo Soll Weiss. “It doesn't matter if they need regular after hours virtual reception help or an answering service available for emergency situations like an H1N1 outbreak. Virtual receptionists and answering services need to be adaptable, able to assist customers and take orders no matter what's happening in their clients' offices. H1N1 doesn't have to be a business-killer."

AnswerNow! offers virtual reception and answering services customized to clients' business needs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. They can accept and process orders over the phone, answer customer questions through a help desk or product hotline, take messages, forward calls, and even run full-service bilingual call centers.

"A company's answering service has to be able to address the needs of customers," says Weiss. "Whether it's filling in for employees during an H1N1 outbreak or offering bilingual answering services to companies that don't have full-time bilingual staff available, our virtual reception and answering services can do just that for clients anywhere in the country."

About AnswerNow!

AnswerNow! has over 30 years’ experience in the Phoenix answering service, telemessaging, and virtual reception industry offering state-of-the-art technology solutions in bilingual answering services, credit card processing, call center services, and further virtual office assistance. The business understands the importance of growth, having gone from a one person shop to employing over 90 people to help clients across various industries grow with the help of custom virtual office solutions.

For more information about AnswerNow! or the company's Phoenix answering services and virtual reception services, please visit www.AnswerNowInc.com or contact Michelle Weiss at 1-800-226-0491.

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Michelle Weiss, Director of Business Development
AnswerNow!
Phone: 800-226-0491
Email: michelle@answernowinc.com
Web: www.AnswerNowInc.com

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