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Name: Hastings Humans
Address: 825 W 11th St, Austin, TX, 78701, USA
Telephone: 512-472-1122
Price range: $$$

so that you can take care of your business

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Virtual Receptionist Service

Welcome to Hastings Humans, providing the best virtual receptionist service for your growing business. Based out of Austin, TX, we serve a variety of businesses of different sizes and industries, including medical clinics, retail stores, nonprofit organizations, utility and technology providers, government bodies, and so much more.

When your clients and customers call, they expect service, not just an answering machine. That’s where Hastings Humans comes in. Unlike other virtual receptionist companies, we don’t just answer calls and force your clients to hold, our receptionists will be trained to answer questions, dispatch services, direct calls to the proper department, and provide customer service with a smile. All of this comes at a low cost to you, so that you aren’t forced to hire, train, insure, and provide equipment for an on-site receptionist. With Hastings Humans, you get the benefits of a live virtual receptionist service without the high payroll rates of on-site assistance, and without sacrificing quality.

Our experienced customer service advocates can even act as a virtual office receptionist for self-employed, Internet-based, and home-based companies. Don’t pay thousands of dollars a year for a physical address. Simply get a PO Box, phone number, and website, and let a Hastings Humans representative act as your virtual telephone receptionist while you’re working hard.

So, are you interested in hiring a low-rate receptionist that’s available at all times, even after-hours? Contact us to learn more about how to hire a small business virtual receptionist, learn how we can assist you 24/7, and discover how to customize your service experience for your industry.

Hastings Humans Serves the Following Industries

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Business and Professional Answering Services
Enterprise and Fortune 500
Field Services
Government
Legal Services

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Medical Services
Nonprofit
Property Management
Oil and Gas
Retail and Personal Services

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Utility Management
Technology
Waste Management
Your Business

We serve all these industries and more. No matter what your business is, we can take the call!

Human Services

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After-Hours Answering Service

People hate voicemail. In a connected world, customers expect to be able to reach anyone they want at any time they want. If you’re not ready to provide 24-hour customer service, you’re not going to be able to compete in today’s marketplace. Sounds daunting, doesn’t it? Not if you have Hastings Humans! Our friendly, professional customer service agents are available around-the-clock to provide your customers with the support they need.

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Remote Receptionist

If your business relies on you keeping the phones humming while also taking care of business elsewhere, you can fall into a bottomless pit of voicemails, missed connections, and phone tags. You could hire a receptionist but that requires finding space for them and choosing a business phone service and a ton of other logistics that take up the time the receptionist is supposed to be saving. Hastings Humans’ remote receptionist service provides you with a professionally trained receptionist, who is available 24/7, at a fraction of the cost of hiring a full-time staffer.

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Virtual Office

Not all small businesses need four walls and a water cooler. Get an address, a mailbox, a receptionist, and call answering services without the monthly rent bills and added payroll.

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Overflow Call Answering Service

When you need to reach customer service during the day, you probably wait until your lunch hour to call. Well, you’re not alone. What happens during your business’ peak call hours? Do you keep people on hold or let them go to voicemail? Hastings Humans’ 24-hour live contact center and answering services make sure your customers never waste their break time trying to get ahold of you. No matter the size of your business, we provide professional, friendly customer service agents to pick up whatever volume your available staff can’t handle. Hastings Humans’ overflow service saves you and your customers from a lot of hassle.

Contact Center Services

Service Dispatch

When you come to your customers, you don’t have time to be coordinating your entire operation. Whether you’re in HVAC, plumbing, glass repair, landscaping, or any other field that requires a lot of time on the road, Hastings Humans’ 24-hour dispatch services can help you keep your fleet coordinated and your customers happy. Our highly skilled customer service agents are available at any time of day or night to provide you with a professional presence on the phone – no matter how far from it you are.

With our 24/7 dispatch services, you can:

Easily coordinate day-to-day operations without hiring a full-time dispatcher
Reach on-call employees while maintaining their privacy
Quickly transfer resources between multiple locations
Designate specific employees to specific geographic areas

Urgent and Emergency

There’s no way to predict when trouble will come, except that it’s usually at the worst possible time. When your employees, customers, or clients need help immediately and you’re out of pocket, who do you turn to? Consider Hastings Humans’ 24/7 customer service agents. Our highly trained, professional agents are available around-the-clock to both reassure callers that their problem is solved and send someone to fix it. Hastings Humans keeps businesses running smoothly, even in bumpy times.

With our 24/7 dispatch services, you can:

Maintain an around-the-clock emergency hotline
Quickly dispatch courtesy officers or security personnel to properties
Keep your customer service running even during extreme weather as our Humans stay high and dry in Austin, TX
Keep the phone lines open during high-volume events

Order Management

Bring order to your office, and get a team of Humans to process purchases over the phone. Hastings’ answering services for small businesses free you up to work on the important things without adding to payroll.

Customer Service

Customer service is one of the best ways to set your business apart in a crowded marketplace. Hastings Humans’ 24-hour contact center and live answering services ensure that anyone calling your business at any time of day or night is greeted by a friendly, knowledgeable customer service agent.

Lead Capture

A lead is a terrible thing to waste. Sales go up when your telephone answering services help you follow up with leads captured at all hours of the day. Track the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, complete orders, and get calls forwarded if – and only if – needed. A live operator service makes everything easier – including making money.

Tier 1 Tech Support

You want to treat every customer with respect and give them the support that they need but you also don’t want to waste your team’s time on the basics. Hastings Humans can provide first tier technical support for your business, freeing up your braniacs to work on the hard stuff. Our customer service agents can answer simple questions and offer basic advice 24 hours a day, which means you, and, hopefully, your customers, can get a good night’s sleep.

With our tier one tech support, you can:

Provide live support to customers with basic questions
Forward tougher calls directly to your support staff
Set up overflow service in anticipation of heavy seasonal traffic
Have someone available 24/7, so frustrated customers don’t feel abandoned

Facilities Monitoring

As much as you’d like to keep an eye on your facilities 24 hours a day, you’ve got to sleep sometime. Our around-the-clock facilities monitoring service ensures that even when you don’t have eyes on your property, you’ll at least have some ears. Hastings Humans’ live answering service ensures that your clients, residents, and customers can always get the help that they need.

With our facilities monitoring service, you can:

Have us receive automated email or phone alerts from your equipment and facility monitoring systems and provide timely response according to your protocol
Maintain an emergency telephone hotline for reports from staff or public of issues that need to be immediately addressed
Make available to tenants and residents 24-hour access to facilities management and maintenance
Allow around-the-clock access to secure facilities through remote identity confirmation

Event Registration Services

Setting reservations is already a hassle; you can’t afford to make things harder for your customers by relying on voicemail or an automated phone tree. No one enjoys having to wait through a 30-second spiel before getting what they want, or worse, hitting the wrong number. Hastings Humans’ professional, courteous customer service agents can help your customers book reservations and appointments in a flash or provide them with detailed information if they need help deciding when or what to book. Hastings Humans are available 24/7, so they’ll keep booking even if you’re snoozing.

With our event registration services, you can:

Allow customers to make appointments and reservations on their own time
Provide callers with consistent, professional customer service
Register guests for seminars, conferences, and exhibitions
Answer questions attendees may have about your event

Customized Voicemail and IVR

For over 30 years, we’ve brought our customers the most advanced interactive voice response and voicemail systems available for when you absolutely need them.

Hastings Humans

Family-Owned and Operated Since 1948

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825 W 11th St

Austin, TX 78701

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Local Phone: 512-472-1122

Toll-Free: 888-HASTING (888-427-8464)

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Hastings Humans has been providing around the clock customer service to businesses of all sizes since 1948. Over those 70 years, we’ve kept it authentic, kept it human and kept it in the family. We take care of our people, because happy customer service agents create happy customers. Happy customers are what we’re all about. In fact, Hastings Humans has won the ATSI Award for Excellence for the past 20 years running. It’s the highest honor in our field and we couldn’t do it without our Humans. See what jobs are open at Hastings Humans!

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INFORMATION HASTINGS COMMUNICATION SERVICES GATHERS AND TRACKS

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SHARING OF THE INFORMATION

We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

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By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Hastings Communication Service. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

• See what data we have about you, if any.

• Change/correct any data we have about you..

• Have us delete any data we have about you.

• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 512-472-1122 or via email.

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