1-800 We Answer Receives DiversityBusiness Award

NEW YORK, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 1-800 We Answer/ Aardvark's Answering Service, Inc., a leading nationwide provider of live telephone answering and call center services, has been recognized by DiversityBusiness as an outstanding provider of telephone answering services in the United States on the organization's annual Top Business List.

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DiversityBusiness.com provides research and data collection services to determine the top businesses and the most successful entrepreneur's across the United States. Companies were evaluated based on each organization's annual gross revenue and other significant elements of their business profiles.

"1-800 We Answer is proud to be recognized by DiversityBusiness for our achievements during 2011," stated Robert Porter, President and CEO of 1-800 We Answer, Inc. "1-800 We Answer was founded by a woman entrepreneur. Our company is committed to providing excellence in multilingual telephone and answering service support in the United States for all of our customers, many of whom are minority-owned and women-owned businesses, many of whom who have become noteworthy examples of American entrepreneurship and innovation. 1-800 We Answer is continuing in its commitment to provide all of our answering service customers the individualized attention they've always received from their support team in every aspect of account management and call handling."

The company has achieved record growth represented by a 127% growth in revenue since 2007. During 2010, the company earned $13.2 million through the combined sales of telephone answering services, call center support, market research, virtual office services and telephone system sales and support. The company's broad lists of clients include customers in healthcare and law, general business, government and universities.

DiversityBusiness recognized 1-800 We Answer's leadership in several key diversity supplier categories, including ranking at # 380 on their list of the Top 500 Privately-held Businesses in the United States.

Top 500 Privately-held Businesses in the U.S [Rank:380]
Top 500 Diversity Owned Businesses in the U.S [Rank:500]
Top 100 Privately-held Businesses in NY [Rank:89]
Top 500 Veteran Owned Businesses in the U.S [Rank:31]
Top 100 Diversity Owned Businesses in  NY [Rank:43]

1-800 We Answer, Inc. offers its clients additional call center support beyond basic telephone answering services. The company features a full-suite of live inbound and outbound telecommunications features, including live operator customer service, telemarketing, opinion polling, surveys, and market research services. It delivers its services nationwide to clients from 13 local call center facilities operating  in  New York, Boston, Jacksonville,  Philadelphia, Miami, Kansas City, Montgomery, Baton Rouge. Each call center's operations manager is intimately familiar with the regional business community's needs and works with sales team members to focus on each client's immediate and long term project goals.

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