Answering Service
Virtual Office Service

Dear Potential Customer,

Our original goal for this page was to present you with a no nonsense, clear-cut price comparison of the top 100 nationwide answering services. Unfortunately, this has proven to be much more difficult than we ever anticipated. Why? Because pricing and service variables make accurate cost comparison so complicated that we had difficulty presenting the mounds of data we collected in a way that made logical sense.

Many of our competitors do not publicize fees on their website because they either change their prices often or require a long telephone conversation to explain them. Other times, they simply can not compete with our award winning service or pricing.

To help you decide which answering service is best for your business needs, here are a few things you need to know in order to compare our service and prices with those of our competitors…

First thing… If you need 24 hour telephone coverage, Image Advantages IS NOT the right answering service for you. Our niche is to make businesses or individuals appear as if they have a full in-house professional staff – we never appear to callers as, or admit to being, an answering service. If we answered your phone at 3AM, callers will automatically assume we are a service.

Image Advantages is a world leader in the Virtual Office Service industry. Many answering services try to mimic both our service and our success by "saying" they offer virtual office services. Frankly, if at any given time 25 to 100 different people will be answering your telephone, then it IS NOT a virtual office service, it's an old fashioned answering service.

On the surface, many other answering services appear to be less expensive than us. In reality, our competitors usually prove to be either more expensive, or of much lower quality than Image Advantages; especially when you consider the wide range of services we provide. As a consumer, you need to be aware of this and carefully consider the quality of service your callers will receive. Also, be sure to completely understand every item these services will charge you for. Many of them make their money by charging you for each additional service.

There are answering services out there whose fees deceptively start out as low as $9.95 per month. Frequently, this is for nothing more than a voicemail box. These services often charge unreasonable account set up fees, live operators are optional (and additional), and after some live operator time, they are actually quite a bit more expensive than Image Advantages.

With Image Advantages, we keep it simple... Our service to your callers is second to NONE. Account setup and operator training is FREE. Everything, except expenses related to servicing your account, is INCLUDED in our monthly fee.*

We see it all the time… Way too many customers come to us after being frustrated and disappointed with their first choice of a seemingly less expensive service. Eliminate this painful and often expensive experience - choose us first. You will never regret your decision.

REMEMBER, you can try our virtual office services RISK-FREE for One Full Week! No other answering service offers this… Why...?

Because, quite honestly, they’d soon be out of business! With no setup fees on a 7 day free trial, we take a chance that we consider to be an investment in our company. While we actually lose money when we take on a new client, we know that most new customers will stay with us once they try us...

The fact is, unlike our competitors, 98.8% of our customers stay with us for more than 6 months and 89.3% stay with us for more than one year! Then, consider this - over 50% of our existing customers refer new business to us.

With numbers like this, we must be doing something right! Try us yourself and see...

Convinced or not, we urge you to shop our competition so you know you are getting the best service for your company. (Be sure to take notice of how many of our competitors are confident enough to place competing ads on their website. Quite frankly, we haven't found a single one yet!)

* There are no additional charges except where we ask you to reimburse us for additional expenses related to the servicing of your account. For example: minutes used above plan limits, additional voicemail boxes, exact postage for re-mailed items, long distance charges for patched calls.